Saturday, April 30, 2022

Spain 2022: Barcelona, Cadaques, and Girona

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 For Spring break, 2022, we spent a week in Spain. It was too short a trip to bring bikes, so we did a bunch of walking in Barcelona, Cadaqu...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Spain 2022: April 13th Cadaques to Girona

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  The hotel breakfast was scrumptious, filling, and generous, and the kids were finally done with jet lag, sleeping until 7:30am. After brea...
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Review: How Science Shapes Science Fiction

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 How Science Shapes Science Fiction is a great courses program about how science is used and abused in science fiction. Professor Charles A...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Spain 2022: April 12th Barcelona to Cadaques

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 I was in my nightmare: the car was stuck on the slight upslope from the garage, and kept stalling out whenever I tried to put it in gear. N...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Spain 2022: April 11th - Barcelona, Mont Junc and the Beach

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  Of course we weren't granted an exception by the jet-lag gods, and all woke up at 2am, took more melatonin and tried to sleep more fat...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Review: The Wanderings of Odysseus

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 After reading Black Ships Before Troy, I decided I liked it enough to checkout The Wanderings of Odysseus from the library. This retelling...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Spain 2022: April 10th San Francisco to Barcelona

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 The ultra cheap flights from years past were gone, but I spotted an Iberia Airlines direct flight in the realm of $700 a person for Spring ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Review: A Thousand Brains - A New Theory of Intelligence

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 A Thousand Brains is Jeff Hawkins' book about the way the neocortex of the brain works, and the implication it has for building machine...
Monday, April 18, 2022

The Sandman: Act II

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 After listening to The Sandman, I used one of my audible credits and downloaded The Sandman Act II . There are two long story arcs, Seasons...

Review: A Man Called Ove

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 A Man Called Ove is a book about a grumpy old man. At the start of the novel you're given a poor impression of him, but as the book pr...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Re-read: Exhalation

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 When Ted Chiang's Exhalation came out on sale, I bought it. Re-reading the book, I found myself really enjoying The Merchant and the Al...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Review: Amazon Unbound

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 Amazon Unbound is Brad Stone's follow-on to The Everything Store.  It starts off where the earlier book ended, with a focus on the dev...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Review: Hades (PC)

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 In 2019, some colleagues of mine were raving about Hades . Not being willing to pay full price, I waited for a sale, and when Epic Games of...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Review: Black Ships Before Troy

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 I read on some website that Black Ships Before Troy was a good retelling of The Iliad by Rosemary Sutcliff.  I checked it out of the libra...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Review: Who Gets In And Why - A Year Inside College Admissions

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 Who Gets In And Why is a book about the perennial topic of interest amongst Asian parents - college admissions. It takes a pragmatic, mark...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Review: The Sandman Audible Audiobook

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 I was skeptical of Amazon producing The Sandman as an audio book. Graphic novels are notoriously visual mediums if well written, and elimi...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Review: The Comeback

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 The Comeback is a biography of Greg LeMond, the only American to win the Tour de France (all subsequent American winners having been disqu...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Review: Eternals by Neil Gaiman and John Romita

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 After watching The Eternals , I decided to read Neil Gaiman's reboot of the original Jack Kirby comics. Lots of people worship Jack Ki...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Review: A Natural History of the Future

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 A Natural History of The Future is an ecologist's view of the world, and it's the best introduction to ecological thinking that I...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Review: When We Cease to Understand the World

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When I was an undergraduate, I attended Kathy Yelick's "Denotational Semantics" graduate student seminar. There was a section ...