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

Friday, April 30, 2021

Red Dawn 1984

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It's powerful. Released while the Cold War was still on, it has Russians and Cubans invading the United States. It was powerful enoug...

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Making corporations pay their fair share.

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Translation: Tax companies more. Biden was calling for this just tonight. We can do it, but it is gonna cost us. The companies will have...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Cooking Fish

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I bought a nice piece of North Atlantic Salmon, maybe 1 1/4 inch thick, a touch over half a pound. I marinated it in lemon juice, perhaps ...

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Problems at the Light Bulb Factory

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Out of a box of four new bulbs, three of them have failed after just a few days, say 7 to 14 days. The third bulb died just this evening. ...

Monday, April 26, 2021

Robocallers

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PITA. They call me four or five times a day. I stop what I am doing and answer the phone. Sometimes no one is there. Sometimes the...

Friday, April 23, 2021

How to make a decent movie. Some thing Hollywood has forgotten.

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A movie needs a protagonist (protagonist, $2 word meaning hero or heroine). Female or male protagonists work just fine. The protagonist ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

I posted too soon. TV still talking George Floyd trial.

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We have the Feds declaring an investigation of the Minneapolis police department. That's a new one on me. I thought city police were ...

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