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Well, so much for that idea.

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LA Times reported numerous fires in the swath of the unusual thunderstorm. Homes were unharmed but everyone got a view of plenty of lightning. Several bolts struck within a few home’s distance of mine.

In Riverside County, the lighnting strikes caused about a half-dozen fires near Temecula and Sage, officials said. The fires ranged from less than an acre to 200 acres, the Riverside County Fire Department said.The 200-acre blaze was burning rapidly near Temecula by Crown Valley and De Portola roads, officials said. Shortly before 5 p.m, 100 firefighters were attacking the blaze but no air support had arrived, according to the Fire Department.

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Heard on the mini-microsoft blog was the possible best eulogy, the Kin may well replace Microsoft Bob as the all time worst M$ product.

The rumblings have started. With no apparent innovation on the horizon, the giant that brought us the tortures of MS Word and its horrendous implementation of monolithic APA rigidity followed by unblinking corporate dweebs everywhere, will apparently lay off employees as quietly, but quickly as possible.

Expect a lot of new MS experts to hit the streets with new upstart tech ventures and resumes soon.

I can almost hear Warren Buffet saying to “thoroughly evaluate the fundamentals of a company”. I wonder how much stock he owns or will have formerly owned in the future in MS?

I remember thinking, the first time I heard of Kin, “This is a terrible idea.” Now it’s going to have a terrible consequence for some people who may be facing the hard cold streets of Redmond soon.

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The firing of a guy Obama never liked. Conveniently, General Stanley McChrystal may have simply fallen on his sword in frustration over the arduous ROE in the theater making way for Obama to take the Stan out of Afthanistan and to implement a somewhat masked reform of the rules of engagement and get something done in Afghanistan.

Just sayin’

I made a series of videos for homes in south Florida and PGA National homes back in March. The market, while taking a hit with the rest of the home sales in the country, has been successfully leveraged by a few expert players in the upscale real estate of Palm Beach County and PGA National homes for sale. The videos have received consistent traffic as people still search for information on the PGA National Resort and Spa homes.

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A builder of custom Palm Beach Gardens homes, Brett Handler of Dreamstar Custom homes, along with a team of bankers, real estate agents and businesses in the local Palm Beach Gardens community did just that by giving away a copy of an audio book entitled, Dear Graduate, to every graduation senior of Palm Beach County high school.

The book is also available in paperback.

Isn’t teaching financial responsibility the job of parents? Brett says that many parents are ill equipped to handle finances as well. The audio book gives the opportunity to anyone in the family willing to take the time to listen, to learn the tenets of financial soundness and health.

The giveaway had the backing of the Palm Beach County School District. It was no small feat to cover every senior in three high schools. The participating banks got into the spirit by offering free checking to the graduates.

The concern of the sponsors which included Jeff Lichtenstein, a local agent in the Palm Beach Gardens community, and North Palm Beach Stonegate Bank, was one of financial literacy for young adults entering into a complex and demanding financial environment today. The book covers fundamentals about which a surprising number of young adults know little or nothing.

Jeff Lichtenstein said that the sponsor and author, Brett Handler gave the students a life reminder before they go off. Jeff is teaching his own two children about financial responsibility early on and daily.

There are thousands of new seniors in Palm Beach Gardens who now have a better chance at starting out on the right foot because of the effort of a few to “give away responsibility.”

The bookstore is actually located in the adjacent city Murrieta, on Murrieta Hot Springs Road, around a quarter mile from the 15 freeway.

They may be about the only true independent used bookstore in town.

Eclectic Books has a lot packed in for what looks from the outside, to be a small bookstore but don’t let that fool you. You’ll find a great choice of books from independent to out of print, and of course, new books here. There is plenty to explore.

Here’s the video: Temecula Used Book Store | Murrieta Used Book Store

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Jacarandas grow around the world any place where risk of hard frost is low or infrequent, from the US to Hawaii to South Africa.

I used enough layers in photoshop to start over wherever I needed to:

1. Desaturate and colorize toward red for sepia.
2. Circular marquee, invert and blur edge with refinement of around 90px.
3. Apply levels to create slight vignette.
4. Use DreamSuite free by Auto FX to apply medium ghosting and blur.
5. A few final tweaks in iPhoto and done.

This is Maui

The universe that left “Parallel Jack” with mysterious neck abrasions and cuts moves in and moves Jack out.

Nice. I guess in a way Jack was right. It didn’t work. (detonating the Atom Bomb) it just created a collapsible alternate universe that faded like a desert mirage when subjected to reality.

More confusing, is the status of all the other characters in the church, and the one outside- Ben who must have needed a little more time in purgatory. After all, he had the murders of everyone in the Dharma Initiative including his own father on his hands.

Jack’s father’s statement that some go before you and some after does nothing to clear the air on what became of original Sawyer, Claire, etc. who flew away on the greatest improbability of all, the resurrected jet.

What about Hugo? Someone has to feed the dog, right? Is Hugo alive on the island?

We’ll find out tonight…

I think the parallel universes will be resolved by either joining or by one ceasing to exist. My guess is that somehow the “smoke monster” will be contained on the island by it being submerged as shown at the beginning of the season. He will be trapped by the magnetism of the island but “forever” unable to get to its source.

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