I watched about half of the Vanished pilot a few weeks ago, and was so bored I turned it off.

The Bourdain show ended up being a separate special, not an episode of "No Reservations." It was really quite good, and more of a video diary of the events of their stay, starting with "before the bombs hit," when they visited a restaurant with what looked to be very yummy food, then while they were walking down the street after lunch, the celebratory gunfire and impromptu parade of cars filled with Hezbollah-flag-waving youths cheering the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers jerks the show right out of the standard "No Reservations" episode. Their guide, a young man with a gorgeous Brit accent who was the new lead writer for Time Out Beirut, was making some comments about how Beirutis partied throughout the civil war, but you could tell that he was worried about the new developments. That night, they went to a nightclub and did some drinking and interviewing the other patrons, but there was a definite tension in the air.

Then everything fell apart, and the show became about the seige mentality at the hotel.

The Cooking Audio Player. It plays your wirelessly streamed music, and...stores garlic!

But is it dishwasherand microwave safe?!

I'd like my dishwasher to play music. I don't like what sound it makes.

Fruit storage question: fridge or counter? How do supermarkets avoid fruit flies? I'd happily keep my fruit on the counter but the wee flies are driving me nuts. And they seem kinda sudden. But I've just started keeping stone fruit around--apples and bananas didn't seem to cause/attract them.

Whenever I get fruit flies it always develops in or around the trash-- particularly when the bag doesn't fill quickly enough and food can decompose in my trash for several days.

Gale Harold as Wyatt Earp = Yum.

I try and get the organic stuff out of the house quickly. I generate way too much trash, so it's not hard. But that could be where I slipped up.

I keep most fruit on the counter. Then again, fruit doesn't last long in my house because of kids, not because of fruit flies. Any break in the flesh and the little buggers magically appear. Ick. I don't know how grocery stores manage.

Kathy, yeah, I saw it. Including The Bunk, Wendell Pierce, whom I'd forgotten was from NO.Yeah, lots of stuff I've not seen.Powerful film.