Monday, October 31, 2022

Review: Shimano PD-ES600

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 My Shimano M520 s have been the mainstay of my cycling pedals for years and years. They have wrench flats, last pretty much forever (suvivi...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Review: An Immense World

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 An Immense World is Ed Yong's book about various senses in the animal kingdom. It's a surprisingly long book, covering how various...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Review: Sci-Phi Science Fiction as Philosophy

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 I saw Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy as one of the great courses offering on Kanopy, and tried one lecture and was blown away. The...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death

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 Ezra Klein kept mentioning Amusing Ourselves to Death , so I had to check it out from the library. The book is a criticism of the televisio...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Review: Language Families of the World

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 I've enjoyed most of John McWhorter's work, so when I saw that Niniane's Goodreads mentioned The Great Courses' Language F...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Review: Shokz OpenMove

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 Shokz OpenMove is a set of open ear bone conducting headphones. These leave your ears open so you can still hear traffic, etc., so you can...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Review: 84 Charing Cross Road

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 84 Charing Cross Road is a collection of letters between Helene Hanff and the staff of Marks and Company, from right after the second worl...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Review: The Rider

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 I'll admit that I can only watch bicycle racing in tiny youtube clips. The long form videos bore me to tears, but I'll happily read...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Touring Review: Pixel 6

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Throughout this year's tour, we used the Pixel 6 as a backup for photographs (especially when it was raining, since the Pixel 6 was wat...
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Monday, October 03, 2022

Review: Magicians - New Class

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The Magicians: New Class is a comic book series set after the events of the novels. Despite Lev Grossman's name on the Amazon informati...
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...