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For a show about a Time Lord, Doctor Who is actually very rarely concerned with Time itself. But Steve Moffat’s latest, Blink, not only continues his reign as the writer crafting the best episodes in the history of the entire series, but offers us a brilliantly clever time-paradox episode that could stand proudly alongside the entire subgenre - filmic or literary - and shine as a paragon of what a good time travel tale can do. Moffat is hands down the best writer since classic Who scribe Robert Holmes, and he always managed to deliver that combination of humor and terror that epitomizes the best of Who. Moffat’s scripts are also the only ones that seem to involve actual science fiction. Now, this isn’t a criticism of the rest of the series. Doctor Who isn’t necessarily a science fiction show, or rather, it can be, but part of the strength of the series is its ability to be anything and everything, from comedy to horror, from mystery to adventure, from science fiction to science fantasy. It was the original omni-genre show decades before Buffy. In fact, it inspired Buffy,which in turn repaid the favor when Davies relaunched Who in the new series. But I digress…

Point is, while I wouldn’t restrict Who to being just one thing, Solaris Editor George Mann and I (along with Sean Williams and Chris Roberson), have been dialoguing about whether I’m too forgiving of the sillier (non-Moffat penned) Who episodes. Plot was never really what you watched the old series for; it was all about the Doctor himself. So I tend to be lax on some of Russell Davies’ inanely connected dots as long as there’s good character bits to be had. George has been maintaining that in today’s day and age of incredible TV - Rome, Sopranos, Life on Mars, Heroes, Lost - you really can’t get away with sloppy anymore, and the really excellent Who - like Paul Cornell’s recent “Human Nature/Family of Blood” - show up some of the less clever episodes and demonstrate there really is no excuse for anything less. And I gots to say, after watching “Blink,” I think I agree with him. If this is what Doctor Who is capable of - my god. If only the show could consistently be this good, it really would be the greatest science fiction show of all time. Lou’s dream come true? An entire season of Who divided between Cornell and Moffat, maybe with Douglas Adams’ old “Shada” script dusted off, polished up and dropped in somewhere in the middle. Because occasional good comedy is important too.

Meanwhile, without spoiling anything - the way Sally and the Doctor’s cross time conversation worked twice blew me away. When you watch it, you’ll know what I mean.

Ocean’s 13 is a very good movie, but not a great movie — it is the weakest of the three films, but not by much. It has some excellent sequences and scenes, but some of the pop and magic from 11 and 12 are missing, leaving you with the feeling that the whole thing is a little phoned in. Phoned in by geniuses, and so still pretty damn good, but phoned in nonetheless.

There is a sub-plot about a revolution at a Mexican factory that makes dice, infiltrated by one of our gang to rig the dice, that is quite fun. Ruben has a nice arc in which he rediscovers his old self — with giant glasses and a ridiculous tux. Al Pachino is fun, and Elen Barken is an interesting addition; a single economical scene of her firing an employee over weight is all that is needed to establish her as someone who needs to be punished. There is a brilliant bit with Oprah that makes the whole film for me. The CGI building is a marvel, and a scene in which we quickly see shots of the inside of the building goes by too fast to take in, but the rooms are stunning. The overall plan to ruin Pachino by letting all the patrons win is a nice differentiation from the earlier two films. David Holmes’s score is great, as it was for the first two films — the score is a good percentage about what makes these films work, what really sells all the ridiculousness.

But some important aspects of 11 and 12 are missing. Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones, for one thing. The cameos for another: earlier films had Topher Grace (easily the best scene in 12, and a great moment in 11), Bruce Willis, and Eddie Izzard. Here Izzard is promoted to a bigger role; he was only ever funny because he was playing himself. In this film he has more lines — and this is completely absurd — than Pitt does, most of them early on, when the audience needs to be sucked in, not thrown back on themselves; the fact that Izzard is a ham and a bad actor works for 12, which short circuits actors and characters; it works much less well in 13. The banter Casey Affleck and James Caan’s son (I cannot remember his name and Sara keeps calling him Kahn Jr) was great in 11 and 12; there is only one good exchange between the two in this movie, and I wanted more. 12 had great meta-dialogue about, for example, Clooney’s age; the meta dialogue about Clooney’s weight and Pitt’s kids seems forced at the end of this film. There are some jokes that revolve around the word “Wang” that are less than great. The third time around, you can feel the twists coming.

