Lord, it was hot today. Walked out onto the back porch and was slightly baked by the convection currents. The thermometer suggested the heat index was 110 degrees. <\/p>\n
I have a reasonable tolerance of heat, but be it psychological or physical, anything over 106 just hurts<\/em>.*<\/p>\n So I hid inside and read. I watched a little television. I caught up on the site. Everything is up-to-date. The July photo gallery<\/a> is current. Until very recently the photo gallery section<\/a> was criminally behind. No more. <\/p>\n Also, I transferred a lot of video from blip.tv<\/a> to boxes holding iframes here<\/a>. Blip is great. I still use them, but I like to have them linked on the home site, too. So that got done.<\/p>\n Late in the afternoon<\/strong>, when it was only 92 or so, I took The Yankee’s bike to the bike store for a tuneup. <\/p>\n “You’re the guy that brought in the Felt, right?”<\/p>\n That’s right. Good memory.<\/em><\/p>\n “I fixed it. It will be ready on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n These are nice guys, they give good advice and have actually offered us a few freebies, but I hope they never run the world. Dropped my bike off late Friday. It was ready by late Saturday. I can pick it up on Tuesday<\/em>? <\/p>\n I caught up on<\/strong> Falling Skies, TNT’s newest superlatively promoted summer program. Aliens invaded and they’re stilling kids. Somehow John Carter, who left ER to become a librarian and then a professor of history, must save them.<\/p>\n The acting is a bit wooden, but it is post-apocalyptic with optimism, and so that deserves a look. My rule of thumb for science fiction is three episodes. Intrigue me by then or lose me forever. I’m giving Falling Skies a fourth episode, but only because of Will Patton. Tomorrow night’s episode better give me something more. (I’m sure they’re all rushing in to re-write and re-shoot as they read this.) <\/p>\n I even cleaned off a bit of the Netflix queue. Watched it already? Delete. Indy film? You get a short leash. I nixed one this evening because, for the first three minutes there was no dialog. There was a lovely window shot, an introduction to two characters who just stared at each other and then a dream sequence. Three minutes worth of this. Gone.<\/p>\n