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The Hobbit part one: Worth Seeing*
* – This receives a “Worth Seeing” rating if you’re familiar with The Lord of the Rings and a Tolkien diehard like I was from age 12-14, meaning you’ve read The Silmarillion. The average movie-goer might have his/her patience really … Continue reading
Austin’s Pizza and congrats to our pizzaglieri Lindsay!
When it comes to restaurant pizza (or takeout), local favorite Austin’s Pizza has been our first choice for many years. Mangia is another but they hit the financial skids recently and the location closest to us changed its name to … Continue reading
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Happy Winter Solstice 2012
What is traditionally the “shortest day of the year” oddly coincided with the end-of-the-world bullshit. How nice. One upside with living in Central Texas is that the gap between sunrise and sundown doesn’t get too radical like Alaska or Sweden. … Continue reading
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Eighties Alphabet movie poster
I managed to get 24 out of 26 while going over it with the co-worker who turned me on to this art company’s site. See if you can beat my score. I’ll give you a hint, not all of these … Continue reading
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Six hundred miles this year!
Today I achieved this running milestone for 2012 alone. It also puts this year’s distance 144% over 2011 which was a mere 246 miles. If I can maintain my health and determination, I think I could close out 2012 with … Continue reading
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Name 25, two-word-name cities
This head-scratcher from Mental Floss has a time limit of five minutes. I only nailed a dozen because size seemed to matter. I’m sure someone will do better than me but let me give you a few hints. Spanish counts Hyphenated … Continue reading
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Calendar blues
Of all the things to restore when the server regained its data, my calendars have been the biggest nuisance which is a disappointment. Last year I made the jump to BusyCal because its look and feel had more in common … Continue reading
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Our apologies for a stingy holiday season
In light of recent events: Somara’s surgery which led to her having less time and work, my ongoing fight with bronchitis (theoretically) and the server’s $1700 recovery bill…most will be receiving just a card from us, probably under the wire … Continue reading
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My good tastes (or moving forward) were appreciated
Today was the day to get our Honda Fit taken to the dealership for its 30,000-mile checkup, oil change, etc. I know the dealership can be a bit more expensive but hey, I had a coupon. It worked out too. … Continue reading
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Cheapo Records is closing
Caught the news in their weekly e-mail newsletter and it made me pretty sad because I’ve found numerous out of print, rare musical treasures over there. When Technophilia passed away, Cheapo was a great replacement to get my used CD addiction … Continue reading
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Picayune is back! Courtesy of DriveSavers
I think the pictures of R2-D2 illustrate the process and how badly the original hard drive was damaged. Meanwhile, I’m still piecing together other parts of the server’s data we utitlize: calendars, the wiki, the music stream and maybe something … Continue reading
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Geek Bowl VII is on for my (new) team and me
Editor’s Note: I am in the homestretch for The Lost Tales (aka stuff that was delayed by the DriveSavers recovery), then I should be on the Last Chance material for 2012, until I end up building a 2013 reserve. I’ll … Continue reading
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Skyfall: Worth Seeing
I have to give this chapter of Bond’s further adventures a grudging worth seeing rating because M’s past coming after her and 007 being dead have both been done before; see The World is Not Enough and You Only Live … Continue reading
DriveSavers’ final update with a near scare
I had my final discussion with DriveSavers today. The data they retrieved is on its way home, over 99%. If they were as successful as they claim, then Picayune should be back to its original up-and-running state over the upcoming … Continue reading
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A list of Star Trek novels
With everybody drooling, speculating and waiting in anticipation over Abrams’ next Star Trek movie courtesy of a trailer containing numerous explosions, the io9 people cranked out an interesting list. It was rather incomplete but then again, their editorial board is … Continue reading
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