Mannequin (1987) [+] Department store display artist Jonathan (Andrew McCarthy) discovers Emmy (Kim Cattrall), an ancient Egyptian girl trapped in a mannequin comes to live if he’s the only one around. With Emmy’s help Jonathan turns around the fortunes of a failing department store but the competitor store will do whatever it takes to stop him… Rewatched this movie and it’s not bad for late 80’s.

Angel of Christmas (TV Movie 2015) [-] Journalist Susan (Jennifer Finnigan) was dumped on Christmas so now hates the holiday but she gets the chance to write a story about a town with a magical Christmas Angel that brings true love… Hallmark romance tv movie starring with Jonathan Scarfe as the love interest. I watched a few minutes but it wasn’t immediately interesting.

Haidilao Hot Pot, Cupertino [/] Apparently a world-wide chain of hot pot restaurants. In this one you have four containers, each with a soup base or water, and you dip your meats and vegetables to cook them (thinly sliced so that they cook in like 30 seconds, fish takes longer). There is a sauce bar where you can make a sauce for your food - various dry and liquid ingredients, I used chopped garlic, cilantro, green onions, diced beef and peanuts, soy sauce and another sauce, actually turned out good. Also a small salad-type bar (more Asian than American-style). Two desserts plus soft-serve ice cream. A performer came out to entertain the room for about 20 minutes. Overall a good dining experience with friends even if I’m not that into hot pot.

Arracourt — September 1944 (1982) [/] This is a thesis paper by Major Richard H Barnes studying the battle and comparing the opposing forces: US 4th Armored Division and German Fifth Panzer Army. It’s a scholarly work not intended for a mass audience but still fairly readable. Lots of maps and diagrams though the reproduction renders them hard to read. Lots of end notes and a nice bibliography if you want to read more. I probably got this link when BCS Arracourt game was released.