Bag of Randomenss

  • For about the fourth time, one of my emails to the guys at sports radio 1310 The Ticket was read on the air.  If you recall the boa constrictor story yesterday morning – yup, that was me.  Now if I could only get him to plug my website on air.
  • Even though I don’t plan on reading it, I think I like Dubya’s format for the book he plans on writing.  In essence, he’ll pick 12 questions  or topics of his own choosing and answer them in detail.
  • Not only is this one heck of a sports name, but if your first name is Chief, does that automatically make you the captain of the team?  Maybe there’s a captain and a chief.  I dunno.
  • The last project I worked on before leaving Fidelity was a tool to help manage credit default swaps – yes, the very thing that caused this economic mess.
  • One stat stood out with the recent death sentence law being changed in New Mexico.  That state had two people on death row, compared to the over 300 that on Texas’ death row – per our local Fox news station.  All sorts of Texas death row info can be found here.
  • The Natasha Richardson death has led me to do a lot of reflecting, in particular over my mother’s death, as many of you know fell down the stairs which resulted in severe head trauma.  It wasn’t until I read this article, in particular the parts about blood thinners and recovery time,  in which I got a better of understanding of just how bad things were.  And to think I use to roll my eyes when I see kids today wear helmets to ride bikes – something none of use did as children.
  • A lot of people reached out to us after Mom died, but one in particular sticks out.  I have this friend named Barry.  I’ve never met the guy or talked to him on the phone, but I read his blog daily and I know we share a lot of the same visitors.  After he learned of my mother’s passing, he made a very touching post about it.  You can check it out here, but you may want to keep from reading the comments.
  • I wonder when all computers will have some type of touch screen ability.
  • The new “A larrrrrrrrrrge for $5.99?” commercial from Pizza Hut is driving me batty.
  • GMail has a new Undo Send feature.
  • Someone created a blog pretending to be Obama’s Teleprompter.
  • Now this is interesting, a foot-powered roller coaster.
  • Keira Knightly without make-up
  • A NY Times article about the popularity of hiking nude in the Swiss Alps.
  • I didn’t know GoogleMaps has a User Photos option.
  • Orangutan caught a rope thrown by humans and swam across flooded river to save her baby.  Article w/pics
  • Grace
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Random Lost Thoughts

  • So half of the Lost gang are stuck in the past, and half are in present day.
  • I think I know where that runway came from.  Remember in a previous season when Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were held prisoner by Ben and Co.?  Well, if you recall, they were forced to do a lot of manual labor, like clearing brush and rocks.  In other words, I think Ben had them help in making a runway, which means Ben had knowledge that this event would happen.  Which also makes me think that Ben someh0w knew how to make certain people stay in the present and others go in the past.  If any of these “new” people on the Ajira flight were to go to the past, their lack of knowledge of what’s going on and their actions would affect the future – but Ben knew Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid wouldn’t screw up the past and he gets them out of his hair.
  • Sawyer lost his edge, but it seems to be coming back.
  • It seemed a bit silly that Sawyer didn’t press Jack more on how Locke died.
  • Jack also seemed to have lost his edge.  He’s usually very proactive, but now more contemplative and subservient.
  • Baby Ethan was kind of creepy, as least the revelation was.  Interesting how Ethan was responsible for recruiting Juliet back in the day, and Juliet was responsible for his birth, and would have died had she not been there.  And you know what else that means – Ben wasn’t the only one to survive the purge since Ethan tagged along.  Are there any more purge survivors?
  • The actor that played a young Ben did a great job using his eyes.
  • Did anyone else catch the Muppet Show clips?  Made me laugh.
  • I wonder what the story is on Faraday.  I’m reaching here, but maybe he becomes Jacob.  But maybe Faraday was working in the lab that Dr Pierre Chang got pulled away from to help with orientation?  Chang also made mention of how things were unorganized on the other side.  I think he was referring to the U.S. base, which I think means a future storyline for us.
  • Here’s another reach that isn’t so far out there – we didn’t see Sayid for a while, and his response to Sawyer was interesting, “We do not refer to ourselves as ‘hostile,’ but yes, I am one of them.”  I’m thinking that Sayid actually spent time with the Others and struck up a relationship and some sort of deal.  A deal that will help Sayid get revenge on Ben.
  • You may need to read up on Radzinky to get a better understanding of his connection to the show.  But here’s the skinny – he built the Swan, roomed with Kelvin Inman as a button-pusher-resetter, he made the blast door map that Locke discovered, and he killed himself with a shotgun resulting in the blood stain on the Swan’s ceiling.
  • I thought the episode was so-so, but it was one of those transitional ones that will help set us up for the more meaty episodes to come.
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Pastor houses child killer, riles town

CHICHESTER, N.H.—A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town thought he was doing the Christian thing when he took in a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go.

But some neighbors of the Rev. David Pinckney vehemently disagree, one even threatening to burn his house down after officials could find no one else willing to take 60-year-old Raymond Guay.

More than 200 town residents on Tuesday packed a selectmen’s meeting, the first since news of Guay’s arrival broke over the weekend. Most called for Guay’s removal, claiming repeatedly that their children couldn’t sleep and were afraid to play outside.

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