Monday, June 29, 2020

First Impressions: Garmin Edge 830

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Last year in June, Bowen saw me, Mike, and Arturo use "GroupTrack" during our bike tour in the Shasta region. After he saw that, h...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Review: Godox TT350P

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I've been using the Ricoh GR3 on many of my adventures recently, and the lack of a fill flash on the camera started to bug me. Without ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Reread: Dune

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I found myself rereading Dune , and years after my first reading of it in my teenage years, it's still and astounding novel. Things jump...
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Thursday, June 18, 2020

Review: Tales from Earthsea

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Despite loving The Wizard of Earthsea and most of the series, I bounced off Tehanu pretty hard, so wasn't going to consider it but then ...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Review: House Again Tea Infuser

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In an effort to reduce caffeine (and also to break the palate monotony), I've occasionally drank tea. If you're going to use loose l...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Review: Panaracer GravelKing tires

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Now that the local parks are open to Mountain Bikes again, we've been resuming our almost weekly cadence of mountain bike trips. My wife...

Review: Voler Shift Terrain Pro Short

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My Pearl Izumi Elite Shorts are now starting to be ragged (after 4 years and several bike tours), and the Quest shorts are also gone. They ...
Monday, June 08, 2020

Review: Tides

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Tides is appropriately written by a sailor. The book taught me several things that I didn't know, even though I was taught how to sail i...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Review: Betrayal of Trust

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I read Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague in the 1990s but in the intervening years the USA always managed to avoid a major epidemic, s...
Monday, June 01, 2020

Review: Usagi Yojimbo - Yokai

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Usagi Yojimbo - Yokai was an amazon giveaway. I haven't ever read any of the series before. The story revolves around Miyamoto Usagi, a...
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...