You may not have heard of Andy Weir. He has no Wikipedia page and he only has the one book listed on Amazon. His web site galactanet.com looks like a 1996 MySpace page. What he does have is the best hard science book about Mars I have ever read.…
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Just saw the RoboCop remake. Thoughts? Well, it didn’t suck (…as bad as Total Recall). But unfortunately it wasn’t great either.
The opening scenes of the
Pat Novak show staring Samuel L. Jackson were supposed to evoke the same over-the-top media as we saw in the original.…
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The 1987 RoboCop has some endearing parts that have made it so memorable. The movie actually holds up pretty well after 27 years. It takes place in an ambiguous near future where artificial hearts are advertised on TV and there’s violence in Mexico.…
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I’ve seen the 1951 Rudolph Maté movie adaptation of
When Worlds Collide. It is near the top of classic 1950’s Science Fiction movies. I never gave its source material much thought. The movie won an Oscar that year for its special effects which involved the use of miniatures to convey the large scale of the story.…
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The Legacy Silver Spurs Officers perform their dance that they will take to competition this summer at the basketball game halftime. The song is If I Were A Boy by Beyoncé.
Legacy Silver Spurs performing a Kick Routine at the halftime of the Red Oak Hawks basketball game
Usually Texas A&M University’s annual bonfire is held in November just before the t.u. football game. Since the tragedy in 1999 and the move to the SEC, things have changed. This year the weather forced a delay to January. Student Bonfire now a completely separate event without official University sanction.…
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Mansfield Legacy High School Silver Spurs Drill Team performance of Hijack at Broncos vs Lake Ridge Basketball Game halftime. Choreography by Mikey Trasoras
The third episode of the third series of Sherlock is full of twists and redirection. We learn much about Mrs. Watson, the Holmes’ parents, and Sherlock’s dog while weaving in and out of a very twisted plot. There are plenty of references to pop culture including calling Sherlock a blunt instrument in reference to James Bond.…
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Yet another brilliant episode. Sherlock must give the best man’s toast at Watson’s wedding. The episode is intertwined with small mysteries culminating in a big reveal or three at the end. Sherlock’s manic nature is on full display. There’s a touching moment at the end and where the show continues to dance around Sherlock’s sexual preference, orientation, or lack there of.…
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I caught the first of the three Sherlock episodes on the BBC iPlayer. The episode is called
The Empty Hearse and it refers to the fact that Sherlock faked his death at the end of the last season. The episode is full of speculation as to how he’d done it picking up right where the teaser webisode left off.…
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I’m parting with my Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) backpacks from 2000 and 2001
2000: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181296008348
2001: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181296033436
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I’m actually really happy with my
AppleTV. I have one in each room. They work with a shared
iTunes library to deliver movies, TV shows and occasionally music around my house. I like the addition of new channels even though some are still tied to old school cable service if you want to actually use them.…
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