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.

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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.

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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.

Full Sun Times Article

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Tough Times, Even for the Dead

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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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