Monday, February 27, 2023

Review: Let My People Go Surfing

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 I was intrigued by the Chouinard's family decision to roll all their holdings in Patagonia into a company that's dedicated to prese...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Review: Slouching towards Utopia

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 Slouching Towards Utopia is Brad DeLong's economic history of the world from 1870 to the present day. Brad DeLong not only worked as a...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Review: 2 USB current measuring devices

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 When you buy a charger or power bank, it usually brags about how much power it supplies. But how do you verify that it actually provides th...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Review: A Bike Ride - 12000 miles around the world

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 I enjoyed my read of Lone Traveler so much that I looked for Anne Mustoe's first book, A Bike Ride - 12,000 miles around the world.  ...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Review: Eye of the Dragon

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 I enjoyed Fairy Tale enough to check out Eye of the Dragon from the library and read it.  This is how Stephen King does fantasy --- there...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Review: Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen

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 Of all my Alex-enabled devices the Fire TV Cube is the one that consistently gets the most used. It was a bit slow, however, and never supp...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Re-read: Farewell My Lovely

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 There's nothing quite like Raymond Chandler. I picked up Farewell My Lovely and the prose just sucked me in and before I knew it I...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Review: Reality is not what is seems

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 Reality Is Not What It Seems is Carlo Rovelli's quantum loop gravity for the layman. Rovelli writes really good prose, and he covers t...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Review: Silca Synergetic Wet Lube

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 There all sorts of web-sites that go crazy about chain lubrication, and if you believe the experts, the only way to lubricate your chain is...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Review: Acceptance - A Memoir

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  Acceptance is Emi Nietfeld's memoir about her childhood and tertiary education years, topped with her successful career at Google and...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Review: Lone Traveller - One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

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 I picked up Lone Traveller at the library donations box for $1. When I picked it up I had no idea who Anne Mustoe was, but the first chapt...
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Monday, January 30, 2023

Review: The Peripheral

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 I bought The Peripheral back when it was a $2 special.  I bounced off it and put it away without a thought. Then I started watching the Am...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

Review: Growing up Human

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 Growing Up Human is written by an archaeologist. The question behind the book is to ask why childhood takes so long for humans, and how th...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Review: Existential Physics

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 Existential Physics is Sabine Hossenfelder's book about what is or is not scientific. Her beef with physicists is that sometimes they ...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Review: Pixel Stand 2

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 I've had a few friends buy the Pixel 6a over the holidays using my Superfans code, which grants both them and I a $100 coupon from the ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Review: Chivalry

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  Chivalry is Collen Doran's graphic novel rendition of the Neil Gaiman short story of the same name. The story predates Doran's re...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Review: Gorewear Shakedry Cap

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  I was so impressed by the Gorewear Shakedry Jacket , that when the Shakedry Cycling cap went on sale I bought one.  Little did I know th...

Review: Anker Nano 3 511 Charger

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 Chargers are unsexy technology, to the point where smartphone makers no longer ship them in the box because your'e assumed to have a bi...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Review: Lamy Toothpaste Squeezer

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 If you squeeze toothpaste out of a tube, you know that it's a pain to deal with different people squeezing different parts of the tube ...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Review: Far Sector

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 When I saw that Far Sector was written by N.K. Jemisin I checked it out of the library. It's a green lantern novel, but about an unusu...