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Friday’s Favorite Flix – Mary Poppins
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix is Walt Disney Productions' 1964 Academy Award winning film (Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Original Song, Best Original Score), “Mary Poppins.” Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film is about a staid English...
Snacky Bits Mini Pizzas
I wanted pizza. We had all the fixings: tomato sauce, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. We also had everything for making dough, but I didn’t want to make it and wait for it to rise. I wanted instant gratification! I looked in the pantry and found English...
Insurgent
Robert Schwentke directs the 2015 sequel to the first movie in the Divergent series for Lionsgate. Like the first movie, “Insurgent” follows along the same path the books take – for most of the film. More on that later (Spoiler alert – This would be a good place to...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – The Enemy Below
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix is Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation's 1957 Academy Award winning film (for Special Effects), “The Enemy Below.” Directed by Dick Powell, the film is about an American Destroyer Escort that discovers a German U-boat while on...
What is IoT?
It seems like everywhere you go someone is having a conversation about IoT. You have likely heard the buzzword at your office, a party or overheard the term at Starbucks. But what the heck is IoT? IoT stands for “Internet of Things.” More specifically, IoT is the...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – A Walk In the Clouds
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix is Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation's PG-13 “A Walk in the Clouds.” Directed by Alfonso Arau, “A Walk in the Clouds” is a post World War II period, visually beautiful, musically rich, gently romantic film containing no nudity,...
Snacky Bits Easy Bruschetta
I love easy snacks. When my sister-in-law introduced me to this recipe for Easy Bruschetta, I fell in love. It’s so simple and delicious, I’m sure that you will want to make it too! You might find this snack works well with a nice, hearty red wine and a...
Samsung Capturing Voice Data?!?
I spent the last couple of weeks thinking about the media flap over Samsung, 4K and Smart TV’s capturing voice data and sharing that data with third parties. After some lengthy internal debate, I decided to add my two cents worth to the conversation. For those of you...
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Every once in a while a movie comes along that is a notch above the normal Hollywood fare. These films almost always become blockbuster hits. "Kingsman: The Secret Service" fits this description to a tee. In this 20th Century Fox film, director Matthew Vaughn (“X-Men:...
Seventh Son
When I saw the trailers for Seventh Son – directed by Sergey (Sergei) Bodrov, distributed by Universal Pictures - I hoped the film might be able to fill some of the fantasy void left after the Hobbit movies ended. It had dragons, sexy she-devils and all manner of...