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Saturday, July 27, 2002
EXTRA! French wine is better!
A small group of friends tasted a small selection of wines and determined that French Bordeaux is better. No one amazed!
Also ran some network cable at work. Dusty.
Friday, July 26, 2002
New Toa Arrive
As a member of the Lego Club, I was entitled to order two of the new Toa before they arrive in stores. Dig me!
The new masks are different and by different, I mean big and reticulated. In addition to the masks they have been outfitted with armor which bulks them up a bit. Our heroes avoid being top-heavy by having slightly longer legs. They also have new weapons which pay only the merest lip service to the notion that they are also tools. Instead of a pneumatic axe, Lewa now carries a pair of scimitars, for crying out loud! Onua's really nifty claws have been replaced by chainsaws which double as skates. Lewa, I failed to to mention, is expected to augment his levitating power by using his swords as wings. As if! 
Henry IV, Part 2 at Woodland Zoo
Couldn't hear some because of the ever present and thrice-bedamned Road Noise. Also planes of all variety. Mark was a good Henry IV. Then he died.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Webcam weirdness
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Vahi, Mask of Time, Has Arrived from Walgreen's
  I think it looks like he sneezed up a can of Cheez Whiz in a wind storm. Or sneezed in a cheese storm. Either way, aerodynamically sculpted cheddar-colored Swiss cheese.
Monday, July 22, 2002
Found in Ken Lay's Koi Pond?
New TV Stand
Ikea calls it a "TV Bench." Bench is probably more accurate and has a Swedish ring to it. The bench is well designed for easy access to masses of cables in the rear. A picture is forthcoming.
Sunday, July 21, 2002
Conclusion: Roger Moore Was ALWAYS Too Old to Portray James Bond.
And besides, he's The Saint.
During a discussion about just how old is Britt Ekland (see this weblog entry) I posited that if she was born in 1942, she would be an old-ish Bond girl. I was wrong on both counts: She's older than I reckoned and was only a little older than the average Bond girl when she performed in The Man with the Golden Gun. See this table and this chart to see what I based my conclusions on. Although there are multiple Bond girls per movie (usually a good girl - only sometimes dead and a bad girl - almost always dead) the Bond girl listed is generally the one with the silliest name. Not included in the table are the average ages of the various Bonds and Bond girls. (44 and 29*) The average has not been realized on screen. The chart does not display the periodic gaps between the movies. There was a long interruption at the beginning of the nineties (thanks glasnost!) which distorts the trend. If anyone can come up with a better expression for the class of characters from these movies than "Bond girl," I would love to hear it. * which tallies with the formula reported by Malcom X for appropriate ages between grooms and brides. Go figure. 
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