Author: Alex Diaz-Granados
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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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Life in the Time of COVID-19: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Hello there, Dear Reader. Well, here we are on Thursday, August 13, 2020, and in my corner of Florida it is a hot summer morning. Currently, the temperature outside is 83˚F, but humidity at 87% and a south-southeasterly breeze blowing at 3 MPH with occasional gusts of 5 MPH, the feels-like temperatures are 99˚F in…
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‘Star Wars’ Collectibles & Toys Review: Star Wars The Black Series Artoo-detoo (R2-D2) (Dagobah) (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Figure)
Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2): A Jedi’s Loyal Mechanical Companion On August 1, 2020, Hasbro released a new “wave” of Star Wars The Black Series toys and collectibles to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of 1980’s Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the tie-in Star Wars line of action figures, vehicles, toy lightsabers, and other toys…
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Musings & Thoughts for August 11, 2020
Musings & Thoughts, August 11, 2020 Well, it’s mid-afternoon here in my corner of Florida; currently, the temperature outside is 92 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. With a 4 MPH northwesterly wind (maximum gusts of 8 MPH) and humidity at 56%, the feels-like temperature in the open is 102˚F, while in the shade it’s…
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TV Series Review: ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Season One’
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan – Season One (2018) Based On: Characters created by Tom Clancy Created for Television by: Carlton Cruise and Graham Roland Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Ali Suliman, Dina Shihabi On August 31, 2018, Amazon Prime Video released the first season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a web television series…
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