Tuesday musings

(Photos of Courtney Thorne-Smith courtesy of Maria Santiago)

I saw Courtney Thorne-Smith today at Stacey's for a book signing. She is very pretty, currently pregnant, and down-to-earth. She mentioned that aside from acting, wanting to be a writer and always secretly wrote, and is a voracious reader. She had articles published in Self magazine, got a little turned off from magazine-article writing and later attempted fiction. Today she read from her first published novel "Outside In". She is actually from San Francisco too! I didn't get her book but it does sound like a good read.

On a different note, I've been noticing during my commute on the train how so many people are connected to their technology. Thin white cords dangling from the earbuds, cell phones or Blackberry devices in hand scanning info and playing games. I've been watching our new collection of Star Trek "Borg" episodes. The Borg are a trip! This collection has episodes from "The Next Generation", "Enterprise", and "Voyager", which I am watching for the first time now too. There was an actual "Friendly Borg, Hugh". He had an innocence to him and was kind of amusing. He was the exception, as most Borg's are very mechanical and destructive. Anyway, I find it interesting that more and more people 'wear technology' mostly to entertain or distract themselves from the 'collective' on the crowded train, haha.