Dragnet

Dragnet
Originally uploaded by decentred.

Not, perhaps, one of the world's greatest artistic offerings, but it's a funny 80's movie nonetheless. We've been watching Dragnet tonight, mainly because Em hadn't seen it, but partly because of its gritty portrayal of Los Angeles life, amidst morally ambiguous, real-world predicaments faced by Angelinos on the edge. Or perhaps because seeing Tom Hanks and Dan Ackroyd in goat leggings will never, ever get old. I can't decide.

Some of the interesting things that happened today:

1. I found a copy of Q Magazine dated January 2002 in the voice room. Not perhaps interesting in itself, except for the fact that I'd read the issue when it came out, but now was interested in completely different things than when I'd first seen it. Who'dathunkit?

2. I did the same lesson three times today. Each time it went very well, and each time it went in three different directions. It doesn't happen often, but when it does...

3. It was hotter outside than it was in work by 11 degrees today. At 6pm, it was so hot outside that the average person would sweat 11 cubic centimetres of water per meter of skin, per metre of distance travelled, and as such would have to replace said fluid by drinking (which at an efficiency of roughly 55.6% means that they'd have to drink about 2.32 litres of water on a trip to the Post Office at 5.55pm).

4. I made that last one up. It was hot though.

5. I found out that not only do I know very little about Cascading Style Sheets, I have very little inclination to learn. Leave that to the lego people...

6. People in Japan don't understand how to play 'Just A Minute'.

Anyway, it's still really hot. I'm off to bed. In the fridge.