Random Access

Tuesday : 17 January 2006
The work day wasn’t bad. A coworker loaned me Arlington Road; I watched it over the course of the day. Good movie. I don’t think that I had ever seen Tim Robbins as a sinister character before this; he did a good job. And Joan Cusack…? She was just plain creepy. Eerily so. And damn good at it. I had severely underrated her. I give this movie a definite “thumbs-up with an okay.”

After work, I hung out with the kids; catnip was involved at some point. Even though I put out catnip for each cat, Lightning tried to bogart Presto’s share. It was amusing.

I hung out with for a while. We were going to watch Law & Order: Deep Space Nine SVU, but opted to catch If Only, a movie that reminded me of Groundhog Day… although it wasn’t a comedy nor did it have Bill Murray. It wasn’t bad, just a bit predictable in spots. And, besides, that episode of SVU will be rebroadcast this weekend.

Stray Toasters

• I have bacon & cheese popcorn.
• “I’m Bat Lantern!”
  “I’m the Green Bat!”
  “Oh, Hell… I’m just confused!”
  (DC published an Elseworlds title, called “In Darkest Knight,” that combined Batman and Green Lantern a few years ago.)

• Canstruction – sculptures built entirely out of canned food.
• Ah, the geometry of triangles.
• : This and this are for you.
• By way of boingboing.net: Police fight crime with games
• (Old) Lois and (New) Clark: The Adventures of Superman (Presenting a Golden Globe Award)
• MysteryNet.com
• Zoom! (Although, this is probably more of a “Whoosh!”)
• Captain Kirk sells kidney stone for $25k
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• I wonder if the student who came up with this knife-block had issues with his/her teacher…?
• While the concept of mag-lev elevators is appealing, there’s something… “comforting”… about knowing that there’s a steel cable holding the elevator car if the power should go out.
• Will an old-fashioned Superman fly?
• I can appreciate a nice watch, but for $220,000, I expect to be able to tell what time it is.
• David Duchovny… Bruce Banner…
  David Duchovny… Bruce Banner…
  Hulk 2 (if it gets off the ground) will be direct-to-video.

Namaste.