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Star Wars Day 2024
This is the thirteenth Star Wars day marathon. I have completed seven, and failed twice. Phantom Menace https://boxd.it/6paFG1 Phantom Menace is Jacks first love. It is not my favorite. Gun-gin “jive” gets worse every year. The laser sword legacy theory stuck out a lot this time. I hate midi-chlorians Attack of the Clones https://boxd.it/27V2 Anakin…
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Hordes, Hoards, Herders, and Whores
Recap This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show continues to battle down the hall to rescue kidnapped villagers. He encounters a behir that mostly wrecks the party (which had been split in half–we added a third table this week). Garner the Wheelchair-bound was paralyzed and killed, by some crazed psychic grell–horrible.…
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier My rating: 1 of 5 stars This was a tough read for me. Lanier is a personal hero–my 2024 resolutions (code, film, jazz) were taken from his talks. This book is trash. He is self-serving, name-dropping, and sees himself as the…
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Two of Pentacles
On the Two of Pentacles tarot card, a man standing by the waves of the sea, deftly juggling two pentacles that represent juggling different situations in life (for example, work and home). It is about choices and priorities. You might feel as if you don’t have the heart to choose one thing over the other. You might…
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Phish @ Sphere
Part of the agenda was to find the best Del Taco between Woodbridge and Las Vegas. We tried Baker (closed), Barstow (closed), and Hesperia. The answer is the Woodbridge Del Taco!
David Given Schwarm
Married, Father, United
David Given Schwarm 