Bag of Randomness

  • Wow, it’s already the 25th.  It seems like February just flew by.
  • I got an email from a close friend who got a sudden job offer to work in Washington D.C.  He lives here in Texas, sent the acceptance letter back yesterday, and will be driving up there next week.  It must be cool to do things  spontaneously.
  • Sometimes when I watch the Olympics I sit and wonder what sport I could possible compete in if I worked really hard at it, or started working really hard on it way back when in my life.
  • It’s time for me to replace the air filter on our new AC unit, but Loew’s and Home Depot did not have the filter in stock, heck, they couldn’t even special order it, so I was left finding them online.
  • Lindsey Vonn comes across a little scripted with a dash of false sincerity and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her as a contestant on the next Dancing With the Stars.  There’s no telling if her injury will keep her off the show.
  • The other night Craig Ferguson did a little experiment and at the same time paid tribute to the former host of the Late Late Show, Tom Snyder, but not having a studio audience and just having one guest.  I wish Jon Stewart would have that format with his guests.
  • I really enjoy watching curling.  No, really, I do.  So much so I would consider checking out the DFW Curling Club.
  • Is Barack Obama Muslim?
  • Glow in the dark toilet paper – a dream come true?
  • World’s largest plane graveyard – GoogleMaps
  • Five-year-old’s 911 call saves dad’s life (Audio only)
  • Ten word Wikipedia
  • Red neck water skiing (thanks, JJ)
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Hannah Storm’s Outfit

Tony Kornheiser was recently suspended from ESPN for commenting on Hannah Storm’s outfit on his radio show:

“a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt … way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now.”

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Orca pulls SeaWorld trainer to her death

ORLANDO – A SeaWorld trainer was killed Wednesday when an orca pulled her into the water as she was talking to visitors.

Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall said paramedics were called to the Shamu Stadium at the theme park resort where they found a worker who could not be revived.

Here are the parts that got my attention:

“The trainer was explaining different things about the whale … and then the trainer that was down there walked away from the window … and then Telly (the whale) took off really fast in the tank and he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing (her) around,” Biniak said.

It turns out this killer whale has a track record:

WKMG reported Biniak as saying that the killer whale — a 30-year-old, 12,300-pound male orca that also is called Tillikum — does not typically have a trainer in its tank because it is too large.

The same orca was cited in two earlier deaths, according the Humane Society of the United States, which has campaigned to keep marine mammals out of theme parks.

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Random Lost Thoughts

  • What’s up with Jack and mirrors?  He looks in a mirror on the plane and finds a mark on his neck, in last night’s episode he found an appendix scare while looking in the mirror, and then he smashed all those mirrors in the lighthouse.  I think he now has about 28 years of bad luck.  Also, he was staring at his reflection while outside of the temple.
  • But let’s take it a step further, his son was a mirror image of himself albeit a younger version.
  • I think that was the first time I ever used albeit in a sentence.  I saw the opportunity and decided to take it.
  • Lets go back to the appendix for a moment . . . you may recall that Jack supervised his own appendix removal on The Island back in season four with the help of Bernard, Kate, and Juliet.
  • Jack sure does like Alice in Wonderland, he read it to both David and Aaron.  But did you catch another hat-tip to the book when Jack went to David’s house and found the key to the front door underneath the rabbit lawn ornament?
  • Interesting pictures of the lighthouse mirrors.
  • Lostpedia states that Dogen said the following to Hurley in Japanese, “You’re lucky that I have to protect you. Otherwise I’d have cut your head off.“
  • It was hard for me to accept Claire being tough and all, perhaps it was bad acting.
  • Most interesting words spoke by Claire, “If there’s one thing that’ll kill you around here it’s infection.”  She’s definitely the new Rousseau.
  • Jack and his son’s relationship seemed to be similar to Michael and Walt’s.
  • I wouldn’t be surprised to see the mother of Jack’s son actually be Juliet.  And I wouldn’t be surprised to see Juliet and Sawyer actually date in a sideways storyline.
  • The word “candidate” and its variations seem to carry a lot of weight.  Did you notice the “Welcome All Candidates!” sign as Jack walked into the audition?  And that word seems to be tied to Dogen who was also at the audition.
  • The piece that David Shepard was playing at the recital was also played by a young Daniel Faraday.
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