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Sifting through several pounds of catalogs for Christmas shopping, three themes I’ve observed:<\/p>\n

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  1. Lots of Sudoku-related gifts, none of which look at all attractive or practical for the one Sudoku maniac I know.<\/li>\n
  2. Digital picture frames have hit the big time, though they’re still pretty darned expensive.  (I have my own doubts about such a gift, since most use of photographs in frames are as artistic impressions, vs. Moving Picture Attractions.)<\/li>\n
  3. Resistance to bacteria.  Lots of germ-killing widgets, from toothbrush holders to humidifiers. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sifting through several pounds of catalogs for Christmas shopping, three themes I’ve observed: Lots of Sudoku-related gifts, none of which look at all attractive or practical for the one Sudoku…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-gaming","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16504,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/tweets-from-2010-01-06.html","url_meta":{"origin":12057,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2010-01-06","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Jan-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @CourageCampaign Urgent: sign the letter to Judge Walker. 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