Ursula mad

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he's a petulant white kid. Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.

Crab vs. Pipe: The endless struggle....

...if by "endless" you mean "half a second." Someone asked why we refer to "Red Lobster" as "Crab vs. Pipe" and, well, after last weekend's visit, it's a site worth revisiting....

Crab vs. Pipe

This is a video taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch ... remember that width) in a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipeline is 0 psig, while the pressure outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along....

Hint: in the eternal battle between crab and pipe, always bet on pipe.

In the middle of our street

New icon, as inspired by Bee's idea for FOX cross-promoting two of its interests by having Ray Lewis and Hugh Lawrie announcing "We must protect this House!"

I'll spare you most of the other puns, but she did ask with concern, "If he got arrested, would he be under House arrest?"

I'll go to bed now.