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Samantha Brown Great Weekends, Strange Picture |
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Posted by BB on Friday, March 14, 2014 @ 11:30:59 PDT (68 reads)
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 Samantha Brown is a star on the Travel Channel. My wife picked up her Passport to Great Weekends : Collection 1 DVD at the library. It has a show for Las Vagas, where my wife hopes to warm up for a few days during this endless dreary Spring of 2014.
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Matchbox collecting getting more difficult |
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Posted by BB on Friday, March 14, 2014 @ 11:17:03 PDT (67 reads)
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 A number of factors are conspiring to make this hobby less interesting and more difficult to sustain. The main lines from Mattel for Hot Wheels and Matchboxes are getting less collectible.
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USC vs UCLA preview 2013 |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 @ 15:56:56 PST (306 reads)
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 UCLA has missed the Pac-12 championship game even after mounting a furious comeback against ASU. It would have been their greatest of all time. USC is on a five game winning streak now that Lane Kiffin has been unceremoniously dumped at LAX. Ed Orgeron is the coach to beat.
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Calvin and Hobbes author Bill Watterson |
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Posted by BB on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 @ 15:48:55 PST (142 reads)
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The Palomino Blackwings, Part III, The Pearl |
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Posted by BB on Monday, May 27, 2013 @ 16:26:13 PDT (736 reads)
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 I picked up my order of Blackwing Pearl pencils. As advertised, they are in the middle of the Blackwing 602 and the Blackwing (The Paliomino Blackwing).
Over the last two years, the Pencils.com web site has expanded their offerings to include other pencil manufacturers. |
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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, 2013 @ 07:52:32 PDT (1657 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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Posted by JDB on Saturday, April 06, 2013 @ 07:23:25 PDT (2010 reads)
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Group29 2012 Bowl game picks |
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Posted by BB on Sunday, December 30, 2012 @ 07:26:33 PST (1695 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, 2012 @ 11:48:08 PST (1045 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, 2012 @ 11:13:05 PST (630 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, 2012 @ 09:57:36 PST (958 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, 2012 @ 17:22:25 PDT (797 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, 2012 @ 17:02:06 PDT (639 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, 2011 @ 04:48:39 PST (1534 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, 2011 @ 11:54:32 PST (1497 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, 2011 @ 11:49:09 PST (1930 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, 2011 @ 19:21:24 PST (2883 reads)
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UCLA at USC preview 2011 |
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Posted by BB on Saturday, November 26, 2011 @ 19:14:46 PST (1919 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, 2011 @ 18:08:05 PDT (2402 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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