Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Books of the Year 2024

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 I read 63 books this year, which comes out to more than a book a week. A lot of the books were re-reads, which I do not regret, since many ...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Mirror Lake Loop

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  The forecast was for rain and snow but it got moved back to Monday afternoon from Sunday night! Driving into the park was saw notices th...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Review: Bruce Lee - A Life

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 I enjoyed Matt Polly's book enough that when I saw he had a biography of Bruce Lee I decided to check it out from the library. This is ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Sentinel Dome, Roosevelt Point, Taft Point

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  On the way to Glacier Point road, the GPS on the phone announced that Glacier Point Road was closed. I kept going, assuming that there w...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Mist and Vernal Falls

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  For the Veteran's Day long weekend this year we decided to visit Yosemite National Park, having never been there in the Fall. On Fri...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Review: The End is Always Near

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 The End Is Always Near purports to be a history book about apocalyptic moments from the past. In practice, the apocalyptic moments it discu...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Yosemite 2024 Index Page

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 We visited Yosemite for Veterans Day. It was our first time there in the fall. Photos Mist and Vernal Falls Sentinel Dome, Roosevelt Point,...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Review: Kiki's Delivery Service

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 I of course enjoyed Kiki's Delivery Service as a Hayao Miyazaki movie, but I never realized that it was based on a book of the same na...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Review: Tapped Out

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 I remember enjoying American Shaolin, so when I saw that Matt Polly had a follow-on book called Tapped Out, I decided to check it out and...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

Review: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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 Barking Up the Wrong Tree has the feel of several dozen blog posts turned into a book. But I noticed that it was a WSJ best-selling book, ...
Monday, November 04, 2024

Review: The Wild Life of Our Bodies

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  The Wild Life of Our Bodies is a book about the relationship between our bodies and their evolutionary partners/predators/symbiotes that ...
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...