Digital Sextant

• Torchwood, season 2, disc 1: The time travel episode was awesome: the old timey steampunk Torchwood officers, the cool thought experiment of someone who wakes for only one day a year, and the nifty brain paradox of thinking through time travel (something that’s been on my mind a lot recently).
• Cinderella: trying to explain to Avery what’s going on and why was interesting:
  They’re dancing.
  Why?
  Because that’s what people do at fancy parties like that.
  Why is she singing?
  Because she’s in love.
  Why did those girls tear up her dress?
  Because they’re mean.
  Why?
  And on and on and on.
• Mythbusters: Clean or Dirty car?  The team tests the legend that a dirty car gets better mileage than a clean car because of a “golf-ball like effect” that the dirt produces.  Turns out the dirty car is not more efficient.  But then they tested the IDEA, that golf ball divots would increase efficiency.  And they did.  The difference?  Without the divots on the car, 26mpg; with the divots? 29.  Holy Cow.  I honestly would buy a divot car.
• Snow White: The seven dwarves make out pretty well, I think.  Another way of putting the story: hot girl chased out of her home volunteers to be housekeeper for a bunch of crusty old dudes.
• I mooched a couple Mickey Spillane books this weekend; I hope they have great covers.
• Aladdin: At one point Genie tells Aladdin to present himself as the street urchin rather than as a sultan.  I imagine an XKCD comic in which Jasmine responds “Well, it was fun in the market, but that’s all it was.”

Guess what we’ve been doing at my house on this rainy weekend.