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Bastille Networks ran an experiment where they tried to intercept transmissions of some wireless keyboards. This would let the bad guys capture a user's keystrokes from a remote computer and even inject their own keystrokes on your device. It all comes down to poor encryption. They've got a list of keyboards they were able to intercept and it's pretty spooky. Apple's not on the list but there are several recognizable vendors.
Six Colors on Apple Quarterly Results
Speaking of Jason Snell, his Six Colors website did a bang up job on coverage of Apple's quarterly earnings call today. Not only does Six Colors make pretty charts, Jason's knowledge and vast experience covering Apple make his commentary some of the best there is. It's nice to see iPad results improving. I hope this translates into Apple putting more muscle into iPad productivity.
My New Podcast: The Free Agents
Today I'm launching a new podcast with my friend Jason Snell called the Free Agents. As the show description explains:
David Sparks and Jason Snell spent their careers working for the establishment. Then one day, they'd had enough. Now they are independent workers, learning what it takes to succeed in the 21st century. They are… free agents.
This show is all about how to pull off being an independent worker in the modern world. Since going out on my own, I discovered I like it … a lot. It is simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying and I love every minute of it.
I enjoy being indie so much so that I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make this work over the long haul and continue supporting myself and my family as an independent worker.
One of my best friends on this journey has been Jason Snell. For years Jason and I would get together for meals while I was working in the law firm and Jason was the editor of Macworld magazine. We shared our experiences and eventually came around to the idea that maybe we'd be better off on our own. For a long time, we would prop each other up give each other a shove in the right direction and then get back to work. Eventually both Jason and I managed to successfully get launched as independent workers. So when the idea started percolating about making a podcast about being an independent worker, it seemed only natural that I would do it with Jason.
So today we launch the Free Agents podcast on the Relay Network. Free Agents is a podcast for people who work independently or are thinking about working independently. The show will be a mixture of topics and guest interviews dealing with the challenges and joys of working independently.
The first show, The Temptation of Yes, deals with the issue of scope. One of the challenges you'll have working independently is deciding when to say "yes" and when to say "no". It's hard. Jason and I share our experiences and advice on how to limit scope while still keeping the lights on. We have a whole list of topics like this and this show will have a lot of useful content. We are also going to do occasional interviews seeking insight from people who have gone independent or are thinking about going independent.
Our goal is to keep the content shows to about 30 minutes and the interview shows to about 45 minutes and we'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks. It's been a long time since I launched a new podcast and I hope you'll subscribe and enjoy the Free Agents.
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Sponsor: SaneBox
I'd like to thank SaneBox for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. Connecting SaneBox to your email account is like giving it super-powers. SaneBox adds a host of additional features to any email account and works with exchange, Google mail, or IMAP accounts. Because it's all server-based, you can get the benefits of SaneBox no matter which email clients you use.
There is a lot you can do with SaneBox to tame your email. One of my favorite features is SaneVacation. The SaneBox vacation filter is something you can turn on when you go on vacation. Then SaneBox snoozes your emails until you return. When you turn it off, SaneBox does its usual bang-up job of putting your email where it belongs
Learn more about all of the features of SaneBox over at SaneBox.com. If you sign up using the links in this post, you get $10 off. If email is giving you trouble, give SaneBox a try. You won't regret it.
The Law Entrepreneur Podcast
Neil Tyra does an interesting podcast where interviews entrepreneurial attorneys called, appropriately, The Law Entrepreneur. Neil has a great interview style and makes it easy to talk. I was please to be asked to guest on episode 26, which is now live. In it I talk about getting started as a solo attorney. There's a lot of inside-baseball stuff in here about the practice of law but also a bit about my lawyer origin story if you're interested.
Better Item Selection with iOS Pixelmator
It's remarkable to me how I do nearly all of my photo processing these days on iPad. Along that theme, the Pixelmator team just released a nice update with a focus on selecting objects.
Quick Selection Tool
Just swipe over an area to select it. This works better than you'd think. There's a video below.
Magnetic Selection Tool
This is a long time Mac feature that now exists on iPad.
Learn more at the website or on the App Store.
Learn Drafts this Weekend
Got an hour this weekend? Why don't you master the Drafts app? I did an entire series of screencasts on Drafts and it is a really handy app. Drafts let's you quickly capture text on your iPhone and iPad and then perform actions on that text with just a tap. There is nothing else like it and Drafts replaced the paper and pencil I used to always carry in my pocket. Anyway, below is the introductory video and you'll find the rest of the series (15 videos!) at the Drafts website. It's like getting a MacSparky Video Field Guide for free.
MacSparky 2016 T-shirt Campaign
It's been nine years since I launched MacSparky and I figured it was about time to have an official shirt. So here it is for a limited time. Studies indicate that wearing this shirt will make you more attractive and smarter. You can get it either as a T-shirt or baseball shirt. It's a short campaign so get in there if you want one.
What About That Potty-Word on the Back?
There's a bad word on the back of this shirt, "Badass". I know that some readers have children or just don't want to wear a shirt with that word on it. If that's you, I understand and don't mind. The reason I'm including it is because when I self-published my first book, the Paperless Field Guide, I explained that the purpose of the book was to turn readers into "Badass Wielders of Technology." It was fun putting that in a book after having been at the yoke of traditional publishing and it still makes me smile. So this shirt gets a "Badass".
Scrivener for iPad and iPhone
In searching the archive, I found my first review of Scrivener on MacSparky in 2007. That's right. … 2007. Scrivener was my original "White Whale" app for the iPad. Within an hour of using my first iPad, I remember thinking, "Now I need Scrivener." How badly did I want Scrivener? So much so that I acted as errand-boy for the Scrivener developer and bought an iPad (with his money) and mailed it to him. (At the time, the iPad wasn't available in the UK.) I was hoping he'd get addicted to the iPad and immediately put all effort into developing an iPad application. So I guess you could say I've been looking forward to seeing Scrivener on iOS for awhile now.
