I was just watching this movie, "U.S. Seals", on CineMax and maybe it's just me but it was quite awful. Action movies where the heroes have unlimited ammo and never reload, where they can jump out in front of a squad of assault-rifle-wielding mercenaries and shoot them all without getting shot, and where someone can throw a grenade through a machine gun slit on a pillobox at 30 yards on the first toss (alhough maybe that's more possible than I think); all those seem rather inane to me. For the most part I can just suspend my disbelief, but nowadays I have a slightly better idea of special ops and the movie just did everything wrong.

It just goes to show that if you know a subject, then you won't like Hollywood's depiction of that subject. Which brings me to JAG, which does a lot of things right. It has a good depiction of the Navy, and makes efforts to be accurate. Now, I'm not an expert on the military and I've never lived it, so maybe it's easier to impress me than the next guy. But I do admire the way JAG tries to keep things proper and a reflection of today's military.

My foot is getting better. I can stand now and put almost half my weight on it, or at least I thought I could. After a week without taking a proper shower I was pretty stinky so I thought that I'm well enough to stand and take a shower. It's not like you move your legs a lot, right? Wrong. It's surprising how much you have to shift around to get the water to hit you everywhere. My right leg is not as strong as I thought it was and the bathtub gets slippery when wet. I washed some of my body before I gave up and I was fortunate that I didn't fall. Quite an ordeal, or maybe I'm just a big wus.

I'm watching "US Marshalls", which some people called "The Fugitive 2", and Wesley Snipes is going through the swamps on this rowboat. The cool thing is that the rowboat has this lever for the oars so that you can row and face forward. I've never seen that before and it's quite cool. I wonder why it's not used more often?

So when I was writing this article, which was just basically a question and answer session, the interviewee suggested that just having the Q&A would be boring. I should try to personalize it somehow, to make it a better article. And so I've taken that piece of advice to heart, and try to put a little bit of what I think and feel about the subject I'm writing about. It changes a factual article from a static piece to something real, alive, and more interesting to readers. Or so the theory goes.

Hey, I never noticed that. "US Marshalls" *is* a sequel. The part of the Marshall and his assistant are the same characters and the same actors. That's pretty neat. And let me say that the Internet Movie Database is quite a good source of information, although by no means totally complete and accurate. Still, I use it a whoe lot to find out about actors and what they've done on screen. What I would like to see is the complete credits of a movie; all the stuff that's shown in the credits, especially the music, which I've some- times wondered about. It's neat to watch tv and if I get an urge to find out more information I can look it up on the web almost immediately. Kind of sad though if I start invading on somebody's privacy. Just because you're famous doesn't make freedom of the press more important than you're right to privacy.