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    Game of Thrones (HBO)

    Just started watching season one on DVD. Wow.
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    Marvel's The Avengers

    Saw with my flick-friends today in 3D and we all thought it was great fun, written with sly humor, and very well-executed. Hulk was pivotal, and done perfectly, and Loki was outstanding. Downey Jr. has distilled Tony Stark to his very essence, and Capt. America was perfectly old-fashioned in the...
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    Password strength

    I figured corporate security expert Kevin Murray probably checked it out before he blogged about it - but otherwise, I had the same thought. I've subscribed to his blog for several years and we have emailed a couple times - he's legit, and he's careful.
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    Password strength

    I thought some of my passwords were pretty good -- Yikes. Back to the drawing board. This site is pretty interesting: passfault -analyze password strength
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    Ultimate Popcorn Flick Kumite - Voir Dire

    Popcorn flick? -- yeah, Lethal Weapon for Saving Private Ryan.
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    Ultimate Popcorn Flick Kumite - Voir Dire

    Saving Private Ryan is hardly a popcorn flick, at least the way I think of the term, and Lethal Weapon (I) is a definite must. But so is Terminator I. (Although I was very tempted to pull This is Spinal Tap -- boring flick - for Major League.)
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    Dark Shadows

    No thread?? Tim Burton reprises the 1970's TV Soap Opera Dark Shadows, w. Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, awakened after 200 years into the 1970's. NY TIMES Review Saw it with friends yesterday - It's an amusing flick, totally lightweight, and Depp has too much fun - not as...
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    Apple says "What Recession"...

    Google doesn't build things so it seems natural they wouldn't overtly outsource as much as almost any tech company that sells physical products. Pretty much all the major dotcom corporations outsource some of their high-level software R & D - often to Israel, India, Ireland, Korea, Taiwan.
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    Apple says "What Recession"...

    ...and it's time to square off and take sides with the RobberBaron.com of your choosing. Unoffocial internal memo leaked that Target is dropping Kindle and all Amazon-based products, supposedly due to Target recent pairing up with Apple on some marketing deals and mini-stores, but (so far) it...
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    Prometheus (aka Alien prequel)

    OK, I am SO psyched for this!! NY Times pre-review with Ridley Scott "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.” -Steven Hawking
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    Homemade Ice Cream

    btw, a tsp or two of vodka (or appropriate liqueur) per quart helps keep it from getting rock-hard in the freezer. I made coconut dark chocolate last night. Lemon-vanilla custard last week. Maybe Strawberry up next, I think.
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    The Official "What's for Dinner" Thread!

    I like breakfast for dinner, too. Or for lunch - I'm more just a coffee person to start the day and it's usually 11 or 12 before I get around to serious breakfast. Tonight's a big sloppy 'kitchen sink' salad, about half of it from my garden.
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    The Official "What's for Dinner" Thread!

    Lamb chops, broiled rare. Homegrown steamed Kale w olive oil. Homegrown asparagus w lemon and a bit of butter. Good chardonnay. Later, some homemade lemon custard ice cream. I decided to drop all grain products for a month to see if I could lose a few lbs. That was the only rule. So far...
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    The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne

    I'll probably start it tomorrow evening.
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    Django Unchained

    I trust Tarantino will handle slavery in ways nobody else has had the balls or creativity/creative license to do. And not just 'some parts will be good some parts bad' -- some parts will be superb, some parts will be appalling, some will be silly/ridiculous, some parts outrageous, and the thread...
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    Flashpoint

    I actually got hooked on it. It's been around for 3 or 4 years and I've been slowly catching up, watching on the ion channel. Just your basic Canadian swat-team show, but good characters and overall, pretty well-done.
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    Justified (FX)

    I agree that the piggy bank line was as perfect a delivery as I've ever seen on TV. The finale overall seemed like the season - a little too-too... kitchen sinkish. But it does leave some fascinating set-ups for next season. Raylan has slid way over the edge, which given all his character...
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    Justified (FX)

    That's a good way to put it, Cheese. I'm enjoying it, but it seems sort of unfocused, and some of the characters seem to have changed in midstream or gone over the top a bit -- being played too broadly, not with the tautness of last season.
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    Homeland (SHO) - thread contains spoilers

    I was curious if the original show, Hatufim (The Kidnapped) was available with English subtitles, and ran across this - an interesting article, I thought. Sounds like the two series have very different style and focus...
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    Justified (FX)

    Last season was pretty amazing, and I agree Quarles isn't quite up to Mags - although he and Duffy together come close. Quarles is so slimy-creepy-narcissistic, and being written and played beautifully. Mr. Limehouse looked like he had tremendous potential as a cold, savage, savvy antagonist...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    OK, I'm a little bummed. It hit 85 degrees Friday, throwing most of my tender lettuce and rappini into pre-bolt shock. This morning I walk out and there's a light effing frost on the extremely miserable peppers and tomatoes... Not to mention what the hail did on Sunday to everything. And it's...
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    Vga, Dvi, Wtf

    Thanks guys. Didn't realize it was that easy!
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    Vga, Dvi, Wtf

    I have an aging (2004), once top-shelf Viewsonic CRT monitor on the computer I do most of my work-work with, and I realized a few days ago that the text clarity is terrible compared to my newer laptop or the other, newer, more graphics-oriented set up (with a 2-yr old Samsung 21" syncmaster...
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    Justified (FX)

    Loving this show.
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    Fringe (FOX)

    Stout - I agree. And I thought the alter-Elizabeth's scene with Walter was extremely moving, not exactly something I expect from modern TV. It wasn't overdone or blatant, it was ... damn, it was delicate. Fringe is really well-made.

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