Don't get me started on Toronto Pearson and scAir Canada, which are both huge embarassments, but the best airports in my opinion are outside of North America.

I lived for a number of years in Tokyo. Sure, Narita seems to be in the middle of no-where, but in true Japanese efficiency, you can have your luggage sent beforehand, get on either a bus or a train and get to the airport with no stress, and it's fairly reasonably priced. Sure there can be lineups (usually most prevalent at the Air Canada counter where they have 4 people checking in 2 international flights, but things usually go fairly smoothly.

Imagine my first trip back this way after several years, landing into LAX, and standing in line for well over an hour just to get through immigration. It was like being in a third world country. Flying United to avoid the stopover in LAX again, I don't think there was one time where my luggage wasn't lost or misdirected.

Buffalo airport isn't that great either, considering it's age. More specifically, the public address system blows. I missed my flight once because they changed the gate and any public address they made sounded like the adults on a Charlie Brown special. Indecipherable. Strangely, the announcements are clear as a bell on the arrivals level - but that doesn't help the people departing much.

Much like airplanes are seldom designed with input by the people who have to work on them, until airports are designed with input from people who actually have to use them and work at them, I'm afraid we are doomed to have airports that don't work as well as they should.

I just thought I'd add my two Canadian cents to the "its not the dog, it's the owner" slant on things. I disagree.

Many pit bulls seem to come from puppy mills of one sort or another. At least, that seems to have been the case here.

My brother, who has a very long history with dogs, and trains them, is one of the most knowledgeable people I know about dogs. He once brought home a Pit Bull. This was before the breed was banned here in several cities in Ontario, Canada (his included).

Funny story, my mom never used to allow any of the other dogs on the couch. I was visiting one day and there the Pit was laying on the couch. I mentioned this to my Mom. She said "are YOU going to tell him to get off it?" Not me. Even though it was a good dog, there was something about it that unnerved me.

And it was well trained. Until one day it turned on my brother-nothing serious, but he knew what would be next. He put the dog in the car and went and had it put down immediately.

Hey we don't even know why some humans snap - let alone why some individual dogs that have never shown any signs of aggression suddenly "turn". Besides which, they're still animals.

One of these days I'll have to ask him why it is that so many of the smaller breeds like Chihuahuas, Mini Pinschers etc all seem to be so consistently yappy. One of my neighbors insists on letting her little beast run around off lease in the neighborhood and it's come after me a couple of times.

I remember thinking at the 30 minute mark of the first hour - "wow, we've seen more action in 30 minutes than the last 3 weeks put together".

Overall I enjoyed it, though I found the last hour kind of dragged a bit, what with flashbacks and all. I found a couple of elements, like angels to be a bit of a cop out thrown in to sum up aspects that otherwise would be difficult to explain.

I liked the blending of the old centurions with the new, and have to admit getting a little verklempt at hearing the music from the original series when the ships were leaving for the sun.

FWIW, if I'm ever expected to settle on a new planet, don't expect me to live without the comforts and technology off of the ship and then send them flying into the nearest sun.

After sleeping on it, I have a somewhat overwhelming feeling of sadness. Lee lost Dee, Starbuck and his Dad apparently (though I don't understand why he had to leave and never come back), Admiral Adama lost Roslin, Starbuck lost Sam, and I lost a date on Friday nights with some intelligent entertainment.