things that i am thinking about

• The Honda FCX. It is a fuel cell car, and if you live in Santa Monica, Irvine, or Torrance, you can lease one. That's pretty cool.
• Been reading reviews of the Amazon Kindle, which is supposed to compete with the Sony's Reader. Although I do not own any devices on which I can read books, I would really love one just so I don't keep lugging four or five different books in my tote bag to work each day. (I am easily distracted and indecisive.) I haven't bought any because they're all too expensive and they don't let you do anything or support anything outside of whatever their proprietary formats are. You're better off just sticking to your Palm device or something for the time being. The Kindle does not resolve any of those issues and it looks like it was designed in 1998, if that. Even for a first-gen device, it looks like somebody's grandfather designed it. And charging people $13.99 a month for subscribing to the New York Times? Are you kidding me? It's $9.99 for new books, and $1.50 for public domain books. According to the Newsweek feature on Jeff Bezos, people seem inclined to believe it will succeed.
  Or people could buy about over a hundred books for $400. Or use homebrew software to load a reader onto your Nintendo DS.
  
• Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, knows that this season sucks. But I don't think he really gets why it sucks.
  
• This is me completely geeking out, but I've been thinking about Heroes in conjunction with Octavia Butler's Patternmaster series. I didn't read the whole series, but I think it's fascinating to compare the way people react to their powers in these two stories. In Heroes, the result is fear at first, then awe, then an embrace of their powers and the willingness to use it for good or evil. In Patternmaster, most characters are tormented by their powers - mind-reading isn't so cool when you can't shut people's thoughts out and no one even thinks about being a hero - all they think about is surviving.
  
• I want an Archos player.