Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on September 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Mary Hunt is a woman on a mission.
This book—best read as a follow-up to Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living—breathes with a passion and encouraging spirit that go beyond technical advice on how to live on the cheap. (more…)
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I have a colleague who travels even more than I do and proclaims his travel doctrine at every opportunity: ‘Don’t carry it if you can drag it.’
I finally caved to his advice and bought the Kensington Contour Roller based on Kensington’s good name and the attractive price. (more…)
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I tend to trust the buyers at Costco on products like this. Their judgments rarely fail, and they’ve certainly put good value for money into their warehouse store with the Uniden cordless phone. You can of course buy this phone at lots of other places too, but the Costo endorsement means something. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on September 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Jim Kaese and Paul Huddle have given us a reference work, not a discussion of what it means to be an athletic-minded traveler nor how to become athletic minded if you are a traveler doubling as a couch potato.
Mind the subtitle: ‘Where to work out and stay when fitness is a priority.’ (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, turning the fly, tagged fishing, fly fishing, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
One of the endearing features of the monthly magazine Fly Fisherman is its tag line: ‘the leading magazine of the quiet sport’. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged colleges and universities, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Guides to colleges tend to convey either statistical reportage derived from the college itself or anecdotal subjectivity provided by the school’s students and other constituencies.
The Barron’s Guides lean strongly in the first of these two directions. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged colleges and universities, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The Princeton Review Best 357 Colleges is a fun read.
Whether it’s an accurate selection of the 357 best or a clear portrayal of what the chosen few have to offer is another matter. It’s impossible to tell, though the valuable commentary you get in the Princeton Review is a good supplement to factual date you can get from the schools in question and from other sources. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged finances, Mary Hunt, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Something has happened to Mary Hunt since her 1999 publication on Debt-Free Living. Or perhaps it’s happened to her editor. Or perhaps a ghost writer has slipped into her life.
Regardless, the same passion and good sense is now expressed with a pleasant and flowing presentation that makes her medicine all the more bearable to the debt-laden patient. (more…)
Posted in clarity, paterfamilias, reseña, tagged health, Kurt Patrick Gutierrez, reseña on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Kurt Gutierrez believes you can apply the same planning, discipline, and anticipated outcomes to saying healthy on the road as you do in the rest of your professional and personal life. ‘Just get it out there on an Excel spreadsheet’, I can almost hear the author say.
I like that. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged gadgets, kitchen, reseña on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The handsomely elegant glass-on-black Oster blender crushes ice with ease and doesn’t shake, as some less sturdy contenders do.
Canter Bridge 