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By gzt (Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 07:37:32 AM EST) (all tags)

I watched Heroes last night. While I had the first two disks of Doctor Who: Season Four in my possession. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

My adductors are killing me. They prevented me from doing my squats last night. I warmed up and did a test with my working weight: YOWZA. So I put it away and sat in the squat rack for a while massaging my groin. The track girls lifting at the time looked at me funny, so I waved.

Fortunately, nothing else suffered. Maybe I should've done an extra set or two of deadlifts to make up for the reduced work.

I watched the Doctor Who Christmas special after I was done with Heroes and some other crap. Solved some chess problems. Read a bit. Massaged my groin.

Crikey. The first thing I asked was whether the ID numbers matched on the two tables for this person. That is the problem 99% of the time. If you give me the wrong answer to that question, I can't help much. And if you're doing the troubleshooting yourself and notice that they don't match, fix it, and if you don't fix it even if you noticed it, answer correctly when I ask if they don't match. It is obvious to even the most inexperienced time traveler that nothing works if the key you're joining on isn't the same on different tables.

I drank a gallon of milk in one sitting last night, per our discussion. I took over one hour, though.

Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness.

Well, I feel justified in a little bit of resentment: Heroes. COME ON. WHY THE HELL AM I STILL WATCHING IT?! THIS WEEK WAS WORSE THAN EVER. WORSE THAN EVER. Well, at least Sylar is growing a little bit as a character.

So I'm participating in this thing where you get Christmas gifts for kids who wouldn't otherwise get them. The kid I drew is two and he requested a remote control car, a Winnie the Pooh phone, and blocks. It's difficult to figure out what to get, since remote control cars seem to be made for an older audience, the reviews of the phone thing indicate that it actually blows, and "blocks" is rather vague. Hmm. ADVICE, PLEASE.

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You can never go wrong with Lego by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 07:39:15 AM EST

Perhaps Duplo in the case of a two year old, though.

blocks by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 07:44:16 AM EST

http://www.bestgiftsource.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=37

I'm pretty sure toys'r'us carries the same brand.

I endorse this.... by greyshade (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 08:35:05 AM EST

I loved my wooden blocks as a child.

Also, there is always... LEGO!

"The other part of the fun is nibbling on them when they get off work." -vorheesleatherface
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I'm too cheap.. by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 08:44:17 AM EST

Little man gets the sort-of square scraps from projects I've worked on.. Mostly ends from table-legs as I cut them all to size.. So he's got about 10 blocks that are all different sizes, different woods, sanded but unfinished.

But that link, $15 is a good price. More than the 2x4 used to create the parts, but with out all the tools needed.. Hmm. I think the margin is too small for me to get into such a business.

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Exactly. by greyshade (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:03:15 AM EST

My dad did woodworking as a hobby. I had all kinds of wooden blocks and even a few simple toys he made. It was awesome.

Another plus on the cheap wood blocks... You can knock over the stuff you build, unlike legos. Not as much fun as you grow older, but I loved it when I was young. =)

"The other part of the fun is nibbling on them when they get off work." -vorheesleatherface
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: As I grew older... by gzt (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:22:19 AM EST

...a lot of my games still involved catastrophic earthquakes.

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they're totally worth $15 by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #17 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 02:31:58 PM EST

The different sizes and angles means you can make all kinds of great stuff.

In our house I'd say in terms of ($ invested/hours of fun) blocks and lego win by a landslide. (the kids like them too)

And yeah the margins on wooden toys must be razor thin.

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Ooh, those are nice blocks. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:02:57 AM EST

I might even get some of those for myself.

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: they're fantastic by clover kicker (2.00 / 0) #16 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 02:28:09 PM EST

Much cooler then the blocks I had.
The best thing about blocks is that he'll still be playing with them when he's 9 or 10, setting up buildings for his tranformers or whatever to demolish.

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my son... by clock (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:19 AM EST

...has a remote control car with a single button. on odd presses the car goes forward. on even presses it spins in a circle. he can make it work when he wants to. it's in the leetle kids section, i believe, of target.

_{I agree with clock entirely --Kellnerin}

: good for a 2 yr old, though? by gzt (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 08:58:18 AM EST

If so, rock on.

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: IAWTP by Herring (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 10:41:07 AM EST

SB had something similar. At that age, the fact that it does something (normally crashes into something else knocking it over) is extermely entertaining.

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What's wrong with just getting the kid by Clipper Ship (4.00 / 1) #7 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:00:22 AM EST

what he wants? Guaranteed win.

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Possible reasons to watch Heroes by spacejack (4.00 / 3) #10 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:07:35 AM EST

voices from the TV make you feel less lonely
listening to terrible dialogue and watching wooden acting makes you feel better about yourself
you can imagine the cheerleader is massaging your groin
same reason you slow down when passing by a horrific accident

That's all I've got.

: I think it's a combo of all four by gzt (4.00 / 1) #11 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:18:15 AM EST

#1 should be less likely because I have an entire library of things to watch that would actually be fun, and in this case I had something new on hand that I really wanted to watch and had been waiting a while for. #3 definitely has a role, though. Cheerleaders know all about adductor injuries.

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What's the deal with Heroes? by theboz (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 09:43:34 AM EST

It was great in season one, and season two started out kind of ok, but then the writers' strike happened. After that, it seems like everything went downhill from there, and I suspect the real writers of Heroes are still on strike, somewhere out there.

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That's what I always say about you, boz, you have a good memory for random facts about pussy. -- joh3n

: There's a problem with plot-driven TV by gzt (2.00 / 0) #14 Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 10:05:08 AM EST

When the series is one story-line but the series is incredibly popular, the writers have to prolong the show past its natural ending point to keep making money. Season one of Heroes was a natural ending point. There really is nothing more to do at that point. You can play around a little bit with a new story in season two, but there's no way to make another real story after that first season. It should be over. It's like how Jaws was a pretty good film, but then they made like 3 other ones.
I think one other series suffering from this problem (though it wasn't that good in the first place) is Prison Break. There's a natural way to have the story: break out of prison in season one, be on the run until vindicated in season two. However, they couldn't just end it in two seasons, to instead of being vindicated in season two, things just get very strange.
It's like "quantum immortality". At every quantum event, the universe branches off. Your consciousness only continues in a certain number of those, but the probability that it continues is always non-zero. You're an observer, and you only observe those branches where you continue to be conscious. Combining those two, you're always going to live, but freaky stuff starts happening when the probabilities of survival by normal means are very slim. That's what's happening in these TV shows.

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