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London 2012 Summer Olympics: Waiting for Taekwondo to Start
It’s Olympic time again. Like the last three Summer Olympics, I’m looking forward to the taekwondo sparring competition at the Olympics, which starts on August 8th (see the taekwondo schedule via the London 2012 site). While I wait to watch taekwondo, I decided to check out a few other Olympic sports that I never got…
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Review: Battle Royale
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami My rating: 5 of 5 stars (Warning: Potential spoilers. No character names are given, but some scenes are summarized – you can easily skip these paragraphs. I also mention whether or not the two main protagonists survive. By the way, my thoughts on spoilers in general – if the book…
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Review: Fourwar
Fourwar by Nathaniel Simpson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Being a close friend of the author, I first read this novel when it was in an early draft. At the time, I was focused on checking it for minor typos; thus, it was kind of hard to let myself get absorbed in the story.…
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Book Blog
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and almost a year since I wrote a blog about books that I’ve read – the last blog of this sort was in August of last year. The reason for this is simply because I couldn’t decide if I should keep writing a ‘book blog’ or only keep…
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Back to Darkover :-)
Ah… Darkover. After having read eleven Darkover books, reading the next two (Stormqueen! and Hawkmistress! in the omnibus The Ages of Chaos) feels like returning home, albeit to a fantasy home. This was surprising since The Ages of Chaos takes place in early Darkovan chronology, before Darkovans meet with the Terrans. The previous Darkover books…
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Review: The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus
The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus by Jonathan Green My rating: 0 of 5 stars I started this omnibus containing three books a while back (maybe over a year ago). It looked vaguely amusing, a mix of steampunk with a bit of Holmesian (not sure about the Bond influence, it feels more Holmesian to me). The book…
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Sleep Bot (Android App) – A Short Review
Review of Sleep Bot Tracker Log (also see Sleep Bot app on Android Market): I’ve been using this app for the past few days. I like that it lets me know how much sleep I’m missing (“sleep debt”) because then I’ll try to catch up (I guess it’s almost a game to try to get…
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Canadian and American Humour: A Comparison
Canadian Great White North: Beer Nog (featuring “Bob and Doug McKenzie” as seen on SCTV) “You hoser! Take off to the Great White North, eh? Get some smokes and beer while you’re there, eh?” American America Fuck Yeah! (a fan-made video featuring theme song and clips from the movie, Team America: World Police) “Team America,…
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Allergies and Running in the Winter
Anyone else have allergies and also do running in the winter? I’ve noticed for a while now that when I haven’t been running regularly, then start up in the cold months, my allergies just kick my ass for running. It’s not that I’m tired or my cardio is bad (I have allergies year round, but…
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Some Personal Thoughts on Human Rights and Space Travel
I’ve been reading astronomy all weekend. I’ve kind of missed it since I first took astronomy in university (and with all the changes in spaceflight going on – space tourism, woohoo! – I think I’d better brush up). Somehow I got an A in astronomy (no, not just staring at stars all year long) and…
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