Little kids hugging things is so very cute.

Oh, I love the felony murder/etc conversation. It all seems kind of how I remember it, and I do agree that the getaway driver getting the chair because a bank customer has a heart attack is a bit harsh.

In a scenario where someone is an accomplice to the crime, but doesn't participate in the actual pulling of it (supplied a list of safety deposit boxes, for instance)--can they go down the same way as well?

I started watching bits of Cold Case, NCIS, and CSI: NY as part of my shut-in entertainment. NCIS is very strange. I like the CSI chick, but I think I hate everyone else. And the inter-character patter is a bit annoying. Cold Case is also odd, but I do like the premise a lot (and miss the British series that did the same thing) so I watch it a bit more eagerly. CSI: NY has actually hooked me, although some of their plots are almost CSI: Miami in their ludicrousness. Ludicrosity. Whatever.

And then there is Criminal Minds. I watched one episode of it, and the investigators were barely in it. What a waste of Shemar Moore! I'm going to give it another chance.

Is Waking the Dead all done?

You watched the Frankie Munoz Criminal Minds right? They're not usually like that.

I am disappointed McGee and Abby stopped undating, though.

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Hmm, does anyone know of any good lunch places around the Tappan Zee? We're driving to Maryland Friday and it looks like that might be a good halfway lunch point.

I'll ask my mom if she has any recommendations. Are you thinking of anything in particular, or particularly cheap, etc.?

Too bad you can't go to the CIA in Hyde Park, but it's out of your way by too much.

I am fascinated by NCIS, partly because it's so Republican and also because the show is so not as straight as it thinks it is.

Criminal Minds is all about the Tragedy of modern life, wherein every third person is a startlingly intelligent serial killer. The CSIs are just funny, and occasionally good for an interesting guest star. It's kind of like "where are they now?" for erstwhile TV luminaries.

yeah, L&O is like that too. Lara Flynn Boyle was on this week's, although I almost didn't recognize her because she had those wierd lip injections and her mouth was all lopsided and wierd.

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Yess! Also, the first Ray Vecchio was in one episode of NCIS. And Jan from The Office was in another. So that's fun too.

I like Grissom and Willows and Greg from the original CSI, and I don't mind Nick or Warwick or Sarah (most of the time). CSI Miami, on the other hand, should be called "CSI Caruso moves into the shot in profile and takes his sunglasses off." And the crossover, with Willows and Warwick meeting up with the Miami team, was pure comedy gold. Reeediculous!

I have a friend whose barely competent manager has decided that the solution to all their problems is to drag the whole department to some outdoor/nature center that does team building programs next week. (Including the person with skin cancer and the person with some sort of porphyria disorder, naturally.) Wonder what neat tricks they'll come up with.

Lord of the Flies was set out in nature, wasn't it?

DH's philosophy is that our species has spent nearly 4 million years trying to get OUT of nature. No way in hell he's going back.