To be honest, that's not entirely true. Initially, I had all sorts of bizarre workarounds where I could edit and work on my Scrivener files on iPad ranging from weird partial text syncing to VNC but none of them were really that good and as the years went by and Scrivener did not show up for iPad, I moved on. I'll call those my wild years.
During the wild years, I started using several alternative apps that are iPad friendly. Most notably is Ulysses, which is similar to Scrivener but also different. While Scrivener is once again my weapon of choice for big writing projects (particularly those including research), there are still some projects for which Ulysses is the right choice. I'm currently outlining an episode of Mac Power Users on big writing projects and we'll be comparing and contrasting these two apps so stay tuned for more on that.
The story behind getting Scrivner on iPad could probably be the subject of its own interesting novel but this week, after so many years, my beloved Scrivener found its way to the iPad and iPhone. I've been using it and syncing my book files between the two platforms and it sure is nice to be home again.
So why do writers get so excited about Scrivener? I've written about it before but Scrivener is the first application that I used as a writing tool, as opposed to word processor. With Scrivener, I can take on big writing projects in a way that I simply couldn't before. It lets me organize blocks of text and it keeps track of my progress. One of its killer features for me is the ability to hold my research data in the same file as my scrivenings.
Scrivener can take just about any file type you throw at it (including PDFs, images, and Word documents) and make those available for review while working inside the application. So when you are working on a big project, using Scrivener you can have all of your research in the same file as your words. This is really handy as it saves you the trouble of digging in the Finder, Evernote, or wherever else you use to keep support documents for big projects. This convenience is even more notable on iOS where getting documents out of cloud storage isn't alway easy.
Now that Scrivener is on the iPad, I can show up at a coffee shop and work on my latest legal brief or book and know confidently that I have access to all the resource documents I need for the project. That's the magic of Scrivener. It not only allows you to write and organize your words for your big writing project, it also holds your research as well. And now Scrivener is on the iPad and iPhone.
You can get Scrivener in the iOS App Store for $20 (App Store)(Website). The application is universal and works on both iPad and iPhone. One of my big concerns about creating a version of Scrivener for iPad was striking the right feature balance. There are a lot of features in Scrivener for Mac. The question was how many of those features need to get over to the iPad to make the application useful while at the same time not making it overwhelming. Scrivener for iPad and iPhone does nicely in striking this balance. Indeed, I was a little surprised at how many features did make it over for the first version.
Research, which is one of my most important features in Scrivener, syncs over just fine. That, for me was going to be the make-it-or-break-it feature in bringing Scrivener back into my life. I will acknowledge, however, that's a relatively low bar but the developer got it right. You can put both research and text on the screen at once and I've been writing legal briefs and working on a new book in this new version of Scrivener with no problems.
Scrivener for iPad and iPhone isn't a simple port. A lot of effort went into determining what features work best on iOS and where accommodations need to be made. The iOS keyboard adds additional rows with Scrivener-specific features and the interface is much cleaner than Scrivener on the Mac. Indeed, I prefer the interface on the iPad over that of the Mac even though it doesn't have every bell and whistle you find on the Mac.
While there were some features cut, Scrivener on iPad is fully functional for the hard work of moving the cursor on big writing projects. The text editor is absolutely up to the task and you can organize your buckets of text on Scrivener on the iPad and iPhone just as you would on the Mac. I was particularly impressed with the keyboard shortcut support, which makes sense because a lot of people will use this tool with an iPad and external keyboard.
One feature that made it over from the Mac is color coding document sections. This is easy to implement for a writer and super-useful. Color coding makes it easy for going back later and making edits or re-writes.
When you're done, you can synchronize your data back to your Mac using Dropbox. Synchronization with Scrivener for iOS, however, deserves some further discussion. Scrivener documents are, in essence, package files that hold the research and various bits of text that you're preparing. Scrivener does not use iCloud but instead Dropbox. (I don't know for certain but am guessing this has something to do with the synchronization of the research files.) Either way, you save your Scrivener file to the Dropbox destination of choice and then you can access it from Mac, iPad, or iPhone.
When you first boot up Scrivener on your iPad or iPhone, you are asked to synchronize data with your Dropbox folder. Then digital wheels grind and synchronization takes place. When you're done editing your document on your iPad or iPhone, Scrivener again prompts you to synchronize back up to Dropbox. (You can also manually trigger synchronization.)
This system works. The only time I was able to break it in testing was when I was deliberately trying to by opening files too soon (before Dropbox caught up with me). Nevertheless, the whole process feels a bit fragile. I'm not sure if there is a better way given the different types of data Scrivener synchronizes but I will warn you to be deliberate about syncing when using Scrivener on iPad and Mac at (or around) the same time.
After hacking my way into Scrivener from iOS for so long, it sure is nice to see the Scrivener icon on my iPad home screen. This is exactly what I was looking for so long ago when I started using my original iPad.
Victor Cajiao's Surrender
Over a year ago I was talking to my pal Victor Cajiao and he told me he was making an album. From a lot of people I'd hear something like that and smile and wonder if he truly knew what he was getting himself in for. With Victor, I immediately knew that not only would he finish the album, he'd make it great. Victor delivered with Surrender. It's a fusion jazz album extremely well done. You can get the album at CD Baby. I really enjoyed reading Victor's description of the tracks as I listened. Of course you can download the album in MP3, but you can also download in FLAC if you like because Victor's a nerd just like the rest of us.
Sponsor: inShort →
This week MacSparky is sponsored this week by inShort. inShort is a project planning and diagramming tool like you've never seen before. The application has a unique interface that lets you see a project from the 20,000 foot view and then, with just a few taps, drill down into the details. For example, in the below project plan, you can click on the individual boxes to get further details on any specific component.
