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    S28.E29: A Vision Of Murder

    in 48 Hours

    Her mother called the police, apparently thinking the daughter was having a nervous breakdown.

     

    I truly couldn't make head nor tail of what was going on.  48 Hours seems to scraping the bottom of the barrel.  I don't really watch Investigation Discovery or Dateline, but they've been overshadowed by both Serial and The Jinx in the past six months, but they've been coming up with the least interesting cases of late.

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    S06.E27: Zero Pollution Motors, The Paleo Diet Foods, World Record Striper Company, Frameri

    in Shark Tank

    I got the feeling that the real reason they want to produce these cars in Hawaii is because they want to live in Hawaii.  The rationale they gave seemed week.  It is a set of islands that have ocean breezes, it is not like pollution just hovers over Hawaii all the time.  It would make more sense to me to focus on an area that has a bigger pollution problem, but I guess they couldn't get that deal from the main company.

    The problem with Hawaii is not so much that there's a problem with pollution, it's that getting resources to Hawaii is incredibly expensive.  If you build a car in Hawaii, you don't need to put it on a boat or a plane to get it to Hawaii to be sold.  If it doesn't run on gasoline, they don't have to ship that either.

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    The Closer - General Discussion

    in The Closer

    I know I'm jumping out of order, but speaking of powerful moments...

     

    There was an episode in S4 called "Problem Child," which, briefly involves the disappearance of a troubled kid who is just slightly young enough to warrant the LAPD do a major rollout to find the kid.  I'm not going to spoil the episode, but the kid had an accomplice, who was forced to go along with all the awful things the kid did because...reasons.  The actor playing the accomplice (who was the boy from the Spy Kids movies) can't be more than sixteen, only has one scene, but his tearful explanation of how he was forced to cooperate has stuck with me for years.

     

    I also can't watch the scene before Brenda puts Kitty to sleep ("I wish I knew what you were thinking...") without crying.

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    S06.E27: Zero Pollution Motors, The Paleo Diet Foods, World Record Striper Company, Frameri

    in Shark Tank

    · Edited by starri

    When she spoke about cranberries and raisins it was all I could do to keep my eyes from rolling to the back of my head.

    Didn't you learn about how Early Man harvested cranberry bogs in a class in high school or college?

     

    I am all for cutting out processed foods, and generally my diet doesn't involve too many items that I can't identify as clearly animal, vegetable, or mineral, but that's not because it's just like how our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate.  They ate like they did because they were nomads with no domesticated livestock or agriculture.  That's the kind of lifestyle that seems really great to wealthy urban and suburbanites, but multiply that by seven billion people that it becomes unsustainable very quickly.

     

    Cranberries, blueberries, cinnamon, added sugar...all the things cavemen ate.

     

    I hate to use this as a shorthand, but there's something about people who read articles offered uncritically by charlatans like Dr. Oz or the nauseating Food Babe and decide that they have just as much information as scientists who have devoted their entire careers to studying the actual way humans process food, instead of what "feels right."  That's a whole other rant that I could have here, but it's a bit afield from topic, and it really bothered me that (IIRC) the only real criticisms of her claims were to the added sugar or Lori's dislike of the taste.  I just feel claims that are health-related deserve greater scrutiny, and hearing Mark (?) saying he's a big believer in paleo didn't help.

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    S01.E01: Beyond The Tank: Episode 101

    in Shark Tank: Beyond The Tank [V]

    I don't see what's so unique about the Define Bottle.  I see plenty of my classmates put cut-up fruit into a regular filtered water bottle  Seems a lot simpler than the multi-part Define.

     

    I couldn't walk away from a practice I'd built for an ugly sweater business.  I would have either sold my interest to someone else or hired a manager and become a silent partner.

     

    Bubba had a different definition of "market research" than I do.

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    S06.E27: Zero Pollution Motors, The Paleo Diet Foods, World Record Striper Company, Frameri

    in Shark Tank

    I have never, EVER wanted to punch an entrepreneur in the face quite as much as I did the Paleo woman.  I feel bad saying that because I'm very cognizant of the fact that I'm a man and she's a woman, and that's not a good thing, but as she was clearly into not just the Paleo stuff but also CrossFit.  If Paleo and CrossFit work for you, terrific, but watching people go through it, it's the health and fitness of equivalent of the Borg Collective.

