Chik-fil-a

It's just mean to mention Chik-fil-a to a Southern girl now living in Chik-fil-a-less Los Angeles. Dying for a sandwich and waffle fries now!

I'd go with morning, Jesse. That way if it takes longer than you think it won't matter as much.

Dying for a sandwich and waffle fries now!

You've just made me crave Roscoe's. I haven't had that in an age.

A Fine Romance! That's it. Even as a hardened cynic teen I loved that show. At the time my sister was a classmate of Judi Dench's daughter, so I felt spuriously extra connected to the show.

I loved Silk Stalkings, even as I knew it was crap. Never saw Forever Knight until cable reruns though--was Silk Stalkings paired with anything else?

I pretty much got to watch what I wanted when I was a kid, but bed time was strictly enforced, so I didn't get to see much in the way of later shows. The big exceptions were when my dad wanted to watch movies, which I was usually OK with as I usually watched them with him (he favored Westerns, War movies and slapstick comedies), or sports, which was problematical as I pretty much hated them all back then. He only watched hockey or basketball if the Boston teams were in the playoffs, but he was huge on watching baseball, football and, later on, golf. Daytime TV I lost to either getting sent out to play (kicked out so Mom could get a break is more like it - imagine that happening today) or when Mom was still watching Days of Our Lives.

Looking back, where did I get the time? Among many others, I was watching Warner Bros. cartoons, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, old movies, Three Stooges, Star Trek TOS, MASH (sometimes four times a day if new episodes were airing), Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, occasional episodes of random shows (Odd Couple, Dick van Dyke, Lucille Ball), British shows when I could find them (Monty Python, The Prisoner, The Two Ronnies, Reginald Perrin, The Goodies - that list goes on), Hill Street Blues and Dognose how many shows that got cancelled ahead of their time (I'm thinking mainly of Quark here, but there were others). I also will shamefully cop to having seen every episode of both The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. Multiple times. I'm sure there was more.

On top of this I somehow found the time to be a voracious reader.

My fave teen/college shows were Moonlighting and Twin Peaks.

I'd go with morning, Jesse. That way if it takes longer than you think it won't matter as much.

Yeah, I know that's really the better move. I'm just not good with re-adjusting in my head!

I watched a lot of tv, even without having cable.

Mac can watch 1 show in the morning and 1-2 shows at night, but it is all PBS or pokemon. After dinner is usually the only option since I pick him up at 6 and he often still has homework to do, dinner is at 6:30 or 7. Saturday morning he gets 5 shows and then we leave for karate and he watches 3-6 more when we get back, but it should really only be 1-2 more and the rest get saved for Sunday morning.

I nearly forgot, I watched the revolving Mystery Movie shows--MacMillan & Wife, McCloud, Columbo--as a kid, as well. I loved that those "grown up shows" were totally accessible to elementary schoolkids like me, and thought that Susan Saint James and Rock Hudson had the greatest relationship on tv.

I watched a lot of tv, even without having cable.

We didn't have cable, either. I was a total network ho.

Cool picture of yesterday's test of the Ares rocket: Photo: Ares rocket's 'shock egg' in mind-blowing clarity

What you're looking at is called a "shock egg," or the Prandtl-Glauert singularity, or a shockwave that compresses air and forces the vapor out of it. You see this kind of stuff a lot in photographs trailing behind fighter jets, but it's especially awesome when it happens to rockets.