Entries from September 2007 ↓

Medical Alert! Scrubs Returns with All-New Episodes on October 25, 9:30/8:30c. [TV-14]

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The toddler cannot reach the lamp in the center of the end table. So why not increase the radius of the lamp and bring it into his reach by a big fancy white circle under it?

Do yourself a favor, while your toddler is in that "I pull myself up on anything I can reach" stage, take the lace doilies out from under the lamps and store them in the drawer. Your lamps will thank you.

(I'm going to start posting my parent hacks here, rather than at their home ParentHacks.com because Asha is so far behind at this point that you never know if your email even made it through or if you'll see it turn up in 6 months. So I'm doing my part to take the load off her shoulders.)

At 16months, my son is now no longer interested in hanging out in his ExerSaucer (aka "bouncy circle"). He's far more interested in walking wherever he can get to, in particular bathrooms. This makes getting ready in the morning tricky, since Dad needs to brush teeth, shave, etc… and watch the baby at the same time. Baby can't come inside the bathroom (eventually I knew I'd have a child who liked to throw things in the water), and I can't close the door and have no idea what they're doing without me.

Glad we didn't put that bouncy circle up in the attic! When I (or the older kids) need to get some time in the bathroom I just slide it into the doorway, where it's a good fit. Not only can't the baby get by, but the activity stuff on the circle provides a distraction so he doesn't get too upset about not being able to follow me.

(I'm going to start posting my parent hacks here, rather than at their home ParentHacks.com because Asha is so far behind at this point that you never know if your email even made it through or if you'll see it turn up in 6 months. So I'm doing my part to take the load off her shoulders.)

Its hard to say whether Chris Benoit killed his son Daniel and wife Nancy because we were not there. Only God knows so I ask the good Lord to pardon Chris if he did commit these crimes and may all three souls rest in peace.

The reason why I am like this toward Chris is that, if he did do these things, well he is only human. I'm not condoning murder at all, but you must realise that the devil has ways of destroying someones life when they are on a high. Everybody makes mistakes, and as far as God is concerned a sin is never too small or too great, a sin is a sin. So all of you condemners out there, if you have never committed a crime in your entire life, then by all means strike the first stone…….

I completely disagree. People are all saying "Oh, well, a terrorist would try to hide it, they wouldn't stick a circuit board right on the front." True. But a lunatic would. She was unable to explain why she was carrying around a lump of Play Doh (what adult does that?) so if you couple a sweatshirt with wires coming out of it, and somebody holding what could easily be taken to be plastic explosive, I think you've got someone who was definitely trying to look like a bomb.

Remember that air port personnel are not engineers. They ask "Why would someone have this?" and if the logical answer is "It could be a bomb", then they did the right thing.

"deliberately made to look like a bomb"

Did you actually look at the pictures the police released of the device? It looks nothing like a bomb. It is some green LEDs arranged in a star on a circuit board with some wires and a 9 volt battery. Despite being an "art project" it isn't pretty, but there is nothing "bomb like" about it.

Update October 25, 2007: THE NEW (AND LAST) SEASON IS HERE!

Since I'm getting pummeled with searches for it – Scrubs starts up again Thursday, the 25th of October, 2007. They're billing it as the last season, and the writers all seem to confirm that in interviews, but you know, you just never know. Stranger things have happened. Will they eventually make it over to ABC? Who knows.

(Forget what I said about Sept 26, I have no idea where I got that. I could have sworn that in the NBC Preview they spoke of this being the week to start up all the new shows, but the official NBC site now has it listed at Oct 25.)

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I had not heard about, as my dad put it, the dip from MIT who walked into Logan airport with a fake bomb. So apparently she's both an electrical engineering student as well as an "artist" who wanted to "stand out on career day."

Thoughts: Ok, she's an idiot. That's obvious. Anybody who walks into an airport with a fake bomb is asking to get shot. She's probably disappointed that she didn't get injured, she would have gotten more press that way.

Thought #2, does anybody besides me think that the quotes from the police actually sound disappointed that they didn't get to shoot her. The officers are like, "Yeah, well, good thing she totally cooperated with what we said to do, you know, otherwise, we would have had to shoot her….yeah…." I get the feeling there's an airport full of guards this morning who were hoping to get their own tasering video posted on YouTube. I find that even scarier. There will always be stupid college kids (particularly those that wish to push the boundaries of "art"), but trigger happy police are worrisome. Those taser videos are coming out of the woodwork now.

Update: As people that know this person check in, they're basically saying that the sweatshirt in question (with the circuit board and wires attached to it) is indeed an art project that she wears all the time. And that, "since MIT students don't do mornings, and don't particularly care what they wear", she made a mistake. Does it bother anyone else that kids who are supposedly the smartest people on the planet make such stupid decisions? A few years back an alarming number of MIT kids were drinking themselves to death. Now we've got one who is so clueless that she almost got gunned down for failing to realize that her sweatshirt, deliberately made to look like a bomb, would not go over well at the airport.

Today my wife grabbed a string, some nails, and a bunch of clothespins and headed into our sun room that is three quarters windows. She proceeded to nail up a piece of string to the molding of one of the windows, thread some clothespins onto it, and then string it across to the next window and tack it up there as well. Then she clipped the kids' latest drawings and homework to it. Voila, instant showcase!

I hadn't watched Survivor in a while, but at the moment there's nothing else on at 8 on Thursdays so I thought I'd check it out. They had me at the Buddhist temple. Very cool! But honestly, if they're going to do the Buddhist thing in China, I'd like them to mention how China is royally screwing over Tibet and just pretty much violating the crap out of their human rights.

Anyway the first person to piss us off is, of course, the Christian radio host who decides that she's not going to "put her face on the floor for anybody but Jesus." Even though the host clearly said that a visit to the temple was about welcome, not worship, this lady walked out on them (what an insult) and said "I think I did the right thing." Personally I think you demonstrated why people think that Christians are intolerant. I'm sure all of the contestants have religion – heck, one of them is listed as a gay Mormon – but none of them had a problem with the Buddhists, only the Jesus freak.

It's going to be fun watching Ashley, from the WWE. There's a funny moment where the host tells all the contestants that they don't get to have their luggage, only the clothes on their backs, and we get a shot of the 20lb boots that Ashley is wearing. Then the girl next to her says, "But I'm not wearing a bra." "That's going to make you very popular," says the host. On the annoying side of the fence is Courtney, the waitress from New York who wanders around saying things like, "People from New York don't talk like dis, dese people are like people I wouldn't normally be seen wit, ya know what I'm sayin?" She won't last, I hope.

Ashley then proceeds to get violently ill on the first day and can't really pull her weight, which puts her on the chopping block. But luckily they keep her around (it's times like that I wonder if the producers have something to say about it, why get rid of the hot chick with the big rack on the first day?) and instead we lose the chicken farmer from Virginia. That's for the best, since nobody could understand a word he was saying.

I have no idea if we'll watch every week, like I said I haven't watched Survivor really since the very first season. But it started out well.