Now they're facilitating my habit.

[lance_sibley]

The Leafs finally won a game tonight! W00T! Take that, Philadelphia!

This being Tuesday, I made my way up to Future Shop to see if they'd finally gotten in a shipment of season one of House - and lo and behold, there was one copy on the shelf. I snagged it, whereupon I discovered to my dismay that they were charging exactly the same price as HMV, which had dozens of copies when I went in there a couple of weeks ago.

At the checkout counter, I mentioned this to the clerk, along with my surprise because FS is almost always a little cheaper than anywhere else (especially HMV, which is almost always the most expensive place for DVDs). So she took $5 off the price and gave me the set for $51 instead of $56. W00T! (Okay, it's not much. But it's more than I expected.)

I also got Chef!, a hysterical Britcom from the mid-1980s which starred Lenny Henry (if you haven't seen his standup routine, go find a copy of The Secret Policeman's Third Ball. Now. (Would it help if I mentioned that John Cleese, Ben Elton and Hugh Laurie were also in it?)

I learned something tonight while watching House. Now, I have no idea whether this is true or not, but in the episode with the teenager who has night terrors, at one point House sees his legs twitching and comments that happens when someone is falling asleep, the brain misinterprets the slowing respiration rate as a signal that the body is dying, and it sends out an electrical impulse to keep the body alive. This happens to me about once a week; in fact, it happened last night. I was drifting off in restful slumber when all of a sudden, my legs twitched. Rather violently. I hope this doesn't mean that I also have a mutated measles virus in my eyeball.

Boston Legal was hysterical tonight. Alan Shore (James Spader) and Denny Crane (William Shatner) go to Nimmo Bay Resort, a fishing lodge in British Columbia. I laughed out loud at least twice - once when Denny woke up to find that Alan had crawled into bed with him during the night, and once when they went into a Canadian court to help out a fellow lawyer who had been at the fishing lodge with them. Let's see if I can remember this correctly... the case involved fish farms threatening the local stock of wild salmon (here is a description on a legal news website - apparently this is a real case before the B.C. courts). There's a parasite of some sort which is migrating from the farmed fish to the wild ones:

Shore: It seems that these parasites attach themselves to the wild salmon. They're called "cling-ons".

Crane (looking sharply at Alan): Did you say "cling-ons"?

And then, later, in the court, after they've walked in wearing black robes, powdered wigs (having been forewarned that Canadian lawyers wear clothing similar to British ones), and hip waders:

Shore: Before we leave, we would like to leave you with these two words: (points to Denny Crane)

Crane: Denny Crane, eh?

I just wish that all my current shows weren't on Tuesday nights. Yes, this is going to be a constant complaint of mine.


Gakked from crystal_diva:

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That last one is scary. And the_nita and thespian know exactly why I say that... ;)

Comments

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I didn't realize that their science wasn't accurate, though knowing as I do about how CSI is more science fiction than science fact (I used to play bridge with a forensic pathologist, which is how we got two scientists from the Centre of Forensic Sciences as panelists at TT this year), I should have guessed. I guess they fooled me with their authoritative-sounding use of jargon.

The spasms have never been something that I was terribly worried about, as I do suffer from random tics and spasms quite frequently and have been told that it's fairly normal. (The ones that worry me are the ones that last for days. I've had a muscle twitching in my left thigh for a couple of days now.) I've never felt like I was falling, though. It's more annoyance than anything else because these show up just as I'm feeling nice and toasty-warm under the comforter.

But your description is quite intriguing. I've heard that muscle spasms (I keep typing "spams" :) ) can also be attributed to dietary deficiencies or dehydration, but those might be the type of spasms that come with cramps, and I never feel pain with these.

Ether way, you probably aren't dying of measles.

Good to know, though I wasn't really worried about that either. :)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I've seen three or four rnts on this, but this one was still in my browser's URL cached, since I read it just a day or two ago; it's mostly about Grey's Anatomy, and the things that would get the entire cast fired, but mentions House when tossing out a few barbs about medical inaccuracy.

And then of course, there's the rant andrew posted the other day about triangulating cell phone calls ;-) And while as a casual math geek, I find Numb3rs fun, it seriously pisses off some of my mathematician friends ;-)

TV is a bunch o' crap. A recent study I was reading in the Star mentioned Nip/Tuck, of all things, as the most medically accurate medical show out there, which,considering how little time they spend operating compared to to fucking each other, might not be that hard (since there's so little time to throw out medical terms during).

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I then forgot to paste the stupid url in:

http://www.slate.com/id/2126916/?nav=tap3

that's the one about Grey's Anatomy, mentioning House as well.