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From: David Nebenzahl on 1 Apr 2010 14:34
On 3/31/2010 1:17 AM Jeff Liebermann spake thus:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:22 -0500, Jeffrey D Angus
> <jangus(a)suddenlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>
>>> 4. Assuming luck is with you, and you perform an amazing
>>> feat of tracking the perpetrator to a parked car, what
>>> are you going to do next? Break into the car to retrieve
>>> your stolen laptop?
>
>> Aw man, you're no fun at all.
>
> Yeah, I know. One of my favorite sports is to watch disaster movies
> and find all the violations of basic fizzix for which such movies are
> famous. I started this long ago, after watching the original Poseidon
> Adventure movie with a large mob of students from the Naval
> Postgraduate Skool. The class assignment in marine engineering was to
> to watch the movie and find all the screwups and impossibilies. They
> were rolling in the aisles, while I slowly began to catch on. Since
> then, I've expanded my bad habits. I consider it great sport to
> deflate movies, great new ideas, patents, product announcements,
> government programs, and usenet postings. During the late 1990's, I
> was making good money doing the same to science fiction business
> plans. I've also played both sides of the fence and perpetrated a few
> hoaxes of my own fabrication.

So like me, you probably have a hard time watching such teevee shows as
"Lost" and "Prison Break" (just to mention a couple of what I call "too
much magic" programs).

Regarding the latter, I found one episode especially remarkable, when
they managed to break through a concrete block wall into the bad guys'
"impregnable fortress" using a magnetic device powered by--get this--a
couple of automobile batteries.


--
You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it.

- a Usenet "apology"
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