Thursday, December 31, 2020

Installation Review: Swytch E-bike Conversion Kit (Tour edition)

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 Last year, I saw the Swytch Ebike conversion kit on Kickstarter $780 + custom fees (around $30). The reasons to get this over say, a tour c...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

Review: Post-Truth

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 Mike Sojka recommended Post-Truth as a quick short read that explains the Trump era. It is indeed a quick read and covers many topics of ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Review: The End of Everything

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 I picked up The End of Everything because it was on the Smithsonian list of top science books of the year. About 20 pages in I realized it...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Review: Justice - What's the Right Thing to Do?

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 After reading The Tyranny of Merit and discovering that it gave me so much to think about, I decided to see what else Sandel (a Harvard Pro...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Review: The Shadowed Sun

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 The Shadowed Sun is N. K. Jemisin's second book set in the world of The Killing Moon. Narratively,  it's a sequel, as the events t...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Review: Poppy! And the Lost Lagooon

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 Poppy! And the Lost Lagoon  is a comic book that reads a bit like a Tintin pastiche. You encounter Poppy and Colt as they come back to New ...
Monday, December 07, 2020

Review: The Killing Moon

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 After reading How Long 'til Black Future Month , I did some research and discovered that The Killing Moon was set in the same world th...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Review: The Half-Life of Marie Curie

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 The Half-Life of Marie Curie is an Audible audio performance from a play. It revolves around Marie Curie and Hertha Ayron. The play is set...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Review: Matador Beast 28 Technical Backpack

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 I received a Matador Beast 28 backpack over the summer as corporate swag. I've been using it for mountain biking and hiking as a daypa...
Monday, November 23, 2020

2020 Books of the Year

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 This year I read around 82 books or so, including a number of re-reads. In the context of the mess that's 2020, reading has both been ...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Review: How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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 How Long 'til Black Future Month? is the first collection of N.K. Jemisin's short stories. I loved her Inheritance Trilogy but bou...
Monday, November 16, 2020

Review: The Tyranny of Merit

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 In the wake of the 2020 election, there were several events that puzzled me, such as Joe Biden losing Florida despite the $15 minimum wage ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Review: ABLEWE KVM Switch

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 I was switching a USB hub between work laptop and home desktop, but thought about how much better my life would be if I could just find a K...
Monday, November 09, 2020

Review: Jabra Elite 65t Active

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 I've actually been somewhat happy with my Pamu wireless headset , with but one caveat, that the carrying case was too big! So when the ...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Review: havit HV-F2056 Laptop Cooler

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 Long gone are the days when companies would issue you a desktop and a laptop so you can have lots of compute power. In fact, nowadays, comp...
Monday, November 02, 2020

Review: Bushwhacker Basket Panniers

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 I'd been riding the kids to and forth from school and various other activities with my now 25-year old Robert Beckman Panniers. Those p...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Review: The Awakened Kingdom

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 I didn't realize that there was a novella called The Awakened Kingdom  in The Inheritance Trilogy (which I reviewed: The Hundred Thousa...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Review: The Paper Magician

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 The Paper Magician is available to read for free if you're a Prime member, I checked it out, and to my surprised found myself enjoying...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Review: Spellbreaker

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  Spellbreaker is set in preindustrial London, in a mythic world where magic exists and is used by everybody, with prices set by markets. Th...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Review: Physics of the Impossible

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 I checked out Physics of the Impossible from the library, not noticing that it was incredibly dated. The book was written 12 years ago, bu...