Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review: The Road

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I finally tried reading The Road again, this time keeping in mind that it was one of the inspirations for The Last of Us . It's a surpr...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Review: Lock Laces

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I'm not one of those people who believes in shoe laces. I gave up on them several years ago when I switched to shoes that didn't nee...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Review: Swearing is Good For You

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Swearing is Good For You is Emma Byrne's debut book about the research and science behind swearing. It turns out that Byrne is actually...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Review: The Algebra of Happiness

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I read The Four and found it enjoyable enough to consider other Scott Galloway books. He's irreverent and fun, so I tried The Algebra o...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Review: Hikenture Sleeping Bag Stuff Sack

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I'd somehow lost my stuff sack for the North Face Blue Kazoo, so I looked for a stuff sack to replace it. The Hikenture came up on ...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Review: Knizia's Lord of the Rings Board Game

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With shelter in place, I had the kids at home nearly all the time. I started working through some of the board games I'd bought to play ...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Review: The Masked Rider

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I started listening to The Masked Rider before the COVID19 shelter in place orders, and after that got so distracted by various items that ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Review: Katadyn BeFree water filter

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My last filter was a Katadyn Virustat, but the product is out of stock and replacement filters are also similarly impossible to find. The re...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Review: Amazon Commercial Vinyl Tape

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When you have a triplet with 2 kids, what tends to happen is that any weakness in the bar tape will get picked apart until the tape unravels...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Review: MSR Freelite 3 person tent

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I bought the MSR Freelite 3 person tent from REI during a sale for about half the MSRP. At 3 pounds 7 ounces it was on a per person basis e...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

Review: Born Standing Up

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Born Standing Up is Steve Martin's memoir of his time as a comedian and why he gave up stand up comedy. Contrary to my expectation, it ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Yosemite/Hetch Hetchy Ranchiera Falls

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Yosemite just re-opened with massive numbers of restrictions, including reservations required for day-entry, which meant that for the first ...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Review: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a history of the eponymous character. It's pretty comprehensive, and doesn't jus...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

Review: Death by Black Hole

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Death by Black Hole is such a great title that even if it hadn't been written by Neil de Grasse Tyson I would have checked it out. As i...
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...