Wednesday, December 17, 2025

BVI 2025: Nov 24 Kelly's Cove, Norman Island to Deadman's Bay, Peter Island

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 The long day yesterday and the jet lag still took its toll. Despite my intentions, I woke up at the late hour of 6:15am, and discovered tha...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

BVI 2025: Nov 23rd - Nanny Cay Marina , Tortola to Kelly's Cove, Norman Island

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 Despite the jet lag, we woke up around 7am and made coffee. I ate a granola breakfast with the lactose free milk powder I'd brought fro...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Review: Grunt

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 In truth, this review of Grunt should be marked a re-read, since I'd read it before but had forgotten to write a review. In this book,...
Friday, December 12, 2025

2025 BVI Sailing Trip

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 This is the index page for the 2025 BVI Sailing trip that I organized. Joining my family this time was Arturo and Massi Crespo, Mark and Ka...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Building Xiaoiqin's Ritchey Montebello

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 Last year, we purchased a Lynskey GR300 for Xiaoqin. But she never really liked the bike that much though she appreciated the SRAM Force el...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

BVI 2025: Nov 22 Prologue

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 We boarded the red eye on November 21st, switching planes in Chicago at 6:00am and making it to STT airport at 2:00pm, too late to make the...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

2026 Book Reviews

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  Non-Fiction Science Under Seige Cosmos Grunt The Sexual Evolution A Marriage At Sea The Escape Jan Ullrich - The Best That Never Was Notes...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Re-read: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainteneance

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 One of the perils of reading books to your kids in an effort to mold their tastes is that while they might not take to the reading, you...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Review: Cosmos

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 Boen was resisting learning math, so I bought him Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey and we started watching it together. Bowen got really into i...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Review: Science Under Seige

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 Science Under Siege is the account of the authors' experience working as researchers in both climate science and vaccines, both of who...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Review: Batman by Grant Morrison

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 Grant Morrison won Eisner Awards, so I had high expectations of his Batman book. I came away quite disappointed --- clearly, I've aged...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Books of the Year 2025

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 I read 72 book s this year, which is more than my usual count, probably because I started reading more graphic novels again, which tend to ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Review: Very Far Away From Anywhere Else

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 I remember reading Very Far Away From Anywhere Else as a teenager and finding it very moving. It was sort of a teen romance story, but wit...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Review: Plays Well With Others

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 Plays Well With Others claims to dispell myths about human relations with science.  It turned out to be a fun book to read and well-writte...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Review: Aurora

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  Aurora is Kim Stanley Robinson's book about a generation starship arriving at Tau Ceti after several generations. The colonists onboa...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Review: Struck by Genius

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 Struck by Genius is the story of Jason Padgett (ghost written by Maureen Seaberg) about his transition from being a non-academic party ani...
Monday, November 03, 2025

Review: Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex

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 Ghost in the Shell - Standalone Complex was on sale for $2, so I picked up the kindle copy. In case you haven't kept up with any of th...
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...