Alien computing equipment

Ok, just had a truly *weird* idea come to me while looking over at fayanora's mouse.

A pointing device for aliens. It's a blob of "goo" and you move the pointer(s) on (in?) the display by using your manipulatory appendages to exert pressure in various directions at various points.

It's slick & slimy to allow for easy movement.

Sort of a combo mouse/joystick/whatever. That looks like a big blob of snot. And feels *worse*.

Have fun trying to hack that alien computer, guys!

Stupid writers

Fay and I are watching Monday's episode of The Event. And the writers were idiots.

They've been mentioning some weapon in Siberia for the last several episodes. They've also mentioned Murmansk. Ok, no problem.

But in this episode there refer several times to Murmansk as being in western Siberia.

Can't anybody bother to look at a map? Murmansk is in Western *Russia*. It's almost to the Finnish border. Siberia is several thousand miles east of Murmansk.