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As chance would have it, he was a Pulitzer Prize winner |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, April 06 @ 07:52:32 PDT (110 reads)
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 The Group29 web site started with a bit of hubris, the premise that anyone could offer an opinion on movies and be a film critic. But the fact is that a true film critic has to be an accomplished writer, art lover, academic, and immerse oneself in the field.
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R.I.P. Ebert...29 |
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Group29 2012 Bowl game picks |
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Posted by BB on Sunday, December 30 @ 07:26:33 PST (600 reads)
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 Here are the Group29 picks for the 2012 bowl season.
The following is a list of this year s games - all 35 of them.
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UCLA defeats USC 38-28 and represents Pac-12 South for second year |
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Posted by BB on Friday, November 23 @ 11:48:08 PST (691 reads)
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For only the second time in 14 contests, UCLA has defeated arch-rival USC. This time the Pac-12 Championship game was on the line, for both teams. The probably was the expected outcome when the Pac-12 South Division was formed.
Is this a championship? Or are the division winners just representatives to the Championship?
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iPhone 5 - The Headphone Jack is on the bottom |
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Posted by BB on Friday, November 23 @ 11:13:05 PST (258 reads)
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 Well, this is not exactly mind blowing
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UCLA vs USC Preview 2012 - November 17, 2012 |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, November 17 @ 09:57:36 PST (258 reads)
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In nine years of previewing, this is the first time the UCLA (17) has been ranked higher that USC (21) in the polls coming into the game. Up to this point, the Bruins have been subject to machetes, rock to the scissors, and a 50-0 blowout. There was one lone victory in 2006.
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First Paid App: from the Apple iTunes app store: Notability |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, October 13 @ 17:22:25 PDT (413 reads)
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| I just bought my first app on the Apple app store for iPad. It is called Notability. I have owned an iPhone since April 2008. I have never spent any money at the app store before this.
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Slide rules - the K+E 4181-3 |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, October 13 @ 17:02:06 PDT (319 reads)
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 I found the slide rule that belonged to my dad. He became an engineer in the 1950s. The internet has given me a lot of information about it.
It is a Keuffel and Esser ( K+E ) model number 4181-3. I found that was a plastic Log Log Duplex Decitrig. It must be from before 1962 when Keuffel and Esser changed all their model numbers. It is Made in U.S.A. - all plastic (trade name "Ivorite") stock, plastic cursor lens.
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Group29 2011 Bowl Season picks |
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Posted by BB on Thursday, December 29 @ 04:48:39 PST (1048 reads)
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| Here we go. The college football bowl post-season is underway. Here are the Group29 predictions for the upcoming bowls.
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HTC Titan Camera |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, December 27 @ 11:54:32 PST (1035 reads)
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 One of the cool new things about my HTC Titan is the camera. There is a special button on the lower right side that is perfectly positioned for right index finger shutter operation. There is a saying attributed to Chase Jarvis, "The best camera is the one that is with you."
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Why AT&T Does not want to sell you a Windows Phone |
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Posted by BB on Tuesday, December 27 @ 11:49:09 PST (822 reads)
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| It is pretty simple, really; the sales reps have no incentive. I discovered this in person a few weeks ago when visiting some AT&T stores and kiosks. The sales people dismiss the phones because they do not have apps. They do not stock them. They will tell you that they are in third place in a two-[platform] race.
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HTC Titan looks cool, but |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, November 26 @ 19:21:24 PST (1593 reads)
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UCLA at USC preview 2011 |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, November 26 @ 19:14:46 PST (1478 reads)
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| The BeatSC.com blogger who runs the Trojan Haters club pretty much summed it up. The UCLA Bruins football team is the scissors to the rock of the USC Trojans football team. UCLA has found itself in a very unlikely position. They are going to play for the PAC-12 championship against the Oregon Ducks in Oregon next week. USC cannot go because they are on probation. So, this game is meaningless in the title sense. Except for the fact that it the UCLA vs. USC game.
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The Palomino Blackwings, Part II |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, September 24 @ 18:08:05 PDT (1311 reads)
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| Now that I have them (See previous Group29 article The Palomino Blackwings) I have been using the Palomino Blackwing, in preference to the Palomino Blackwing 602. I really like how smoothly it writes and draws. I have wondered about how the particular formula came to be selected. It seems the original Blackwing 602 from Eberhard-Faber was a favorite of copywriters, authors, and musicians. At 50 cents each, they were quite expensive for the ordinary consumer, nearly 5 to ten times as much as an ordinary pencil. Today, they would probably cost $2 or more because of the distinctive eraser ferrule.
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The Palomino Blackwings |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, September 24 @ 17:57:06 PDT (1410 reads)
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Confusing Rachael Bilson Commercial |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, July 09 @ 06:27:38 PDT (1439 reads)
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 While watching one of the reality TV shows. I will not say which, but it involves dancing or singing and caters to an adult female demo.
I saw a confusing commercial. A huge traffic jam on the PCH. Hot model (Rachael Bilson) jumps out of her commercial and walks barefoot over traffic to get to a tractor trailer in the jam. The trailer has a giant brown sign with yellow lettering saying "Magnum". What is in there? Guns? Champagne? No! Ice Cream! An ice cream named Magnum. Rachael starts eating and making eyes at the hunky ice cream rig driver who gave her the treat.
It did not sell.
Bare feet + hot cars = blisters
The truck side billboard ad was not selling cool treats of any kind
That must be 300 calories, or a whole weekly intake for Rachael Bilson
See the commercial here and judge for yourself.
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The 2010 Rose Bowl broadcast |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, January 02 @ 05:37:14 PST (2917 reads)
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The 2010 Rose Bowl deserved some serious consideration. The game featured an Oregon team that totally went off the rails. They had a new coach in Chip Kelly, and in their first game, lost to an opponent that they should not have in Boise State. Then LaGarrette Blount did a really stupid thing in going nuts and going after Byron Hout. With the video making the rounds on every sports show and the internet, as the Boise State game was the first of the season, it looked like Oregon had a major team meltdown on their hands.
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Gridview problem DataFormatString not working Visual Studio |
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Posted by BB on Monday, February 02 @ 10:24:42 PST (9641 reads)
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 There is a bug in older versions of the .NET 2.0 framework used for Visual Studio 2005. Even if you have a DataFormatString in your Gridview object, the column may still not format. This article has been promoted from the Group29 Forums Article Gridview problem DataFormatString not working Visual Studio
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Apple iPhone vs. Samsung Saga SCH-i770 Windows Mobile 6.1 comparison |
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Posted by BB on Monday, January 26 @ 16:53:53 PST (7420 reads)
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The first question you might be asking if you found this article: Why would you compare the Apple iPhone against the Samsung Saga SCH-i770 phone? You do the comparison because, at the simplest level, this is another battleground in the Microsoft OS/any hardware vendor vs. the all-Apple solution market share competition. In the infamous Mac vs. PC advertisements, this plays out in the personal computing space. It also plays in iPod vs Zune.
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