Over on Tysto.com, way down in the right-hand column, you can find links to a rather fancy PowerPoint presentation* all about my family history, with stories of Indian attacks, witch trials, cannibalism, regicide, furniture manufacture, and a parade of German farmers.

* my one marketable skill

I've shot a couple of weddings (stills only), and the thing I realized almost immediately is that, two weeks after the event, nobody cares about anything but a couple of formal portraits of the couple. Everything else is barely a curiosity. That's true of most events, really.

But AT THE TIME, specific shots may be of ENORMOUS importance to some people. 

You literally don't need to do anything at all at this point beyond asking the old people in your family to clearly label their old photos.

If your dad is doing that now, then you'll benefit from that research later when you get curious about people like this.

Thanks guys! The kids love the lightsaber battle and can't wait to see it in completed form!

I watched a Steve Gutenberg double-feature: Police Academy and The Boys from Brazil.

Police Academy holds up for what it is, a thinly-veiled mash-up of Stripes, Animal House and The Bad News Bears filled with juvenile humor. The Gut is a screw-up with an attitude problem who gets sent to police academy along with a bunch of misfit wannabes but who learns a lesson and helps some of them succeed in the big game, which in this case is a riot.

Note: The upcoming Lavalantula reunites the Gut with some of his Police Academy costars.

The Boys from Brazil is a B-grade thriller--maybe less--with a clever premise but that seems to be trying ineptly to capture the magic of The Omen. Mad scientist Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) leads a leftover Nazi organization that has been creating 94 little Hitlers and now has reached the point at which little Adolf's abusive father died suddenly. The operation raises the Gut's suspicions, and he involves Nazi-hunter Lawrence Olivier. The finale's theatrics and 1970s-slang-spewing mini-Hitler has got to be seen to be believed.

I love ERBoH, and this one was great. "I'm the best mamma-jamma ever stood behind a camera" is a great line. And I love that Michael Bay is the capper.

The show aired yesterday, I think. It's available on the Lost History website.

God that's great.

Completely disagree. Tits or GTFO.

Don't play coy and pretend to offer an in-depth analysis over 8+ hours and throw up your hands and go "It's really really complicated you guys! We can't figure it out!"

Well that was disappointing. SK bounced around, rehashed old evidence--most of which originated from Jay--as if it had more significance, introduced a new serial killer theory out of the blue and largely dismissed it, then announced that DNA would be tested. You've been working this for a year, and you stop just when DNA is going to be tested? Dumb.

But it illustrates my problem with SK all along. She isn't impartial; she's gullible. She believes everything, then she realizes she's being gullible and suddenly doubts everything. That's why she can't figure out the phone records. If you figure Jay did the murder alone and ignore where he (and confessed coverup accomplice Jenn) claims he was, you can construct a logical narrative that matches the records.

EDIT: another few thoughts...

The call to Nisha wasn't a butt dial that went unanswered and got billed anyway. Jay pressed the speed-dial by accident while frantically calling people to see who he could trust to help him. When she answered, he pretended Adnan had given him the phone and then chatted with her for a couple of minutes to seem casual. And he didn't actually remember she was from Silver Springs—that's just what the call log said: the cops showed it to him and asked him to explain it. He had to admit talking to Nisha for fear of her remembering talking to him. After all, why would Adnan call a random girl while he was in the middle of disposing of a corpse but then hand the phone to Jay to talk to her? It's nonsense.

Also, the prosecution invented the idea that the murder ocurred at 2:30, because that's the only incoming call that even comes close to matching any of Jay's stories. Jay claimed Adnan called him around 3:45 and asked to be picked up. That's because that's around the time when Jay was calling Jenn and others, hoping to get help he could trust, a call she characterized as Jay "acting weird". Jay had killed Hae after an argument about Stephanie when he randomly enountered her in the mall parking lot. He was buying his gift for Stephanie and she was planning to deliver a note to her new boyfriend about her change of plans.

Jenn's involvement is crucial. If Adnan pressured Jay to help dispose of evidence, why didn't Adnan and Jay throw away Jay's (and Adnan's) clothes and wipe down the shovels? Because Jay did the murder alone and couldn't ask Adnan for a ride to get rid of his clothes and wipe down the one-and-only shovel. That's how he conveniently knows where "Adnan" stashed the shovel(s), why Jenn doesn't know how many shovels there were, and why it's Jay's shovel instead of ones Adnan got as prep for this supposedly pre-meditated murder.

Also, around 7, Jenn called Adnan's phone to talk to Jay but was rebuffed by a man with a deep voice who wasn't Jay. That's when the killer was burying the body. But if that was Adnan, why would he answer his own phone in a fake voice and say that Jay, who supposedly was standing there not helping bury Hae, was busy? And why wasn't Adnan doing a fake voice part of Jay's story? Because Jay was alone, recognized Jenn's number, needed to stall her until he was done, and hoped that call would never be mentioned.

And one of the more important questions: if Adnan killed Hae and had Jay to help him dispose of evidence, why dump the body in one place and Hae's car in another? Why not just leave the car in Leakin Park, with the body or somewhere around? Or even just leave her body in her car at the Park & Ride? Why risk being seen in Hae's car at least FOUR TIMES? Jay's story is that Adnan got a ride from Hae to Best Buy or the mall, killed her, drove her body to the Park & Ride and maybe Patapsco Park to get high, rode with Jay to track practice and back later, drove Hae's car to Leakin Park while Jay drove Adnan's, then drove Hae's car to the drop location on Edmonson Ave while Jay drove Adnan's car again. The truth is that Jay killed Hae alone, left her car at the mall until Adnan dropped him off there after track practice, drove Hae's car to Leakin Park to dump the body, and then drove it to the Edmonson Ave to put himself in an innocent-seeming place to be picked up away from the body. That's just risking being seen in her car two times.

Sorry this has gotten long. My flight is delayed 6 hours, and I'm thinking of nothing but murder.

EDIT: As long as I'm still waiting, I might as well address SK's other point of suspicion.

Jay claimed that Adnan's plan was to tell Hae his car was broken down and ask for a ride to the mall/Best Buy. Adnan denies asking for a ride, but two people claim they saw him do so. My theory is that, once the cops heard Jay's story, they contaminated witnesses by asking if they remembered Adnan asking Hae for a ride. What are the chances a murderer would do that in front of two witnesses who would then be able to put him with the victim immediately before the murder?

Oh this has reminded me of a more general question. I'm sure there are good ways and bad ways to introduce kids to Star Trek. It's okay if they don't like it. I tried out Doctor Who, Mission: Impossible (1960s), and The Adventures of Tin Tin on them to middling results.

But for Trek, do I try out TOS on them? Just show them Wrath of Khan? If you didn't grow up watching TOS reruns like I did, but you like Trek, how did you discover it? Teague has counseled that TNG will break an unprepared mind.