I like the way this application handles Gantt charts to include schedules for the work and material resources, as well as places.
inShort is a serious project planning and diagramming application but it could be used for so much more, like planning out a dissertation, creating a lesson plan, or even your own personal goals. It's always under active development with new features in the pipeline.
inShort is easier to use than ever with a clever tutorial that show's off the power of the application and teaches you how it works at the same time. There are versions for both the Mac and iOS. To learn more visit the inShort website and check out the User Guide. My thanks again to inShort for sponsoring MacSparky.com.
The New Glif
I've used every iteration of the Glif iPhone tripod mount and the new one looks to be the best yet. They just launched the newest version with a Kickstarter campaign and it's already fully funded but not too late to get in on the early pricing.
MPU 331 – Stephen Hackett: Collector of Macs
Mac user, collector, and … yes … YouTuber Stephen Hackett joins this week's episode to explain essential cloud-based services used to run the Relay Network, his growing collection of Macs, and his photo and video workflows.
Sponsors include:
- Hover: Simplified domain management. Use code AUTOMATION to get 10% off your first purchase.
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The Floppy Strikes Back
Camera+2 for iPad
I've been getting most of my photo editing done these days on iPad with Apple Photos, Pixelmator, and Snapseed. Camera+ just released version 2 for iPad and it is now firmly in the rotation for me. As the name implies, Camera+ gives you lots of control over the iPad camera but what I really like about the new version for iPad are the photo editing tools.
I've always been a fan of Camera+'s "Clarity" filter which, as "push one button to make it better" filters go, a lot better than most. I also like the way you can use the brushes (via finger or Apple Pencil) to apply localized changes.
One gripe with this app though is its lack of Apple Photos extension support. Maybe there's a good reason but the app doesn't tie into the native Photos app so you have to make a copy of a photo into the app and then manually save the edited copy back to Apple Photos. That part feels stone-age to me. That aside, I like the Camera+ for iPad update. (Website)(App Store)
Pokémon Go →
I realized what a square I've become when I kept mispronouncing Pokémon to my kids. So I decided to bone up and did so over at iMore. Serenity Caldwell has been killing it over there with Pokémon Go tutorials for several days. Next I'll be giving my kids Pokémon tips and go from being a square to a weirdo (which is my usual role in their lives).
MPU 330: I'm Not Familiar with Wookiepedia
This week's Mac Power Users is up. It's our monthly feedback show and we have lots of great content on subjects like MPU workflows on a PC, merging Apple IDs, cleaning up after being scammed, more iOS photography, and family tech support.
Sponsors include:
- Igloo: An intranet you'll actually like, free for up to 10 people.
- Fujitsu ScanSnap ScanSnap Helps You Live a More Productive, Efficient, Paperless Life.
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Sponsor: OmniPlan →
This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniPlan. OmniPlan combines the simplicity and beauty that comes with all Omni Group apps with some serious planning power including features like Microsoft Project compatibility, Monte Carlo simulations, network diagrams, and earned value analysis. OmniPlan takes advantage of the Omni Group's OmniPresence syncing service to make everything sync across to your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
A lot of people are interested in OmniPlan but not sure how to get started. The Omni Group just released a series of videos called the "Project Planning 101" series. In it, they explain, in the context of world domination, how to easily set up your own project planning workflows. I've embedded the first in the series below. Thanks again OmniPlan for supporting MacSparky.
Excel to OmniFocus →
The new Rubin Cardigan blog has an interesting post for OmniFocus users stuck on Windows where he uses an Excel spreadsheet to add new tasks. Clever.
Home Screens – John Voorhees
This week's home screen features my friend John Voorhees (Website) (Twitter). John is a writer at MacStories.net, the developer of Blink, an iTunes affiliate linking app for iOS that is published by Squibner LLC, the indie iOS and Mac development business he runs with his son, Owen. John is also the co-host of a tech podcast called Ruminate. So John, show us your home screen.
What are some of your favorite apps?
Overcast, Ulysses, Tweetbot, and Telegram are my favorite Home screen apps. I commute in and out of Chicago from the suburbs every weekday, so Overcast is a constant companion, unless I'm working, in which case I switch to Apple's Music app. Overcast's Smart Speed is the perfect feature because it gives me what the clock can't – time for more podcasts.
Ulysses for iOS and Mac is where I get all of my writing done for MacStories, Club MacStories, the Squibner website, and things like these interview questions. Ulysses' unique take on Markdown took some getting used to, but I don't see myself switching away from it anytime soon now that it has sunk in. I don't write on my iPhone as much as I do my iPad Pro or Mac, but I keep Ulysses on my Home screen because it's great to have handy for quick edits and note taking.
Tweetbot has been my Twitter client for a long time. I love its dark mode, multiple account management, stats, and sync capabilities. I occasionally give the official Twitter client a try, but always find myself back where I started with Tweetbot.
I discovered and fell in love with Telegram when we were looking for a way to share behind-the-scenes material with MacStories readers. Ultimately we settled on the channels feature of Telegram, which became The MacStories Lounge. I particularly like Telegram's media-rich, in-line integration of video, audio, and links. In addition to publishing to The MacStories Lounge channel, Telegram has become the primary messaging app for many of my friends and I. It will be interesting to see if we all end up back on Messages, which is slated to get many of my favorite Telegram features when iOS 10 debuts.
What app makes you most productive?
Slack wins on the iPhone because it's where I communicate with the MacStories and Squibner teams. Trello is a close second to Slack because it helps Federico Viticci, Graham Spencer, and I collect ideas for the Club MacStories Weekly newsletter, divvy up the work among ourselves, and track our progress.
That said, nearly every app on my Home screen plays some role in making me more productive with my writing or app development. The icon next to Ulysses is Working Copy, a GitHub client that I use for sharing drafts and edits of articles with the MacStories team. Blink, which I wrote, and the App Store app are for finding apps to cover on MacStories and generating the affiliate links that are used in the articles I write. Photos is full of more screenshots for articles than I can count. Notes collects article ideas, links to apps, lists of bugs to fix in Blink, ideas for other projects, and dozens of other bits of text. Instapaper is for personal reading, but also has dedicated folders in it for MacStories and Squibner research. Copied and Dropbox help me work seamlessly between multiple iOS devices and Macs. It's not unusual for me to use all of these apps in a given day.
