Emergency Landing in Winter Haven FL, USA
I don’t know why I feel like I have to tell you this, but the curse words are bleeped out.
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Always Wear Underwear
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Watch the Ears
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Random Lost Thoughts
- Sayid and Ben have creepy voices, imagine them reading a book to children.
- At the beginning of the episode I thought that was Charlie in the afterlife . . . but it turns out to be Jacob. It’s nice to be a face to a name. Looks like a loop hole was found by The Man in Black, being that he had to get someone else to do the killing.
- Maybe The Man in Black is also somehow Smokey that takes over peoples bodies like Christian Shepherd, Alex, Yemi, and Locke.
- Remember when Ben went to be judged a little while back . . . you never saw Locke and Smokey together.
- Remember in the first season when Locke was teaching Walt the game of backgammon and referenced the white and black game pieces . . . great foreshadow.
- I think we’ll learn the Man in Black is named Esau.
- I wonder if Jacob is suppose to represent Jesus. In that opening scene he was wearing white, and caught and ate a fish which made me think of some biblical references. Then he is stabbed willingly and kicked into the fire – like a sacrifice. Not to mention, in each on of the flashbacks he did something very Jesus related.
- No Desmond in the episode, and there were also other notable absences.
- It finally hit me why in previous seasons we saw people wear protective clothing outside of the hatch . . . to protect them from radiation.
- Speaking of radiation, I wonder if that made Faraday a super-genius.
- And I wonder if that radiation somehow caused Ben’s tumor from way back when.
- New Kids on the Block lunch box . . . that was funny.
- I think I actually met Jacob back in college – well, he did seem everywhere, didn’t he? Also, the man doesn’t age just like someone else on the show.
- And the guy sure is touch-feeley. Did you catch that, he touched everyone in all those flashbacks (yes, even Hugo – and I liked what he told Hugo about his gift being a blessing), and we will discover that touch meant something – that they won’t die.
- But he wasn’t in Juliet’s flashback.
- Kate’s hydrogen-bomb line on the sub was laaaaaaaaame. That’s the worst acting I’ve seen in quite a while.
- Miles yelling out “DAD!” was touching. Might have been the only time in his life he called someone that.
- That line said to childSawy, about what’s done is done and not being able to change anything . . . I have a feeling we’ll see Sawyer have to make a choice regarding changing something regarding the timeline.
- To hear Jack say not to give up on Locke when he was talking to Richard was a big moment in the series.
- So Eloise was a leader, and so was Widmore.
- Eloise is one tough mama.
- I bet Sayid was hoping that “I’m carrying a nuclear device” line would go farther than what it did.
- Good to see Vincent again. And it’s nice to know that Bernard and Rose are enjoying retirement, and we’ll find they are the Adam and Eve skeletons discovered in a previous season.
- I never thought Jacob’s cabin would be destroyed. But I bet it was never Jacob’s cabin . . . it belonged to the Man in Black.
- Juliet changing her mind reminds me of many moments of my marriage.
- Richard and Locke being able to push that stone wall was a bit far fetched, but then again, so is the whole show.
- Ben’s stabbing of Jacob sure was girlie. But Jacob seemed like he was willing to be killed.
- Where’s Claire in all of this?
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More on the Cult that is Texas A&M
Since I tried a little satire in good college rivalry fun and claimed that Texas A&M is a cult, I decided to do a little research.
Of course the first place I turned to was The Google, and as I typed in “Texas A&M is” – well, “texas a&m is a cult” displayed in the search list with 53,300 results.
Within those results was a 2003 article in The Daily Utah Chronicle by Chris Bellamy titled “Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station.”
The article is about his visit to Aggieland and it parodies the intense school spirit and tradition on Texas A&M’s campus.
A few days later, the newspaper posted a follow up article about the reaction of the “Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station” article. Here’s how it starts off . . .
On Tuesday, Sept. 9, The Chronicle ran a sports column by Chris Bellamy titled “Cult! Fear and loathing in College Station,” a parody of the intense school spirit on Texas A&M’s campus.
It didn’t take long before the column circulated all the way to Texas A&M, and students and alumni began responding by the dozens. Chris has received more than 200 e-mails so far-almost all of which came from people in Texas.
The responses were varied. Many current and former A&M students were very positive about it, and found it funny. Some were quite offended, while others had mixed feelings.
The paper included several responses in that follow up article, but if you want to read more of the responses, check out this link where the first four to five pages contains responses to the article.
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Sears Tower to open glass-bottom Skydeck in June
You won’t be seeing me try this anytime soon. Besides, they wouldn’t want me standing on that thing because the first thing I would do is wet my pants.
Sears Tower — and it’s still called that for the time being — will invite its Skydeck visitors to enjoy a view usually reserved for window-washers and superheroes.
