It’s cool to see one of my favorite composers performing in my adopted city. Bear McCreary is know for his work on SyFy and SciFi show soundtracks. I first noticed his work in Battlestar Galactica as weaved jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtowers” into the show’s musical theme.…
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Kristine Rusch has created a future where Earth is part of a sort of United Nations of planets but in this UN the Earth is about as important as Tuvalu. I’ve only read the first three of the novels but I am looking forward to the next one.…
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I was having trouble with YahooIM and decided to log into yahoo.com. In the middle of all the spam was a message from AT&T about my home DSL account. It’s strange they send the message to this account instead of the one where they send the bill every month.…
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This weekend my son helped me install our new bronze mailbox. It is an upgrade from our previous temporary mailbox. The only reason this was such a project is that with the heat the ground is like concrete. The posthole digger was getting bent when striking the ground.…
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Whenever you go into the theater to see a new movie in an old franchise you run the risk of being disappointed. Series like Superman, Batman, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica even Fletch have all been given the “reimagining” treatment with varying degrees of success.…
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Thanks to the latest update to the Apple TV 2 software I can not watch any TV show that I have ever purchased from iTunes via streaming. Previously I had to keep a copy of anything I’d ever bought in case I ever wanted to watch it again.…
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Someone drove over our mailbox. For some reason the mail carrier won’t deliver to a mailbox on the ground. I ordered a new mailbox but it won’t be installed for about a month. In the mean time duct tape will allow our mail carrier to fulfill her sacred duty.…
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I went into Captain America thinking of it as just another episode in the Avengers series along with other films like Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk. Each of these films has its own style and high points. I know very little about the comic book character.…
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The new version of BBEdit, version 10 is out. Bare Bones Software has already come under fire for their pricing model. BBEdit regularly costs $49.99. That is a great value for a tool that I use everyday and have used for years.…
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I finally managed to get to the abrupt ending of Peter F. Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star. It was agonizingly long. I stayed with it thinking that the end was drawing near. After nearly a thousand pages, the story stops at a minor cliffhanger.…
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Cute rom-com worthy of your time to rent it on NetFlix. The plot, what there is of it, is predictable but that doesn’t detract. The movie is full of Sting and Police music remixes. There’s even a double reference to Roxanne in the beginning of the movie.…
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Local Mac User Group in need of some web hosting services after the demise of MobileMe.
