Thursday, April 30, 2020

Review: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is Ken Liu's giant collection of short stories. The stories run the gamut, from the title story (a fa...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Review: The Spindle and the Sleeper

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The Spindle and the Sleeper is another one of Neil Gaiman's young-adult/kids books in tandem with a talented illustrator. This is a mas...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Tactical Canvas Webbing Belt

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I somehow managed to replace my all time favorite Eagle Creek money belt .  In between my previous purchase and this time,l I discovered tha...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Review: Aickar 1200A Car Jump Starter

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Some devices are bought mostly as insurance, hoping you'll never need them. The Aickar 1200A is one of them. I already owned the Powers...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

Long Term Review: Woom 5 Off

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My relationship with the Woom 5 off got off to a rocky start, with major problems that were the manufacturer's fault (wrong pedals), di...
Monday, April 06, 2020

Review: Remington Virtually Indestructible Grooming Kit

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I shouldn't have been surprised that one of the items hard to find during the "shelter-at-home" orders turned out to be hair c...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Review: 6 Impossible Things

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I picked up Six Impossible Things from the library since I was running out of audio books. This is one of the rare physics books you can re...
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...