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NBA and ThunderAt first, I thought ABC wouldn't carry any playoffs until the NBA finals. Then last Sunday, I saw the Lakers playoff game on ABC so I thought this year playoffs would be similar to last year on NBC. But then I learned that ABC would just have one game per weekend until the finals. All the other games would be on cable. Last year I think NBC had six games on the first playoff weekend. Last week they had the curling world championship. It's getting more difficult in living without cable TV these days.
Since I haven't been watching many playoff games these days, I've been watching some movie videos. One little thing that I've noticed in many movies, is the special effects during thunderstorms. Seems like every storm in a movie has bolts of lightning that are immediately followed by the sounds of thunder (the last one I noticed this was Tombstone.) This would require all the lightning to be hitting within hundreds of yards from the scene. How many times do you remember storms like this? It takes about 5 seconds for the thunder to travel a mile from the lightning strike. So even if the lightning is close, let's say 1/2 mile, it would take 2.5 seconds to hear the sound of the thunder. Perhaps, this delay between flashes of lightning and the sounds of thunder don't make the scenes as dramatic as flash-bang. If that's the case, I guess I should get use to it.
Beware of the Trojan Fart
If a friend forwards you a link which appears to be some pictogram or image where if you stare at it, some interesting effects should occur, beware. I received one last week. I clicked the link and the page did open up with a seemingly benign pictogram. But then after a couple of seconds, a loud noise, of you-know-what, shot out from my workstation (unfortunately, the audio of my workstation happened to be set to a high level.) In addition, the pictogram turned into a quite unpleasant scene of an ugly side of an overweight man. So at the very least, be sure to keep your audio down...
Elections
I just voted in the early voting elections yesterday. Not much on the ballot, and not too crowded at the polls. They had the early voting set up in a busy supermarket. It had opened at 7:00am. I got there at about 10:00am on Saturday. They told me I was only the 13th voter for the day. A lot of people get mad at the low voter turnouts. But if a voter hasn't studied the issues and the candidates, how useful are the votes? And it isn't easy to study the issues. Before I went to the poll, I tried to study the candidates and issues on the web. The city newspaper's web site didn't have much. I did find a little info at a lesser known city newspaper web site. Also, after 10 minutes of searching, I did find the local Women League of Voters web site with their information on the candidates and issues. But still doesn't seem like enough info to really understand the candidates and issues. Here's the link to find your local candidate info on the League of Women's Voter's web site: www.lwv.org
