\u201cI watched the top 10 Hallmark Christmas movies so you don\u2019t have to: Here\u2019s what I learned. \u00a0What I thought would be a fun, somewhat silly experiment turned out slightly differently.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t formulated this discovery as a law just yet. \u00a0And I\u2019m certainly not going to call it \u201cPeterson\u2019s<\/em> Law\u201d any time soon \u00a0(Modestly, I will wait for others to do so.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I thought that you should know that the march of science continues, notwithstanding both impeachment and Brexit.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 You may be aware of \u201cMoore\u2019s law,\u201d which holds that\u00a0the number\u00a0of\u00a0transistors\u00a0in a dense\u00a0integrated circuit\u00a0doubles approximately every two years. \u00a0 I would like to point out another seeming fact of development or evolution: \u00a0Christmas classics are arriving on the scene at an ever accelerating pace. \u00a0Consider the facts: \u00a0 The great novella A Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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