Thursday, April 29, 2021

Review: March Trilogy

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 March: Trilogy is the story of the Civil Rights  movement as told by the late John Lewis. I've already read about much of this in Mast...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man Vol 6 + 7

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 Ultimate Spider-Man 6 recounts the story of Venom, but I didn't like it compared to the original story, where the venom suit was origi...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Review: Exercised

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  Exercised is an evolutionary biologist's view of the modern invention of exercise. It turns out that Dan Lieberman was the person whos...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Review Fire HD8+

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 My Fire HD10 died for no apparent reason, and upon contacting Amazon, it was long out of warranty. The customer service rep offered me a 1...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Review: The Nordic Theory of Everything - In Search of a Better Life

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 The Nordic Theory of Everything is Anu Partanen's personal journal of her transition to the USA from Finland. It's a good example ...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man 3, 4, 5

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The kids have been making me read Ultimate Spider-Man to them, at least a chapter/issue every night, sometimes two. Since these are all eas...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Reread: Cosmos

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 I checked out Cosmos from the library in the hopes of reading it to Bowen. To say that the book and the TV series was influential in my lif...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Review: Invincible Compendium 2

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 Invincible Compendium 2 carries on from the first book, and you can see Kirkman having settled into a rhythm - have one threat in the back...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Review: The Pope of Physics - Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

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 I picked up The Pope of Physics as an audio book when it was on sale .  One of the classic interview question types during technical inte...
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...