What app do you know you're underutilizing?
Day One is underutilized. I write short entries when something big or interesting happens, but I could be doing so much more with it. Making the time to write in Day One is my biggest problem, but when I do it, I often find myself pleasantly surprised that it's helped me generate new ideas and plan out longer term projects, so I've been trying to set aside some dedicated time each week to write in Day One.
What is the app you are still missing?
I think a podcasting app for iOS that lets you carry on a conversation with someone over a VoIP connection like Skype, but record both ends of the discussion as separate tracks would be great. I know I'd like to do that with my podcast, but the OS-level audio APIs just aren't there to do it yet.
I would also like to see Xcode come to the iPad. Swift Playgrounds, which is available in the iOS 10 beta, is a great first step. The special programming keyboard Playgrounds uses feels like the beginning of something that could evolve into a full-blown development environment. It's hard to imagine writing an app with thousands of lines of code from scratch on an iPad, but it would be a great tool for editing an existing project and testing out smaller chunks of code.
How many times a day do you use your iPhone/iPad?
I use my iPhone continuously throughout the day. My most used apps are Slack, Telegram, Messages, Tweetbot, and Overcast, though it's not unusual for me to use as many as 20 apps during a typical day on my iPhone.
My iPad is used primarily at the beginning and end of the day, but almost every day. Coding is strictly a Mac endeavor, but my writing is split between my iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. Over time, I've found that the iPad Pro is getting more and more time as my primary writing tool, though my Mac is still a more comfortable and familiar environment in some ways.
What Today View widgets are you using and why?
Launcher is hands down my favorite Today widget. The first Launcher widget in the screenshot gives me quick access to Overcast and a playlist of songs I've marked as favorites. It also includes the Apple Wallet app, so I can quickly grab a coffee in the morning and a shortcut to my train pass. The next widget is Klok, which is a handy way to check the time in various places where people I work with live. The second Launcher widget in my screenshot is dedicated to MacStories and includes quick links to channels in the MacStories Slack, the Club MacStories Weekly newsletter Trello page, and links to access Wordpress in case I'm publishing an article on the go.
What is your favorite feature of the iPhone/iPad?
On the iPhone my favorite feature is probably its camera. The 6s Plus I have takes great pictures. On the iPad Pro, it's the ability to work in two apps at once in Split View mode. The ability to read a web page while I'm writing or chat in Slack while I'm referencing other material has made the iPad my primary writing tool.
If you were in charge at Apple, what would you add or change?
As a developer, I'd fix the App Store. Easier said than done, and Apple has shown some recent signs of moving in the right direction, but as I explored in June on MacStories, app discovery still has a long way to go.
As a writer, multitasking on the iPad needs work. I have a lot of apps, some of which I only use occasionally, and it's too hard to find them in the scrolling list that comes up when you enter Split View mode. If I were in charge, I'd implement something like Federico imagined in his iOS 10 wish list and concept video article.
Do you have an Apple Watch? Show us your watch face tell us about it.
I rarely change my Apple Watch face. I primarily use the 'utility' face with a second hand and date color coordinated with whichever of my sports bands I'm wearing. My Apple Watch serves two main purposes – fitness tracking and notifications. I rarely use apps. My complications include the stock weather complication that tells me the temperature, the Activity++ compilation that I find superior to Apple's activity rings, and the Pedometer++ complication because I like to see my step count.
What's your wallpaper and why?
This may be the longest standing wallpaper I've used. It was created by Frank Towers who designed the icons for Squibner's iOS apps Blink and Associate, and its tvOS game, King Me. The wallpaper is based on the artwork Frank did for Relay.fm's podcast Cortex hosted by Myke Hurley and CGP Grey. I love this particular wallpaper for the iPhone because it lays out so nicely with the icon grid and doesn't distract me from the icons themselves.
Anything else you'd like to share?
The bottom row of icons in my iPhone screenshot is empty. I have several friends who keep that row empty because they like how it looks. I keep the last row empty for a more practical reason. At any one time I typically have 10–20 betas on my iPhone that I'm looking at as potential reviews on MacStories. I usually keep a couple of those that I am testing the most in that last row. Having those betas visible whenever I open my phone serves as a reminder to play with them as often as possible.
Thanks John.


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Life Why Worry About a Little Thing Like Turbulence
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when there's Cold War crap falling out of the sky?
Pieces of space junk from a Russian satellite coming out of orbit narrowly missed hitting a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean overnight.
The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was traveling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm last night.
According to a plane spotter, who was tuning into a high frequency radio broadcast at the time, the pilot "reported that the rumbling noise from the space debris could be heard over the noise of the aircraft."
According to this story from the BBC, the current estimate is that there are over a million bits of debris orbiting the Earth and that much of it is bits of nuclear reactor coolant that are leaking from old satellites.
The piece of Russian satellite mentioned above was bigger than that, and had it hit the airliner the result would have been disastrous. Again, from the BBC story:
Although most of the debris in space is small, its traveling extremely fast. Below altitudes of 2,000 km, the average relative impact speed is 36,0000 kmph (or 21,600 mph).
At this speed, collision can be dramatic:
A 1mm metal chip could do as much damage as a .22-caliber long rifle bullet.
A pea-sized ball moving this fast is as dangerous as a 400lbs. safe traveling at 60 mph.
A metal sphere the size of a tennis ball is as lethal as 25 sticks of dynamite.
Still, as scary as the idea of satellite debris hitting an airliner is, the odds are pretty slim. And besides, theres an even bigger threat from space debris, one which could make it impossible for future space travel, or even satellite launches. From the International Herald Tribune:
For decades, space experts have worried that a speeding bit of orbital debris might one day smash a large spacecraft into hundreds of pieces and start a chain reaction, a slow cascade of collisions that would expand for centuries, spreading chaos through the heavens.
