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Quick Shots For 12/08/2017

Quick Shots For 12/08/2017

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Last weekend U2 was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. After watching their two performances I had only one thought: I really miss the U2 of the 1980's and early 90's.
I'm sure you've seen several ads on television for various prescription drugs. You know, the ones that tell you to "ask your doctor about . . ." You're probably also familiar with the long lists of warnings, precautions, and disclaimers associated with these drugs. The one that always gets me is, "Don't take this medication if you are allergic to this medication." This raises two questions.
  1. How do you know you are allergic to
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Quick Shots For 11/24/2017

Quick Shots For 11/24/2017

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This past week I remembered that the group Styx had a song on their Grand Illusions album called "Castle Walls". I remember listening to that song over and over again when I was a teenager, mainly because it has an instrumental bridge that sounded a lot like the theme from the movie Halloween. I promptly pulled up the song on Spotify. Terrence Koch and Spotify: Reliving childhood memories.
In the early 2000’s I was spending a lot of time in St. Augustine, Florida due to my job. It was that experience that inspired me to program Augustine, the text adventure game I wrote about elsewhere on Half Air. The… Read more...