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An obvious Star Wars addict

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Lafe was struggling w/ sentence structure earlier this year.  There were several evenings resulting in him being very annoyed as we attempted to explain to him how he could do better on his writing homework.  We decided to give…

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Book reviews 4/28

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

My goodness have I been slow reading books lately, even after significantly slowing down watching movies.  Where does the time go?

 

The Gods of War: Is Religion the Primary Cause of Violent Conflict? (Meic Pearse)

I really can’t…

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Movies 4/5-4/20

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Transsiberian (2008)

I’ve been wondering if I would ever like a Woody Harrelson movie ever since his Larry Flynt movie (still not sure why I bothered w/ that one years ago).  This one worked for me, probably due to…

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Uncle Sam… the loan shark

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Jake complained I haven’t been blogging for a while, so here you go.  I came across a news byte today related to the Feds bailout money for banks.  Perhaps someone can explain to me how this doesn’t mean the Government…

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Can looks be deceiving?

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

I can’t help but forward this one on that Rae sent this morning.  It won’t allow me to embed it, so you’ll have to visit the link.

 

Susan Boyle – Singer – Britain’s Got Talent

 

The video speaks…

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“IT IS FINISHED!”

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Sorry for the all-caps there… I know how much it annoys me when people forget to take caps lock off, but this time it is in fact meant to portray a shout.

 

I don’t remember where I read about…

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CR Film Festival 2009

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

I spent Friday evening with some friends from work attending the 2009 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival.  I have been meaning to get to one of these for the past few years, but never had the…

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Movies 3/23-4/5

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

I’m really slowing down on movie watching, so I finally decided to drop my Netflix queue down from the crazy 6-at-a-time plan to “only” 4 (which is really 3 for me and 1 for the kids).  Here are the movies…

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Finally, stimulus I can believe in!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
I checked my email when I got home tonight to make sure our mortgage payment went through today (yeh, we do the automatic withdrawals… very handy).  Normally, I glance right over the Washington Mutual, I mean

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Google unleashes A.I. wonder on the web

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Leave it to the genius folks at Google to take the next step in the evolution of the computer… or mankind for that matter.  I noticed a little link below the Google search window tonight that led me to the…

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