Daniel

That's a pretty swanky gift bag.

Awesome! I want!

Contests are cool. :P

I'm fond of the scene where the queen and his son bid farewell to the not-an-army as it leaves Sparta.

Awesome little toy!

Look... Its all the rage to make fun of DOAX but I have to point out that the original is my wife and daughter's favorite game (and one of my sister's favorites - Sims is her fav.) on XBOX. The "games" are easy enough for them to pick up, the competitive aspects of the game are more fun than cutthroat, the "friends" relationship play between the girls appeals to them, and the collector aspect of the game lets my daughter play "Barbie" with the girls. For hardcore gamers - DOAX may be appear to be a masturbatory perverse game... for casual female gamers, the GAME isn't the volleyball or the wave racing or the casino - those are side affairs to the "Barbie-like" game of vacationing on an island with a bunch of other girls.

You know what else bothered me? I mean screaming at the TV bothered me? Why the hell didn't they get the girl a tape recorder/cell phone/whatever to record messages for Danny/family/friends/etc? It was obvious they had plenty of time to do so. Why in the world would anyone trust a doctor with a message when they had time to record something?

As a father of 3, I can assure you my wife was allowed to fly anytime (it was suggested that we not travel at all during the last 3 months - but only b/c they preferred that we not have a baby on an airplane or in the middle of nowhere on a highway somewhere). There's no medical reason that you wouldn't be able to fly. Anyway, it was a fun episode.