Thursday, March 30, 2023

Review: Deep Secret

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 Deep Secret is Diana Wynne Jones' multiverse novel. The narrator, Rupert Venables is a Magid, a wizard who oversees multiple worlds bu...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Review: Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

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 I checked out Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach from the library on a lark, started watching the first episode and was ...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Review: How to Raise an Adult

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 How to Raise an Adult is a book about over-parenting. It's written by Julie Lythcott-Haims , who was Stanford's freshman dean, who...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Review: A half-Built Garden

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 A Half-Built Garden is science fiction, but in the rarest sub-genre, political science fiction. It's also a first contact story. It...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Review: Pixel Buds Pro

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 My 3 year old Jabra Elite 65t active were finally getting to the point where I would run out of battery during a normal workday. I thought ...
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Monday, March 20, 2023

Review: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

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 Of course I went on a Gabrielle Zevin binge, despite not really liking Young Jane Young. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds me a lot ...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Review: Dispel Illusion

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 Dispel Illusion showed up as part of the Kindle Unlimited Library, so I picked it up, despite my misgivings about book 2, Limited Wish . I...

Review: The Beginning of Infinity

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 My wife bought a copy of The Beginning of Infinity , so it popped right onto my kindle and I just read it as a matter of course. I started ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Review: Neugent Cycling A422TwoX wheels

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The thing with ball bearing wheels is that I learned that I can't be bothered to overhaul them myself. While it's possible to do the...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Review: Free to Learn

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 Free to Learn is Peter Gray's indictment of the modern industrial style school. It starts with a personal story about his child rebell...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Review: Young Jane Young

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 After reading the brilliant Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow , I went back to read other Zevin books. Young Jane Young was published in...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Review: Primato Syntesi Hubs

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 You can get a pair of Primato Syntesi 32h road hubs (any color you want as long as they're black) for $100 on Amazon. On a sale, I man...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow showed up on many "Books of the Year" lists. I checked it out of the library with suspicion,...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Review: Scooby-Doo Betrayal at Mystery Mansion

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 There was a sale on Amazon for Scooby Doo in Betrayal at Mystery Mansion  for $13. My first edition copy of Betrayal at The House on the Hi...
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...