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Review: Ant-Man (2015 movie)

Posted on 2016-04-19 by GaryApril 9, 2016
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The most impressive special effect in the whole movie is in the first scene. Michael Douglas, who plays Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, turned 70 during filming, and he looks it. But the first scene is set in 1989, and … Continue reading →

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Game of Friends

Posted on 2016-04-18 by GaryApril 17, 2016
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From a French YouTuber (VousTubant?), dialog from Friends dubbed over scenes from Game of Thrones with results that are reasonably funny. (Contains some mild Friends spoilers, but nothing I noticed for Game of Thrones.) Link: https://youtu.be/znFSPSc8cpw by … Continue reading →

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Income and life expectancy

Posted on 2016-04-17 by GaryApril 17, 2016
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Here’s another interesting post from pediatrician and med school professor Aaron Carroll describing recent research published in JAMA involving a huge sample of Americans — almost everybody middle aged and older — based on data from the Social Security Administration … Continue reading →

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Cat shoots selfies

Posted on 2016-04-16 by GaryApril 13, 2016
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This isn’t a joke: The cat pictured, a very friendly stray named Manny, has learned to push the shutter release on a GoPro camera, and the resulting selfies tend to be pretty good. I swiped the photo above from an … Continue reading →

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Trying to evict a 99-year-old

Posted on 2016-04-15 by GaryApril 13, 2016
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Here’s another case to boil one’s blood: A trio of landlords want to convert a San Francisco apartment building into condos, so they’ve been trying to evict a renter. But this particular renter, a 99-year-old woman who has lived there … Continue reading →

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Review: Tomorrowland (2015 movie)

Posted on 2016-04-15 by GaryApril 9, 2016
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The future was better in the 1960s, at least in the popular imagination. We were going to get jetpacks and flying cars and robots and interplanetary travel. We’re too cynical for that now, though we do have a nice variety … Continue reading →

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Voter ID horror story

Posted on 2016-04-14 by GaryJune 22, 2017
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Eddie Lee Holloway, a 58-year-old American citizen and registered voter living in Wisconsin, voted regularly until his state passed a voter ID law in 2011. Now he can’t vote, because he doesn’t have one of the acceptable IDs and can’t … Continue reading →

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Hillary Clinton’s 404 page

Posted on 2016-04-13 by GaryApril 13, 2016
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If you try to access a non-existent page on a website the web server will send you a 404 error code together with a default page that’s the web equivalent of a recorded telephone message like “The number you’ve reached … Continue reading →

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Uganda’s king of action movies

Posted on 2016-04-13 by GaryApril 12, 2016
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A few years ago an action movie fan in Uganda named Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana decided to make a movie. Like many people in his country he had little money and lived in difficult circumstances, but he and his friends … Continue reading →

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Review: Ex Machina (2015 movie)

Posted on 2016-04-12 by GaryApril 9, 2016
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Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is the ultra-rich, eccentric, and reclusive founder and CEO of a Google-like corporation. He lives on a vast, isolated estate, accompanied only by a solitary servant who speaks no English. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), one of his many … Continue reading →

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