Friday, December 29, 2017

Reread: Watership Down

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I remember reading Watership Down as a teenager. I remembered that it was about rabbits or bunnies, but not much else. Despite Bowen's ...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Review: Critical Business Skills for Success

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I checked out Critical Business Skills for Success from the library. Until January 10th, Audible has a deal where you pay $5/month for 3 mo...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Review: Varmilo VA87M Wired Keyboard

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Writers and programmers spend all their time in front of a keyboard. In fact, most of our output is directly driven by the keyboard, rather ...
Friday, December 22, 2017

First Impressions: Garmin Index Smartscale

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The most dangerous aspect of the human mind is its ability to deceive itself . I discovered that when I was done with my weight loss program...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

First Impressions: Playstation Gold Wireless Headset

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I had returned the Playstation Platinum headset because for $120, it just didn't offer great bang for the buck. But when the Gold head...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Review: Runaways Vol 4-6

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After I read the first run of Runaways , I picked up from the library, volumes 4-6: True Believers , Escape to New York , and Parental Guida...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

First Impressions: Playstation VR Skyrim Bundle

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For a limited time, you can get the Playstation VR Skyrim Bundle for $334.89. My brother got me one as a late birthday present. This is the...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Review: Runaways: The Complete Collection

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The only reason I own a tablet is to read comic books on it. For everything else, my phone or my Kindle is a far better device. One of th...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Review: Uncharted - The Lost Legacy

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The Uncharted series of video games are pretty much movies with a choose-your-own-action-sequence game mechanic. Uncharted: The Last Legacy ...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Review: Sky Force Anniversary (PS3,PS4,PS Vita)

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We got Sky Force Anniversary as part of the PS Plus subscription. It ticked all the nostalgia boxes that I had growing up playing vertical ...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

First Impressions: EOS M5 and EF 50mm/1.8 STM

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I wasn't actively looking to replace our EOS M3 . But Canon was blowing out refurbished EOS M5 s that included an adapter and several ac...
Monday, December 04, 2017

2017 Puerto Vallarta

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We visited Puerto Vallarta over thanksgiving break. This was Bowen's first chance to try his new Snorkel Mask and adjustable fins ...
Friday, December 01, 2017

2018 Book Reviews

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Books of the Year 2018 have been picked ! Non-fiction A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Bigger, Leaner, S...

Review: A Mind at Play - How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

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A Mind at Play is a biography of Claude Shannon. When I was an intern at Bellcore, his name was often spoken of in reverence, as the person...
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...