Monday, March 29, 2021

Review: Optix 55 AntiFog

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 I asked my optometrist what he did to keep his glasses from fogging up when he had a mask on. He told me to buy the Optix 55 AntiFog . ...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Review: Yubico FIDO Security NFC

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 For years, every time I turned on MFA on my Google accounts, within weeks, I'd be turning it off because of some issue with authenticat...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Review: Galileo and the Science Deniers

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 The story of Galileo was the story that turned me permanently off Christianity (I went to a mission school, and my parents were kinda surpr...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-man Vol 1 & 2

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 Ultimate Spider-Man is a retelling of the Peter Parker story in an alternate universe, updated to the 2000s.  The drawings are different, ...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Review: The Hype Machine

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 I read The Hype Machine hoping to find some answers about social media and how it was used to destroy democracy. I did learn a few things,...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Review: Breath-taking

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 Breath-taking seems to be a very topical book - a book about lungs and respiratory diseases, of which COVID19 is one. The book, however, s...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

Review: Biking Buddy MTB Tow Rope

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We've been mountain biking with the kids consistently every weekend, with me wearing running shoes and walking down and pushing the kids...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Review: Invincible Compendium Vol 1

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 Usually when I review comic books I like to review multiple volumes at once. Most comic book stories are so short (especially the anime-sty...
Monday, March 01, 2021

Review: Ray Bradbury - The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

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 I accidentally checked out Ray Bradbury - The Last Interview from the library (I thought I was checkout out a different book), but it was ...
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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