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Flew back Sunday night from a three-day weekend (with my middle son Neal) in Charleston, SC. Had a grand time and fit a ton of stuff in, including: – A visit to the Bubba Gump Shrimp Factory restaurant, based on…

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Lightest Apple served upMalaysia Star, Malaysia – Jan 28, 2008THERE was definitely something in the air at this year’s Macworld conference and like every year, Apple Computer chief executive officer Steve Jobs waited …

Apple sees success; Wall Street sees something elseSan Jose Mercury News,  USA – Jan 23, 2008Particularly impressive in the holiday quarter were Apple's computer sales, which jumped 47 percent year-over-year to $3.55 billion. …

Wow. I’m driving home and hear the news break that Heath Ledger, who is playing the Joker in the new Batman film The Dark Knight has died at the age of 28. He was found surrounded by sleeping pills… It’s…

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Ah, crap.

JUST RELEASED, a shot from the Star Trek teaser trailer: The original Enterprise, under construction (click for bigger version):

Here’s a great set of photos and a video clip from Long Beach, CA, where the traveling Star Trek: The Tour exhibit is setting up shop. It’s coming here to Atlanta (eventually) but man, am I tempted to get a…

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Kay, so there’s this little independant movie called Cloverfield coming out this Friday (you may have seen an ad on the Sundance channel) about love in a time of great turmoil (or something like that, real Merchant Ivory stuff). Usually I’d…

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I have commented from time to time on how much things have changed nearby since I moved into my house here in Dacula, Georgia a little over 12 years ago. When we moved in there was two gas station, a…

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Great news everyone! I finally got a chance to watch the brand new (OK, RECENTLY new) feature length episode of Futurama: Bender’s Big Score. I loved it. While not up to the high quality of the best of the Futurama…

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Haven’t seen it yet. (I TOLD you I was behind on my TV-watching!)

GO GREEN BAY! ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPER BOWL!

Thanks to the folks at Chud.com, here’s the latest scoop (SPOILERS!): SPOILER SPACE Noted actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play a character is Duke’s best friend… who eventually becomes… MORE SPOILER SPACE Cobra Commander. Hmm. Not a “Luke, you are my…

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Quick opinions on the new products announced (and not yet released in some cases) by Steve Jobs at Macworld today. Wow, MacBook Air is sexy… and, like an upper-class whore experienced in the ways of pleasure, expensive. Plus, to make…

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Man, Work/Christmas/New Years really took up a heck of a lot of time, didn’t it? I apologize for the lack of posts for the past month – my two readers are quite irate. Anyway, I was doing plenty of linking…

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