Monthly Archives: January 2017

Movie: “Secret in Their Eyes” (2015)

Grade: A- Secret in Their Eyes (2015) A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daught… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1741273/ Sent from the IMDb iPad app. http://www.imdb.com | … Continue reading

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Tech: BBC – Future – The fire that may have saved the Apollo programme

You can learn something every day if you’re not careful. And after Apollo 1, we got careful. [… Because there is almost no convection in microgravity, fire in space spreads slower than on the ground and is therefore easier to … Continue reading

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Movie: “10 Cloverfield Lane” (2016)

Grade: B+ 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179933/ Sent from the IMDb iPad … Continue reading

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Tech: Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Then don’t watch this series… Dark Net (2016– ) Explores the furthest reaches of the internet and the people who frequently use it, providing a revealing and cautionary look inside a vast cyber neth… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397520/ Sent from the IMDb iPad … Continue reading

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Tech: The Wife Is Seduced

Today TLAFMT wanted to get to a session at the Y starting at 10 So last night she told Siri to set an alarm. Other times, I think she had a doctor office visit and sometimes she has to get … Continue reading

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Life: Everybody Has Their Own Cross To Bear

BTW, I was never a fan of The Fonz. When I was in high school he was the guy who beat you up and stole your lunch money. No romantic Thug-with-a-heart-of-gold shyte. So I hated “Happy Days.” And as for … Continue reading

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Movie: Passengers (2016)

The Missus wanted to see it. I liked the gadgets. Grade: B P.S.,  There were only seven people in the theater on a rainy, cold Sunday afternoon. Passengers (2016) A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands … Continue reading

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Movie: Zero Days (2016) (on FiOS)

Grade: A Zero Days (2016) A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian … http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/ Sent from the IMDb iPhone app. http://www.imdb.com | … Continue reading

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Tech: Calendar Sharing

I am slowly getting The Last and Final Mrs. T to enter her appointments on a shared calendar in iPad or iPhone. This makes it a lot easier to schedule things for myself when I know what she (and we!) … Continue reading

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Tech: iCloud – Photos – Apple

I am paying about a buck a month for 50 GB of iCloud storage and I think it is well worth it. Those of you who want to share photos can do the same using iCloud now. It’s a different … Continue reading

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