Thanks to NBC’s upcoming 10:00pm weeknight schedule change, there may be a new David E. Kelley legal drama, featuring an ex-patent attorney (see the second paragraph of the CNN article). Apparently, actual patent attorneys aren’t interesting enough to be the featured characters on a TV show. And I don’t have a problem with that. We patent attorneys are a fairly boring bunch.
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Patent attorneys on TV?!?
Tuesday, January 12th, 201024gasm on Season 7
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010I finally finished watching Season 7 of 24 on DVD over the weekend. (I was trying to be clever with “24gasm”, but found out some more clever people beat me to it.)
Spolier Alert: Some plot points from Season 7 follow. If you don’t want to know, stop now.
A few comments on Season 7.
- Which Tony is it? First he’s alive, and a bad guy. Then a good guy. Then away for a little while. Then back again, but still a good guy. Then a really bad guy. Then in custody. That much flailing around leads to a high degree of difficulty (a PDF document explaining how to calculate the degree of difficult for diving); I’d says it’s at least a 3.5.
- More Kim Bauer stupidity. That whole thing in the airport: chasing the bad guy while wearing heels, the security guards get shot, the car crashes through the barrier and flips over. Kim reaches in to grab tha laptop and the car catches on fire along with Kim’s arm. Makes me wistful for the cougar from Season 2 (read this as a “jump the shark” moment).
- I still really, really hate Chloe. Really. Please kill this character. Go all Chef on her, so she can’t come back, a la Tony. And while you’re at it, kill Janice too.
- A season-ending cliffhanger? Will Jack live? (Well, duh – he’s in Season 8.) Will Renee go all Jack Bauer on Alan Wilson? (No, she doesn’t have the stones, and he wouldn’t break anyway.) What’s going to happen to Tony? (Rot in prison until he receives a poison pill to swallow.) What’s going to happen to Olivia? (Go back to being a consultant in the private sector. Conspiracy to commit murder charge? Feh.)
Just a few more days to the Season 8 24gasm. Enjoy!
Too cold to run
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Not a great way to start the running year. I ran a little over 4 miles on Jan. 1, not wanting to get anywhere near the Broad Street crowds gathering to watch the Mummers.
Since then it’s been too damn cold for me to get out and run. After several years of trying various clothing and low temperature combinations, I’ve found that my limit is 20F, either with or without wind. So with temps in the low 20′s in the morning and crazy windy, there’s no way I was going out to run. We’ve even had to put the sweater on the dog to take her out.
And I’m getting my right knee injected again on Tuesday, so I’ll be out of commission for a few days due to that. Fun!
