Pilot's Log

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Back when I was a more active otaku I used to joke that we (my friends and I) wanted "Super Dimensional" lives but were probably more likely to get "Rumik World" ones. The problem with the "cool" stories is that they're also horribly dangerous ones. I love Chuck, but would you want to live in a Burbank where if you go to the big-box store for a barrel of cheese balls, you could wind up in a fight with master super spies? I love Criminal Minds, but would you want to be in a situation in which the BAU may be your only hope of surviving? Burn Notice is great--but would you want to live around these characters? Life On Mars...cool, but I don't know the British version. (In fact, my own "Hackett Continuum" was going to have some thematic parallels.)

I know this doesn't answer your question. Let's just say I'm still chewing on it.

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Answer to #1) CHUCK.

Answer to #2) Numb3rs.

Answer to #3) The show that will replace $#!+ My Dad Says when it is kicked off the air.

Over on Facebook I posted a link to the Jimmy Buffett song "Boat Drinks". Decided not to re-post it here for various reasons.

I'm stuck here in a house where 2/3rds of the water pipes are frozen and there's not much to do worth doing. We have the football game on, but it's two teams we care very little about and chances are whoever wins will be beaten by the next team they face.

CHUCK returns for the premiere of its third season tonight. I hope I can stay functional up to then.

Had an idea overnight to put lady's old antenna underneath the new one on the mast and splice the coax lines, so we'd somehow get the signals from one or the other. We tried it. Didn't work.

I think we need Charles, Charlie AND Chuck.

Lady's TV set is now getting only analogue channels from a rabbit-ears antenna. We've gotta do better than that.

In other news, I'm planning a trip to Kentucky.

Yes. Chuck. I'm talking about the new NBC action comedy show. Just saw the first episode...in which the titular character becomes the Man Who Knows Too Much, and then goes on to Save the World with Pr0n. It's funnier than it sounds, and promises to be this generation's Get Smart, only smarter.