Friday, September 30, 2022

Review: Amazon Basics Medium Point and Shoot Case

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 The worst part of the Ricoh GR3 is how fragile it is. I've had to send it in for a repair nearly every year. One of the damage was cau...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Review: A Brief History of Equality

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 I really enjoyed Piketty's book on Capital in the 21st Century , so when I heard about his follow up, A Brief History of Equality , I h...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Review: Granite Gear Tyre Levers

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 I picked up Granite Talon Tyre Levers because 11 speed chains are so tight fitting that I can no longer just undo the chain master links w...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Review: GoPro Hero 8

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 Xiaoqin wanted a GoPro Hero 8 for the tour in the hopes of capturing good video. The GoPro Hero 8 had good reviews and was somewhat reason...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Review: Walkable City

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 Walkable City is a book written by a city planner about how to make a city walkable. He has laudable goals but hides an anti-cycling agend...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Review: Walz Technical Cycling Cap

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 Cycling caps are under-rated for cycling. Most people don't know the difference between a cycling cap and a baseball cap, because they ...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Review: The Economics of Discontent

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 I don't remember how The Economics of Discontent made its way into my Kindle, but given that it's currently free on Amazon as of t...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Reflections on my 2022 Tour

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 Things that went well: This time, I pre-booked lodging way in advance, from Weesen all the way to Hotel Franzenshohe. Many of the reservati...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Review: JMOX USB C to Micro USB adapters

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 For this trip, I stopped carrying micro USB cables, and just brought along a bunch of USB cables along with the JMOX USB C to Micro USB ada...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Review: Dying of Whiteness

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 Dying of Whiteness is a difficult book to read. At a deep level, it's about the recent reversal of life expectancy  in the white worki...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Review: Lowepro GearUp Mini and Lowepro GearUp Wrap

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 We had a GoPro, 3 phones, 1 kindle, 1 headlight, 1 radar, 1 HRM, 2 bike computers to charge during the trip, and for additional backup powe...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Review: A Brief History of Earth - 4 Billion Years in Eight Chapters

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 A Brief History of Earth is a book about earth science/geology. I discovered while auditing a series of Great Courses lectures that I lov...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Review: Gorewear C5 Shakedry 1985 jacket

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The  Gorewear C5 Shakedry 1985 Jacket is the best waterproof cycling jacket I've ever owned. It is light at 126g, which is a huge weigh...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Review: Ortlieb Backroller Pro Plus Panniers

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 I'd been using my Robert Beckman panniers since 1995, when Eric House told me those were the ones to get. The elastic holding the strap...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Review: Prodigal Child

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 I've been reading Dave Moulton's blo g for a while, and intrigued by many of his musings --- the man can clearly write, and his tho...

Review: Inhibitor Phase

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 Inhibitor Phase is Alastair Reynolds' latest Revelation Space novel. If you've read any of his other books in that series, it mean...
Friday, September 09, 2022

July 5-6: Epilogue - Luzern

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 It was still drizzling in the morning when we woke up, so we ate breakfast, and took a brief walk to say goodbye before the bus came. Rever...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Review: Stolen Focus

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 I started reading Stolen Focus expecting a self-help guide to our "hyperactive hive mind" economy and personal lives. To my surp...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2022

July 4th: Reichenbach Falls, Aare Schlutz, and Rosenlaui Schlutz

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  Indeed, the day started with rain in the morning, which stopped after breakfast, but we didn't trust the weather, so changed our plans...
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Review: Mountainsmith Upland 6 Tent

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 I bought the Mountain Smith Upland 6 as a car camping tent, hoping to replace the Eureka 4 person tent I'd bought way back in 1993 to ...