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December 3, 2013 Tuesday 10: Movies of 1990

We did 1989, so let’s just move on to the next year, shall we? We shall. First up, let’s look at the Top Ten Highest Grossing from the year: 1. Ghost, $505,702,588 2. Home Alone, $476,684,675 3. Pretty Woman, $463,407,268 4. Dances with Wolves, $424,208,848 5. Total Recall, $261,299,840 6. Die Hard 2, $240,031,094 7. […]

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December 2, 2013 Season’s Bleatings

I like Christmas just fine. Really!  I just… well, I have no patience for Christmas music. I’m pretty sure I used to like Christmas music. I think maybe it’s just that the enjoyment window has shrunk for me.  I vaguely remember listening to it at odd times throughout the year, but then it was “not […]

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November 28, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving

Here in the States it’s Thanksgiving, so we’re taking the rest of the week off. “We” in this context means both “Americans” and “us here at zwolanerd.” Take some time to appreciate what and who you have, watch a Thanksgiving movie (Maybe Planes, Trains, & Automobiles? Or maybe ThanksKilling?), and enjoy your time. We’ll see […]

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November 26, 2013 Tuesday 22: XBox One Launch Titles

Okay, so I got an XB1 on launch day, big whoop?  What am I supposed to do with it now?  The TV functions are neat, but it’s just controlling my TiVo in a window on the XBox, not giving me a third tuner option, so it’s not as big a help as I was hoping […]

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November 25, 2013 Hey Ya

I don’t remember where I heard it, but someone once said, “Your favorite version of a song is the one you hear first.”  I’ve found that holds up pretty well, as long as the Beach Boys Greater Remake Theory is taken into consideration. (The BBGRT states that “any beach Boys song remade by a different […]

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