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    What are you reading now?

    LOL- yeah, this was definitely a '50% off? Wow!' sucker move, when if it was just the book for $25 I would have probably not bought it. But I'd just gotten the Kindle, wanted to get something to read on it... and it seemed like such a deal. So I'd say wait until it's out there used for a lot less.
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    What are you reading now?

    Just finished my first Kindle book -- Gavin DeBecker's "2 Seconds" -- for the most part, an excellent read. It's based on the observation that the vast majority of assassination attempts take about 2-5 seconds start to finish -- that's all -- and so protectors have hundredths of a second to...
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    Secretariat

    Me too. He was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill, one of the greatest racehorses ever. He had the biggest haunches I'd ever seen on a thoroughbred; some people swore there'd been some kind of German hunter blood introduced on his dam's side. I see the movie is getting some initial positive reviews.
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    RIP: Solomon Burke!

    I loved Solomon Burke. He was really an exceptional singer.
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    What are you reading now?

    The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber, a former Delta Force commander. This is in many ways like my favorite entrepreneurial strategy book, In Hostile Territory, except instead of sharing Mossad's covert ops guidelines, MMM presents Delta Force undercover ops guidelines for how to make...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Big noisy one rolling in and there's a brief tornado vortex sig on radar right about... uh... here.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Radar's back on -- tornado vortex signature over near Globe area.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Radar's down, they say. Here near Scottsdale Rd. and Dynamite we had a downpour about 20 min ago -- it was blowing so sideways hard to tell the amount - my gauge says 3/4 inch, but my guess from the washes is at least an inch and likely more -- and mothball-sized hail. Lots of it. Microbursts...
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    Waltz With Bashir

    I watched it when it came out, and was impressed but not blown away. I really appreciated the weird mix of documentary, animation, and story. (Maybe I was subconsciously trying to catch words in Hebrew, which I was studying at the time.) Then I watched it again maybe 9-10 months later on DVD...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    OH. MY. GAWD. Finally. Cave Creek Forecast: SAT 101° F | 72° F SUN 95° F | 70° F MON 90° F | 65° F TUES 83° F | 66° F WEDS 82° F | 66° F THURS 88° F | 68° F
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    Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

    LOL. I was thinking 'Garofolo, Whitacre -- pass on that one.'
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    Blankety-blank scanning software!!!

    Nuance software just sucks -- PaperPort and Dragon Naturally Speaking. I use Dragon Professional a lot, and it's actually very good at what it does -- for that matter, so is PaperPort -- when they work. They both destabilize and drag the system, freeze up (and this has been true across a couple...
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    Blankety-blank scanning software!!!

    The scanner isn't that old, and the quality is excellent. The scanner isn't the problem. That's why I'd rather try new software first. There are other programs out there, I just was hoping someone here could tell me about what has worked -- for ex., what software does your Fry's machine use? I...
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    The Town

    Very good movie -- works as an action flick and as a character flick. Affleck is turning into a really solid director: well-paced, visually strong, several actors give nicely nuanced performances, and he uses Boston to great effect as a character in the movie. And yeah, he's never been one of...
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    Blankety-blank scanning software!!!

    I have a Xerox Documate 510 in my home office. Perfectly nice little scanner. It came with Paperport 11 and OmniPro software. I HATE Paperport. It freezes up totally probably 40-50% of the time and then renders my computer unusable for 5-10 minutes while it decides to exit task. I had finally...
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    Any gardeners?

    Well, I used 'ladybird' because there's hundreds of related little beetles, and I'm not sure what the name for the little tiny dark ones I've mostly got is. Our classic spotted ladybug is just the pop-star of the batch. They are called 'lady beetles' as a class, from what I now read. At...
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    Any gardeners?

    No, but right now I'm sort of impressed with green tea and DHC scalp-cleansing shampoo! I have heard that before about Dawn in particular. I'd forgotten about that. Yesterday (finally!) I saw a couple dozen aphid lions, lots of little ladybird beetles, and other predatory insects busily...
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    Any gardeners?

    OK, it looks like the super-strong green tea with a tsp of detergent shampoo may actually be working as well or better than the neem and pyrethrin! Probably just the shampoo, or maybe it's the tinfoil reflector oven baking the little buggers. I'm going to try a second little area with tea...
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    Sons of Anarchy (FX)

    Should I grab the first two seasons or is this one I can just join in the middle?
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    Any gardeners?

    OK, my heirloom Iraqi watermelon plants love this unending heat, and are setting lots of fruit - a couple melons are getting pretty large. Unfortunately the aphids love the Iraqi watermelon leaves like nothing I've ever seen. They ignore beans, cantaloupe, even the straggling chard -- but they...
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    The American

    OK, saw it with my two usual movie-going friends. Consensus : -lovely countryside, some pretty people, fine cinematography. -George Clooney met his Peter Principle. He just doesn't have the acting chops to pull this off -- neither believable as the hard-edged assassin, nor the lonely...
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    The American

    Anybody seen this yet? Reviews are all over the place; basically sounds like they are mis-marketing as an action flick and it's more a brooding, slightly retro philosophical study of the 'loneliness of the long-distance sniper.'
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    What TV series should I try this summer?

    I like Burn Notice a lot - and still do, because Jeffrey Donovan is a good actor and Michael Weston is a great character -- but I have felt like the Jesse plot line has been a complete drain on the energy of the team and the show, and has added zero -- much more of a problem for me than the...
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    What TV series should I try this summer?

    Actually, I half-agree -- the 'carrot dangling at the end of the stick' was necessary to allow us to see Neil and Peter figure each other out -- Burke to see Neil's real vulnerability under the cool, and Neil to discover Peter is a truly honorable man -- but it was not set up or played out as...
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    What TV series should I try this summer?

    You really do have to start with season one, Matt -- the characters grow and develop important relationships, and most of them are very appealing with believable foibles. The writing is usually extremely good and it has a sophisticated, fairly dry wit. As a friend said, it's the only show on TV...

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