Thursday, September 30, 2021

Review: Press Reset

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 The subtitle of Press Reset is "Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry." I picked it up expecting light reading in the fac...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Review: Continental GP5000 700x32

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 Just before the 2 019 Tour across Bavaria , I'd worn out all my Michelins and my Fairweather by Traveler tires. I replaced them with C...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021

Review: Anthro VIsion

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 I don't know how AnthroVision got onto my reading list, but I didn't realize until about a third into the book where I'd seen ...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Review: The Wisdom of No Escape

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 I came across The Wisdom of No Escape when someone read from it during a talk. The opening chapter was written with such wisdom and courag...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Review: Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgement

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 Noise is a book about human judgement. The book's unique perspective about judgement is that judgement is an attempt to use the human ...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Review: Keen Aimea H2 Flip-Flops

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 I've been a long time user of the Keen sandals. The toe protection is great, and they're the ideal shoe for casual summer outings l...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Review: Messy - The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

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  Messy is Tim Harford's book about messiness. It's a surprisingly wide-ranging book covering many topics. For instance, when evalua...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

Review: The Data Detective

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 The Data Detective is Tim Harford's response to " How to Lie with Statistics ". What surprised me the most about the book wa...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Review: 5 in 1 Can/Jar Opener Kit

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 During the pandemic, we've become addicted to those huge jars of artichoke hearts from Costco, both to add to salad and to use on a pi...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Review: Dreams/Art's Dream (PS5)

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Dreams (PS5) is a game construction kit. I don't actually have time to construct games, no matter how easy to use the construction kit i...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

Review: Project Hail Mary

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 Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir's latest novel.  This is classic science fiction: a threat to the sun has launched a desperate, suicide...
Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Review: 3M Aura Particulate Respirator 9205+N95

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 I have been struggling for ages to get a good masking solution to work with glasses. The lens coating my optometrist recommended sort of w...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Review: CleverMade Collapsible Cooler

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We traveled to Montana this time without a cooler, since most of our luggage space was taken up by camping equipment. We knew that after we...
Monday, August 30, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park - Tips and Tricks

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Make sure you get your park entry permit before booking flights. I didn't find out about the entry permits until much too late, but you ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park: July 5th - Ross Creek Scenic Area and Epilogue

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 To my surprise, it didn't take all that long to pack in the morning. All the camping equipment had already been stowed, and it was jus...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park: July 4th - Cabinet Mountains and Big Sky Water Park

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 All through our trip the guidebook would mention huckleberry bushes along one route or another, but we never saw any huckleberries whatsoe...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Glacier National Park 2021: July 3rd - Bowman and Kintla Lakes

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 Nearly every guidebook said that Bowman Lake was the prettiest lake in the National Park, but it was difficult to get to. In fact, Google M...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park: July 2nd - Whitewater rafting the flathead middle fork river

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 We headed out to the Great Northern Rafting Resort, which ran multiple whitewater rafting trips. On the way there, Bowen kept telling Boen...
Monday, August 23, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park: July 1 - Noname Lake to Two Medicine Boat Launch

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 The kids woke up in the morning declaring that I had snored like a bear the night before. "Well, that's why I have a CPAP machine...
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Friday, August 20, 2021

2021 Glacier National Park: June 30th - Upper Two Medicine to Noname Lake

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 I slept on and off throughout the night, finally awakening just in time to see alpenglow off the surrounding mountains. I got out of bed, p...
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