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New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on 2015-12-31 by GaryFebruary 3, 2019
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Like everybody else, my New Year’s Resolutions include getting more done, losing weight, getting in better shape, and so on. I also hope to do things faster and more efficiently and to say a little more of actual substance on … Continue reading →

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Star Wars music played on fire-breathing bagpipes

Posted on 2015-12-30 by GaryDecember 29, 2015
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OK, here we have a guy is a Star Wars costume balancing on a ball droid while playing fire-spewing bagpipes. What the actual frack? as the kids say… Link: https://youtu.be/_YZfAJDYeOk OK, this is apparently happening in Portland. That probably explains … Continue reading →

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Review: Vampires Suck (2010 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-29 by GaryDecember 27, 2015
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I’m told this is a take-off on the first two Twilight films, which I haven’t seen. As I have admitted more than once, one of my character flaws is a tolerance for dumb parodies, and this one has one or … Continue reading →

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Review: And So It Goes (2014 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-27 by GaryDecember 27, 2015
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Rob Reiner’s romantic comedy, about an aging and disagreeable real estate agent (Michael Douglas) and a depressed widow and nightclub singer (Diane Keaton), is watchable but formulaic. It begins when Douglas’s estranged son drops off his daughter (Douglas’s granddaughter, who … Continue reading →

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Most Americans are too young to remember a time when astronauts visited the Moon

Posted on 2015-12-24 by GaryDecember 25, 2015
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This famous image of the Moon was shot on Christmas Eve 1968 from lunar orbit by Apollo 8 astronaut William A Anders in the Apollo 8 command module. He and his crewmates Frank Borman and James Lovell were the first … Continue reading →

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Review: Mortdecai (2015 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-21 by GaryDecember 22, 2015
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English writer Kyril Bonfiglioli wrote a trio of well-received comic thrillers in the 1970s that were compared favorably to the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Their hero, Lord Charlie Mortdecai, was an adventurous but not very competent aristocratic art dealer who … Continue reading →

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Health insurance premiums

Posted on 2015-12-20 by GaryJanuary 27, 2016
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During last night’s Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News prefaced a question with this: “Secretary Clinton, the Department of Health and Human Services says more than 17 million Americans who are not insured now have health … Continue reading →

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Review: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991 novel)

Posted on 2015-12-19 by GaryDecember 16, 2015
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This typically entertaining Discworld novel sends the elderly witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, together with their younger colleague Magrat to a place rather like New Orleans to help a young woman rather like Cinderella avoid marrying a prince. Half … Continue reading →

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In experiment, dogs exhibit altruism especially toward other dogs they know

Posted on 2015-12-18 by GaryDecember 17, 2015
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An experiment at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, suggests that dogs behave altruistically toward other dogs, especially toward dogs they know. The experiment involved teaching dogs to pull a string that delivered either a treat or an … Continue reading →

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British weather report goes all Star Wars

Posted on 2015-12-17 by GaryDecember 17, 2015
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For the easily amused, about a dozen references to Star Wars in 40 seconds: Link: https://youtu.be/qslJQUMc9yA Examples: “But if you Luke farther west, you will be seeing a glimmer of sunshine if you’re Wookiee. However, there will be a fairly … Continue reading →

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