Timelies all!

Amazingly, the drive home was fairly easy, given that there was ACTUAL! SNOW! on the ground.(Granted most of the roads were plowed, but considering the "driving skills" shown by many DC-area drivers, a bad commute was not out of the question)

but I have yet to come up with a valid reason for buying one. Yet.

This has been my hang-up. So far.

The suicide pic is disturbing. But if this is true, it may not be all bad:

"I'm not sure if you are aware of this,'' he added, "but on several occasions during the year, my crew and I were the first callers to the bridge patrol offices when we saw these events begin to unfold."

It makes me wonder how long they waited before making those calls.

Ugh, the whole thing is creepy.

DX, what exactly does a saws-all do?

Hmm, yeah, the rotary saw (thanks, DX) wouldn't be my first choice, I don't think. Is the circular saw the one the villains use when they tie the hero to a moving belt that moves ceaselessly toward the big, round, whirring blade? Or is that a buzz saw. Clearly, I do not know my saws.

Snowed here. No big. Couple of minor accidents on I-95, but I don't think any serious injuries.

Hee, I just saw an ad for S1 of McGuyver. Young. He was so young.

Aaaand, the inaguration fireworks just started. That sound totally freaked me out until I realized what it was. (I'm about 6 blocks away, and it's way louder than the garbage trucks directly outside my window usually are.)

Yeah, I just don't know about that bridge thing. I mean, I could see how someone could seriously do something like that with non-icky intentions, but the opposite is also pretty easy to imagine. I just don't know how you tell which this guy is in advance.

I found this part more than a little disturbing, though, too:

Still, "we are a public facility," bridge spokeswoman Currie said. "So his request will be handled accordingly. But now there's the question of what else might he be misrepresenting.''

"What else did he film?'' added board member Brown. "The underside of the bridge? The security patrols?"

What appears to me to be an attempt to drive her point home by making vague allusions to terrorist threats really skeeves me.

Is the circular saw the one the villains use when they tie the hero to a moving belt that moves ceaselessly toward the big, round, whirring blade?

Table saw, I believe. They had a circular saw as the murder weapon recently on L&O:CI--they figured out where it came from when they realized that the newly installed tabletop in the condo lobby had been cut at the same angle as the cuts on the body.

It seems to me that bridge officials don't have much right to be skeeved in any official capacity, given the fact that their big suicide-magnet monument is open to the public 24/7 and therefore fair game for people to photograph or film any visible part of without copyright worries. The issue is obtaining permission to film from national park officials under false pretenses, and the filmmaker can always claim that he altered the theme of his film after seeing what was on all the footage.

Table saw, I believe.

Ah, thanks.

And... ew.

Speaking of L&O, I watched SVU for the first time in a long time last night. It bugged me that they were so slow in figuring out the obvious. I mean, maybe not the genesis of the thing, but, come on. I don't think I've seen it quite that laboriously, "Well, maybe it's this. No. Then it must be this. No. Huh, well then it must be..." But I don't usually watch it, so I don't really guess I'm entitled to expectations.