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Big impact movies

CNN: Woman dies watching ‘Passion’.
Wow. 6 months ago, there wasn’t a film distributer in the world that was going to touch this movie with a 10 meter pole. Too controversial, too anti-semetic they said. Now it’s all the rage. Church groups are buying out theaters and urging everyone to go see it.
You might even die from it.
Ok, ok, it’s probably not quite fair to say that about this movie. But I wonder if now they’ll add a disclaimer or something. Or perhaps a new rating.

This movie rated RH: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. People with heart conditions require accompanying medical personnel.

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Tungsten T3 in x-ray

Tungsten T3 x-ray
One of the things I like about my job is that I get to play with x-ray machines, and you can get interesting pictures of things using x-rays. I think x-rays always give an interesting perspective on the way things look.
This is what the insides of a Tungsten T3 look like with the slider opened. Click on the image for a larger version. I’ve annotated some of the more obvious bits that can be easily recognized. The rest are just components on the motherboard. If you look closely, you can even see the ribbon cables on the right side of the button pad and lying over the battery.
For those of you wanting the technical details on how I took the image, I used an 8″x10″ CR cassette, 40″ source-image distance, 80kVp 1.5mAs, small focal spot (0.3 mm) in a Siemens Axiom RF room. Tungsten T3 was placed on the cassette. Cassette was read on an Agfa ADC Compact+ CR reader using flat field processing.

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Yankee or Dixie?

Couldn’t resist taking this quiz, Yankee or Dixie. What came as a surprise was my result: 63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
Considering where I’m from, definitely a surprise. But maybe not so much considering where I live now. I don’t know if I should be insulted, or troubled…
Found via anything but ordinary

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Body Challenge Week 6

Still at 170. Had a momentary lapse yesterday and strayed off my diet to satisfy a meat craving at Brinson’s Beef & Brew. Not a bad place. Tasty burgers. I had the Tower of Chili burger, which I thoroughly enjoyed half of. Saved the other half for dinner tonight. Also had the Cheese Fries, which was ok, but would have been better with a cheese sauce instead of regular melted cheese. Add a little gravy to it (which they don’t have), and mmmm, a plate of artery clogging goodness.

And now back to our regularly scheduled healthy eating.