Bones (the TV Show)

A friend of mine told me about Bones and so I watched the first 3 seasons on DVD over the past few weeks. I really liked the show until I got to the last episode of Season 3, "The Pain in the Heart"

First, the whole opening with Booth's funeral and him faking his death to catch some bad guy we'd never seen before? I wanted to see more of what happened between the end of the last episode where he got shot and him "dying" - wouldn't Brennan have been with him at the hospital? How long was he in the hospital before he "died" - how bad was the actual gun shot? He seemed pretty well healed.

Then, with Zach turning out to be Gormagon's apprentice. That in and of itself didn't bother me too much, but what did bother me was, since Zach blew off his hands, who stole the silver skeleton? In a previous episode where Booth is chasing the person who initially came after the politician we see that person take the motorcycle helmet off and its a woman - not Zach and not the creepy guy the find / kill at the end. So what about her? And the whole way that episode ended with Zach "knowing" how to find the guy, etc. I found very hard to believe although I can understand they just wanted to wrap up that story line. However, another question I have is - why did Hodgins pump up Zachs pain meds when Zach was, in theory, about to reveal some clue? I know it was to make Hodgins look guilty at the time but since he wasn't the bad guy, why did Hodgins do it? Are they trying to set up that Hodgins was also the Gormagon's apprentice - he stole the skeleton and Zach was going to give him up? Is Zach covering for Hodgins who really is the apprentice?

I'm really torn about the show and whether I should continue watching it. Does the show recover from this episode? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Pandigital Novel - Revisited

I stopped at a Bed, Bath and Beyond near my office yesterday to check out the Pandigital Novel. It turns out they had it in stock and it was only $169 minus a $50 mail in rebate so I bought it. The device is pretty neat - although its smaller than I thought it would be, and a little bit heavy for its size. But overall, I like it (so far). Tonight I'm planning to follow the instructions to change the home screen so I can run other apps that I install on the device. What I really want to figure out how to do is install Android Market on the device so I can more easily download apps for it.At some point I may also try to "root" the device and put a clean install of Android 2.2 on it so I'll keep you posted as I do that.

Android Goodness

I finally got a new cell phone. The HTV EVO 4G from Sprint and I LOVE IT. I had been an AT&T customer since 2001 but they don't have any good Android phones available. I'm sure this is because of their relationship with Apple. AT&T most likely doesn't want to compete with itself / Apple by selling robust Android phones.

This phone is the coolest "toy" I've ever owned. Sure, it works as a phone, which is, I guess, why I bought it. But with the Android OS I can download various apps to occupy myself when I'm commuting to and from work (about 30 mins on the subway each way.) Right now I'm addicted to a crossword puzzle app.

I also learned that Pandigital finally released the Novel eReader and someone has hacked it to run a different "Welcome" screen so you can install all the apps from the Android market onto the device. I'm thinking about checking that out since its only $150. My crossword puzzle apple on a bigger screen would be great.