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Mine is often, “Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.”

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The Amazon Unbox has put some great movies on sale this weekend, starting today. There are some great titles for $4.99 purchase — including a couple of exciting new releases, Smokin’ Aces and Blood Diamond. I just purchased Scarface.

(Want to learn more about Amazon Unbox?)

Earlier this week we launched TV Junkies on TiVoCast. You may know TV Junkies from their website, http://www.tvjunkies.com/. Here’s the description:

TV JUNKIES delivers instant post-show analysis of TV’s biggest hits. Discuss what happened on tonight’s show and what it really means.

If you’re a fan of American Idol, don’t miss this! You can subscribe to it from your DVR by going to TiVo Central -> Find Programs -> TiVoCast, or else head to http://www.tivo.com/tivocast/.

For our plane trip to Hawaii last month, we picked up a portable DVD player (off the TiVo Rewards site, actually, so it didn’t cost me any cash). And we picked up Cars, which may be a bit old for Sammy (who’s nearing 20 months) but he loves cars, so…

I missed this in the theatre, but we’ve seen it a lot now. A lot. A lot lot lot.

I have to wonder. In the universe of this movie, where everything (including bugs) is an anthropomorphic vehicle, where do new cars come from? Are they manufactured in an assembly line and given personality injections, or are they born? The cars are distinctly female and male, and show attraction to each other, but do they actually mate? If so, do they produce little toy cars that grow up into full size cars?

Also, what is the purpose of their doors? They seem to use the tires as hands (unless they’re a forklift or tow truck), so the doors themselves aren’t arms or hands, and I don’t recall ever seeing them open.

In the opening race sequence during the crash, how painful is a crash? How about a flat tire, does that cause pain? How much damage is required to kill a car, and why do cars even die at all, why aren’t they just repaired?

We have questions. Maybe I’ll hit up my friend Howard (who’s in the credits), a VP of software development over there, to see if he can get me answers.

In Hawaii, to deliver gasoline, tanker ships must sail from the mainland, some 2300 miles; there, gas trucks (which themselves are relatively rare and had to be shipped out as cargo) deliver to the various gas stations, some of which are situated on windy roads quite far from populous towns. The process can take weeks.

Yet gasoline in Hawaii is still some 20 cents cheaper than it is in California.

Yay us. Gas at $3.60.

Got back in late last night, will update with photos and narrative in a bit. Short version: Had a great time.