Thursday, January 31, 2019

Review: The Spy and the Traitor

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The Spy and The Traitor is a historical account of the double agent Oleg Gordievsky . Gordievsky was a spy for the UK MI6 during a critical...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Review: Pacific - Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs...

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Pacific (with ginormously long subtitle) is Simon Winchester's history of the Pacific from 1950 onwards. It's a tour de force with ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Review: Biology - The Science of Life

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Biology was one of those gaps in my education, so I decided to bite the bullet and listen to the Great Courses offering: The Science of Life...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Review: Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link Wi-Fi Enabled Air Purifier

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Recently my wife complained that one room in the house was particularly cold. I got out the ancient dish heater , rated at 1000W, and it sol...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Review: Amazon Photos

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I have a storage array at home that stores 1.8TB of photos. The edited photos go up on Google Photos and Facebook Photos (at the free tier r...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Review: Marvel Comics - The Untold Story

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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is the history of Marvel, the company from inception to its acquisition by Disney. I was a Marvel sharehold...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Review: The Plant Paradox

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The Plant Paradox is written by Steven Gundry, a physician who was formerly a cardiac surgeon. It goes counter to a huge amount of conventi...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Review: The Perfectionists - How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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The Perfectionists is a scientific history of precision. It's a heck of a lot of fun to read, even about stuff that you might already k...
Friday, January 18, 2019

First Impressions: ResMed Air Mini

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A few years ago, the marketing director at ResMed and I got on the phone and I blasted them about the ResMed S10. Not only was the S10 now b...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Review: Astounding: John W Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

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I make no apologies that science fiction is my favorite genre of fiction. While mainstream fiction is about people, science fiction is about...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Long Term Report: Fenix 5X

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Since I acquired my Fenix 5X , I've taking it on a sailing trip, and finally used it for navigation on a family hike. The device with it...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Review: The City That Never Sleeps (PS4 Pro)

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The City That Never Sleeps is an expansion to the Spider-man video game on the PS4. Most DLC are not a good deal compared to the main game...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Review: Envy Apples from Costco

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I'll admit that when I first saw the "envy apples" demo cart at Costco I was very skeptical. I've tried all sorts of Apple...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Review: Why We Sleep

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I picked up Why We Sleep thinking that this might be one of those "stupid pill" books for me. After all, not only am I a sleep ap...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Review: Endure

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Most of my favorite activities can be classified as endurance sports: cycling, hiking, swimming/snorkeling, and (recently) stand up paddle b...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Review: Army of None

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Army of None is a book about Autonomous Weapons and how the AI revolution could potentially play out for war fighting. The scope of the boo...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Review: Math with Bad Drawings

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Sometimes, I'll watch as Bowen puts down an advanced book he's been reading, and revert to reading a pre-school book more suitable t...
Monday, January 07, 2019

Review: Agent Carter Season 1

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Agent Carter got stellar reviews, and came up on Woot for $8 shipped. I figured it was a low risk, and at 8 episodes, wouldn't be an ex...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Review: Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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I'd read a bunch of other Atul Gawande's books before, but I somehow missed his early book, Complications . No matter, that just mea...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

Review: Anker Powercore Speed

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While there are many sailors who are willing to run their generators all night, I have this ethic where the goal when anchoring or mooring i...