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...what they're called at Le Bec-Fin?) I've ever heard. Another 15 minutes later, the descriptions finally ended, and we got down to the serious business at hand: Deciding whether the man sitting directly across from us was, in fact, Oklahoma governor Frank Keating - or merely a clever imposter...
Still, from time to time, I go through periods of self-doubt, which lead to short bursts of self-improvement. During my latest attack, I came across a clever bit of exercise-related digital technology that might hold me over until someone invents an automatic exerciser. It's a beeper-size, clip-on device known as the Digi-Walker. Its function is Zen simple: step counting. Your goal is to walk 10,000 paces a day, as measured by the Digi-Walker. While there are plenty of cheaper pedometers that measure motion and extrapolate steps, I liked the elegant design...
...weird sitcoms are more interesting than bad, generic ones. But they're still bad. The creators of the brilliant '90s Nickelodeon children's show The Adventures of Pete and Pete have brought their cartoonish, jump-cut surrealism to The War Next Door. The clever premise has a CIA agent turned car salesman followed to the suburbs by his evil, supergenius archenemy. It turns out, though, that the same team also wrote Snow Day, and unfortunately this show veers toward their more recent work, with flat jokes and obvious dialogue. At its best it's a dumb adult show that really...
WRITE AID Until now the worlds of paper and silicon have been irreconcilably separate. No longer, thanks to a clever doodad from Seiko called the SmartPad ($199). The SmartPad looks like a shmancy executive portfolio, with a seemingly ordinary pad of paper on one side and a port for your Palm PDA on the other. Whatever you write on the pad instantly appears on the screen of your Palm. You can even save your scribblings as an image and e-mail it. For bad handwriting, however, there's still no cure...
...only six or seven mythology ones - during at least some of which he'll presumably be on a spaceship - how will they work the abductee into the stand-alones in the meantime? "You'll see how that works," he said. "And hopefully you'll think it's very clever of us." Judging by how well the man improvises onstage, we won't be a bit surprised...