News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Wow! Trump immigration policy makes big waves

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As I get the story, Trump announced the ban on immigrants/visitors from seven African and Middle East countries Friday night. By Saturday, ...

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Monday, January 30, 2017

$2107 each for a handgun?

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Seems very pricey. But that is the price the government is willing to pay for the new Sig Saur handgun that will replace the current unlove...

Microsoft Update stopped working

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Microsoft Update had been working happily on my aging XP desktop for some years. I have trusty desktop set to notify me of updates rather t...

Sunday, January 29, 2017

New Hampshire GOP holds its annual meeting

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I'm a delegate so I went. Had to get up at 5:45 to get down to Derry by 8 AM. It was snowing lightly in the Notch. I managed to get u...

Friday, January 27, 2017

The Legend of Tarzan 2016

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This flick hit the theaters back in July 2016. Publicity work must have been pretty bad, I never heard of it until I did a search for ...

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Waterboard 'em enough and they will say anything you want

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Interrogating prisoners is something of an art. Coercion, whether the 3rd degree methods of modern police to real old fashioned medieval to...

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

God Speed Mary Tyler Moore

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The TV is carrying news of her death at age 80. She put on a lot of really good TV in her day. I watched a lot of it. There isn't any...

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