Monday, March 30, 2020

Review: Word on the Street

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I checked out Word on the Street  and the first few chapters rehashed material that were already covered in his previous books, about langua...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Review: RockBros MTB pedals

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I've been teaching my kids to mountain bike , and unfortunately that involves a lot more hiking and pushing than riding. On any given...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Review: Yowamushi Pedal Vols 8-12

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There's a saying that all bike racers take the same amount of time to tell the same story, whether their race is a 3 week stage race or ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Covid19 Cycling

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We have a "shelter in place" order here in the Bay Area, which means that you should stay at home and only depart your home for es...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Review: How will you measure your life?

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I picked up How Will You Measure Your Life expecting the usual business school professor memoir of self-congratulation and lots of business...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Review: The Silver Linings Playbook

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I'm not a football fan, nor am I a big fan of modern dance, so it was only through an Amazon promotion that I got a copy of the audio ve...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Review: Ages of Discord

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Ages of Discord is an unusual history book. If you grew up reading Asimov's Foundation series, you would have come across an interestin...
Monday, March 16, 2020

HRm Comparison, Garmin Fenix 5X vs Polar OH1

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Arturo and I have long suspected that the Garmin line of watches have HR  readings that are science fiction, at least for the two of us. ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Review: Elysium Fire

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Elysium Fire is the latest Aliastair Reynolds novel.  Set in the revelation space universe, it's effectively a police procedural set in...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Review: The Four

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The Four is the equivalent of getting your grizzled war veteran drunk, and then listening to him pontificate wildly about the state of the ...
Monday, March 09, 2020

Review: Yowamushi Pedal Vol 5-7

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Starting from Vol 5, Yowamushi pedal jumped the shark, by introducing what I feared all along, the exposition and star treatment of "s...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Review: Ghost Rider (audio book)

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I'll admit to never having listened to Rush before auditing   Ghost Rider , which was released for free by Amazon to commemorate Neil Pe...
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Monday, March 02, 2020

Review: Yowamushi Pedal (Vol 1-4)

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Unlike American comics, which are dominated by the superhero genre, Japanese comics have a wide subject matter (yes, there's even a comi...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Review: Beat Saber (PSVR)

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I usually have a rule about finishing a game before I write a review, but I'll make an exception for Beat Saber.  The game's been ar...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Review: Words on the Move

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After reading Bill Bryson's lackluster book about English, I reflected that John McWhorter's audible series about human language w...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Review: Nimona

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I clicked through the sample of Nimona , and found myself enjoying it enough to keep reading, so I checked it out of the library and read it...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Review: Invisible Influence

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Invisible Influence is the a book about social pressure, and how peers and friends influence us. Many of the examples in the book are proba...

Review: Resmed Airfit N30

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I bought the newly introduced Resmed Airfit N30 from Lofta because they offered a 30 day money-back guarantee, and because they had a decen...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Review: The Names of the Dead

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The Names of the Dead is a shallow, made for Hollywood story. The plot is predictable, the characters stereotypical, and even the places an...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Review: The Fifth Risk

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I bounced off The Fifth Risk the first time I tried to read it. The opening always made me depressed and sad, since it was obvious to me th...