Monday, October 27, 2025

Review: The Grand Design

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 The Grand Design came recommended by the Amazon Kindle direct mail ad, and it was available at the library so I checked it out and read it...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Review: The Woman Behind the New Deal

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 The Woman Behind the New Deal is the biography of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor. I've read biographies of FDR before,...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Review: Broken Stars

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 Broken Stars is a collection of contemporary science fiction stories, selected and edited by Ken Liu, who's translated many science fi...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Review: Genius Makers

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 Genius Makers is a biography/chronicle of Geoff Hinton and a number of his students, starting from Hinton's entry into the AI field un...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Human Compatible

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 I took my one and only AI class from Stuart Russell, who wrote Human Compatible . Written in 2019, this book predated OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Review: Katabasis

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 I have to applaud R. F. Kuang's PR team. Within the same week, I got 3 magazines in my mailbox with a profile of her: The New Yorker, T...
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Monday, October 13, 2025

Capitola Overnight

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Video from Xiaoqin's GoPro This year the kids declined to do any biking for Labor Day, and we ended up doing a hike or two instead. Bu...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Review: Empire of Pain

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 Empire of Pain is the history of the Sackler family. This is the family responsible for the opioid epidemic in the USA, killing lots of Am...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Review: Shokz Openswim Pro

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 I started doing more swimming again, and once again, swimming isn't like cycling. The scenery doesn't change (and in America, the s...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Review: Arrowsmith

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 After admiring Carlos Pacheco's work on Superman, I decided to look for more of his work, and came across Arrowsmith, which comes in tw...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Review: TheMagic5 Swimming Googles

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 I've been using Cressi tempered glass swimming goggles for years. They work, even though they're heavy, but they do leak on initia...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Review: AstroCity Metro Book Vol 6

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 I never got around to buying/reading the last few AstroCity collections, and it turned out that they're now all available on Hoopa as ...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Review: Superman - Camelot Falls

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 While browsing Hoopla I saw that Busiek wrote another Superman story called Camelot Falls , so I checked it out as well. The thesis behind ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Reiew: The Molecule of More

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 The Molecule of More is a book length exposition of Dopamine. There's plenty of exposition about Dopamine's role in well known hum...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Review: Batman - Creature of the Night

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 After reading Superman - Secret Identity, I discovered that Kurt Busiek wrote the Batman equivalent called Creature of the Night which sho...
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...