Thursday, February 25, 2021

Review: Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man 1 and 2

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 After playing the Miles Morales video game, Boen asked to read the Miles Morales comic books, so I checked Vol 1 and Vol 2 of the Ultimat...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Review: The Hustler

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 After The Queen's Gambit, I picked up The Hustler . As with the previous book by Walter Tevis, this is an old-school novel, about 200 p...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Review: The Queen's Gambit

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 I actually had The Queen's Gambit on hold at the library but over the holidays my wife wanted something to watch, so we ended up watch...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Review: Bone Silence

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 Bone Silence is the final book in Alastair Reynolds' Revenger Trilogy, which is a series about pirates in space. I checked it out from...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Review: The Last Lion, 1940-1965

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 I checked out The Last Lion from the library, a biography of Winston Churchill that was so long that it spanned 3 volumes. So of course I ...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Post-COVID home and office design

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 Recently someone showed me a group photo from a Pokemon GoFest. My immediate reaction was visceral: this looks way too dangerous during COV...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

Review: Rockbros Cycling Shoe Toe Covers

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 I'd lost my toe covers during various moves, so had to buy a pair of new ones. The Rockbros Toe Covers came up on an Amazon search, an...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Review: The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes

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 I picked up The Price of Peace thinking it was a biography of Keynes, the economist and scholar, but I got something much better, which wa...
Monday, February 01, 2021

Review: Neil Gaiman Library vol 1

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 The library app which I use to checkout comic books pushed Neil Gaiman Library omnibus vol 1 at me, and since checking out is so easy, I c...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Review: Spider-man: Miles Morales vol 1 & 2

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 I was very impressed by the story in the PS4 game Miles Morales, so when Boen asked me to read a Spider-man book to him, I checked out Spid...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Switching to Bar Soap

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 I'd been using Nivea 3-in-1 shampoo and body wash for myself and the kids through a series of Amazon deals, but then ran out in the mi...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Review: Spider-man Miles Morales (PS4 Pro)

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 I wasn't going to pick up Spider-man: Miles Morales until it had dropped in price, but all the reviews mentioned that it was a short g...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Review: Canon Image Class MF644Cdw

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 The wife and kids have been asking for a color printer for a while, and at the same time my ancient brother scanner started dying, able to ...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Review: D&D Adventure Begins Cooperative Board Game

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 So much of what I could do with Bowen was because he was a precocious reader, never being intimidated by board games that required reading ...
Thursday, January 07, 2021

Review: Clean

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 Clean was on the Smithsonian 20 best science books of the year, and it was written by a doctor who's a staff writer at The Atlantic, s...
Monday, January 04, 2021

Review: The Last of Us Part 2

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 Several years ago, I reviewed The Last of Us and compared it with eating your vegetables. Not having very much experience with video games...
Friday, January 01, 2021

2021 Book Reviews

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Books of the year for 2021 have been selected. Non-Fiction Justice - What's the Right Thing to Do? The End of Everything Post-Truth Cle...
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...