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I had to stop watching Lost in Space
I’m referring to the new series, the Netflix one. I’ve never really watched the old one but I’ve seen enough clips to know: “Danger Will Robinson”. There are several reasons why I stopped watching even though I’m starving for non-pessimistic future space science fiction. The first one is that I don’t enjoy seeing people make…
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Book Review: Kettlebell – Simple & Sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline
This book is almost like a graphic novel, lot’s of pictures (expected) and a big font with lots of padding (not so much). It’s very non-PC, so, if you are easily offended, move on. My review here is of the book and not the program. I still have reasons to believe the program is sound…
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If the online world voted, we would have a better world
I’ve seen many cases of this before, but never one as clear as this. Mike Pence, the vice president of the USA, just released a children’s book about a bunny titled “Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President” and at the same time, John Oliver of Last Week Tonight released a counter-book…
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Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
This book was fascinating. I always thought of Leonardo Da Vinci as an artist who did other things aside from painting. This book changed my mind. Leonardo saw himself as a philosopher/scientist/engineer (those were sort of one and the same back then) who also paints; and after reading this book, I have to agree. I…
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
So far the tone of this book is disgustingly hippish. I think it presents some interesting data, but the way it presents it is so annoying: – everything modern is bad – everything mainstream is bad – the only good alternative is primitive farms – food and nature is a mystery that we cannot grasp…
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Book Review: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
For this review I’m considering, without any fact checking or cross referencing, that this biography is factual and true to the events although clearly some of the statements in the book would be hard to evaluate as they describe the feelings of large groups of people. I knew a bit about The Manhattan Project and…
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Book Review: Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents by Great Britain Home Office
The only real way to judge this book is whether it helps you pass the Life in the United Kingdom test or not and I don’t yet know that. I’ve read the book (it actually took me one full day to go through all of it) and I’m probably going to re-read at least once,…
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What Star Trek: Discovery should have been
My opinion of Star Trek: Discovery is positive, but there’s still something that annoys me and since it’s a bit of a spoiler, you should stop reading here until you watched season 1. Star Trek: Discovery shouldn’t have been a prequel. STD (oops, unfortunate acronym) should have been a sequel to all the other Star…
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Book Review: Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
I was expecting a funny read of math curiosities and indeed there was plenty of humor and curiosities in this book in the style of Matt Parker (Google him and watch his videos, he’s great); but this book had much more than that. Some parts of the book were not easy at all. I’m glad…
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Read this before watching Star Trek: Discovery
I just finished watching Star Trek: Discover and although I’m not blown away, I did enjoy it and I’m looking forward to how the story continues. There were three points that felt wrong about the series but if you approach them with the right mind-frame you can minimize their impact on your enjoyment because they…