Category: Reviews

  • Just don’t fall

    One of my goto phrases when people ask me about learning to ride a bike or ski/snowboard is: Just don’t fall. It’s a simple idea but infinitely complicated and that’s my point. This post about Skiing as falling from Dave Weiner crystallizes my point: it’s a balancing dance. Just like life. One moment you’re flying…

  • Review: Counterpart (TV Series)

    What if there was a door to a parallel universe that you could visit just by walking through it? What would happen if you met yourself in that parallel world? Would you get along, or would you feel threatened/jealous/envious/afraid? Now consider that everyone else in your world has a double in the other world and…

  • Review: Sid Meier’s Memoir!

    For the amount of time I have spent playing Civilization and its various sequels and offshoots I had to listen to Sid Meier’s Memoir!. For nostalgia’s sake it was fascinating to learn how Sid had become a games developer and then one of the greatest of all time. My other reason for listening to this…

  • Don’t Look Up

    Don’t Look Up

    I feel like I stopped watching as much satire in the last 4 or 5 years. Its not that I don’t enjoy satire, I do, but when you are living in the world we have lived in for the last 4 to 5 years its just not as necessary. So I had some trepidation towards…