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Recently viewed: Happy Feet (in the AMC with my son... his first movie going experience). Nice seats - able to put the armrests up to get a lot of space - but pretty pricey. Will probably go to the Encore Cinemas (either in Oakville or Burlington) next time. There's better popcorn at the Encores, anyway.

For TV shows, I'm still going through Dead Like Me; into the second season now.  Watching 'Til Debt Do Us Part to get some interesting financial tips, Good Eats for some good food knowledge and ideas (still have to see Feasting on Ashphalt also starring Alton Brown) and Nanny 911 for some parenting ideas.  Recently got a recommendation to check out Heroes (a new show this year), so will have to see if I can find some of the early episodes.  Most of the shows I really like only seem to have lasted a year or two, and even then I only find out about them after they're out on DVD.

I'm currently pining for a Pentax K100D. Probably not going to get one (at least not any time soon, and by the time I can scrounge the cash there will probably be a nicer model), but it's still fun to think about/try out in the shops. I thought that it was on sale during boxing week, but that turned out to only be the K110D (which lacks the in-body image stabilisation). Some nice things about the K100D: it takes all the old Pentax lenses (my dad's old camera is a Pentax, so there'd be some cheap telephoto in store for me), it takes standard AA batteries instead of the proprietary Li-ion that's dying yet again in my old Canon S100, and seems to be about as standards compliant as any DSLR in the market. Currently going for about $730 with a 18-55mm lens (on sale at Black's, which seems to be about the cheapest I've seen it for). I'd really like a camera with an external flash so that I could do more bounce lighting. It's fun to try with a film SLR, but expensive since I can't see whether a shot worked or not until weeks after the fact. Though, I could burn through a lot of film+processing for $730, so for now I'll just continue pining.