Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Review: Superman - Secret Identity

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 Somehow I'd missed that Kurt Busiek wrote a Superman story called Secret identity . Well, of course I had to go and check it out from H...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Review: Good Omens Graphic Novel

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 I will confess that I've always bounced off Terry Prachett's work. Disc World, you name it, I can't read more than a few pages ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

San Francisco Crosstown and Double Cross Walks

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  I had a little epiphany recently where I thought to myself, "People from all over the world pay lots of money and fly into San Fran...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Review: Hileen replacement nosepads for Oakley cycling glasses

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 One of the most annoying things about cycling with glasses is when they keep sliding down your nose. I've tried stuff like nerdwax whi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Review: Wolftooth Encase Hex Wrench Kit

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 If you have a minimalist toolbag on your bike, you probably at some point run out of space. One alternative is to stow your tools into your...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Review: Beguilement

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 Amazon showed me that Beguilement was for sale for $2. The library didn't have it in electronic format and I found myself thinking: ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Long term review: Waxing Chains

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 I've been waxing chains on my family's fleet of bicycles for about 18 months. When I first started doing this, I considered it a ha...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Review: Gabaruk 11-50 11s cassette

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Gabaruk's 11-50 11s cassette can be gotten for $211. For a weight savings of approximately 300g, it handily beats the $1/gram of weight...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: Play Nice

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 Play Nice is Jason Schreier's corporate history of Blizzard Entertainment. Written in a breathless manner that befits its subject, the...
Monday, September 15, 2025

2025 Tour Epilogue

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We woke up early at Das Ludwig and packed up. We walked down to the dining area of the hotel and it was closed. We realized then that the ho...
Friday, September 12, 2025

July 4: Lustenau to Lindau (Germany)

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  The day started with cloudy skies but dry roads as we rolled the remaining kilometers down to Hard, a small town right on the Bodensee w...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

July 3: Lenzerheide to Lustenau

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  The forecast was for rain today, but of course the weather in the morning looked fantastic. After a very full breakfast in which we had ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Review: Flow Control Filter for Aeropress

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 The aeropress is still my favorite coffee maker. Rather than use the "inverted" method, I always use the filter upright, but imme...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

July 2: Bergun to Lenzerheide

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  Once again, we had another beautiful morning to start our ride down the rest of the Albula pass. The descent was cool enough that we had ...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Review: 1Q84

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 I previously bounced off 1Q84 , but after reading about Harukami talking about it about his first attempt at a really long novel (over 1000...
Friday, September 05, 2025

July 1: Madulain to Bergun

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  Despite the rain last night, the morning brought us beautiful sunshine, giving us motivation to ride the Albulapass. It was a shortish ri...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Review: Ortlieb Saddlebag 4 liter

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 I'd been using the old style Ortlieb mini handlebar bag. While it's satisfactory for most of my purposes, it had several drawbacks,...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

June 30th: Zernez to Maudalin

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  It was cloudy as we had breakfast early on Monday morning. After we packed and started getting the bikes out, the landlady showed up and ...