Thursday, May 31, 2018

Review: 5 Centimeters Per Second

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After the previous bout of extremely heavy going books, I needed a break. Amazon was selling 5 centimeters per second for $1, so I picked i...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Review: Educated - A Memoir

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I read Educated - A Memoir with the way I rubber-necked a major car accident: with bated breath, a desire to look away, but never able to t...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Review: Spring Chicken

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Spring Chicken is Bill Gifford's book about life extension. Karl Pfleger recommended it on the ex-Googler's mailing list, and since...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Review: Barking up the Wrong Tree

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree has great marketing copy. The back of the cover and the book's description on Amazon talks about how all the ...
Monday, May 21, 2018

First Impressions: Garmin Edge 25

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My brother's wife Kim gave Bowen her 3 year old Vivoactive . It was in amazing condition. with almost perfect battery life, but it took ...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Review: Atomic City Girls

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I read Atomic City Girls because of Amazon's recommendation algorithm, probably because I'd also read Hidden Figures. To my surpris...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Review: The Nature Fix

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I really wanted to like The Nature Fix . The entire book is about how getting out in nature cures all sorts of ills that are endemic in city...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Review: The Modern Scholar: Tolkein and the West

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I was climbing Kings Ridge Road with the Western Wheelers on the tandem the other day. Right at the top, the pastoral scenery was glorious,...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Review: Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Sequels are rarely as good as their example, but I've had good luck with non-fiction, as long as the author picked a completely differen...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Review: Law School for Everyone

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Nearly every lecture in Law School for Everyone is great and worth listening to. The first section of the lecture series (there are 3 diffe...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Amazon's customer focus blows my mind

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Amazon's customer focus blows my mind, especially as someone who knows how the sausage gets made at big companies. One day, I was watchi...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Running a 1 on 1 campaign for your kid

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It's no exaggeration that Bowen likes D&D . He's mapped himself into D&D stats. He's turned Defense Grid into a D&D...
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Review: OfficePro Electric Pencil Sharpener

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If you have kids in the house, you're going to have a ton of pencils, and usually the regular kind: mechanical pencils aren't nearly...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Review: Neurotribes

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Neurotribes is a book about the history of autism. The author points out that autism has been around probably for as long as humanity has b...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Review: LG E42.5" UHD 4K monitor

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I normally like to wait for a bit before reviewing electronics, but there's a limited time deal on the 43UD79-B monitor  ($530), so I...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Review: Ottolock

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I'm afraid that I'm the kind of person who doesn't really believe in locks. For instance, even on my expensive bikes, I usually ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Review: Turo Car Rental

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Unfortunately, our Honda Fit got totaled in a crash earlier this year. (I won't say how, who or why, but nobody got hurt) It's by f...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Wealthfront's Customer Service

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Recently, someone pointed me to the wired article about the risk parity fund that Wealthfront introduced and asked me why I wasn't even...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Review: The Sun is Also a Star

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The Sun is Also a Star is a romance detailing the meeting and one day encounter between Natasha and Daniel. Reminiscent of Before Sunrise ,...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Review: Captain Marvel: Caro Danvers - The Ms Marvel Years

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One of my goals of buying a Kindle Fire HD8 was to read more comics, and to some extent, that's been fulfilled. Marvel regularly has sa...