Monday, April 21, 2025

Review: Stronger

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Stronger is a badly written book about an important topic. The book's subtitle promises to tell you everything about muscles and streng...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Review: Abundance

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  Abundance is Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book about what they called supply-side liberalism. It's an indictment of the system...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

How to buy digital editions of my books

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 I finally noticed that the website hosting the purchase links for digital editions of my books went dead. ( No thanks to Google ) I've ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: Normal People

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 I don't know how Normal People made it into my borrow list from the library, but when it showed up I read it and found it easily reada...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: Careless People

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 Careless People is Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir of her time at Facebook as Manager of Global Policy, a position she herself created and...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Review: Why Your Bike Is Made in Asia

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 Why Your Bike Is Made in Asia is Bill McGann's memoir of his career first as a bike shop owner, then as a wholesale distributor (Torel...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Review: Rethinking Diabetes

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 Rethinking Diabetes is about the history of diabetic treatment, and the various back-and-forths about diet for diabetic patients over the ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Reread: Outlive

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  Outlive was onsale for $2 on the Kindle so I bought it and read it again. I keep being surprised at how detailed this book is, with a dee...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Review: Silca SuperPista Digital Floor Pump

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 There was a sale on the SuperPista Digital Floor Pump. While I had a perfectly operational pump, the idea of a pump with a gauge that was ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Review: Soldier Son Trilogy

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Soldier Son Trilogy  was on sale for a low price, so I bought it since Robin Hobb had a good reputation Narrated from a first person point o...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Review: Zatanna

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  Zatana was billed as being written by Paul Dini, and she was one of the surviving members of DC universe's magic community after Alan...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Review: Worlds

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 I remember being at a Worldcon where a group of writers talked about fiction vs non-fiction. They asserted that since they wrote fiction, t...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Review: Batman/Catwoman

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 Batman/Catwoman was on sale at a reasonable price, and I bought it hoping that it would be a great graphic novel. (Tom King's gotten m...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Review: Navaris Long Handle Ti Spork

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 My go-to freeze-dried backpacking meals are the Mountain House pouches . The flavors are usually decent, and the cooking easy. The pouches ...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Review: GTYOPR Collapsible Cups and Bowls

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 I've long been a fan of the snapfold cups, bowls, and dishes that Arturo was using on camping trips. They were really light, easy to c...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Review: Justice (DC Graphic Novel)

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 DC put a bunch of graphic novels on sale, and I noted that I'd never read Justice before, and the artist was Alex Ross, which made it ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Re-read: Kingdom Come

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  Kingdom Come is Alex Ross's beautifully painted story set in the future of the DC Universe that's non-canon. In this world, publi...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Review: Jellyfish Age Backwards

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 Jellyfish Age Backwards is a survey about the various state of our understanding about longevity and methods about preventing aging. It pr...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Review: Twitter and Tear Gas - The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

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 All through the COVID19 pandemic, Zeynep Tufekci was one of the smartest voices in the various places she was published in. Her article in ...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Review: EOS EF-M 55-200 4.5-6.3 IS STM

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 The thing with the Pixel Pro 8 and 9 is that the phone cameras are now so good that pulling out a bigger mirrorless camera is more cumberso...
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