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They focus on General Electric, who found that moving some manufacturing back to the US has resulted in better and less expensive products.
So a funny thing happened to the GeoSpring on the way from the cheap Chinese factory to the expensive Kentucky factory: The material cost went down. The labor required to make it went down. The quality went up. Even the energy efficiency went up.
I went with the Maha PowerEx MH-C9000 that I mentioned last year. Since purchasing the charger a couple weeks ago, I’ve been geeking out about batteries. I’ve labelled all of my Eneloops and started a database where I log the purchase date, capacity, and other information. I’ve put the database in git so that I can track the performance of an individual battery over time. The database is on GitHub.
Andrew’s reviews and analysis are intelligent and refreshingly concise, particularly when some people feel the need to put out 45-minute videos in order to communicate 3 minutes of content. Unfortunately Vuurwapen Blog will no longer concern guns. Fortunately, Andrew will be writing about firearms at LuckyGunner Labs and Vuurwapen will still be around to focus on other topics.
The ball area is worn down to a far greater degree than the heel, which demonstrates that the shoes are not inhibiting my natural form.
The book is in a similar vein as Gavin de Becker’s The Gift Of Fear (a book I strongly recommend), but with more acronyms and typos. Clint Emerson focuses on external awareness more than the internal awareness discussed by de Becker. There are some good tidbits in it, but overall I would award the book a “meh” rating.
While I still maintain that their versatility and environmental appropriatedness is limited, I have been coming around to their use a bit more over the past year or so. I have a pair of pants that I am quite smitten with and have been considering giving a jacket another shot. Over at Cold Thistle, Dane Burns recently completed a series comparing different soft-shell jackets and their appropriateness for climbing. Now he has published a selection of reader comments that were elicited by the reviews.
Read the review and then go give your money to Hill People Gear.
Gibson was one of the most influential authors of my childhood. I had not kept up with him in this millennium, but have begun to rectify that by reading Pattern Recognition a while ago and now Spook Country.