Jumping the gun

So what downloads from the backbrain this morning? The opening scenes of the second book in a series I haven't even synopsized yet.

In other news, I did check out the Sony Bravia commercial that's been making the rounds, and it is visually striking. But I prefer the Panasonic HDTV commercial because of one little scene. A funeral party is walking down a dusty road. Everyone is somber except for one woman. She's attractive. 30ish. Like everyone else, she's wearing a black coat, but hers has fallen open to reveal a tomato red dress. The expression on her face is...triumphant? Satisfied? A priest is leading the party--he glances back at her, obviously disturbed by her display. The entire scene spans maybe 10 seconds, and packs an entire story into that time.

Ok, so maybe I prefer that commercial for the wrong reasons. I still prefer it.

Jumping the gun

So what downloads from the backbrain this morning? The opening scenes of the second book in a series I haven't even synopsized yet.

In other news, I did check out the Sony Bravia commercial that's been making the rounds, and it is visually striking. But I prefer the Panasonic HDTV commercial because of one little scene. A funeral party is walking down a dusty road. Everyone is somber except for one woman. She's attractive. 30ish. Like everyone else, she's wearing a black coat, but hers has fallen open to reveal a tomato red dress. The expression on her face is...triumphant? Satisfied? A priest is leading the party--he glances back at her, obviously disturbed by her display. The entire scene spans maybe 10 seconds, and packs an entire story into that time.

Ok, so maybe I prefer that commercial for the wrong reasons. I still prefer it.

The secret life of teaspoons

This enlightening story from Reuters by way of Yahoo. Beats the physics of cow-tipping all to pieces. Teaspoons do indeed vanish with greater frequency than other cutlery--80% of the test stash disappeared over the 5-month course of the study--and scientists think they know why:

"Taking a tip from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life forms living in a spoonish state of Nirvana.

They also offered the phenomenon of "resistentialism" in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans."

There was, of course, a more mundane hypothesis:

"On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them."

The secret life of teaspoons

This enlightening story from Reuters by way of Yahoo. Beats the physics of cow-tipping all to pieces. Teaspoons do indeed vanish with greater frequency than other cutlery--80% of the test stash disappeared over the 5-month course of the study--and scientists think they know why:

"Taking a tip from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life forms living in a spoonish state of Nirvana.

They also offered the phenomenon of "resistentialism" in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans."

There was, of course, a more mundane hypothesis:

"On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them."