My son builds the set once (or maybe I build it for him), and then after it's destroyed in the a lego battle he builds whatever he wants with it. Occasionally he will want to rebuild a set, but half his (considerable) lego are mixed in a large bin so it can be a tedious process! I think its more about how parents and society encourage kids to use the sets than what they actually start out as.

Last Gasp *was depressing* I read it in the late 80s and was down for weeks. It was so realistic I found myself checking the newspaper and TV news for updates... Good choice!

I'd have to go for "The Ugly Little Boy" by Asimov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Little_Boy). It's sad in an unexpected way for a Sci-Fi story that's not easily forgotten. Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are also good choices, but I wanted to add something unique.

Seriously... they can't even get the facts straight. You're right this is NOT a disney film, it's Universal. I'm a disney geek I'd know, but IMDB will back us up. Oh, and they've butchered the story, but that's another story.

My wife and & I "share" our cars... which arises from the fact that we only have one child seat. So whoever has our son at the moment, gets our Toyota Sienna, and whoever doesn't, gets our Toyata Camry. Both of these vehicles have a 1MZFE toyata v6, the sienna with the vvti head and the camry without, which translates into a modest HP increase for the sienna (about 25hp) the torque ratings are the same. The sienna is about 300 lb heavier than the camry. Both have automatics, and I believe both are EPA rated 19/26.

I've always tracked my mileage by going from full tank to full tank, but lately I found a palm app called "Fuel Log" (Open Source Free SW = cool) and have been using this for the last several months to track our milage.

This is where things get odd... The sienna over the same city/suburban driving routes with the same driver consistently gets better gas milage than the camry, like 21 vs 19. But on the highway, the camry does better, usually around 27, vs 24-26 for the sienna. When I drive a specific car it always gets better gas milage than when my wife drives it. I tend to drive harder than my wife does... go figure

Our previous vehicles usually did much better than EPA ratings. My old Escort GT was rated 25/30 I believe, and I never once got below 30, usually averaged around 32, and got as high as 35 on a couple of long hwy trips. My wife's old Mercury Tracer would consistently beat it's 29/35 EPA rating, and on a couple of long trips even topped 40mpg... Our even more previous car (94 honda accord) was much the same way.

Leads me to wonder if Toyotas simply don't match well to the EPA test. Who does these tests anyway? The manufacturer or the EPA or some 3rd party? Anybody Know???

Keep in mind that EPA cycles probably make the assumption that you stick to the speed limits :) People here in Atlanta seem to treat the roads as a raceway... average freeway speeds are probably up around 75-80MPH even where the legal limit is 55MPH. That's gotta have an effect.