"All of life’s
riddles are answered in the movies." -- "
Contents
I
live in
Sometimes, I have trouble
getting out to my clients' sites. You can check here for
the latest flood information to check up on my excuses.
And please do acknowledge
my home away from home.
Next are 9 pictures going
from north to northwest showing the view from my house. Click on any of these
to enlarge.
One
of my interests is backgammon. I play online at fibs. And as local as I can get to a club is Backgammon by the Bay, located
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Good resources for
backgammon on the Net include The
Chicago Point, Flint Area Backgammon,
and GammonVillage. I also recommend
an online backgammon magazine at GammonOnLine.
- My home electronics
are getting a bit long in the tooth, but they still serve their function.
The centerpiece is a Sony
KP-53HS10 HDTV RPTV. With clean optics and professional calibration,
it still holds its own with a 48” wide screen 1080i display. For the Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic
II and DTS EX surround sound, I'm running a set of Paradigm speakers driven by a Denon receiver. And for that serious
home theater sound, an SVS
16-46PCi subwoofer. As of result of the research, I've gotten used to
visiting a couple of very useful sites for discussions of HDTV, Satellite
Broadcasting, and Home Theatre peripherals: The Home Theater Forum, and The AV Science Forum.
- It is my opinion that
the Space Station is
going to be the most important advance for the human race of the next
decade. Do we expect it to get cheaper if we wait to build it?
- For on-line news,
check out The Chronicle and The Economist.
- And to get away, may I
suggest Holland America?
Funny… cell phones don't work here! J
I do follow sports
(baseball is my favorite). Born in
I've been lucky enough to
have time to travel over the past few years.
Other
links of interest:
Favorite
Movie List
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Absence of Malice |
Accidental Tourist |
Addams Family Values |
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Adventures of Robin Hood |
Akira |
Aliens |
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Almost Famous |
Amelie |
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Animatrix |
Apocalypse Now |
Armageddon |
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Atlantis: TLE |
Bambi |
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Basic Instinct |
Barefoot in the Park |
Batman |
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Batman Begins |
A Beautiful Mind |
Being There |
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Beyond |
Big |
The Big Chill |
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Bodies, Rest and Motion |
Body Heat |
The Bourne Identity (1988) |
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The Bourne … (all) |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's |
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Bull |
Brick |
Bringing Up Baby |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV
Series) |
Caddyshack |
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Casino |
Children of Dune |
Christmas Vacation |
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Chronicles of Narnia: Lion,Witch,Wardrobe |
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Colossus -- The Forbin Project |
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Cookie's Fortune |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
The Crow |
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Dante's Peak |
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The Dark Knight |
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Die Hard |
Donnie Darko |
Down and Out in |
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Dune (1984, 2000) |
Edward Scissorhands |
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
The Fifth Element |
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Fight Club |
Field of Dreams |
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within |
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Finding Nemo |
Finding Neverland |
A Fish Called Wanda |
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Frantic |
Galaxy Quest |
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Get Shorty |
Ghost in the Shell (all) |
Ghost World |
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Gilda |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
The Godfather (all) |
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Goodfellas |
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Grave of the Fireflies |
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Grindhouse |
Grosse Pointe Blank |
Ground Hog Day |
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Hard Eight |
Harry Potter (all) |
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The Haunting (both) |
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Heavy Metal |
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Hero (Ying Xiong) |
Home for the Holidays |
House of the Flying Daggers |
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House on Haunted Hill (1999) |
Howl’s |
The Hustler |
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I, Robot |
Ice Age (both) |
The Incredibles |
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Interview with the Vampire |
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Into the Night |
The Iron Giant |
Jumanji |
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Kill Bill |
King Kong (2005) |
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (both) |
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
The Last Seduction |
The Last Starfighter |
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Leon -- The Professional |
Let It Ride |
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Live From |
The Long Kiss Goodnight |
Lost in Translation |
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The Lord of the Rings (2001/2/3) |
The Maltese Falcon |
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Masquerade |
Matrix (all) |
Metropolis (silent) |
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Metropolis (anime) |
Midsummer Night’s Rave, A |
Monster House |
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Monsters, Inc. |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
The Mummy/Mummy Returns (new) |
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Mulan |
My Neighbor Totoro |
The Natural |
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Neighbors |
The Net |
The Nightmare Before Christmas |
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The Ninth Gate |
Nobody's Fool (1995) |
North by Northwest |
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Notting Hill |
The Owl and the Pussycat |
Panic |
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Smiley's People (TV) |
Pan's Labyrinth |
Peggy Sue Got Married |
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The Pelican Brief |
The |
Pirates of the |
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The Player |
Pleasantville |
The Prime Gig |
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Princess Mononoke |
The Purple Rose of Cairo |
Rabbit-Proof Fence |
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Raiders of the Lost |
Red Rock West |
The Ref |
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The Road Home |
The Road to |
Roger and Me |
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Romancing the Stone |
Ronin |
Run Lola Run |
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The |
Sabrina (1994) |
Searching for Bobby Fischer |
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Serenity |
Shakespeare In Love |
The Shining |
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Shogun (TV) |
Shark Tale |
Shrek (all) |
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The Sixth Sense |
Sideways |
Signs |
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas |
Smiley's People (TV) |
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Something Wild |
Spirted Away |
Spooks/MI-5 (TV) |
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Spy Game |
Stardust |
Stardust Memories |
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Starman |
Stargate |
Star Trek: First Contact |
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Star Trek: The Voyage Home |
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan |
Star Wars (all) |
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State and |
Steppenwolf |
Syriana |
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The Tamarind Seed |
Tequila |
The Thin Man (most) |
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Three Days of the Condor |
Terminator (all) |
Thief |
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Tinker,
Tailor, Solder, Spy (TV) |
Titan A.E. |
Titanic |
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To Catch a Thief |
To Have and Have Not |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Toy Story 2 |
Treasure Planet |
True Romance |
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2 Days in the Valley |
2001 - A Space Odyssey |
V for Vendetta |
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Vanilla Sky |
Unbreakable |
Underworld |
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The Usual Suspects |
The War Room |
What Dreams May Come |
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While You Were Sleeping |
The Whole Nine Yards |
Wild Things |
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X-Men (all) |
The Year of Living Dangerously |
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One person can make a
difference:
Jeff Widener (The Associated Press)