
Why didn't you warn me? I started this fun little adventure with the novel
The Andromeda Strain back in college and enjoyed the book tremendously. If for nothing else, it was funny how much time and attention Michael Crichton spent on the "modern" technology and amazing computational advances. Of course, I read the book in the mid-'90s and he wrote it in the late '60s. It's even more hilariously dated now. You mean, 200 people can work at the same time on this mainframe computer? That's astounding!

What's
happening on
ER these days? It must be something big because the NBC hospital drama made a huge comeback last
week, beating out a repeat of
Without a Trace with 15.4 million viewers. Yes, it was a repeat. But, even the
repeats on CBS have been kicking NBC's butt lately.
I gave up on
ER years ago, even before George
Clooney left, because I couldn't handle having a major emotional breakdown each week. I tuned in for a couple of key
episodes over the years: i.e. when Lucy and Carter got stabbed in the kidneys, when Doug left, when Carol left, and
when Dr. Green died.
So tell me, is it any good?