Month: August 2020
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Old Gamers Never Die: Waging War in the ‘Cold Waters’ of the Taiwan Straits
The date: 20 August 2000. The time: 0700 Hours local time. The situation: USS Seawolf (SSN-21) is in the shallow waters of the narrow Taiwan Straits under orders to intercept and destroy a Chinese amphibious group bound for Taiwan. Primary Target: The merchant ships and landing craft of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s invasion force.…
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Thoughts & Musings on a Saturday Morning, August 22, 2020
Hello, there. I would say “Good morning,” since it is just past 9 AM in my little corner of Florida, but I know that many of you live in other parts of the world where it is already afternoon. Right now it is a dark morning, as the sky is mostly cloudy (over 80% cloud…
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Thoughts & Musings on a Rainy Friday, August 21, 2020
Hi there, Dear Reader. As I write this, it’s mid-afternoon here in my corner of Florida, and it’s a dreary, stormy one at that, too. Currently, the temperature outside is 88 degrees Fahrenheit (31 degrees Celsius) under rainy conditions; with humidity at 74% and a southwesterly breeze blowing at 6 MPH, the feels-like temperature is…
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Rainy Thursday and Other Thoughts & Musings, August 20, 2020
Hi there, Constant (and Not-So-Constant) Reader. Well, it’s rather late in my blogging schedule on this Thursday, but that’s what happens when you have two blogs and realize that while one of them is getting new content almost every day, the other one is not. So on this rainy and gloomy evening, I am posting…
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‘Star Wars’ Collectibles & Toys Review: Hasbro Star Wars The Black Series Luke Skywalker (Yavin Ceremony)
Last fall, during the last months before the premiere of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Hasbro released a wave of new tie-in products from its Star Wars The Black Series collection to both promote the final film of the Skywalker Saga and celebrate the legacy of the first six films released between…
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Book Review: ‘The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11’
On August 8, 2006, Alfred A. Knopf (an imprint of the multinational Penguin Random House publishing company) published The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, a non-fiction book by New Yorker staff writer and screenwriter Lawrence Wright. Released a few weeks before the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in…
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Old Gamers Never Die: My All-Time Favorite Computer Games
I have loved computer games ever since my father’s brother Sixto gave me my first personal computer – an Apple IIe with a color monitor and an Imagewriter printer – in 1987. At the time, I was still studying journalism at what was then called Miami-Dade Community College, and I badly needed a home computer…
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Old Gamers Never Die, or: I Like Blowing Up Stuff in ‘Cold Waters’
Hi, there, Constant (and Not-So-Constant) Reader. Well, the weekend is here, and it’s early Saturday afternoon in my little corner of Florida. It’s a hot mid-summer’s day here; the current temperature is 89 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 68% and a calm southwesterly breeze of 2 MPH, the…
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Thoughts & Musings for August 14, 2020
Hello and welcome to another installment of Thoughts & Musings, the section of A Certain Point of View, Too where I don’t write reviews, politically-themed opinion pieces, or talk about ongoing or past projects. Those are my favorite things to blog about, but sometimes it’s nice to mimic Seinfeld and blog about…well, not quite nothing,…
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