While the weakest of the Soderbergh Ocean’s films, Ocean’s 13 is part of a series of summer blockbuster films that are the third in a series — Spiderman, Pirates, Schreck, Bourne. I have an inchoate feeling that Ocean’s 13 is playing games with its position as a blockbuster (something Slate wrote about). It is a less that perfect Ocean’s film, but a great summer movie.

Occasionally we all have those “Maybe I’m in the wrong business” moments. Here’s one for you.

Best Friends Pet Care is a dog sitter. Not a kennel. They’ll house your pampered pooch for $22 per night. Fine. So what. But there’s a menu of extras you can throw in:

- Playtime. $6 per ten minutes
- Cuddle Time. $6 per ten minutes
- Fitness Session. $8 per 15 minutes
- Play group. $12 per 45 minutes
- Bedtime Story. $6 per day
- Doggie Dessert (pig’s ear). $2 each
- Goodie Bag. $3
- Ice Cream Break. $5
- Chew toy with treats. $5
- Bottled water instead of tap water. $5/day
- Deluxe Bed (elevated cot). $3/day
- Premium Bed (elevated cot with orthopedic mattress). $5/day
- Shopping Spree. “During playtime, your dog can shop from our boutique.” You set the limit.
- Oh, and you can get your dog washed, shampooed,

Of course bundled packages are available so you can save even more!

So . . . Pooch needs to spend the night. If I really love the dog, it would be no problem spending $100 for a one-night stay. Meanwhile, I’m paying $89 for my hotel room — with none of these extras.

Well?

Are you in the wrong business? Do you hand your clients a list of clever and fun options and have them pick what they want?

Remember: Everybody loves to buy, but no one wants to be sold.

What can you offer your clients so they can pick through the list and choose to buy additional services from you?

Is your list of services short, boring, and basically useless?

Labor $150 / hour. Take it or leave it.

Or do you offer some goodies for your clients?

- Remote Server Monitoring. $125/month
- Network, printer, and ISP management. $250/month
- Server remote maintenance and patch management. $350/month
- Desktop remote maintenance and patch management. $60/month
- 24 hour help desk. $250/month
- Annual machine tune-up. $25 per PC.
- Disaster Recovery Plan. $1,000 for up to two servers
- Server imaging. One time. $250
- Desktop imaging. One time. $60
- Customized Tech Policies handbook. $500
- Email Spam Filtering $4/mailbox/month
- Desktop with MS Office - HaaS. $149/month
- Laptop rental. $100/day
- Projector rental. $100/day

Your services and prices will vary, of course.

But the point is: are you just selling labor (and they’ll call you when they need you), or are you selling services? If your clients know you, love you, and trust you, then they’ll want to buy from you. They’ll want to shop!

Consider how you present your services to your clients. Do they feel like there’s an opportunity to buy, or do they feel like they’re being sold?

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Of course, if you are reading this you must subscribe to the latter, GM model. The issue is, in the GM vision the cars must get bigger, more powerful, more distinctive, and more expensive to win the style race. The Mobility Appliances are now econo-boxes with wheels. No style, plastic, cheap, and scream “lower middle class”, and “I am a cheap bastard”! So, the argument goes, our “culture” will have to change to allow us to utilize fuel efficient cars.

Why can’t the industry apply the same design, style, and manufacturing to economical cars that appeal to the senses. Make a supercar a high-mileage vehicle! Use styling cues, color, and design that is art! Make a diesel Porsche (after all Audi is racing and WINNING with a diesel prototype racer!!!) Why do the fuel efficient cars have to look like some weird, oddly styled hunk of crap (all due respect to Toyota and Smart).

I have a request to the manufacturers…get a design team can make fuel economy beauty and then your biggest concern will be what to do with all the revenue!!!

Sometimes life can be so simple! Jonathan

Good news on the Fourth Amendment front:

The Supreme Court on Monday extended to automobile passengers the same right that drivers have: the right to challenge the validity of a decision by the police to stop the car.

The unanimous ruling was based on the justices’ “intuitive conclusion,” in the words of the opinion’s author, Justice David H. Souter, that passengers in a car stopped by the police do not feel free to get out and walk away.

Unanimous, even. Who would’ve guessed?