Shorter James Lileks: Perhaps you'll be interesting in this television show called 24 I've just discovered. There's a fellow in it called Jack Bauer who gets into all manner of improbably scrapes.

(And talking about bores, we happened to be at the Barton Creek mall on Sunday to get some photographs of the lad taken for non-internet savvy relatives in distant lands and I spotted a crowd of Jimbo lookalikes at the doors of the Apple Store ten minutes before noon. A tragic, Day of the Dead sight. We didn't stick around as I suspected they would turn nasty and start clawing at the glass and howling if the doors didn't spring open at exactly twelve. I don't hate Apple and their products are mostly dandy but their fan club is truly tragic and keeps me from switching. The only redeeming thing about the whole PC world is that you don't have to be a frothing evangelist and buy into the whole thing. You don't have to invest any emotion or faith in a company, a logo and a sterile lifestyle. Everyone who uses a PC in some way hates PCs, regards everything Microsoft, Dell and so on with contempt and has as little to do with the non-functional side as possible. You ignore every update and new release until your system grinds to a halt. You find the thing that works and you stick with it. You don't salivate and queue up outside Fry's because a new limited edition model endorsed by Bono with a 5% smaller footprint has been released three months after your last big purchase.)