I'm sure it was an oversight but someone moved some boxes from the discard pile to a place in front of Brien's office.



I wonder if Brien is in there? What if he doesn't know there are boxes in front of his door and he tries to get out? Should someone move the boxes?

Remember: you must order by 2:00 p.m. EST to get overnight delivery on a casket...

You can now get your funeral needs, caskets and urns, at Costco including the hand-rubbed Argos Cherry Wood model (pictured above) at 2,999.99. This is only available in a few states.

There is a licensed funeral director available to answer questions at the toll free number.

"Hear me now," as Ali G would say, "Aiight, Booyakasha - Mista G indahouse aiii..." Saw Talladega Nights Monday to wash off the court experience and get our heads right again. After listening intently to every word in a small room with a judge and lots of Q & A, we needed to get to the other side of the mental spectrum with Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby. Sacha Baron Cohen was fittest at playing a 'batty boy' French race car driver. How funny is Sacha Baron Cohen? Read his 2004 Harvard University commencement speech. His new movie, Borat, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is to be released November 3.

..............RESPECT!


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Remember the show, Day In Court ? The televisioin show? No? ...anyway, we spent the good part of today in court, actually at the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings. We are the complaintants against a company which did some 'work' for us. The Registrar of Contractors issued a Corrective Work Order against them and they refused so the next step was for us to request a hearing to enforce the work order.

The day was very interesting but also extremely tiring. It follows the same general rules as a civil trial but is a little less formal. All in all, serious stuff and one needs to know what one is doing. I may write more later. Too exhausted now.

Discovery Channel's How It's Made (in french: Comment c'est fait) is awesome. A series (I don't know how many) of junior-high-like short videos explaining how stuff is made has captured my attention to the point that I recorded about thirty of these half-hour episodes on the DVR. I am now going throught them to make room on the DVR for other exciting things... like Project Runway. You can see the manufacturing process for cheese, airplanes, contact lenses, panty hose, snowboards, couscous, artificial eyes... you name it. The appropriate music is cheap industrial techno. And the narrator tries to make it exciting just like they did on the junior high film strips. How long can this go on? They must have made a million of them! I wonder if there is a How It's Made for How It's Made...

On another note, read what Don Boudreaux says about this show and the division of labor and Adam Smith. He gets it.