On 3/31/2010 1:17 AM Jeff Liebermann spake thus:

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:22 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing
feat of tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what
are you going to do next? Break into the car to retrieve
your stolen laptop?

Aw man, you're no fun at all.

Yeah, I know. One of my favorite sports is to watch disaster movies
and find all the violations of basic fizzix for which such movies are
famous. I started this long ago, after watching the original Poseidon
Adventure movie with a large mob of students from the Naval
Postgraduate Skool. The class assignment in marine engineering was to
to watch the movie and find all the screwups and impossibilies. They
were rolling in the aisles, while I slowly began to catch on. Since
then, I've expanded my bad habits. I consider it great sport to
deflate movies, great new ideas, patents, product announcements,
government programs, and usenet postings. During the late 1990's, I
was making good money doing the same to science fiction business
plans. I've also played both sides of the fence and perpetrated a few
hoaxes of my own fabrication.

So like me, you probably have a hard time watching such teevee shows as
"Lost" and "Prison Break" (just to mention a couple of what I call "too
much magic" programs).

Regarding the latter, I found one episode especially remarkable, when
they managed to break through a concrete block wall into the bad guys'
"impregnable fortress" using a magnetic device powered by--get this--a
couple of automobile batteries.


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