Found a local bakery that sells dim sum over the counter (not from a cart nor freshly made after filling in a sheet, aka typical dim sum restaurant procedure). I'm not a big dim sum guy, but I had a craving the other day.
Three reasons why I'm not big on dim sum.
1) It's oily 2) It's noisy 3) There's usually a lineup
2:00 mark. Guy stops right in the middle of a verse and tells the other dude to "get out of my face son". (Note: they were face to face for 30 seconds prior to this). A punch is thrown and all hell breaks loose. Splendid
OK. This is a TV show, so I understand concessions have to be made. Jack isn't going to the washroom, get hungry or die of exhaustion because he should of had 10 adrenaline dumps by now. But there are huge jumps in logic that are frustrating.
1) Having worked in some industrial sites, I have at least a slight understanding of what's happening. Yet according to the show, there's some magic black box that's able to take control of 100+ nuclear power plants and meltdown them down. Therefore ignoring the fact that there are going to be valves that need to be manually adjusted and there are on-site physical safety mechanisms that also need to be bypassed. Not to mention, each plant might have it's own software programs controlling matters, but of course, the magic black box must have some universal interfacing program.
2) A defense contractor wants to protect itself, so some workers try to discreetly delete incriminating files that might interest Jack & Co. Fair enough.
But when that failed, in come the hired mercenaries to eliminate Jack & Co. And to think, the workers worried about getting found out. Jack and 3 untrained civilians do eventually kill the aforementioned team of well trained mercenaries. Why worry about logic now.
3) The terrorists hold Jack hostage. They exchange Jack for the son of a terrorist family who was held captive at CTU. Supposedly this exchange was made because the kid had valuable information. The kid's value is never explained and he never appears in another episode.
4) Wife has nuclear codes. Husband is being tortured by terrorists. Wife can't bear the pain, so she turns over the codes to stop the torture on the condition that the terrorists don't kill the couple afterwards. I realize females are emotional creatures, but terrorists generally aren't the most trustworthy people. Unfortunately, before the terrorist could've killed the wife, Jack miraculously shows up and saves the day.
5) Jack has morphed into a crack shot killing machine this season. Master Chief has nothing on this guy. I don't really remember repeated 1-man killing sprees in previous seasons.
6) Jack kidnaps a chinese consulate conspiring with the terrorists. After knocking the dude out, Jack tries to quickly carry the consulate to a van waiting outside. The chinese guards decide to open fire on Jack while the consulate is slung over his shoulder. Great plan on recovering the consulate unharmed. The consulate is badly wounded leading to a hilarious situation at the CTU operating room.
7) To escape the clutches of the chinese goverment, Jack commits a pseudo-suicide and heads to the border to start a new life. With the help of epinephrine, Jack stops and starts his heart like a light switch. Is this believable? Beats me, I'm not a medical major.
Of course, they'll just figure out some contrived loophole so that Jack can resume his life in the next season.
8) Elected officials aren't always the most competent people, but it seems like the vice-president (and later president thanks to the 25th amendment) just stumbled off a bar stool into his job. He is simply over the top awful.
This is now 2 consecutive weak seasons of 24. I've used up all of the good faith built by seasons 1 and 2. Supposedly, season 5 is really good. If not, I might have to jump off this bandwagon.
Spike is airing a program called "Deadliest Warrior". It's basically a hour long scientific experiment testing the deadliness of various weapons from past warriors (ie, samurai, roman gladiator, etc). The whole matchup boiled down (uhh I was eating, so I was paying 100% attention): long range, mid range, short range and "special" weapons. After the data was plugged into a computer simulation and the victor was declared.
What a load of BS.
This is akin to Spike producing a show called "Deadliest Marital Art" and proclaiming winners based on scientific data from the force of kicks and throws. I'm really aggravated by the "experts" on the show who spew their rhetoric much like the kung fu expert exhorting the dangers of the touch of death. I'm always suprised that people like this still exist; the ones that buy into the mystic of certain combat arts (espeically ones of Oriential origin). But somehow these "experts" are credible especially when the narrator proclaimed one expert had 5 black belts (see McDojo).
On a related side note, a friend (after watching some highlight videos) asked me how Mike Tyson would do in mma. Tyson would get annihilated. I would pick a pure wrestler (no striking or submission skills) to destroy any boxer in a fight.
- I feel like attempting some satirical pieces or short stories. But my life is dull and monotonous, so I don't have an inspiration to draw on. The lack of creativity hurts as well
- Two years ago, I made a post that I would be quitting dota (1,2). Two years later, I still haven't quit. Reasons later
- Mentally, I've been having a hard time as of late even before the added stress due to my knee injury. I've had a difficult time letting go the emotions and feelings from yesteryear and the thought of aging has made the former more difficult. Feeling overwhelmed.
