May, 21, 2003 archives

american airlines is going to reduce the leg room to 32" for economy seats in 25% of its fleet. that sucks. standard economy seating drives me nuts, and it's not like i'm that tall—just a couple of inches above average for an american male. there's only so many emergency-row seats to go around.

okay, i thought whiplash (movies here) sounded like a gloriously bizarre game premise: you play a ferret running around (presumably escaping from) an animal research lab. but you have a white bunny chained to you, and you swing him around as a weapon. on fire. or dipped in poison. but billy hatcher and the giant egg sounds even more gloriously bizarre, if not as violent: you play a boy in a chicken suit who rolls around eggs that hatch into creatures such as penguins.

this time, some positive atkins diet studies have hit the new england journal of medicine. for a diet that has been around for thirty years, it's a little sad that the best that can be mustered up is a one-year study, though. my dad reports great success on the diet, though.