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Countdown to 10! Mrs Enginerd

Marriage: Year Eight

This year, 2018, marks the 10th anniversary of my wedding to W. As part of the celebration, I will be documenting our relationship from the proposal up to the wedding, and each year up to our 10th anniversary. I know what you are going to say: “Why was year seven so short and sweet? Where […]

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Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 7 (Netflix)

In the midst of all the controversy about missing the mark on Shiro’s past, I have yet to find an article about Season 7’s thirteen installment run that focuses on what is one of the most prevalent themes in the episode arc: family. As the story developed over the last 65 episodes it is very […]

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The Killing Season (A&E)

Eleven bodies were discovered in the Gilgo and Fire Beach areas of Long Island between December 2010 and May 2011. Four victims were found buried in burlap sacks, one was male and the rest were dismembered. Sadly one of the deceased was of a toddler which was determined to be related to one of the […]

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Active Shooter: America Under Fire

Columbine. Pulse. Aurora. Navy Yard. These are a few of the incidents featured in Showtime’s documentary series Active Shooter. Eight heart wrenching episodes tell the story of the epidemic that has our classrooms and public spaces under siege. Every 19 days there is a shooting reported in the United States, many perpetrated by people who […]

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Dear HBO

I get it. This season was about love, won and lost: Jamie and Cersei, and Tyrion. Dany and Jorah. Dany and Jon. Ellaria and the Sand Snakes, with a little throwback to Oberyn. Olenna and Margery. Sansa and Arya and Bran. Rhaegar and Lyanna and Ned and Robert Baratheon. Lysa, Catelyn and Little Finger. Thormund […]

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Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff TV Shows and Movies

Humans (AMC)

What if synthetics, or synths, could become sentient? Part robot, part human, these entities could now feel and experience life like most humans would. The catch? Many of these newly reborn cyborgs have no idea how long they have been online and asleep. They would most certainly want a purpose other than to serve. They […]

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En español Mrs Enginerd

8 de marzo: Día internacional de la mujer

Muchos hombre han demostrado su indignación al escuchar que hay un día internacional de la mujer. ¿Por qué no hay un día para los hombres? Bromean dicen, pero es por su ignorancia sobre la historia de los derechos civiles de la mujer. No les basta con tomar nuestra palabra cuando decimos que la discriminación que […]

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Rantings of a Disenfranchised Millennial

As an independent entity that can analyze, process and think without being spoonfed the answer, I get frustrated at my peers for not challenging the hegemony and rebel. The unspoken truth is that Millennials were brainwashed to conform, to trust their parents blindly. Many of us inhetit our political views from our parentals and if […]