As collected during a business trip.
- There Oughta Be a Law about what sort of stereo equipment is on rental cars. Fifty percent odds that a rental car (at least in the midsize class I end up with) will have a CD player. The tipping point for it is whether I’ve bothered to bring CDs to listen to or not (which, Murphy-like, will guarantee that there is no CD player in the car).
- I miss Star Jasmine. There is a bunch of it in the planters outside of our Pasadena office, and the scent is divine.
- I don’t miss Star Jasmine enough to want to move back to LA and deal with LA traffic. En route from Pasadena to LAX, the traffic was sluggish and irksome — at 11:15 a.m. “It’s the Friday Getaway,” the radio blared. Before Noon? Yeesh.
Anybody who claims Denver is becoming LA is right … LA of 1985 or so.
- It’s always amusing going to another city and seeing the political stuff going on there — in this case, the bitter mud-sling-fest that is the Hahn/Villaragosa mayoral contest. Makes Bush/Kerry look like a love-in.
- I enjoy good Arnold Schwarzenegger flicks. Eraser was not one of them, on any level. No wonder he went into politics. Crikey.
- Worried about how much you may need to tip the skycaps at the curb at the airport? Worry no longer — the United Airlines “Check-n-Go” service charges you a flat $2/bag, as clearly posted.
Unless, of course, that doesn’t include tip. Bastards.
- Eraser really sucked.
- Felt rather smug when I saw the humongous lines at Terminal 1 at LAX for all the folks queueing up to fly on Southwest. Until I got to UAL’s Terminal 7, and realized that they had humongous lines tucked away off past the security gate to snake back to said gate. Half an hour. Glad I had a book, and plenty of time (though they were being good about asking folks if they had a flight in the next X minutes as you slowly shambled through). Sort of like being at Disneyland, without any entertaining decor.
- Visited my favorite diner in Terminal 6 at LAX — yummy chili cheese fries and a vanilla shake, as a send-off to a trip where I ate too much bad stuff (though I enjoyed most of it).
- Eraser was really, really awful. Bad stunts. Stupid dialog. Insipid plot. Rotten fx. Substandard Ahnold quips.
But the star jasmine by the office was nice.
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So, uh… what’d ya think of Eraser?
Meh. Would have been worse with Steven Seagal — but not much worse.
Eraser sucked on many levels but as I recall, the one that struck me hardest was the notion of a gun that shot projectiles at some significant fraction of the speed of light.
With one shot the weapon barrel and some section of atmosphere become really energetic plasma — hot enough to give off some gamma radiation. The resulting explosion levels… I dunno. The neighborhood? The city?
The x-ray scope that shone right through brick and metal but not bones was amusing as well.