~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Today's episode of "Acapulco H.E.A.T." was a treasure trove of privacy and technology issues. The story was about a renegade biologist who had "supplied both sides with biological weapons in the Iran-Iraq war." It seems he's now living in South America where he owns a casino and--in his spare time--is using genetic engineering to create an army of super-soldiers. The only example we see, though, is a steroidal acromegalic who looks like a young Arnold (he has some sort of European accent, too). H.E.A.T. "hack" the casino's computers to give themselves a million dollar line of credit. In the meantime, they use a homing device they plant on the bad guys van, they find his secret jungle lab where they plant a microcam to spy on the bad guy's genetic operation. Through the use of a room bug the *fire* into an exterior wall with a rifle, they learn that the bad guy and an accomplice use marked cards, which can be read with special contact lenses, to cheat at chemin de fer. Using a special hand-held electronic lock pick, our heroes defeat a card-key hotel lock and break into the room in which the marked cards are kept. There, they substitute their own marked deck. After that, a fortune gets won, things get blown up, machine-guns are fired, truth and justice prevail. The usual. While this episode had no bikinis, it also had no Fabio. As they say in Blackjack, it was a "push." S a n d y P.S. There was no "Acapulco H.E.A.T." report last week. Fabio was in that episode, and he tried to act. I was too bilious to write. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~