Random shots na off-track

1. I've been watching very little TV lately, and with whatever time I've had, I end up watching a cooking show like Emeril or Iron Chef... which leads me to wonder what would be the best strategy to beat these Iron Chefs, who usually dish out 4-5 entrees in the given hour. Rarely do you see challengers beating out the iron chefs with just 2-3 entrees out... I think the Iron chefs don't focus too much on just the quality of the dishes, but more on the attack on the senses that they create, the sheer number/barrage of tastes and aromas that they can cook up in a span of 1 hour.

2. Saw The Butterfly Effect 2, pretty decent movie, which does serve up an intriguing storyline and poses a few good questions... which I'll ponder some other time...

3. I heard from a friend that Ayn Rand's 2 landmark novels... The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are going to be put into film... with Atlas Shrugged starring Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart (a very worthy choice... although... I could have gone with Charlize Theron or Claire Forlani for the role) and a Fountainhead remake. I think its good that both these books are being put to film, a much more widespread medium, because I think the media in general have run out of heroic things to talk about... storylines that inspire people, and not just mundane love stories and comedies, but stories that illicit motive power in people.