Debris smashing into debris, creating even more (smaller) debris. And this chain reaction, as it turns out, may be just around the corner:
Now, experts say, China's Jan. 11 test of an antisatellite rocket that shattered an old satellite into hundreds of large fragments means the chain reaction will most likely start sooner. If those predictions are right, the cascade could put billions of dollars' worth of advanced satellites at risk and eventually threaten to limit humanity's reach for the stars.
For its part, NASA, as far back as 2000, has been worried about space debris:
NASA is to test a laser "broom" capable of removing debris in the path of the International Space Station (ISS), on a space shuttle mission in 2003, the British magazine New Scientist reports in its Saturday issue.
The broom, dubbed Project Orion, is designed to stop objects between one and 10 centimeters (0.4 to 4 inches) in diameter, which could puncture holes in the hull of the ISS.
The laser "broom" didn't pan out, however. Which means our space junk problem can only get worse.


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GSD Course Bulletin - Spring 2014
This term's information was last refreshed on 12 MAY 2015 14:55:41.
Courses taught by Kiel Moe
06438: What is energy and how (else) might we think about it? (SCI 0643800)
Lecture - 4 credits
Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 Gund 518
Kiel Moe, Sanford Kwinter
Course Description
Designers today require radically different intellectual frameworks within which to think energy, environment, and ecology. The need to rethink applies not only to the positivist and one-dimensional approaches that characterize common institutional initiatives, but to the widespread assumptions—often anachronistic or outright wrong—about what physics and biology actually teach us about environments. These assumptions are in turn widely embedded in many philosophical, theoretical, cultural and even moral propositions and have lead to an essential doldrums in thought and imagination regarding the role of energy and its relation to more general questions of form and formation.
Among the central episodes in knowledge that have remained inexplicably external to contemporary accounts of sustainability are the postwar developments in thermodynamics, particularly the revised understandings of equilibrium theory, control theory, and universal energy laws. The thermodynamic and cybernetic impetus of energy/ecological systems has not yet begun to impact design culture in any systematic way. The current century's imperatives are already demanding significantly greater ambition and rigor than those inherited from the 20th century antecedents that tacitly constitute the basis, and limited horizon, of the contemporary shortfalls in speculative practice and theory about the role of energy in design.
This course seeks to provide a certain foundation and acquaintance with these broader and more powerful theories of the structure and dynamics of the ecosphere (the cybernetic/thermodynamic cosmos) with a view to providing in turn a new ethos of speculation within design practice and discourse that the customary bureaucratic and quantitative approaches do not encompass or address. This course is principally directed toward problems within the culture of design, directed towards alternate agendas for energetic, environmental and ecological thinking. The principles in this course are equally applicable to architectural, landscape, and urban practices. In addition to lectures by the resident instructors there will be a series of up to 8 sustained and substantial engagements with a series of visitors—emerging voices who have claimed a stake in the outcome of the field:
-Manuel De Landa
-Michelle Addington
-Mark Wasiuta
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri became the first state Friday to have an average statewide gas price fall below $2 per gallon since 2009, while Oklahoma's average was expected to drop below that threshold sometime over the weekend, according to AAA.
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Goats are known to eat just about anything, but it didn't dawn on Vince Thomas until recently that the menu might include Christmas trees.
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) - The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley urged calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him, reigniting tensions that have lingered since the death of Michael Brown in neighboring Ferguson.
ATLANTA (AP) - Republicans crowed in 2004 that freshly re-elected President George W. Bush had established a "permanent governing majority" for the GOP. Eight years later, Democrats were touting the enduring power of the "Obama coalition" to keep their party in the White House.
DOG SURVIVES 15-STORY FALL WITH A BIG SPLASH: SACRAMENTO (AP) - A partially blind dog has survived a fall from the balcony outside his owner's downtown Sacramento condominium into a hot tub 15 stories below.
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - Neil Olson put up a Christmas tree when two of his sons went off to war in 1974, vowing not to take it down until all six children returned to his Wisconsin home for Christmas. The same tree, he says, is still standing in his living room.
BOSTON (AP) - What started with a widow quietly dropping her wedding rings into a Salvation Army donation kettle has spawned spontaneous acts of jewelry generosity this holiday season.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - When an Oregon man sold his girlfriend's mattress set for $100 because she was moving in with him, little did he realize her cat was hiding inside.
NEW YORK (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Novo Nordisk diabetes drug as a treatment for obesity. It's the first injectable drug approved for weight loss.
NEW YORK (AP) - Lori Osterberg and her husband are lifelong Denver folk, but they got restless and intended to relocate for adventure's sake once their only child left home for college.
NEW YORK (AP) - Natural gas, the nation's most prevalent heating fuel, is getting cheaper just as winter is arriving because of mild temperatures and plentiful supplies.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A proposed settlement fund for victims of a fiery train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Canada is nearly halfway to a goal of $500 million in funding commitments ahead of its filing next month, the defunct railroad's bankruptcy trustee said.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm admitted Tuesday to federal tax evasion, pleading guilty to charges he had fought as he won re-election in November, but he remained determined to stay in office even with his sentencing now looming.
NEW YORK (AP) - After Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot his ex-girlfriend and posted an online death threat against police, investigators in Maryland used modern cellphone tracking technology to follow his journey to New York City in real time.
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It can be done but it needs to be setup with a PIN for access before you turn on any restrictions.
It can be done but it needs to be setup with a PIN for access before you turn on any restrictions.
Fun fact earthworms are not native to America.
That is not the ethanol that is the gasoline, they allow more varnish and gunk in the gasoline now then they used to.
I use stable to deal with this for my snow blower and lawn mower.
C99 pulls many of the non-object usefull C++ improvements in like references.
