I'm in with Scandal. The thing that was the problem with this ep of the show is that I feel like the writers forgot most of what they wrote about all the main characters. People weren't exactly acting like I had come to believe they would

Just watched. My biggest issue is that they haven't given us any reason to care about Quinn so all the focus and sacrifice is irritating rather than interesting. They needed to be dropping some clues well before this.

My biggest issue is that they haven't given us any reason to care about Quinn so all the focus and sacrifice is irritating rather than interesting. They needed to be dropping some clues well before this.

See, I was able to guess pretty quickly that the reason she was hired, and a "client" was because they were all up in that business of making her show up as a new fake person.

But I expect that this season, she'll be more of a gray hat, as opposed to the charging-in-on-her-white-horse type we saw last year. Which could be awesome, or could just be irritating. I'm giving it a few more episodes, but so far not impressed.

What kind of surgery does one have on their eyes to make the anime look easier? Her makeup was so clearly optical illusion that I'm confused.

But good on you for the organization.

This is probably the only way I'll remember which pharmacy I need to go back to to get the bit of meds that they can't fill until tomorrow. Bless the electron, bless.

Incompetent developer is pissed I tell her things at the last minute. Honey, they're discovered at the last minute. I'm not keeping secrets from you--I'm telling you within 24 hours of finding out. The alternative is not telling you. I told the architect she wouldn't do the implementation the way I told her, because she thought I'd gone rogue (her word), and he laughed so hard. He seriously wasn't going to weigh in with his authority, because he thought it was so funny she wouldn't listen to me. But she only listens to her manager and developers. Her manager pretty much can't work a command line, so I'm not sure of the practicality of that distinction, but good on her for being at least marginally pragmatic. I think working so far away from the rest of her team has made her majorly paranoid.

Okay, time to trim the nails. Typing is interfered with.

Oh, hey! IMDB lowercased my first name. Finally.

Meara, yes, but the why is still missing. For me, anyway.

My biggest issue is that they haven't given us any reason to care about Quinn so all the focus and sacrifice is irritating rather than interesting. They needed to be dropping some clues well before this.

except for being so annoying and incompetent that you figured that there had to be something else going on?

In terms of the debates. At this point most supporters of both sides are playing the lowered expectations game so hard as to claim that their guy is preverbal, and if they manage to speak in complete sentences, win!

It's weird--some members of Romney's staff were busy raising expectations. Dunno if they're all on the same page now.

What kind of surgery does one have on their eyes to make the anime look easier? Her makeup was so clearly optical illusion that I'm confused.

You know, bigger eyeballs, enlarge the orbit, etc. The usual!

Okay, that was REALLY creepy.

Oooh, ESPN has a new documentary out, Broke, about the crazy way professional athletes go broke so fast. "By the time they have been retired for two years, 78 percent of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress; within five years of retirement, an estimated 60 percent of former NBA players are broke." Looks really interesting.

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But if you really want to lose a lot of money, the fastest way might be to take the route of someone like Evander Holyfield, who is said in the film to have eleven children by nine women. You know what's probably more expensive than a failed car wash? Eleven kids, forever. Child support recurs over and over again in Broke, which gives an airing both to the athletes' complaints that women seek them out specifically to get pregnant and get rich and to the response that you can't very well throw your athlete status around to impress women in clubs and then claim they trapped you because of your athlete status. (I do wish they'd at least touched on the matter of birth control and whether that might be a logical way to avoid winding up supporting children you never intended to have. Because if not using birth control is part of athlete culture, that's noteworthy.)