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    Slumdog Millionaire

    I suspect Slumdog had a better impact when it was an unhyped 'Indie x Bollywood' -- I can't count how many movies (and books and restaurants and wine and people) have failed to live up to pumped-up expectations for me. Nevertheless, I thought it was a remarkable flick.
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    Adobe / pdf bug warning

    Got this from a software-QA blogger friend. It's real. I get a load of pdfs for work, and they are turning up more and more places as documents on websites.
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    Best action sequence

    Need your guidance, O Readers -- please tell me the one or two books -- I'm thinking novels, but doesn't have to be -- that you really think of as having the best physical action or suspense-to-action passages or chapters. Can be mano-a-mano, chase scenes, recon/hunt, escape scenes, technical...
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    vBookie?

    Well, if our tech folks get a full two day weekend, they would have been off from Thurs AM our time till around 11 PM or midnight tonight (Saturday, our time), I believe. But I always screw up time zones. Or they could be working their butts off to fix the glitch. Or sipping MaiTais in the...
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    vBookie?

    Has anybody actually hit the 'contact us' button? They should be getting in to work around midnight our time.
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    Movie-A-Day #321: The Godfather

    :thumbup: I'm not sympathetic to them, but they are portrayed with such depth and subtlety that their basic human-ness shines through the brutality at times -- so I can relate to them, or to parts of them, which is what makes the paradox of their ruthlessness so fascinating. I'll have to...
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    Movie-A-Day #79: A Clockwork Orange

    Totally with Shane on this. I agree it was brilliantly made, but it was very sick and thematically incredibly ugly while being visually beautiful. I agree with Gad, too -- I doubt it would have either the same impact or that today's audience would 'get' it.
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    Movie-A-Day #321: The Godfather

    I will almost always watch I and II if I run across them changing channels, even in mid-stream. Two of the greatest ever. Did anybody get the cleaned up DVDs? Worth it?
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    A$FN Test

    anybody contacted Central Bank Tel Aviv yet?
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    I was just thinking about snow up here, but it looks like it'll stay too warm. maybe on the hills though. Man we've had some hard, steady rains today.
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Just had a substantial sleet storm with accumulation and a good half-inch rainfall in a 20 min span up here.
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    What are you reading now?

    Partway into The Well-Dressed Ape, by Hanah Holmes. Good stuff, very enjoyably written good science. She has a wry sense of humor about the human animal, using herself as a starting place as if being described by a field biologist. She writes very well, and it's pretty funny as well as...
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    Worst Halftime Show Ever!

    I always felt Bruce is overrated, he's done a couple great songs, but like the Grateful Dead, I think he made his enormous and enduring rep mainly on his live shows, which were legendary for energy, length, and interaction with the crowds.
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    Official Super Bowl Game Thread: WE DO THIS TOGETHER!!!

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    Tropic Thunder

    Watched it on PPV today and it really made me laugh.
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    Im getting my own place!

    One star! that read like a 2 to me. Well, he slathered the praise and regretfully tendered the constructive criticism, and you can tell he really liked you. A few pieces to work on -- and my God, the dessert sounds like one of them! Tsk! Just do the deep fried spice-sugared puff like El Bravo...
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    What are you reading now?

    Louis, my daughter gave me Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' but I haven't gotten to it yet -- she thinks it's an incredible book. Have you read any of his other things? I'd never even heard of him.
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    Antivirus 2009 Virus warning

    And here's the skinny on your attacker, folks: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/internet/23worm.html?em
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    81st Annual Oscars

    Mulli... are you feeling OK? Or did you just dislike B. Button that much? (I haven't seen it, but I think Slumdog is so extremely well-crafted and so unusual while still being 'classic' hollywood-bollywood love-story-overcomes-all-odds, that I won't be surprised if it does very well indeed.)
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    So, what are some good cheeses that don't smell rank?

    I remember the first time I tasted Limburger as a teenager -- my father was a cheese freak -- and was amazed that it tasted so good. That said, some people just aren't up for strong-flavored cheeses. I love Roquefort, but even many blue-cheese lovers find it too much. I had a domestic blue in...
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    NFC Championship Official Game Thread - WE DO THIS TOGETHER!!!

    CONGRATS CARDINALS! Keeping the faith paid off for all you longtime fans -- very sweet.
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    Very sad news

    Very sorry to hear that. Man, lot of that going around. RIP He and I used to occasionally email when he was farm director, and we'd chat about prospects and guys we should draft. When I emailed that we should be looking very seriously at Pedroia, his response was, "I can only tell you that...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Easy to set up, easy to use/read, looks solid? I'm still deciding what to get.
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    Why?

    OK -- you're right, Linder. A phrase like 'Panetta to CIA' or 'MLB Network' will work as a thread title, but punctuation (MLB! CIA?) is not sufficient. Mods/techs feel free to delete my two test threads.
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