Anyway, Penn and Teller have been around for quite a while. My first memories of them were doing magic tricks on television specials, and then they debunk how they did it. I guess that's how they got their start into their Showtime series. Penn Jillette has also done a fair amount of writing, and I'd forgotten where I'd seen it until I had gone further into their website where I realized he had written for PC-Computing magazine for quite a few years. More recently, I was out at the Server Consolidation and Storage Symposium last summer in Las Vegas, and Penn was the special guest speaker near the end of the conference. If there's anyone who is dedicated to making people open their eyes, I don't know who it is, or I haven't heard or seen them. It was a real pleasure to see his monologue in person.

The funniest of the programs we watched last night was on Water. They'd actually setup a water steward at a restaurant and printed up a water list, and were pushing these $3-7 bottles of water and listening to these folks go on about the water. Meanwhile, they keep cutting back to the water steward filling up the P&T created bottles with a garden hose from the patio of the restaurant with a manical smile on his face. At the end, they informed their paying customers that all the different water they had drunk that night had come out of the same garden hose out back. Maybe they ought to do the same with wine and see how some of the wanna-be wine snobs do. I doubt they could trick the real wine experts though.

Me, I drink club soda with lime. I get free refills that way, and mostly what I taste is the lime. But occasionally I will opt for a bottle of Peligrino if someone else is paying. I think I quit buying bottled water in a restaurant when I realized one night that I spent more on bottled water than I did on the $6 desert.