Use Fixed-point arithmetic.
In Mathematica make sure to specify your precision.
Look at 'Arbitrary-Precision Numbers' and 'Machine-Precision Numbers' for more information on how Mathematica does this.
The RFID tags you are thinking of are passive with no batteries.
This RFID tag has a battery. From this I conclude that it is active and therefore almost certainly has a much greater range.
Makes me wonder how long the batteries last and if they are rechargeable/replaceable or if new badges need to be issued when they wear out.
The reason for the bad year was the warm weather not that the trees did not produce sap. It got to warm fast and the sap turned milky.
Those tools only blow thru the security when the user uses a weak password or the simple four digit pass code. So use a strong password and the forensics tools will not be able to brute force it, same as any other password.
GMO corn is engineered to resist a herbicide (roundup ready?) not pesticide.
So no the summary does not say what you think it does.
Or listening to streaming music or watching streaming video or playing a multi-player game
Lots of things to do now days that do not involve a phone call that jammer would mess up.
Actually it is both I think.
The music is licensed to Apple for sale to Apple's customer(s) via iTunes.
IMO for the Sister Sledge's purposes the music is licensed since Apple is who pays Warner Music Group.
So you are saying if the doctor needs to make a adjustment to the operation of the device based on the data downloaded from it they should need to preform surgery instead of using the wireless interface?
Problem with that statement is this is not exclusive to BB.
I have this on my iPhone right now with VPN in my company and IT is working on this for the Droid Pro as well.
The information needed for putting money into an bank account is the same as the information needed to pull money out of it.
If money is incorrectly transfered into your account it is not yours and you can get into a lot of trouble if you try to keep it. This has happened before and it is sad to see people thinking they can get away with keeping the money and then ending up in jail. Same for a envelope full of cash, just that they may not be able to figure out who got the envelope.
I read that part differently than you.
I do not believe the comment was directed at paramedics or any other emergency workers.
Rather that the plant would be full automated to the point that no human is needed for the normal operation of the facility. So not only the production line but also all maintenance and other activities would be automated. The "mostly useless emergency supervisors" would only need to do anything if something unexpected happened that the automation could not handle. We are not any where near that level of automation yet.
Retirement means that when someone says "Have a nice day", you actually have a shot at it.


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Attn SBNR: Biblical Violence Matters to Peace
It baffles me when people who are deeply concerned about peace and peacemaking define themselves as "spiritual but not religious." In pursuit of personal and/ or global peace, they shun organized religion in favor of indigenous spirituality. Celtic music, eastern spiritual disciplines like yoga and meditation, and the Native American relationship with nature all seem so attractive and obviously non-violent. I actually have nothing against any of those expressions of spirituality – allow me to offer as proof the trip my husband and I will be taking in July. We will be touring Northern Ireland to enjoy the "storytelling, music, art and peace" of Celtic culture "ancient and new. Great food, inspiring art, and beautiful journeys on foot will form the heart of this soulfully unique and transforming experience." Sounds great, doesn't it?
Normally this sort of description would not entice me. It sounds vaguely new age-y, all too "spiritual but not religious." So why am I going? Because one of the tour leaders is my friend and brilliant cultural critic, the founder of the Wild Goose Festival, Gareth Higgins. Gareth understands that alternative forms of religiosity and spirituality are a necessary part of the revival of Christianity that is going on today, but he also understands that without "religion," the pursuit of peace is at a serious disadvantage.
I am aware that such a claim runs counter to the primary reason many people give for being spiritual but not religious. They blame religion for violence and war, and there is no denying that many people have killed in the name of their beliefs. Somehow those who abandon organized religion believe that the cure for violence is to purge themselves of religious texts and doctrines that have any reference to violence in them. Why read the Old Testament or believe in a God who requires the death of an innocent victim to be reconciled to us? How could that possibly lead to a more peaceful world?


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Council Member Michael C. Nelson, responding to recent unsettling events, is urging the NYC Council to adopt legislation requiring the Department of Education to equip all 7,000 DOE school buses with GPS tracking systems.
Nelson has introduced legislation (Introduction 121−2006) requiring the placement of two−way radios and cellular phones in addition to tracking devices on all school buses.
The September 2008 event in which a school bus disappeared for five hours is still vivid in the minds of all New York City parents. The bus, filled with kindergartners and first−graders, did not arrive at its destination until after 9p.m., more than five hours after the school day had ended. The bus driver apparently had gotten lost somewhere after he picked up the children while en route to the designated drop−off sites.
In this situation, had the school bus been equipped with a GPS tracking system, the bus would have been found immediately and the children quickly returned to their worried parents, thereby drastically reducing the chance that the children could have been put into harms way. Luckily, the children were not physically hurt but the risks are too great to allow for inaction.
As recent as April 22, 2009, a three−year old from Brownsville, Brooklyn was inadvertently left behind on a school bus in Brighton Beach for several hours until a pedestrian walking by noticed the child sitting inside. In this particular situation, neither the child's school nor his parents had any idea of the incident thereby putting the child into more danger.
Since neither the school nor the parents realized that the child did not make it to school, the child could have been stranded on the empty bus for hours with no way of locating him if the pedestrian did not happen to find him.
After testifying before city council members at several Transportation Committee hearings since 2005, and receiving approximately $500 million in funding, DOE has repeatedly promised Nelson and other members of the council, with little to no results, that they will install GPS tracking systems in their school buses. These promises were handed down each year since 2006 when DOE announced the awarding of a contract to implement the system.
Representatives from the Department of Education, testifying at yet another Transportation Committee hearing on Nelson's GPS bill, stated that due to their expansive fleet, "We do not believe the timeframe is realistic or prudent" and that the responsibility of tracking all 7,000 school buses once the system is in place is not practical.
However, the purpose of installing GPS tracking systems is not to monitor all school buses but rather to provide DOE officials with the ability to locate that one school bus that for some reason or another has not arrived at its designated location(s) at the anticipated time.
