Monday, December 30, 2019

Review: Netflix's The Witcher

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I came to the Netflix series having read a number of the books and played The Witcher 3 all the way to the end.  The series essentially ada...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Review: Noric Flash Waterproof Camera Float

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The biggest problem with a waterproof camera is that you want it to float when you're snorkeling and you want it to be neutrally buoyant...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Review: Lifespan - Why We Age

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David Sinclair comes with impeccable credentials: Harvard Medical School, and editor of the journal on Aging. His book, Lifespan , is a book...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Review: Green Lantern - No Fear

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I'm old enough to remember that Hal Jordan was the definitive silver-age Green Lantern. Of course, then there were Guy Gardner and other...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Review: Hellboy Seeds of Destruction

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The entire Hellboy collection is free on Comixology, so while I had a free trial (that I have every intention of cancelling), I decided to ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Review: Alan Moore's Top Ten

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I was reflecting on how none of the comic books I'd read recently came up to anywhere near Alan Moore's old work, and decided to che...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Review: Amazing Spiderman - Coming Home and Revelations

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While I had a Comixology trial, I decided I might as well read the Straczynski Spiderman run. Coming Home is the first volume, and Revelati...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Cabo San Lucas Trip Report

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I was very jealous of Arturo's whale shark snorkeling trip. The last time I tried to see whale shark s I got completely unlucky  with we...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Review: Woom 5 off

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Bowen's been mountain biking enough that I bought him wider tires for his Woom 4 . Of course, while corresponding with Woom about the m...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Review: Rising Stars Compendium

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I tried to find Rising Stars after reading Straczinski's autobiography, and to my surprise it wasn't available from the library. Fo...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Review: Magic for Liars

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Magic for Liars appeared in several year's end "best-of" lists, so I picked it up with high hopes. It's set in a parallel...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Review: The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal

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I've done quite a bit of negotiating for clients , on several occasions negotiating 7 figure sums (and in one case RSUs that turned out ...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Review: Becoming Superman

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Despite not being a fan of J. Michael Straczynski after reading Superman - Earth One, I picked up his autobiography Becoming Superman , whic...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

2020 Book Reviews

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2020 Books of the Year Non-Fiction The Big Picture Passage of Power Becoming Superman Lifespan - Why We Age Permanent Record Talking ...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Review: RAVPower GAN Slim 45W USB-C charger

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I hesitated over buying the RAVPower GAN charger for a long time, only opting to pull the trigger when I knew I had a trip upcoming where I...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

Review: Nikon W300

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After losing our AW130 last year, I waited until May to replace it with the Nikon W300 this year for the Shasta Trip , but didn't use...
Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Review: Vaincre Kids Snorkel Mask

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I'll state up front that there's a ton of controversy over the concept of a Snorkel Mask, with some claiming that it's dangerous...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Review: Passage of Power

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Passage of Power is Robert A Caro's biography covering Lyndon Johnson's career between the last year of his time in the Senate (inc...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Review: The Big Picture

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The Big Picture is Sean Carroll's philosophy book. I wasn't sure what to expect when I was reading it, and the early part reminded ...
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...