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Still trying to decide on an MP3 player - there is such a thing as too much information and too many choices, methinks. Brain explodes. Here's the one the guy at work showed me, which he bought his daughter. In case the link doesn't work, it's a second generation nano ipod and blue. I'd rather have black but they don't appear to have black except in 8 GB. I've been advised to get 4gb and always second generation, never 1st. Also told itunes works on all systems, although it appears to be crashing my pal, CW's system. Also told that itunes is free. Which after some additional research, appears to be true as does the fact it works on Windows, there are however issues with Windows Vista. (Really wish these stupid operating systems would stop upgrading every two years, just when I was getting used to XP, Windows wants to go to Vista. Doesn't matter, still on XP anyhow. By time XP is defunct, will be time to get a new lap-top.)

Working for a tech company makes one a bit more savvy than one used to be about this stuff.

Read flist, realized we aren't really in synch on tv shows any longer. For example: I like Dresden Files a heck of a lot more than anyone else appears to. Course, I knew going in that it was going to be *very* different than the books from listening to the podcasts at www.jimbutchernews.com. ^{(What? I was unemployed and bored out of my skull at the time. It could have been worse...much worse.)} Very funny podcasts by the way. Tell you everything you ever wanted to know about what they are doing or why they are doing what they are doing on that tv series. Process fascinates me. Much more than product does.

Still watching lots of other shows. Owning a DVR is loads of fun. Oh, did anyone else, who watched Heroes this week, think to themselves that Mohinder is just too stupid to live? LOL!
For a scientist, this guy is incredibly dumb.

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LOL! Me too! Me too! But, alas, it's not going to happen. Mohindre is more valuable alive to Sylar than dead. He's sort of made himself indispensible to the guy who murdered his father and it really helps that he's completely oblivious to everything that's going on around him. I can't decide if he's just *really* stupid or highly self-involved. In fact it's absurdly and somewhat laughably ironic, Mohnindre's father inadvertently created Sylar, and now Mohinder is enabling him. The father - was a little smarter though, he figured out fairly quickly that Sylar was insane, hence the reason he got killed. But his son is oblivious.

Mohindre as a character is highly problematic. He's supposed to be a brilliant scientist, but he's written as a bit of an airhead and somewhat oblivious to what is happening around him. Scientists are supposed to be observant. Mohindre is about as non-observant and oblivious to his own surroundings as one can get.

Pretty actor, but not a lot there. He used to just annoy me - b/c the story drug whenever he came on screen and I was starting to think of him as mostly filler, now he is so ludicriously written, that I find him amusing. I keep waiting for Sylar to get bored and kill him or for him to finally figure out that this is Sylar and stupidly confront the guy.

Mohinder kind of reminds me of a guy I knew years ago; he was absolutely brilliant, a scientist with an IQ in the stratosphere, but he had no life skills at all, and was oblivious to so much...no common sense at all. Definitely safer in his Ivory Tower.

Yes, this is what we call "book smarts" but no "street smarts". If I had to choose between the two? I'd pick street.

Book smarts is highly overrated.

It's all very well and good if you can do quantum physics in your head, but if you can't communicate it to anyone, share it, or for that matter figure out how to apply it - then so what? You might as well be staring at a blank wall.

"I keep waiting for Sylar to get bored and kill him or for him to finally figure out that this is Sylar and stupidly confront the guy."

As to stupid confrontations, am I the only one who keeps hearing "My name is Mohinder Suresh. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" in their head?

What I don't get is why nobody else catches on to Sylar. He's way overplayed; he's so creepy it's just not credible that anyone would trust him. Maybe Mohinder is that dumb when it comes to people, but...well, this sounds strange to me, but it's like he's written that way but not played that way. Does that make any sense? I mean, genius-w/no-people-skills can be done right--Rodney McKay is a perfect example (is that who you had in mind when you mentioned quantum physics, s'kat?)--but here it's just not.

When it comes to the science, aycheb's right, but Mohinder can't be blamed too much for the stupidity of the science. The science is just written stupidly. I'd much rather they didn't make any pretense to being scientific. Even more straightforward things like medicine they can't get right. Like poor doomed Charlie: "There's a blood clot in my brain, & it's inches away from an aneurysm." If there's a blood clot in your brain? You're already having a stroke. And it doesn't matter if it's close to an aneurysm; either one could kill you, & having both is meaningless. They should've just given her cancer. And when it comes to any science behind the superpowers...they might as well just say it's magic, or some classic comic-book origin like gamma rays. Sorry for the rant, but this kind of thing just gets on my nerves. I try to ignore it & just let the stories be fun.