Thursday, May 28, 2020

Crush Vol 1

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Crush Vol 1 was an Amazon giveaway. Lots have been written about how werewolves are a metaphor for a woman's menstrual period, so it...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Review: Scary Godmother

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Scary Godmother was a kindle giveaway, and somehow Boen asked me to read it to him over several nights. Each story is self-contained, but it...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Review: Plastics - A Toxic Love Story

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Plastics is much less technical than I would have liked. It doesn't cover in great detail how plastics were invented, nor does it discus...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Rejuvenating old phones

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Boen clamored for a phone since his big brother had my old Moto X4 , so I dug up Xiaoqin's old Moto X Pure, which had a battery that wou...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

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In this 80 page comic , Neil Gaiman re-unites with Mark Buckingham to provide adult-oriented stories. The framing story is a pub, with dark ...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Review: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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Despite not liking his novels and his latest collection of short stories, I'd already had The Paper Menagerie on hold (in ebook form) a...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

Review: ANCOOL 5X Replacement Watchband for Fenix 5X

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It was inevitable: while I'm nowhere near as hard on equipment as Bowen is, my Fenix 5X is still a daily wear device. 18 months after b...
Monday, May 04, 2020

Review: The Making of a Manager

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To a large extent, we are all products of our history and experiences. I spent my career at startups, so when I wrote Startup Engineering Ma...
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...