Thursday, May 30, 2024

Re-read: A Deepness in the Sky

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 To commemorate the late Vernor Vinge, I decided to read A Fire Upon the Deep to Boen. Not remembering how long a book that was, I placed a...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Review: Sofirn BS01 Bike Light

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 I'd been looking for a USB-C rechargeable headlight that didn't suck. When Sofirn offered the BS01 Bike Light for $33 shipped, I b...
Thursday, May 09, 2024

Review: The Lost Cause

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 The Lost Cause is Cory Doctorow's extrapolation into the future of our vastly polarized society: the Magas vs the next generation of c...
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Monday, May 06, 2024

Review: The History of Video Games

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 The History of Video Games was $0.25 on Kindle format, and at that price I decided to buy it and read it. This is an astonishingly shallow...
Thursday, May 02, 2024

Re-read: The Sword of Destiny

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 I read The Sword of Destiny to Boen after reading The Last Wish to him.  Once again, I'm struck by how bad a writer Sapkowski is. His...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Review: A Brief History of Intelligence

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 A Brief History of Intelligence is a surprisingly good book, given that its title purported to also be about AI. Rather than being even a ...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Re-read: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainteneance

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 I last read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainteneance in 2013, and this might turn out to be a book I should re-read every 10 years or so,...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Kirby Cove Campground Trip

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Whenever I visit recreation.gov, I always find that there's one campground that looks super-appealing, and that's Kirby Cove Campgro...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Review: Bryton Gardia R300 Radar

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 I use my Garmin radars so much that the batteries on them that their batteries start wearing out after about 3-5 years of use. When the bat...
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Reread: Among Others

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 After reflecting upon Days at the Morisaki Bookshop , I went back and re-read Among Others . Most books are worth reading once, but Among O...
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 ...