Thursday, October 31, 2024

Review: The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs

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 I wish I had known about The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs back when Boen was in his dinosaur phase. This book is an encyclopedic dossier on ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Review: What Makes This Book So Great

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 You do not need to buy What Makes This Book So Great , because you can go back and read Jo Walton's columns on tor.com. But I really e...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Re-read: Yendi

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 Yendi is the second book in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. Rather than being a direct sequel, it's a prequel, telling Vlad...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Review: Abanen Quick Fit 22mm Elastic Band for Fenix 47mm watches

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 For years, Arturo and I have joked that the heart rate monitors built into Garmin watches are random number generators. We would kill ourse...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Review: The Rise and Reign of Mammals

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 For whatever reason, Boen demanded a Kindle Unlimited subscription. We signed up for 2 months, so I might as well use it. I checked out The...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Review: CycPlus Tiny Pump

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 In the interest of keeping Xiaoqin's Ritchey Road Logic as light as possible, I opted not to install a regular air pump, but instead to...
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Monday, October 14, 2024

Reread: Jhereg

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 I ended up re-reading Jhereg once again because of Jo Walton's What Makes this Book so Great. Indeed, this book is great. The voice o...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Mt Tamalpais Birthday Trip

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  Xiaoqin found a hotel on Mt Tam and decided it would be a great birthday present for me to do a trip with her. I mapped out two rides ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Re-read: The Snow Queen

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 After A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness in the Sky , I was so impressed that I decided to go back to re-read The Snow Queen , the 1981 Hu...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Capitola Weekend Trip

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  For labor day weekend we decided to ride to Capitola and back for the Saturday and Sunday. The kids were pretty happy about going to th...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

MTB Whistler Day 6 & Epilogue

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  On Saturday Bowen was too hurt to keep riding, so I rode by myself. This time I resolved to ride every lift in the park except Fitzsimmo...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Review: Veken Temperature Control Kettle

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 The Veken Kettle was $17 on Prime Day, and I've been looking for a temperature control kettle for a while but never could justify the ...
Friday, October 04, 2024

MTB Whistler: Days 4-5

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  On Thursday we spit our time between technical trails and flow trails again, this time riding Call Me Maybe (too hard) and Palm Corners ...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

Timemore C3 Coffee Grinder

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 I bought the C3 Coffee Grinder as a travel grinder, and it turned out that I never brought it on any trips for the 3 months I've had i...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Whistler MTB: Rest Day

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  On our day off, we took the bus to Whistler Village and the shuttle to Lost Lake, where we jumped into the lake for a good swm and then...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Whistler MTB Trip Index Page

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 I took Bowen to Whistler in August this year. This is the index page for the trip report. Prologue Days 1-2 Day 3 Rest Day Day 4-5 Epilogue
Monday, September 30, 2024

Review: The Second Shot

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 The Second Shot was an Amazon Prime giveaway, covering mostly Gene Yu's autobiography upto and including the rescue of Evelyn Chang  f...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Whistler MTB: Day 3

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  On Tuesday we worked on more technical intermediate trails like Funshine Rolly Drops, Blueseum , World Cup Single Track, and more flow t...