Thursday, September 28, 2023

Review: Yellowface

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 Yellowface is R. F. Kuang's novel about white misappropriation of an Asian cultural work. It has no right to be so easy to read and fu...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Review: Heartstoppers Vol 1-4

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  Heartstoppers  is the story of a gay couple, Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson. Set in high school in England, the story starts with Charlie ...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Review: The Rare Metals War

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 The Rare Metals War is another book about the high cost of renewal energy. It makes several statements - one is that the current method of...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Review: Fire and Hemlock

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 Fire and Hemlock is Diana Wynne Jones' mash-up of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer. It's well-written and makes for compelling readin...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Review: America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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 America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is the great courses lecture series about American history during the period from 1865-1920....
Monday, September 18, 2023

Review: The John Varley Reader

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 I'm a fan of earlier John Varley work (his Heinlein pastisches didn't work for me, so I stopped reading his novels after he pivoted...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Review: The Science of Storytelling

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 The Science of Storytelling is a book about applied neuroscience. The idea behind the book is to use our knowledge of the past few decades...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Bicentennial Campground Bikepacking Trip

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 I've had my eye on the Bicentennial Campground for the last few years, trying repeatedly to get a campground reservation and failing ...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Review: That Will Never Work

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 That Will Never Work is Marc Randolph's telling of the founding of Netflix from inception to the IPO. While the press has always credu...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Review: American Prometheus

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 American Prometheus is the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and apparently the inspiration for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie. I ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Review: North Face Wawona 6 person tent

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 My ancient Kelty Eureka tent dates from 1995, and it's had patches all over from various accidents, and the tent poles were no longer c...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Review: Delicious - The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

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 I did not expect to be impressed by Delicious , with its grandiose subtitle and opening chapter that bragged about how well traveled their ...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Re-read: Ender's Game

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 After our spate of Gaiman novels I decided to go for more classic science fiction as a change of pace. Ender's Game was my pick for th...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

New Resmed AirMini Camping Setup

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 I've been traveling with the Pilot-24 medical grade certified battery for camping and sailing with my ResMed Air Mini. The battery is f...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Haypress Trip #2

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 Last year's Haypress trip was abandoned because I got sick and there was forecast for rain, so I handed over everything to Mickey and S...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Review: The People's Hospital

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 I found The People's Hospital through An Arm and A Leg podcast . The podcast is incredibly informative about how massively painful the...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Review: Volt Rush

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 Volt Rush  is a book about the resources behind lithium ion batteries. That's lithium, cobalt, and nickle, along with the energy requir...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Review: Scosche Rhythm+2.0

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 The Polar OH1+ I've had for a few years is starting to have its battery die too quickly, so I looked up the price. It's still an as...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Review: Oxo Outdoor Kitchen Soap Dispensing Dish Brush

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 Once in a while you run into a piece of equipment so good that you can't see how it can be improved. The OXO Outdoor Kitchen Soap Dispe...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Review: Dark Sun - The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

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 I enjoyed The Making of the Atomic Bomb so much that I checked out Dark Sun , the sequel. If anything, this book is even better! For one t...