Things I've noticed lately - April 2008
- Greetings from Pine Valley! I was running at the gym during lunch the other day and "All My Children" was on the TV. I was listening to a BBC World Football (Soccer) Podcast while watching the soap and running four miles, which--in combination--sounds like something that should be on a warning label (kids, don't try this at home). Don't ask me why I was running at the gym when it's now over 70F outside. I guess winter ha
bits die hard, and since we went straight from winter to summer this year in Central Ohio, I haven't had time to adjust. Anyway, the seemingly ageless Erica Cain (Susan Lucci) is in prison, something about a struggle and a gun is all I could pick up from the close captions. Her makeup still looked great--nice that inmates get professional makeup jobs these days. Your tax dollars at work? I guess it's just TV. Where are Phoebe, Tad, and Jenny when you really need them?
- My Uncle got me hooked on (the original) Star Trek reruns as a kid, and we occasionally trade emails about Trekkie news items (like the new movie coming out next year). I watched the classic "Kodos" Shakespearean actor/mass murderer Star Trek episode the
other night. This is Star Trek at it's funky finest! A weird thing I never really noticed in the show before: Kirk signs stuff all the time. People come by the deck to his captain's chair and he puts his John Hancock on whatever they put in front of him with barely a glance. Questions: In the future do we really still need to manually sign stuff? Don't we really already have many kinds of electronic approval? Multi-key encryption? Touchscreen, optical scan, or hologram-based approval process? Pul-ease!!! I realize this was filmed in the 1960's, but they really missed the boat on this one. Plus, their etch-a-sketch plastic box props that contain all the alleged reports to sign....I could make better boxes with papier-mâché!
- Will a bad economy support a CVS and a Starbucks on every corner?