     

    Also, primitive humans DID.  NOT.  EAT. that way.  And it certainly wasn't because it was "healthier," it was because that's the way they had to live.  Also, the need for sugar to make the bars taste better, just like our ancestors did.

     

    I was glad to see Heidi Ho doing so well.  I really liked her.  And whoever styles Lori needs to tell her to wear her hair like that on the show.  It was about a million times for flattering.

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    S01.E01: Beyond The Tank: Episode 101

    in Shark Tank: Beyond The Tank [V]

     

    Robert Herjavec rolls up his sleeves to help guide San Diego, CA entrepreneurs Evan Melsohn and Nick Morton, the “Tipsy Elves” business duo from Season 5. They find themselves at a crossroads when it comes to branding their clothing design company and if Nick should quit his job as a dentist and participate full time in the business.

    There's an Island of Misfit Toys joke in there somewhere.

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    Season 1 Discussion: The Devil Of Hell's Kitchen

    in Daredevil [V]

     

    I wouldn't quite categorize Matt as some bleeding heart who wants to see the good in everyone since he has no problem beating the crap out of some people. Hey, that's a major thing Fisk and Matt have in common - using violence to solve problems.

    Which goes to my point that Matt may be the guy who punches people, but Karen and/or Foggy is the real hero.

    S14.E06: Samantha

    in Intervention

    It may just be that I'm in an incredibly vulnerable place emotionally right now, but Sylvia has been the addict that I've been rooting the most, and even though we've seen her a few times showing her doing so well in her recovery, but damn, seeing her doing so great just hit me right in the chest.  I don't know if it's healthy to be incredibly proud of a woman that I will never meet, but even if she was the only addict this show managed to help, the whole thing has been worth it.

     

    I did not like Samantha's dad in the slightest.  I get that it's difficult to be a parent of an addict, but if there was ever an example of what not to do, you'd find his picture.  Especially with his refusal to consider going to Al-Anon.

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    S06.E26: ZinePak, SnagaStool, Buck Mason, Noene USA

    in Shark Tank

    I think it boils down to the fact that record labels just think anything other than regular CDs is just too expensive for them to make, and they don't want to give time and money, considering they probably have more artists to be bothered by than the Zinepak people. And record label heads do have the reputation of being hard assholes to work with. The ladies did say that the artists have full and exclusive say on the content they want on the Zinepaks. I imagine that's a huge selling point for artists that want more freedom than what their record labels give them.

    But most record labels are owned by companies who also own movie studios, and those are very adept at putting out special packaging of blu-rays and DVDs than include various levels of swag.  And they mentioned wanting to branch out to other things like video games, and most video game publishers already do that.

    S06.E26: ZinePak, SnagaStool, Buck Mason, Noene USA

    in Shark Tank

    I'm going to point to that stool reservation app the next time someone tells me we're not in a tech bubble.  That was almost as stupid as the service that tried (and landed with a thud) to convince people to pay a premium to have quarters (for laundry) shipped to them so they didn't have to go the bank.  Uber and AirBNB (although I am not a fan of the latter) at least offer something tangible that has a contract that can actually be enforced.  How exactly is a busy bartender supposed to police the stools in order make sure that only the person who reserved it is sitting there?

     

    I liked Buck Mason.  The jeans and button-down shirts were a little pricey for me personally, but didn't seem out of line with other designer clothes.  And the Made in the USA angle was pretty appealing.  They were stupid not to take the deal, but I also don't automatically think that they were just chasing publicity.

     

    Shoes:  don't know, don't care.  He ought to partner with the shoe guys from last week.

     

    The collectable stuff:  I haven't bought a physical CD since I got my first iPod, except for a few very obscure artists who weren't on iTunes or Amazon's MP3 store.  And even then, it's only been to rip them.  Maybe it's just because I don't consider myself a "superfan" of most artists, but just like ebooks, I can't justify bringing more crap to clutter up my home when I can store a library's worth of music digitally.  And frankly, even with their deal with Walmart, I'm surprised that they got an investment, given that there's nothing preventing someone else (read: the actual record label) from duplicating the idea.

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