(Part 2) Top products from r/geek

Going to put my 2 cents and Five Pounds Sterling in here as well. Probably in descending order of my favourites, actually!

As recommended elsewhere, the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, comprised of four books (in two Omnibuses (Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, Rise of Endymion) are an excellent read. One of my all-time favourites.

Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith, is a weird one. Maybe not pure-Scifi, but definitely something to look at.

Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan, is a dark, violent read but with a compelling protagonist. Contains possible the best revenge scene ever. Not for the squeamish. Grips you from the very first page.

Unto Leviathan (known in the US as "Ship of Fools") by Richard Paul Russo, is one of the two books that I've finished in one sitting (the other being The Fall of Hyperion). Brilliant page turner. Just don't expect things to get wrapped up neatly at the end.

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds. Great standalone book, but once again too many questions left at the end! But I guess that's the point!

Eon by Greg Bear is quite hard Sci-Fi, but if that's your thing you'll love it.

Marrow by Robert Reed has some wonderful ideas, but is sadly not the most well written book in the world. A spaceship as big as Jupiter, inhabited by thousands of different alien species, ruled over by immortal humans who have discovered something hidden in the core of the ship. The story spans thousands of years. Can drag a little in the middle, but definitely worth a look at, if only for the concepts presented.

Think it's time to dig some of these out and give them another read. Maybe after some sleep...

It's 4:30am here, so I appreciate my descriptions have added nothing of value, hence the links. The links aren't affiliated or anything like that, they're just there for Redditor's perusal. ;)

I hear ya man. I wasn't huge huge, but I was 185 at my biggest. I'm at 145 now. 138 at my lowest.

If you have an extra hour you should check this out Why we get fat

And also get this on audio book. It's very well done, enlightening, and entertaining. Born to Run (Acquirable on the internet)

I don't know how serious you are about health, but looking back I really wish someone would have sent me those two links when I started.

That's because it doesn't violate the 4th Amendment.

I'm 1000% in support of the RestoretheFourth kids, but the fact is, the 4th Amendment has been eroded away to practically nothing over the course of 200ish years of case law -- and it's been accelerating since the 1970s. The common understanding of "privacy" and the legal understanding are wildly different.

For more, read the excellent Nothing to Hide (don't click unless you don't mind being put on a watchlist).

I wish it weren't so, but the Fourth Amendment is kind of already super broken. Legal arguments against surveillance are better served, IMO, by basing them on the chilling effects they have on the First Amendment rights of the survielled.

So the solution for camping and common power outages are pretty close to the same.

If you live somewhere where the power goes out often, get yourself a 12v adapter for your machine (varies by machine), buy a AGM deep cycle trolling motor battery (~$100) and a Battery Tender. Plug the battery tender to the wall, hook it to the battery, then hook the 12v adapter to your machine. Congratulations: the battery tender keeps the battery topped off, the CPAP runs off the battery, and you never miss a beat when the power goes out. If you're looking to lose power for more than one night (say you regularly have to wait out hurricanes) you'll want a bigger capacity deep cycle battery if you want to run the humidifier.

For car camping just leave the battery tender at home and turn off the humidifier. Fully charged battery should easily last you 5 nights.

If you're more of a backpacker/rough camper pick up a large USB battery pack that supports 12V out. People with Philips Respironics machines report that pack gives them 2 nights without humidifier. If you have a Philips machine it actually comes with the right size barrel plug, so no 12v adapter needed.

I was in high school waaaay before Youtube, so I learned about hexaflexagons from the wonderful Martin Gardner. He wrote a column in Scientific American for many years. I was very proud of my dodecahexaflexagons -- 12 faces and close two 2 dozen different states.

Try Frank Herbert's Dune for starters. A more modern author would be Neal Stephenson, maybe start with his Cryptonomicon.

I really enjoyed Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain as well, though I haven't read anything else by her.

I'm just gonna leave this here. I recommend it to everyone, its hilarious

If Apollo tech geekery is your thing, the book Digital Apollo is a really interesting look at the human-machine interface of the moon missions

I stand corrected, I have two and neither is 35k. I carry the 14k in my purse everywhere, and the 23k in the glovebox. A bit more than the 35k I thought originally, oops.

The 14k is great, and for the price a must have. I get just under 7 charges on it, a galaxy s2 gets right around 6. I imagine modern phones get more like 5, but that still goes a long way.

I just checked Amazon. They have TI 84 Plus for $90.00. Proof

Don't worry guys I got you.
It's more expensive than you expected

For a while there I'd use the Wikipedia Book Creator to aggregate a bunch of articles on a certain topic and then download it to my eInk e-Reader to peruse in bed until I fell asleep.

One such topic was early computing up through the Microcomputing era and the 1977 Trinity.

At that point of history I was reading Empires of Light about the AC/DC war, Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the birth of ARPANET, Dealers of Lightning, about PARC, Commodore: A Company on the Edge (about the rise of Commodore through the PET, slaying TI, and faltering after the C64), and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, which was enlightening, even though it was written for someone who couldn't tell a modem from a hub.

It appears it does. Although, I don't know the context of the waves.

https://www.amazon.com/OttLite-G9700L-Ultimate-Storage-Station/dp/B017ZUK1L0

On sale at Joann Fabrics:

https://www.joann.com/ottlite22w-storage-lamp-with-magnifier/13774971.html

Not Michael Jackson, the singer. Michael Jackson, the Brit.

https://www.amazon.com/A-Brief-History-of-Time/dp/B0000545OB/ref=nodl_

Here you go https://www.amazon.com/A-Brief-History-of-Time/dp/B0000545OB/ref=nodl_

Try Principles of Marketing - found it to be fairly informative.

try this. It explains everything up to first year university physics and electromagnetism, but written so a 5 year old can get through it.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Games-T-Michael-Martin/dp/0062201816

Alternatively, this would do the trick too

I like this version by Belkin, which is basically the same device (with a less irritating LED and 3 power +2 USB outlets)

Man, that reminds me of how much I am going to miss my Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman when it dies. $600 is too much for a trackball.

I love the concept of it, but not actually using it. I bought this mouse, but can never use it for more than a few minutes before getting frustrated at how long it takes to click things.

I’m a high school math teacher. That isn’t any normal price I’ve ever seen for a ti-84+, it’s actually about $100. Here’s the standard amazon listing which is consistent at most other places. If you want the color version (which I don’t recommend) you’re looking at about $150.

Btw, the color versions are backlit and rechargeable. This means that since they’re backlit they suck down the batteries and have to be recharged way more often than the non-backlit version which last forever on one set of 4 AAAs. Also, those rechargeable batteries only take so many charges before they start seeing decreased life. I’ve had multiple students who have to charge their calculators weekly or more and eventually they won’t hold a charge. You can take apart the calculator and replace them yourself if you don’t mind getting into it. But, lots of people aren’t comfortable with doing that and ti isn’t going to do it for you.

Secondly, this whole calculator conspiracy theory is just that. We math teachers don’t suggest ti because there’s some ti rep padding our pockets or because “Pearson is paid blah blah blah”. We suggest them because they’re simple and idiot proof. The older ones were tanks. They’re more intuitively set up than Casios or HPs. They’re just good calculators.