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Wrong numbers
It's amazing to me how many calls I get that are wrong numbers; for having my cell phone number for 7 years and my home number for 2, you'd expect people to be able to give out the right number. I don't think the calls are misdials as I get a number of different callers calling. One particularly interesting wrong number are calls I get from Children's Hospital to both my cell phone and to my landline (different area codes). I happen to recognize the caller ID for it as my dad did some work for Children's for awhile and called me all the time. I'd hope people in healthcare to have current phone numbers of people they're trying to contact. OK, maybe someone had a wrong emergency contact number.
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Movies based on books aren't as good as the real thing
It's been a long time since I've seen a movie based on a book until yesterday. I went with my wife to see The Da Vinci Code after having listened to the unabridged version of Dan Brown's novel on my iPod during my running. I was extremely disappointed in the movie because of this. I really can't judge the movie in isolation as I kept going back to the novel. The detail in the book allowed me to form my own views of the scenes and I got really engrossed in the detail.
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Movies in bad taste
While my wife and I were at the movies yesterday, we saw a preview of a movie about September 11th. Playing on this major tragedy in recent US history is in extremely poor taste, in my opinion. I'm sure every adult remembers where he or she was on that fateful day and doesn't want to relive the emotions. For me, I had gotten married 2 days prior and my wife and I were in a hotel room in San Luis Obispo; I was showering and she was watching TV. We couldn't believe it and cut our mini-honeymoon (we took a few extra days off from work to drive back from our wedding down the California coast) short to head back home. It was a very eerie trip home as we heading down I-5 and passed LAX where it was completely empty and the exit was blocked, not to mention the light traffic for a Tuesday.
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Lego pricing
In my quest to find Legos, I've come across a number of sites and eBay that have Lego sets. Some sets/pieces are available on Lego's website and people selling the ones that are available are pricing them at more than the price Lego has them. However, the market for used and new older Lego sets seems quite large. I wish I had gotten interested in Legos 10 years ago as I would have been able to get sets at list price and would have had a large selection. Over the last few years (at least from what I can tell), the emphasis in Legos has been licensed sets such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, Spiderman, etc. as well as Bionicles. I'm not interested in any of them, so the selection is quite limited for me and I'm afraid that Lego won't be producing much variety in the town/city and train lines.