Friday, November 22, 2019

Books of the Year 2019

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This was an unusually prolific year for reading 102 books ! Granted, many of them were audio books, and some of them were kid's books, b...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Review: Spider Holster Black Widow

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For cycle touring, I tend to just carry my camera in my jersey pocket. I can reach it, grab the camera, turn it on while moving it to positi...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Review: Master of the Senate

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Strangely enough, the library didn't have the ebook version of Master of the Senate , but it had the audio book version, so I grabbed it...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Review: American Shaolin

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I had a great time reading American Shaolin . At this point, the "New China" part of the title have been obsolete, and of course, ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Review: A Wrinkle in Time (Graphic Novel)

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I never actually read A Wrinkle in Time , but the graphic novel was easily checked out electronically from the local library, so I picked it...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Review: World Class

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World Class is Teru Clavel's book about comparative public educational systems.  She compares 4 different systems: Hong Kong (pre-sch...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Review: That Wild Country

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That Wild Country is a memoir of Mark Kenyon's various trips in the backcountry, hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting, along with a mi...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

How to Teach Your Kids to Mountain Bike

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I'm writing this article because amazingly, there are only classes that teach girls how to ride a mountain bike , and all I have are boy...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Review: Schwinn 20x1.95 MTB tire

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Since Bowen started riding his bike off-road, I decided to buy some real MTB tires for him. A search on Amazon showed up the Schwinn 20x1.95...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Review: G-Form Pro-X Elbow Pads and Knee Pads

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Bowen got it into his head that he wanted to do mountain biking. (I swear it wasn't all those Danny MacAskill videos I showed him when ...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Review: Tile

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I bought a set of 4 Tile Mate s at the start of the year because Boen and Bowen would misplace everything from tablets to the PS Vita. The d...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Review: Superman - Earth One

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Superman - Earth One is a series of 3 graphic novels written by J Michael Straczynski. Straczynski's been credited with several good TV...
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Review: Lost in Math

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Lost in Math is a book discussing something that was also discussed in Not Even Wrong, which is that lack of progress in theoretical physic...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Review: Bonk

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Bonk is Mary Roach's book about the science of sex. It should be a great topic, with lots of fun discoveries, but in reality what we le...
Monday, November 04, 2019

Review: White Industries T11 Rear Hub

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After about 15 years (and something like 60,000 miles of cycling), I finally wore out the cones on my Shimano 7700 Dura Ace rear hub. I took...
Friday, November 01, 2019

Review: Range

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Range is a book dedicated to the generalists, as opposed to the specialist. In general, society, companies, teachers, coaches and parents ge...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Review: Marvels - The Remastered Edition

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It'd been years since Edmond Meinfelder told me to checkout Marvels, so when I saw The Remsastered Edition on sale, I bought it to read...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Review: The Magicians - Alice's Story

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The Magicians - Alice's Story is a comic book set in the first novel of the Magicians series. The character designs are based on the bo...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Review: The Language Instinct

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I was referred to The Language Instinct by John McWhorter's highly recommended The Story of Human Language . The language instinct is a...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Review: Something Deeply Hidden

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Something Deeply Hidden is Sean Carroll's book about the foundations of Quantum Theory. The thesis of the book is that most of the phys...