Friday, November 17, 2017

2017 Books of the Year

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I read 55 books this year , and then on top of that piled on 20 audio books and 9 comic books, which makes this a bumper year for books read...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Review: Batman - The Long Halloween

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The Long Halloween is a story from the early days of Batman. As Batman stories go, it's pretty good. Early Batman means there aren'...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Review: The Sudden Appearance of Hope

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The Sudden Appearance of Hope won the world fantasy award for best novel in 2017 . I was surprised to discover that this novel was readily ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Review: Batman - The Complete Hush

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I finally got around to reading The Complete Hush because of the Kindle Fire . You can download the Hoopla app and with your library, chec...
Friday, November 10, 2017

First Impressions: Kindle Fire HD8 2016

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Kindle Fire HD8 tablets are well known for being cheap. Cheap, however, does not mean good value, and I thought I'd avoid getting the 1...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Review: The Innovators

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The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's history of the IT industry. It has two theses it argues for: one is that innovation and breakthroug...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Review: Gravity Maze

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Rekha and Roberto gave Bowen Gravity Maze for his birthday, and this was immediately the most played toy in his birthday present set this y...
Monday, November 06, 2017

Review: Little Tikes Jump 'n Slide Bouncer

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Someone last year gave us a Little Tikes Jump 'n Slide Bouncer . I'm not normally in the habit of reviewing kid's toys, but this...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

Review: Two HandGrinders

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Because of my Aeropress review, I received a free sample of the Handground Precision Coffee Grinder for review. This is a large (not reall...
Wednesday, November 01, 2017

My prices have gone up!

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In recent days, I've had a spate of clients for my compensation negotiation service. In all cases, I've managed to raise my client...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Review: The Fifth Season

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I maintain that N.K. Jermisin was robbed of her Hugo in 2011 for her amazing work, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms . Well, her talent has been...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Review: The Rise and Fall of DODO

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The Rise and Fall of DODO is a collaboration between Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. The novel is about the existence of magic: that ma...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Review: Einstein

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Einstein is Isaacson's biography of the famous scientist. It covers all aspects of his life, from his birth, the Annus Mirabilis  which...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Swimming: A Parent's Job Begins Where Lessons End

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After I taught Bowen how to swim last summer, I nevertheless still had to take him to real swimming lessons to teach him correct stroke for...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Review: On Power

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On Power is Robert A Caro's hour and a half lecture about his two Pulitzer prize winning books about Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson ....
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Review: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Audible was giving away The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up , so I picked it up. I had run out of things to listen to, so this became a bo...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Lighting for Bicycles in 2017

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In the past, I've recommended Exposure Lights for bicycle lighting. In 2017, my recommendation has changed dramatically. Part of it is ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Review: How Emotions are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain

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How Emotions Are Made describes a new theory of how emotions are provoked, evoked, and created in the brain. The classical view, which is t...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Review: The Dispatcher

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After giving up on several audio novels, I finally came across The Dispatcher , which for whatever reason was a free audio book on Audible. ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Review: The Home Front

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I'll admit that I don't manage to get through most Audio Books. Fiction is a non-starter, and most non-fiction books don't work ...