"As a parent and having been a teacher and a member of a school board for over six years, I know the most important thing to a parent or guardian is that the child gets safely to school and back home," said Nelson. "Ergo, I implore the Department of Education to speed up their efforts in implementing GPS tracking systems in all 7,000 DOE school buses. Although these buses are equipped with two−way radios, they only provide a false sense of security. Essentially, installing GPS tracking systems is the best line of defense when ensuring the well−being of our children when we send them to school. I am requesting that the NYC Council codify this as law."
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In this second volume of the series, Dr. Metz looks carefully at the 2007 decision to surge forces into Iraq, a choice which is generally considered to have been effective in turning the tide of the war from potential disaster to possible—perhaps probable—strategic success. Although numerous strategic decisions remain to be made as the U.S. military executes its "responsible withdrawal" from Iraq, Dr. Metz has encapsulated much of the entire war in these two monographs, describing both the start and what may eventually be seen as the beginning of the end of the war. In this volume, he provides readers with an explanation of how a decision process that was fundamentally unchanged—with essentially the same people shaping and making the decision—could produce such a different result in 2007. As the current administration tries to replicate the surge in Afghanistan, this monograph is especially timely and shows the perils of attempting to achieve success in one strategic situation by copying actions successfully taken in another, but where different conditions applied.
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I am being accused of threatening to beat someone up and that he believe's I will carry on my threat, which did not happen and he is the one that on a couple of occasions called the cops on me for simply being in front of the house with my girlfriend which is his tenant. What can I do?
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You need an attorney ASAP. If you cannot afford private counsel get a PD assigned. You can defend the case or work a deal and PTI is also available if you have no priors. The PIC is to try negotiate an early end to the case. You can plead to a deal, try to get a downgrade to municipal court or apply to PTI. All these options need to be explained to you. Call for a free consultation if you like.
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Mr. Cheser is correct. You need a lawyer. A pre-indictment conference means your charges are indictable (felony) and carry serious consequences. The sooner you get an attorney who can get statements from witnesses, document prior instances, investigate the "victim" and communicate on your behalf, the better chances you have of avoiding serious consequences and criminal convictions.
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You need to hire an attorney ASAP. At the PIC conference it is likely that the Prosecutor will offer a pleae deal. Feel free to contact my office for a consultation.
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I assume you are being charged with terrositic threats from what you say. At the preindictment conference you will be given a plea offer which will be the lowest offer you will get. If youwant to plead this out you should accept that plea. If you want to fight this then you should reject that offer and ask that your case be sent to the grand jury. They may or may not indict you. If you are not indicted then your case is over. If you are indicted then expect a worse plea offer. Please contact my office for a free consultation. Thank you.
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An empty carapice of a person who has been abducted by aliens and has been brainwashed with extremely conservative, Republican, and evangelical ideals. The walmartian is actually part of a massive conspiracy to overthrow the American government by voting for horrid right wing politicians and destroying local economies. Walmartians are forced to spend the majority of their lives in Walmarts so that they can be brainwashed with the newest alien plans. They are most often spotted at 2-5 AM in very large groups talking loudly with hick dialects and beating their wives/children/husbands while trying to find the gunrack aisle. They lack any intelligence and cannot be reasoned with. If you come into contact with one, avoid eye contact and try to remain absolutely still. The walmartian cannot see movement due to the bright lights in their hives.
1. James: I heard the walmartians are going to nominate Judge Roy Moore for president.
Robert: Shit, we're all screwed.
2. Alexa: Last time I went to Walmart, I got stuck in line between two packs of walmartians.
Robert: Shit, we're all screwed.
2. Alexa: Last time I went to Walmart, I got stuck in line between two packs of walmartians.
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People that love to shop at Wal-Mart. Brag about shopping there and all the money that they save by buying cheaply made products made in China. Also, some of the fugliest people you will see massed in one area.
- Man, I swear there are a lot of Wal-Martians here today.
- What the hell are you talking about, there are ALWAYS alot of Wal-Martians here.
- Have you ever noticed that these Wal-Martians are actually very ugly?
- That's why they shop here.
- What the hell are you talking about, there are ALWAYS alot of Wal-Martians here.
- Have you ever noticed that these Wal-Martians are actually very ugly?
- That's why they shop here.
by Dude Grease August 28, 2007
Sloth-like dumbshit that can be found 'grazing' at any Walmart at any time. Usually morbidly obese with a gaggle of hoosierlings. They walk as slow as they can right in front of you and won't let you pass especially when you know exactly what you want and exactly where it is.
God damn, I hate all these fucking Walmartians! Don't they have something better to do with themselves besides commenting on all this stupid cheap bullshit? Make a decision you sorry excuse for a consumer!
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Why go pickup cheap crack-whores when the Wal-Martians are free
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Companies and actors from across the state will come to Asheville for the Stoneleaf Theatre Festival
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Actors, playwrights and theater companies from across the state will descend on Asheville at the end of May for the first Stoneleaf Theatre Festival. Sponsored by the North Carolina Theatre Conference, the festival will showcase the diverse work of North Carolina's theater companies and the artists who work for them.
With more than 126 performances of 26 shows planned over the 10 days of the festival, the plays will offer a wide range of genres -- classical to avant garde, slapstick comedy to the tragedy of Hamlet. A separate series for children will feature the Grey Seal Puppets; Children's Theatre of Charlotte's Taradiddle Players; The Quest, a one-man show about a disabled heartthrob performed by Raleigh's David Harrell; and Red Herring Puppets' production of Aesop's Fables.
Flat Rock Playhouse will team with the North Carolina Stage Company of Asheville to revive The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) that was produced last year to rave reviews and sold-out shows. The three-man show will star Charles McIver, director of the N.C. Stage Co., Scott Treadway and Dominic Duke Domingue, both of the Flat Rock Playhouse.
