Jake 2.0

Chris Gorham's cute, he was cute on Odyssey 5 (that's the earth blowing up show, which had some great eps -- hopefully there was enough material that we'll see the show released on DVD), and he's cute on Jake 2.0 . I watched the premiere, which was, y'know, the usual, shiny, moderately interesting, pilot, but last night's episode was genuinely decent, plus it satisfied what is probably my only major kink, so hey, happy happy.

Keeping it spoiler free:

One thing I was not expecting from the show was for there to be *any* warmup in terms of Jake becoming Secret Agent Man™. And this episode showed him *training* for a *job*, with the strong implication that regardless of being '2.0' he might never get sent out into the field if he couldn't learn to *see* what needed to be seen, and *do* what needed to be done.

I had kind of assumed that post-pilot Jake would just start getting sent "out there" to accomplish missions with no on-screen time invested in making a real transition. So it was a pleasant surprise to be wrong.

Oh, and the major kink?

( that would be a spoiler, Major Spoiler )

Isn't knowledge wonderful??

http://www.plimoth.org/Library/l-short.htm

Because someone, somewhere on a friends list, mentioned Nelson being 5'6". It appears that was quite normal for the time.

Excavations of cemeteries dating back to medieval England have provided a range of heights for both men and women and a mean average for both. Across the sites, the mean average height for males was 171.26 cm. [66.79 inches or 5’ 6 ¾"]. For females, it was 157.55 cm. [61.44 inches or 5’ 1 ½"].

Seventeenth-century London

From bones examined from Farringdon Street in London as well as another study of 17th-18th century femora (thigh bones), the average height of people nearer in time and place to the early Plymouth colonists can be determined. The averages from Farringdon Street are 169.3 cm [66.02 inches or 5’ 6"] for males and 155.2 cm [60.52 inches or 5’ ½"] for females. The wider-ranging 17th & 18th centuries study gives 169 cm [65.91 inches or just under 5’ 6"] for men and 155 cm [60.45 inches or just under 5’ ½"] for women. While it is evident that the height of Londoners changed very little in the 17th and 18th centuries, the same was not true of Americans.

[snip interesting bit about the Colonies]

...A study published in Britain in 1988, using data compiled from 1981, determined that the average height in the modern British population was 173.8 cm. [67.78 inches or 5’ 7 ¾"] for males and 160.9 cm. [62.75 inches or 5’ 2 ¾"] for females. For modern white Americans, the average stature for males is 69.1", or just over 5’ 9", and for women, 63.7", or about 5’ 3 ¾".

Information. God, I love the 'Net.