Weekend Report

[kaitou]

Ok, so Jeeves & Wooster have eaten my brain. I sent season one back by Netflix this morning only because I couldn't send it on Sunday. If only it meant that season 2 would be waiting for me when I got home!! And even thought I need new books like I need a hole in the head, I'll probably be getting some of the Wodehouse books when I'm in Dayton next weekend for the writer group get together. This is the only reason that I haven't scampered off to amazon.

So after I finished devouring my dvds, I bought some more bento gear online. No insanely cute boxes like twigcollins has or anything, just some prep-type stuff like some cleaner-scrapey things, little bottles for sauces.... And of course the Multipurpose Silicon Pot Monkey. Because what kitchen is complete without a pot monkey?

Sunday evening I went to the city next to mine, to translate the welcome ceremony for the new exchange students who've just come for a week in the deep Ohio country. All the people seemed really nice, so I think the kids will all have a good time. I was a little amused that the local pageant queen was there in a godawful denim mini dress, towering heels and her tiara. I'm not sure if she was there in an 'official' capacity or because she was the daughter of one of the host parents. Either way I'm sure her new Japanese brother will be happy.

Then I went home and fired up the TV, looking for my usual assortment of geek entertainment. (Why is there no Geek cable package that would have all the educational type channels, SciFi, Comedy Central, etc???) But like the old saying goes, a hundred channels and nothing on. So I fired up Netflix on the laptop while I did some story notes on 3x5 cards. I love their streaming service. Since I couldn't have my British comedy, and I couldn't have my documentaries, I decided to watch a British Documentary by a Comedian.

'Faces' hosted by John Cleese & Elizabeth Hurley is really excellent and interesting. One of the bits from the first half of it that really caught my attention was about facial expressions and lying. They did a test to see if people could tell when someone was lying. Normal people did no better than chance. Judges, Lawyers, Police Officers & the experts that give Lie Detector Tests did no better than chance. Secret agents got it right 80% of the time.

And I got to talk for awhile to twigcollins and eramundo. All in all a very satisfactory weekend. If only it were longer!

Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

Secret agents got it right 80% of the time.

Man... doesn't that just smack of "it takes one to know one"?

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

Why is there no Geek cable package that would have all the educational type channels, SciFi, Comedy Central, etc???

AGREE. I have always wanted to barter channels. I'd gladly take something like National Geographic rather than the eight ESPN channels, for crying out loud.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Ha. Well, that would apply to the lawyers too then, wouldn't it?

It actually had to do with microexpressions, where a liar will have a different expression for SPLIT second, before moving into the right expression for their lie. I've actually heard of a case where they caught out a guy who was trying to plead insanity due to multiple personalities from some crime, and all the experts thought he really had Mult. P, until they studied a tape and could catch the microexpressions.

Though it's interesting, like the guy talking about it in the show said, once you know what to look for, it's REALLY easy to catch.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Amen! The geek package should include....
Hist, Hist International
Disc, Nat Geo, Science,
BBC America, G4, Comedy Central
Anime Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon