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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Book Review: Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: Traveler's Guide to Batuu

 


This really serves as a dual-function book. First, and probably most importantly (at least for Disney), it serves as a guidebook for its Galaxy's Edge theme parks at Disneyland and Disneyworld, which use the planet Batuu as their setting. Second, it gives some context to some of the newer canon novels set in Batuu.

The hardcover version of the book is just under 150 pages and can easily be read in a few hours. It mostly talks about people and attractions that you can see in the theme park and dribbles in a bit of Star Wars history here and there as well. It does not read like a novel at all and does not really even need to be read cover-to-cover. My one real issue with the book is that the print can get fairly small, and some of the pages are colored, and the print can blend in with the page color, making it very hard to read for people with bad eyesight and/or who are colorblind. Aside from that, it is not something that I would call a must-read by any means, but if you are a hardcore Star Wars fan, especially one who plans on visiting one of the parks, it is something you can easily get through in a day or so.

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