It’ll be a walk on the high side as visitors on the observation deck step into glass enclosures that extend 4.3 feet beyond the building. Beneath their feet in dizzyness-inducing splendor will be the city itself, 103 stories below, with an inch and a half of glass between person and pavement.
The attraction, called the Ledge, should open by early June and is part of a multimillion dollar renovation of the tourist spaces at the nation’s tallest building, said Randy Stancik, Skydeck general manager.
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Tough Times, Even for the Dead
Here’s a little more on the photo from the NY Times:
We called Victor Carrillo, the supervisor for Imperial County listed on the sign, to find out.
“It’s a privately owned cemetery,” he tells us. “I presume it will be purchased by another entity in the cemetery business. That’s been typical.”
For a new owner to use the land as something other than a cemetery, says Carrillo, they’d have to contact all the families with relatives buried there, pay to move all the remains, request a land-use zone change, and have numerous public hearings.
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The American Patriot’s Bible
THE ONE BIBLE THAT SHOWS HOW ‘A LIGHT FROM ABOVE’ SHAPED OUR NATION. Never has a version of the Bible targeted the spiritual needs of those who love our country more than The American Patriot’s Bible. This extremely unique Bible shows how the history of the United States connects the people and events of the Bible to our lives in a modern world. The story of the United States is wonderfully woven into the teachings of the Bible and includes a beautiful full-color family record section, memorable images from our nation’s history and hundreds of enlightening articles which complement the New King James Version Bible text.
I was looking at the customer reviews, which are quite interesting. So far it has a ranking of four out of five stars.
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God Gave Her Cookies
She posted this sign on her door:
And then she received this:
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I was not aware . . .
That there’s a Saved By The Bell Soundtrack.
And who’s this guy? He’s Michael Damian, the voice of the show’s theme song.
What else might you remember him from? A hit from the 80’s called “Rock On.”
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Nemo Cake
This impressive cake comes from Charmaine’s Pastry Blog.
Her Flickr page also has some awesome pastry work.
But don’t you think the kids will be freaking out once you start to slice it?
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Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
Well, it’s all because of this man.
Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters.
That became Hillebrand’s magic number — and set the standard for one of today’s most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging.
“This is perfectly sufficient,” he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. “Perfectly sufficient.”
Check out the full LATimes post here.
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Bag of Randomness
- For some reason I’m a bit infatuated with Lady Gaga. I really don’t know much about her, but her songs get stuck in my head. Actually, her and Beyonce are having a girl-fight in my head.
- In case you didn’t know, she’s not from across the pond.
- And her stage name comes from a Queen song.
- Mum mum mum mah . . . .
- Let me let me let me upgrade . . . .
- Mum mum mum mah . . . .
- Let me let me let me upgrade . . . .
- I was listening to NPR on the drive home trying to get in touch with my intellectual an all, and heard this piece over why we spend coins faster than bills. It was a very interesting study, and they even mentioned that any sort of stimulus funds were to be sent out to the public, it should be in small amounts as people will spend smaller amounts faster, thus impacting the economy faster.
- I also started to listen to more sermons from the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection trying to get in touch with my spiritual side an all, and heard a few things on this Reset sermon series regarding the credit collapse that got me to thinking. The one thing all economists tend to forget in their calculations is human nature and our desire to live outside of our means. The other thing that got me to thinking was what the government was trying to do to prevent a recession after 9/11 – they tried to free up credit and make home purchasing easier – and people of the lower, middle and upper class bought more than what the needed in terms of housing.
- The sermon also addressed how Solomon asked for wisdom over riches, became rich because of wisdom, and then wasn’t so wise with his riches. For instance, the temple he had built for God took seven years to build, but his palace took 13 years to build. Also, Solomon also had an ivory chair covered with gold – which not only tells you someone was living excessively but the Austin Powers line of a golden toilet popped in my head.
- Let me let me let me upgrade . . . .
- Mum mum mum mah . . . .
- My left shoulder upper arm area has been hurting ling the dickens for about a week. I don’t know if I slept on it wrong or what, but I can especially feel the pain when I cough or sneeze. I have also been having dizzy spells the last two or three days. I’m not sure if those symptoms are related, but then again I’ve probably been watching too much House.
- Speaking of House, I hear that 13 is #1 on Maxim’s Hot List.
- If you are a fan of Saved By The Bell, you might enjoy this parody rap. The guy in the video does have a pretty cool shirt.
- I’ve been watching the NASA channel late at night – lots of great homemade video by the astronauts on the space shuttle.
- I have a feeling we will be seeing Kelly Clarkson on a Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem commerical sometime soon.
- Methodist bishops take a pay cut. Link
- Grace
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