TV for Angineers

I decided that I liked the latest "Librarian" tv movie when the very cute Noah Wylie got himself out of a jam using Newton's third law--complete with a cheer after it worked. Go Newton!

Watching the Super Bowl

Of course the topic of watching the Super Bowl was very big at breakfast last Friday. One of my coworkers said, "Yeah, I might just record it on my DVR and then watch it on fast forward. That way I can stop to watch any good plays."

"What about the commercials?" I asked.

"They haven't been very good in the last few years, although my finger always stops the fast forwarding whenever I see an attractive woman. I just can't help it!"

Thanksgiving snapshot

On Wednesday night my dad and his mother were working together to get a mincemeat pie in the oven for Thanksgiving. He had already carefully placed the top crust on it when he realized they had forgotten to put a little butter between the filling and crust.

"No problem," he said, cutting a large semicircle in the top crust. With his mom carefully pulling up the flap of crust, they inserted pats of butter under the edges of the dough.

"I feel like I'm watching a pie autopsy," my brother observed. "It's like 'CS: Pie.'"

As heard on VH1

"When you have what I call 'jumbo yummies'..."