Monday, May 31, 2021

Review: The Code Breaker

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 The Code Breaker is Isaacson's biography of Jennifer Doudna, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 2020. Unlike his previous biogra...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Re-read: Range

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 My reading of Anders Ericsson's Peak made be go back and revisit Range . Lazlo Polgar and his chess playing daughters make an appearanc...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Review: Inno Square Bar Roof Rack and Yakima Front Loader Bike Rack

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 We've been doing a mountain bike ride week after week, and my approach has been to remove the front wheel of both the kids bike, lay do...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man 8, 9, 10

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 Bowen kept asking for more Spiderman, so I checked out Cats & Kings , Ultimate Six , and Hollywood from the library to read to him. I...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Review: Source Wxp 3L Storm Valve Hydration Reservoir

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 Ever since the 2019 trip to Bavaria , I've been jealous of Boen's hydration reservoir, mostly because of its cap. The cap means tha...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Review: Peak - Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

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 To say that Anders Ericsson, the author of Peak , is a legend would be an understatement. Over the years, his name has come up in various b...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

Review: Gotham by Gaslight

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 The reveal in the animated version of Gotham by Gaslight was impressive, so I checked out the book from the library. With art by Mike Mig...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Review: Extreme Medicine

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 Extreme Medicine is a book about how exploration transformed medicine and vice-versa, and starts off with the discussion of Robert F Scott...
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...