Who’s 4 You

The Sci-Fi Channel has managed to keep me around, even after the end of Stargate SG-1. Although I agree it was time to retire the venerable show, especially with Richard Dean Anderson not taking part, it still left a void with no show to fill it.

Then, they have a marathon of a show called Eureka. Set in Oregon, which always helps, although shot in Vancouver, B.C, it involves a super-secret town of Eureka full of highly-intelligent people who are all doing amazing experiments. Some go good, some go bad.

The show is set around the one average person in town, the former U.S. Marshall turned town sheriff. He helps us all relate to the things that are going on by asking the stupid questions: Is that bad? Could you say that in English? I suppose duct tape won’t fix it?

The show was not even picked up for a second season, until, like me, alot of people happened upon the marathon, and expressed real interest in the show returning, which it has for 13 more episodes in it’s second season.

Try it out if you like geek meets technology meets explosions and end-of-the-world scenarios…

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Sometimes all of the technology around us can do too much. Tools that we use for convenience can actually keep is from doing things we used to have to. One example is phone numbers. We used to have to memorize each individual phone number. Now most people couldn’t tell you their own mother’s cell phone number, because we rely on the technology so much.

I love quizzes and brain games. I admit it. It is of no surprise that fun quizzes are a part of what keeps me entertained. I also think they are part of what keeps me sharp mentally. I am a sucker for a puzzle or an entertaining story problem, but give me a dumb blonde quiz, and I am in heaven. I’ll let you know when I score over a 10%… I still say they are rigged! Try some yourself and keep your mind sharp!

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Last night, during the fade-out to commercial of the Monday Night Football game, they showed two San Francisco 49er’s helmets sitting on the bench. I noticed that they both had fairly bright green dots, positioned on the middle stripe. So, being inquisitive, I stared to pay attention to who had them, and who didn’t. It seemed the quarterbacks had them, but so did several defensive players.

So, how do you solve a puzzle like that? Well, only one defensive and one offensive player per team on the field had them. So was it some kind of captaincy label? No, that couldn’t be it. Was it some kind of digital tracking system? No, then they should have it on the ball, so they can accurately measure where the ball was, when the player was deemed down.

With a quick search, I find out that it’s, in fact, a marker put on the helmets by the NFL and the referees before the game. Each helmet that has a wireless microphone, has to be inspected by the NFL and marked, so they can be sure that only one player on the field can hear the communication from the sidelines.

The NFL is said to feel that it can be unfair for several players to hear the communications from the sidelines at the same time. Some say it has to do with the ever-newsworthy Vick and his running back last year, who were accused by teams of being able to change the play at the last minute to one specifically designed to exploit the defense being shown by several mobile runners.

It appears that technology will be used for good as well as bad, and we must always keep an eye on when and where it is being used and by whom. There is also a report that this weekend, a patriots staff member may have used a video camera to film a conversation of the Jets on the sideline. What next, a camera in the helmets of baseball base-runners to steal the signs of the pitchers from second base?

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