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    What TV series should I try this summer?

    I have fallen more and more for White Collar. I think it's the smartest show on the tube.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Lots of rain with lightning/thunder at Dynamite and Scottsdale Rd for the last 30 min. Guesstimate maybe half an inch already. Temporary lull right now, but looks like another round of storms is to the southeast and may head this way a little later.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    It went on and off for several hours, at times very heavy and winds really gusty -- an informal old rain gauge I still use had it at 1" exactly this morning.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Light rain, strong winds so far in N Scottsdale.
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    HELP - Question about copying from a DVR

    Can we dumb this down for me? WAY down? I have DirecTV HD DVR, and I would like to be able to pull occasional episodes of TV shows I've recorded and burn to DVD -- not being HD is OK if that's undoable. I have Nero Multimedia 10 on my computer. How can I get the show from the DVR storage...
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    Dark Blue

    Bo-ringggg.
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    White Collar (USA)

    I would be unhappy to see Kate back in the picture, personally. She was a bad match and there was no hint of chemistry.
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    Covert Affairs (USA)

    OK, firmly hooked on this show. It's generally well-written, acted, good action -- and I was impressed that for the only time I can ever recall on TV or movies, they had a Mossad guy who was played like he was a a real Israeli. Good character, hope he shows up again. (Sure, they had to do the...
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    White Collar (USA)

    Cheeky, that. I had a friend out from Ohio last week and completely hooked him on the past year's DVR'ed White Collar. He noted approvingly that there is no other TV show that would pull off a joke with Galileo as the punch line. WC could play out Caffrey's transient PTSD (the shaky hand...
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    Covert Affairs (USA)

    I thought the latest episode was well-done and good fun. Show looks like a keeper.
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    New Toshiba Laptop Drowns The Competition

    Really like my little Toshiba Portege, and liked the larger Toshiba laptop I had several years ago -- much better than the Dells I've had. Speakers are weak, but that's not something I really expect much from in a laptop. I thought about a Sony Vaiao before getting the Portege (weight and size...
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    Any gardeners?

    Pickling cukes are a different type -- might try the Roadrunner Park Sat AM farmer's market next week. Not much makes it through 114 degrees without both shade and mulch, except maybe watermelons.
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    White Collar (USA)

    I love this show -- yes, it is better than Burn Notice (which I like but find some of the characters have gotten tiresome... well, OK, I just can't stand Fee or his Mom, and there's no possibility for any character development anywhere.) White Collar 2nd season got off to a good start. It's...
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    Covert Affairs (USA)

    I enjoyed it quite a bit, too. The trailers never really had me, and Peter Gallagher is such a total turn-off -- but I watched the pilot and got hooked pretty quickly.
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    Any gardeners?

    You may find pine boards don't last very long in AZ. Generally they say cedar, or even recycled plastic/composite logs, will hold up much better. There's also the Hopi approach -- stone or brick or rammed earth berms. Right now you can plant watermelons, pumpkins and hard-shell squash, and...
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    What are you reading now?

    Letters to my Torturer by Houshang Asadi. Incredible book. Asadi was a young Iranian writer and communist first arrested by the Shah's notorious Savak in the late 1970's, and he shared a prison cell with Iran's current leader, Ayatollah Khameini, for several months. The strange...
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    Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

    Just to hose down the excitement -- If the issue was not simply losing 5-20 years off your life, but being brain damaged the whole time as well, do we still have a parade of willing idiots ready to light up? If your life will be over much sooner, AND you are like someone suffering from...
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    Smartphone security poll

    After a discussion with someone, I'm curious what kind of security/anti-virus/anti-hacking measures you all use on your iphones and droids and lesser smartphones.
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    D-Backs Have Fired AJ Hinch, Josh Byrnes

    I'd be happy with Arte Moreno taking over as owner. I can't trust Kendricks' judgment.
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    Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

    I said fantasy, didn't I? :D
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    Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

    My ex-husband quit HS football as a Senior -- he says he was very good and being recruited by several colleges -- when his coach insisted he play through a broken hand. Since he was also a decent guitarist and had fantasies of becoming a musician, he quit on the spot. The coach and some...
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    Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

    Why is that? The kind of problems we see in some of the inherited tauopathies often include exactly these kinds of behaviors. It may or may not have contributed to Henry's particular problems, but why is it disrespectful to recognize that widespread damage to brain cells frequently shows up as...
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    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    I finally watched this last night after my daughter insisted I'd find it funny. The pacing was lousy and it was too long, but it had me laughing a lot, and all the 'inside' jokes about Israelis (and Lebanon) were fun. Nice to see Tel Aviv and Acco for a few minutes.
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    Any gardeners?

    Linder, it's probably best to get started with a cooler-weather garden anyhow around here -- As soon as you can, start the process of preparing your plot so you can work in any soil amendments a month or two in advance and let it all mellow.
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    Conor Jackson traded to the A's

    Oakland has been after Conor since we drafted him because of his exceptionally good eye at the plate and his discipline and patience. The first thing on obtaining him, they did what many of us have begged to see happen from day one -- put him in lead-off position, where he belongs. Rather than...

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