Thursday, March 28, 2024

Review: Sweet Bean Paste

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 After reading Days at the Morisaki Bookstore, Amazon recommended that I read Sweet Bean Paste next. The book looked short and Hoopla had i...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Review: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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 I shouldn't like Days at the Morisaki Bookshop as much as I do. It has a lot of cliches in the "bookshop" genre that seem to...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Re-read: The Last Wish

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 Back to my reading duties with Boen, I decided to read him The Last Wish , the first book in The Witcher series. There's a lot to like ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

My Chain Waxing Experiment

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 I've always been skeptical about chain waxing despite in my early cycling career reading a book about an 80-year-old bicycle tourist wh...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Review: Ass Saver Win Wing Gravel

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  I found a batch of Ass Savers Win Wing Gravel on eBay for about $10 each (plus shipping). At that price I bought a whole bunch of the gra...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Review: Ours Was The Shining Future

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 Ours Was The Shining Future is an indictment of the "Brahmin Left" approach to politics. It doesn't brand itself that way, to...
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Review: Clover Collector's Edition

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 I saw Clover's Collector's Edition at the library and the cover said it was a most daring science-fiction work. The art seemed nic...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Boen's First Pigeon Point trip

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  Boen has ambitious goals for the summer tour, and I wanted a gauge for how things would go. There was a forecast for good weather on b...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Review: The Sandman (Season 1)

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 I don't have a Netflix subscription so I didn't watch The Sandman when it debuted on Netflix. Between when it debuted and when I wa...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Review: Machine Vendetta

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 Machine Vendetta is the recently released Alastair Reynolds novel feature Prefect Dreyfus. As far as I can tell it's the last book in ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Review: Road Holland Utrecht Wool Jersey

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 I'm a cheapskate about clothing, and usually pick up cheap cycling jerseys for about $20/pop whenever they go on sale. People rave abou...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Review: Narrative Economics

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 I'm a huge Robert Shiller fan, but somehow missed that he had a new book called Narrative Economics . When someone at work mentioned it...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Review: The Fund

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 The Fund is Rob Copeland's take down of Ray Dalio.  Ray Dalio is the founder/owner of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund that purpor...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium Four

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Four is the last volume in the series. In this volume, the story has Rick Grimes' collection of 4 communit...
Thursday, February 08, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium Three

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Three continues Rick Gimes' story of post apocalyptic survival.  This volume features a conflict with a ...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Review: The Walking Dead Compendium 2

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 The Walking Dead Compendium Two continues with the story from the first book. The post apocalyptic story as always is pretty unrealistic. ...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

Review: The Time-Crunched Cyclist

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 With a power meter handy in on my bike I decided to once again try to read a book about serious training to see if I could motivate myself ...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Re-read: The Walking Dead - Compendium 1

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 Last year was a year when Boen loved zombies. I enjoyed The Last of Us TV show, though the video game is still too hard for him. Similarly,...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Review: Determined

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 Determined is Robert Sapolsky's book arguing that we have no free will and examining the implications of it. This book is incredibly d...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

2023/2024 Point Reyes Wildcat Campground - New Year's Eve Backpack

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 Ever since we visited Alamere Falls in 2022 , I'd been so impressed by Wildcat Campground that I tried  over and over again, succeeding...