Monday, July 29, 2024

Reread: Aristoi

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 Aristoi is Walter Jon Williams' science fiction novel about a world in which nanotechnology, biotechnology, virtual reality, and the sc...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Stories are Weapons

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 Stories are Weapons is that most unusual book - a nonfiction piece by a science fiction author. The thesis of the book is that Americans h...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Review: Humble Pi

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 Humble Pi claims to be a book about math mistakes. It's actually not a book about mistaken math theorems or anything fundamental like ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Review: Material World

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 Material World is a book about mining and extraction. As opposed to the "ethereal world" we live in, these are the materials tha...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Review: 23 Things They Don't Tell you about Capitalism

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23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism is an indictment of free-market economics, as practiced by the Chicago school of economic...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Review: AirStreamZ Wind Noise Reducer

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 I read somewhere that wind noise at 15mph is sufficiently loud to damage your ears. I remembered that a company called Cat Ears Cat Ears m...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Review: Not the End of the World

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 Not the End of the World is subtitled How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. It is a data-driven approach to th...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Review: Maxforce Fleet Ant Bait Gel

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 We had an ant problem and none of the cheap ant bait traps on Amazon worked. Xiaoqin did some research and found recommendations for Maxfor...
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Thursday, June 06, 2024

Re-Read: The Curse of Chalion

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 I seem to be on a re-read kick recently, and The Curse of Chalion floated to the top of the list. Lois McMaster Bujold's take on fanta...
Monday, June 03, 2024

New Road Bike for Xiaoqin

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 After riding the Roadini 50cm I built earlier this year, Xiaoqin decided that a road bike would be something she would enjoy. I started dow...
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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...