"It was a big ole hit last year," Treadway said, "But the N.C. Stage Co. theater only seats 99 people, so it will be great to take it to the Wortham Theatre at Pack Place."
The trio also performed the show for Henderson County high school students at the Flat Rock Playhouse during its fall run.
"The students really look forward to the theater experience every year," Treadway said. "This was perfect for them -- they know some Shakespeare and here was a theater experience that was cool and engaging." Treadway insists that the students dress properly for the theater, with ties being furnished to any boy that doesn't possess one. For some students, the annual Flat Rock production is their first legitimate theater experience, and Treadway wants it to be a memorable one.
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The show will have to be restaged for the larger Diana Wortham Theatre.
"The intimacy of the N.C. Stage Co. theater in Asheville really made it feel the audience was part of the show," Domingue said. "The reactions were very quick and we worked off them. Then working here, where we know the stage so well, was a slightly different experience. It will be interesting to expand the action to the stage at the Wortham Theatre."
The show is so fast moving and so physical that all the members of the cast lost weight during the three-week run -- Treadway twice as much as the other two.
"But he was having a baby, too," Domingue said with a laugh.
The play has topical references woven into the dialogue that will have to be updated for the spring.
"In November it was all the election," Treadway said. "Now I suppose it will be gas prices and Tom DeLay."
Part of the excitement of staging The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at the festival will be the quality of the audience.
"People who are really interested in theater will be coming from all over the country to this festival," Treadway said. "There's a lot of subtle stuff in the play that people who know Shakespeare will be able to pick up on and enjoy."
The North Carolina Theatre Conference plans to make the festival an annual event, and keep it in Asheville.
"We thought companies from the Piedmont and Coast might want it to be at a more central location," Treadway said. "But they're delighted to get to come to Asheville for two weeks. There has been such great response for this first year, it can only get better."
Although the three actors had the show down pat in November, memory can slip.
"We thought we had it completely nailed down," Treadway said. "Then we tried to do a couple of scenes for a little showcase and turned out we didn't remember as much as we thought. We'll have two weeks to rehearse at Wortham though."
The only problem is that the performances of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will overlap rehearsals for 1776, a big musical at Flat Rock Playhouse that both Treadway and Domingue will be involved in.
"Yeah, we start rehearsing 1776 May 24 and start performing Shakespeare May 27 ... going to be pretty busy there," Domingue said.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 27 and 28; Friday, June 3; 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4; 2 p.m. Sunday, June 5, all in the Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville.
The YouTheatre at Flat Rock Playhouse will also be involved in the festival, offering the recent production of The Witch and the Magic Mountain at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 28, and at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, in the Asheville Community Theatre.
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Highland Repertory Theatre will present John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation June 2 through 4 as part of the Stoneleaf Theatre Festival.
Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittridge, claiming he knows their son at college. Paul tells them he is the son of actor Sidney Poitier, and that he has just been mugged and all his money is gone. Captivated by Paul's intelligence and his fascinating conversation (and the possibility of appearing in a new Sidney Poitier movie), the Kittridges invite him to stay overnight. The day after they discover that friends of theirs have had similar encounters with Paul, and the picture begins to change. Finding themselves at the epicenter of an elaborate con, Flan and Ouisa turn detective and begin to piece together the myriad connections that gave Paul access to their lives.
Guare's penetrating (and very funny) examination of race, class, manners, morals and money superbly captures both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation has enthralled audiences since 1990, when it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Obie Award for best play.
The play will be performed at 8 p.m. June 2 and 4 and at 4 p.m. June 3 in the Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place.
Via Dolorosa, a play by David Hare, presented by EbzB Productions and Deep Dish Theater Company, will be part of the Stoneleaf Theatre Festival 2005 in Asheville. Performances of Via Dolorosa will be at North Carolina Stage Company at 33 Haywood St. (theater entrance is on Walnut Street, next to the Rankin Avenue parking deck.)
This probing and powerful work, in its regional premiere, recounts the British playwright's travels and conversations with residents in Israel and Gaza, vividly evoking the powerful ideologies and passionate emotions of the region. One of Britain's most celebrated playwrights, Hare originally wrote Via Dolorosa to perform himself, which he did to acclaim in both London and New York. Having been commissioned to write a play about Israel on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, he decided to document his visit to the country and the many people, Israeli and Palestinian, he encountered during his time there.
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Total Fat 45 g69.1%
Saturated Fat 26.7 g133.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 107.5 mg35.8%
Sodium 1017.1 mg42.4%
Total Carbohydrates 122 g40.7%
Dietary Fiber 17.8 g71.1%
Sugars 44.8 g
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Because, really, the only "maximum movie experience" you're going to get is time investment. You get two films slapped on one disc, so if the notion grabs you, you can sink three and a half hours of your life into two so-so movies that I don't recall anyone clamoring for…
Ordinary Decent Criminal
There's some moderate amusement to be squeezed out of this relic from 2000. Kevin Spacey is good fun as always, Linda Fiorentino classes up the place with a fine performance as one of Michael's two wives (yep) and an early appearance by Colin Farrell is sort of cool. The story just didn't do anything for me. I can't sympathize with the "adorable criminal" routine because a) criminals aren't adorable and b) no matter how benevolent these characters try to be, something awful always happens that invalidates their dopey lifestyle, which should come as no surprise to any sentient viewer. This happens here.
Mini-Verdict: Blah.
Bravo Two Zero
As an examination of one man's capacity to endure all manner of physical abuse, Bravo Two Zero supplies the goods. Sean Bean does well as the recipient of such abuse, most of the time looking like he actually went through the trials and tribulations depicted onscreen. He's his usual bad-ass self, but less in the "orc-killing-Alpha-male" way and more in the "yes-sir-may-I-have-another" way. The events may be dated (wow, Gulf War I seems like forever ago), but the story's compelling and the central performance is a winner.
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Both films are given mediocre, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers and stereo audio mixes. No extras.
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