The new movie
Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Christopher Nolan is destined to become a science fiction classic like 2001 but I don’t think it will be appreciated in our time. At three hours long I think some audiences will have a hard time staying engaged.…
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I’ve been using my iPhone 6 Plus for a month now. I thought it was time to gather my thoughts about my experience with the new, larger phone. Prior to getting the new phone I was carrying an iPhone 5s and an iPad Mini (2nd Generation with Wifi).…
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A few years ago we went to go see the Titanic Exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The exhibit featured actual relics from the ship and props from the movie. It was tastefully done. This year in the same place we have an Indiana Jones exhibit on the
Adventure of Archeology.…
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I finally broke away to see the Ansel Adams Exhibit at the Arlington Museum. The exhibit closes tomorrow. Nothing like waiting to the last minute. I’m familiar with Adams’ canonical Yosemite work. I was hoping the exhibit would expand my knowledge of the artist.…
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I had a funny experience last week. I drove up to Whistler Mountain, the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The weather was cold. I was told it was about 5ºC. I was looking out over the valley and taking some pictures.…
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Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in a new summer popcorn movie called Edge of Tomorrow which is alike a mashup of Matrix, Groundhog Day, and Starship Troopers and is based on the novel by
Hiroshi Sakurazaka (桜坂 洋) called All You Need is Kill (オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル).…
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WWDC 2014 starts in about a week. I’m sure that by this time next week there will be a line around Moscone West waiting to get in to hear what new offerings Apple has for their community. I was lucky enough to have been in that line over a dozen times going back to the late 90’s when the event was held in San Jose.…
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I went to see the new American ゴジラ film with some trepidation. This is a character that I have watched all my life on the little and big screen. It reminded me of going to the theater in 1985 when I dragged my cousin Paul to see the Ramond Burr cut of
Return of Godzilla.…
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Jeremy Robinson’s sequel to last year’s Project Nemesis is a worthy successor. It takes the characters introduced in the first novel and turns up the volume. Instead of just one kaiju, we have five battling it out in the Washington D.C.…
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I’m very irked by the recent update to AppleTV. There are three new “apps” on my TV for History Channel, A&E, and LifeTime. The trick is that they are hobbled unless my cable company is DirecTV, Optimum, or Verizon FiOS. Since I do not subscribe to any of those, I’m locked out of the main content.…
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I went to watch this week’s episode of
The Big Bang Theory off the DVR and notice that the episode number was not sequential from last week’s episode. Dish showed
The Indecision Amalgamation as episode #161 followed by
The Relationship Diremption as episode #164.…
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The latest entry in the Marvel universe is the sequel to Captain America. Unlike Iron Man, the Captain Rogers series uses a subtitle instead of a number. This episode is called
The Winter Soldier. It is a very strong entry in the series.…
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Some video from the Showtime International Dance Competition in Desoto this weekend.
