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Melancholia or Treat

Posted on October 31, 2012 | Leave a comment

I just finished watching the film Melancholia. I’ve never seen anything that captures genuine depression quite so perfectly. Perhaps it wasn’t the best choice for Halloween, but that’s neither here nor there. Summarized: a previously unknown celestial body crosses the orbit of our planet and makes people feel very existential.

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A Frugal Fellow Fills Freezers

Posted on October 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

I just discovered something all over again. It’s a tidbit I was confident about already but in my preparations for Hurricane Sandy it became abundantly clear once more: A full freezer stays cold longer and conserves energy.

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Sandy Claws

Posted on October 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

Here on the East Coast we just got a taste of something extraordinary: a open-handed slap from mother nature. It’s hard to prepare yourself for something worse than this, but I’m afraid we all have to.

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Is This 3D?

Posted on April 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

I was wearing a pair of 3D glasses in the car after a movie.
My wife said,”Take those off, you’re gonna hurt your eyes.”
“They don’t hurt your eyes during the movie, so why would they now?” I replied.
“The movie is 3D, this isn’t,” she retorted.

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The iPhone 4S: Why I Pre-Ordered One

Posted on October 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

A while back I wrote about the iPhone 5 and asked the question, “Why don’t I have one?” Well I still don’t have one but I did pre-order the next best thing. the iPhone 4S. No, it isn’t the iPhone 5, which apparently doesn’t exist yet. It’s something quite different. It’s a much-advanced version of it’s predecessor with a great horsepower boost in the form of the A5 processor, and a camera with significantly better specs than those of the iPhone 4.  That isn’t all of the new features, but it represents the reason why I made the purchase.

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