Friday, March 29, 2019

Review: The Highly Sensitive Child

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The Highly Sensitive Child is targeted towards a specific parent, the kind of parent who never got over the sensitivities and feeling of be...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Review: Alone on the wall

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I noticed that the audio version of Alone on the Wall was available from the library after watching Free Solo , so I downloaded it and list...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Review: Logitech Brio Webcam

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My old Logitech C920 webcam had a fatal flaw, which was that the cable was so short that if I placed the webcam on top of my 42" monito...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Review: The Collapsing Empire

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The Collapsing Empire is John Scalzi's novel of the Interdependency, a novel about the intrigue of a space faring human empire where FT...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Review: The Very Best of the Best - 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction

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I had high hopes for The Very Best of the Best , Gardner Dozois last science fiction anthology (he passed away last May), weighing in at a w...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Review: Good to Go

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Good to Go is a book about sports recovery. There are lots of books about training . Some of them even emphasize recovery, but there are no...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Review: Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

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Redefining Reality is a great courses audio/video course about the various paradigm shifts in science that have affected our view of the un...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Review: Free Solo

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Free Solo is the movie about Alex Honnold's free solo of the El Capitan. I watched it because my wife had taken Bowen indoor rock climb...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

Review: The Breakthrough

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The Breakthrough is a book about the development of immunotherapy techniques in an effort to cure cancer.  The title, of course, is hype: i...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Review: Gatchaman Complete Collection

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I grew up in Singapore watching Gatchaman II  (in dubbed Taiwanese translation, with the opening and closing songs stripped!), but was proba...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Review: The Magicians Season 2

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The Magicians Season 2 keeps going where the cliff-hanger from season one ends. There are TV series that will drag the action out, but in ...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Review: Don't Panic - Douglas Adams & The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Don't Panic is Neil Gaiman's history of that wonderfully humorous book of science fiction, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
Friday, March 01, 2019

Review: Resmed N30i Mask

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I've been using the ResMed Swift FX nasal pillow for the last 7 years without a complaint. It's cheap, easy to work, and I can buy ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Review: Kindle Fire HD10

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Boen dropped his Kindle Fire HD8 on the floor and cracked the screen. It was still working, but after more than a year living with the Fire...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Review: Batman - Haunted Knight

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Boen saw my Amazon open as I was reviewing Batman White Knight , and made a request to read Haunted Knight . I checked it out of the Hoopla ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Review: Batman - White Knight

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I got the first issue of White Knight as part of some freebie promotion. Right after I finished the free issue, I went over to Hoopla and p...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Review: Voice Lessons for Parents

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Voice Lessons for Parents is a parenting guide for the affluent soccer-moms/tiger-dads who live in the suburb and face the typical problems...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Review: Honey Stinger Organic Waffles

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Amazon had a $5 special on the Honey Stinger Organic Waffles , so I ordered a box to try. Each box of 16 costs about $20, so these cost quit...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Review: Gatchaman 1994 OVA

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I realized that the 1994 Gatchaman OVA was part of the Gatchaman Complete collection . I was pretty sure that the original Gatchaman was a ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Review: The New Childhood

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I really wanted to like The New Childhood . Shapiro strikes me as likely to be a great parent (most parents will not be bothered to learn th...