( Exterminate, Eh? )

Glasgow Tunnel – from left to right: Q, Tim, Katy.

I put the Peeps into a post of their own since there were so many pictures of them, and because I knew they would be of interest to all of the Peeps fans I know. (I personally have never seen the appeal of Peeps.) However, I did take pictures of a few other things; and since Q went back there today with Dawn to meet up with Skanky, I will most likely have even more pictures later. (There will also be a few more involving Richard which will be, as per usual, friends-only.) Anyway, ( they're below the cut. )

There's a huge picture dump HERE.

larryv,

You know bacon is delicious, but did you know it contains enough energy to melt metal? Pure oxygen flows from a metal pipe through a core of baked prosciutto, generating a grease fire hot enough to ignite steel and burn a hole clear through this pan. A wrapping of less-flammable uncooked prosciutto focuses the flame into an intense bacon-plasma torch. …Pure oxygen helps release it in a much shorter time than usual, but it's really the chemical energy in the bacon that makes the steel pan burn.

larryv described the phenomenon with this equation:

If you read the article, you'll find that they also made a vegetarian heat lance with a hollowed-out cucumber stuffed with breadsticks (though not quite as long-lasting, still produces a very impressive flame).

Big surprise. ThinkGeek's April Fool's jokes are always the cruelest, because they tend to feature things that a lot of people would love to see in reality. (I know more than one person who was disappointed to discover that Squeez Bacon® didn't actually exist, for instance.)

Probably caused by the fact that she's just watched four seasons of Doctor Who in a couple of weeks, and is working on plans for the next Rocky Horror convention, my wife Q has recently had a dream combining the two… Which she's turning into a short story.

Some guy named Dan Meth (I can't get that link to open, but that might just be the firewall here at work) made the above chart (click for larger size) defining (IHO) the quality of various movie trilogies, comparing the movies within a trilogy to each other and also allowing for the comparison of trilogies with other trilogies. A good idea, and it looks good visually, but I have an issue or two with it. I'm not going to get into his specific ratings (obviously, those are a reflection of personal taste, and I'm not in full agreement with all of his opinions), but here's what I'd like to see addressed.

First of all is the obvious fact that these aren't all trilogies. There are a heck of lot more than three Star Trek movies, for instance, and we all know how a chart of that series would look: mostly even-good, odd-bad. This would look interesting placed next to a chart of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, which follows the opposite pattern. There are also two Star Wars trilogies (although only one of them actually counts); technically, he should have labelled those 4, 5, and 6 rather than 1, 2, and 3. There were four Christopher Reeve Superman films (and you could have some fun trying to squeeze Superman Returns in there as well; would it go at the end, or between 2 and 3?), as well as four Alien, Indiana Jones, and Die Hard movies. I'm not sure how many Rocky and Planet of Apes movies we ended up with… And if you're going to include both Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer Batman movies on your chart, why not also include the Batman movies with Adam West, George Clooney, and Christian Bale? Seems kind of arbitrary there, methinks. Anyway, if you're going to call your chart "The Trilogy Meter", then you really ought to stick to actual trilogies.

Second, as the Elm Street reference above makes clear, there are several series that aren't represented. If I were making my own version of this chart (and don't think that I won't!) I'd have to drop some of the existing trilogies/series that I haven't seen (in part or at all) and add a few others. Poltergeist, The Omen, Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, Austin Powers – these are at least as well known as some of the series on the chart, and all of them are actual trilogies. And if I were to graph other series of movies, I'd definitely have to do one for the Highlander movies – just to show the second movie with a red bar in the negatives.

So what do you think – should I make my own addendum to this chart or possibly a completely new one, based on either my opinions or a polls of my friends list?