Saturday night check in

My wife in front of 740 East Park Avenue, one of the most expensive places to live in New York City

My wife and I just saw the movie "Fury" with Brad Pit.

It is a war movie about a American tank crew during the war years.

Really good dude flick, although my wife also enjoyed it, especially when Brad takes off his shirt.

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Over are Michale's blog he put up a video of Paul Smith, pastor Chuck Smith's brother.

There is a rift in the Smith family that will take it apart and down if it continues.

The video is biased to undermine the current senior pastor over at CCCM.

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Beats headphones actually suck in my humble opinion. I have tried them and in no way was impressed.

 I admit to having owned a set of battle worn Bose headphones for about 7 years. They fell apart, snapped in half, and the foam ear cushions gave up the ghost a long time ago.

But you know those headphones are incredible!

 Really.

 I love the quality of the sound that they produce when i use those old dogs. Held together with "mighty putty" and hot glued cushion repairs, they still beat a new set of Beats headphones hands down.

Beats are a successful marketing fallacy at best in my opinion. 

Once you get a chance to compare a set of Bose against a set of Beats you will know exactly what I mean.

Now Bose are not the best head phones at all; Sennheiser planar headphones are the ones to put on your bucket wish list.

Apple has long sold Bose headphones and speakers in its retail stores, including in the time since it acquired Bose-competitor Beats Audio, and despite the lawsuit filed by Bose against Apple alleging patent violations on the part of Beats.

 That's come to an end this week, though: Apple's dropped Bose merchandise both in its retail locations and online, despite recent news that the two companies have settled the patent suit.

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 "Good artists copy, great artists steal," Steve Jobs used to say. Having launched a perfectly-timed attack against Samsung and phablets with its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Leonid Bershidsky suggests that the next big thing from Apple will be a tablet-laptop a la Microsoft's Surface Pro 3.
 
"Before yesterday's Apple [iPad] event," writes Bershidsky, "rumors were strong of an upcoming giant iPad, to be called iPad Pro or iPad Plus.

 There were even leaked pictures of a device with a 12.9-inch screen, bigger than the Surface Pro's 12-inch one. It didn't come this time, but it will.

 I've been expecting a touch-screen Apple laptop for a few years now, and keep being wrong.

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If you ever rode a dirt bike or a trials bike you are going to like this race that we get to see the perspective of one of the riders from a gopro type eye view.