Loving the microwave but am incredibly sore today. I think I may have exaggerated a bit - it was most likely no more than 50-70 pounds tops. I doubt I can lift 100 pounds. ;-)
Re: Kim Harrison book - Dead Witch Walking.
Interesting. I totally forgot that bit about the rodent. I think they had an argument about it at one point. Can't remember. Could look it up, I suppose, but too lazy.
It was a mink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink) not a weasel by the way, although they sort of look a like.
She doesn't really refer to it that much after the first book, except to mention Nick was a rat and she was a mink (hence the reason I remember a mink). She'd been trying for a mouse, but accidently got a mink and as a mink. The only time it's mentioned again is briefly in the second and fourth book, I think - to explain how she met Nick. The best book in the series was Fistful of Charms, not to mention the funniest. You may have problems with it though because there's a lot of stuff about Were biology that didn't bug me at all - since I don't know anything about biology but may drive you batty, since I doubt it's factually accurate. (Let's face it - I don't read these books to improve my mind - they are for pure entertainment. I often forget them after I read them. Cotton candy for the soul.)
See - I don't even remember the character referring to a mink as a rodent. Although I can see that happening, and it would be in character. By the way - A lot of people don't know that minks aren't rodents, any more than they know that spiders aren't insects or bugs. Or for that matter where Rhode Island is located on the map. It's frightening but true. So, I guess, stuff like that only bothers me if I know that the character would have a reason to know this. Heck, I didn't know that minks were carnivores - but in my defense, the last time I studied biology was in 1984, I think.
But I get your point. I find CSI unwatchable for example. And Bones often grates on my nerves.
Both procedurals are so unrealistic, it's not even funny. Pathologists do not interrogate suspects. They don't interview them. And they do not in most cases even meet them. They collect samples in the field, then go to the lab and study them. And fill out a heck of a lot of paper work, so do lawyers and cops by the way. Most of the job is pushing paper around. But of course that would be boring to build a tv show around, so the writers embellish. Sometimes going so far as to have a forensic pathologist arrest a suspect. (LOL! Yeah, right. Only in fantasy.) The other bit that drives me crazy is the reliance on fingerprints. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a good fingerprint? If the weather is bad - you don't get any. If it's on wood - nope. Has to be on a smooth surface and not metal or exposed to weather.
And Bones - ghod, that show is so unrealistic. An expert in bones would not interrogate a suspect, visit a suspect or carry a gun. She would visit the crime scene and stay in the lab. I can't imagine the FBI letting Kathy Reichs interrogate suspects, carry a gun, chase a suspect down, or aid in their capture. But then the show and her books would be boring if it focused on what she really did. Homicide Life on the Streets and Law & Order are probably the most realistic of the procedurals in both, the cops and lawyers and forensic specialists do their individual jobs and don't cross over. Boston Legal makes fun of everything including itself - so I have no problem with it.
okay, because neither can I tonight...
Re: Kim Harrison book - Dead Witch Walking.
Interesting. I totally forgot that bit about the rodent. I think they had an argument about it at one point. Can't remember. Could look it up, I suppose, but too lazy.
It was a mink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink) not a weasel by the way, although they sort of look a like.
She doesn't really refer to it that much after the first book, except to mention Nick was a rat and she was a mink (hence the reason I remember a mink). She'd been trying for a mouse, but accidently got a mink and as a mink. The only time it's mentioned again is briefly in the second and fourth book, I think - to explain how she met Nick. The best book in the series was Fistful of Charms, not to mention the funniest. You may have problems with it though because there's a lot of stuff about Were biology that didn't bug me at all - since I don't know anything about biology but may drive you batty, since I doubt it's factually accurate. (Let's face it - I don't read these books to improve my mind - they are for pure entertainment. I often forget them after I read them. Cotton candy for the soul.)
See - I don't even remember the character referring to a mink as a rodent. Although I can see that happening, and it would be in character. By the way - A lot of people don't know that minks aren't rodents, any more than they know that spiders aren't insects or bugs. Or for that matter where Rhode Island is located on the map. It's frightening but true. So, I guess, stuff like that only bothers me if I know that the character would have a reason to know this. Heck, I didn't know that minks were carnivores - but in my defense, the last time I studied biology was in 1984, I think.
But I get your point. I find CSI unwatchable for example. And Bones often grates on my nerves.
Both procedurals are so unrealistic, it's not even funny. Pathologists do not interrogate suspects. They don't interview them. And they do not in most cases even meet them. They collect samples in the field, then go to the lab and study them. And fill out a heck of a lot of paper work, so do lawyers and cops by the way. Most of the job is pushing paper around. But of course that would be boring to build a tv show around, so the writers embellish. Sometimes going so far as to have a forensic pathologist arrest a suspect. (LOL! Yeah, right. Only in fantasy.) The other bit that drives me crazy is the reliance on fingerprints. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a good fingerprint? If the weather is bad - you don't get any. If it's on wood - nope. Has to be on a smooth surface and not metal or exposed to weather.
And Bones - ghod, that show is so unrealistic. An expert in bones would not interrogate a suspect, visit a suspect or carry a gun. She would visit the crime scene and stay in the lab. I can't imagine the FBI letting Kathy Reichs interrogate suspects, carry a gun, chase a suspect down, or aid in their capture.
But then the show and her books would be boring if it focused on what she really did. Homicide Life on the Streets and Law & Order are probably the most realistic of the procedurals in both, the cops and lawyers and forensic specialists do their individual jobs and don't cross over. Boston Legal makes fun of everything including itself - so I have no problem with it.