Month: November 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

Going away for a couple days to an Internet Free zone, check back Sunday for an exciting blow by blow account….

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Junior Man Onboard

Don’t know if you have been keeping up with this story or not, but apparently the last shuttle mission took a “state of the art” urine-purification system for water recycling up to the International Space Station. They must have bought it at Big Lots because when they got up there it didn’t work right. Apparently there was a hiccup in the centrifuge or something, but now it is fixed.

My question is who is doing the taste testing? Rank has its privileges.

Started down, went up, still up.
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Live Together, Die Alone

Episode 47 of 82 was the 2 hour Season 2 finale. It was jam packed with the return of Desmond, dynamite explosions, a giant 4-toed foot, even more betrayal from Michael, gun fire, tranquilizer darts, hieroglyphics, extreme magnetism, load annoying sounds, bright spectral skies and a kiss.

It was pretty much Desmond-centric where see how he got to to the island in the first place, his being suckered into pushing the button, how it might actually be his fault Flight 815 crashed there and in the present how he, along with Locke, let the countdown go past zero without pushing the button and then blows up the hatch.

Most of the other on island antics concerned the Fab Four (Jack, Kate, Sawyer & Hurley) & Michael trekking across the island so he can “get his boy back.” He finally does and sails off towards freedom in the Other’s boat given to him for delivering our main characters into imprisonment. Except for Hurley who gets sent back to the survivor’s beach to tell them to stay away. Because it was a two hour show you get 2 pictures.

Chinese Democracy

Did you remember to go to DrPepper.com yesterday and sign up for your free soda? I did around mid-day and expected a crashed, overloaded web site, but was disappointed by things going smoothly. I will be enjoying my Dr. Pepper in just 6 to 8 weeks.

I’m not sure what prompted it, but earlier this year the Dr. Pepper company promised everyone in America a free soda if Guns ‘N’ Roses actually released the long rumored Chinese Democracy album before the end of 2008. Axl Rose and friends came through, releasing the album yesterday. Dr Pepper, true to their word, gave away a free soda certificate yesterday to any one who lived in the US and filled out a form on their web site between 12:01 Saturday night and 11:59 on Sunday night.

I’ve seen various lengths of time that the album has been in the works, from over a decade to a more accurate guesses of 14 or 17 years. My favorite quote is this one:

The new album dropped Sunday after fans held on through 17 years of myriad false starts and production delays after Guns ?N Roses began recording in 1994.

Fast forward to the future? 1994 + 17 = 2011, I thought we were still in 2008?

I found that in an article from the New York Daily News that reports a Chinese newspaper calls the album as a “venomous attack”on the nation. Enjoy. I think the Chinese are just pissed that they weren’t eligible for a free Dr. Pepper.

P.S. The Dr Pepper web site is down today, I can’t enter my cap codes to see if I’ve won anymore wallpaper, aftereffects of yesterday? Or did it go down later in the day yesterday and is still hosed?

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3 Minutes

Episode 46 of 82 is the story of how Michael goes out after the “Others” to get his son Walt back. There is no traditional off island flashback, just a jump between present time and flashbacks running backwards from 13 days prior when Michael left the survivor’s camp to meet up with the present. Michael has always been my least favorite character, I can understand his motivation, every time he gets close to the son he barely knows some one or something gets in the way, but he has always seemed so whiny about it.

Carriage Ride

Not for us, but that dog sure as heck seems to be enjoying himself. On our walk in Hitchcock Woods this afternoon, even though the parking areas were pretty full, we only saw a couple walkers, a couple on horseback and this carriage.

I’m now up to date on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, having watched Episodes 7, 8 & 9 this afternoon. Just like last year during Season 1 it has taken a while to get back into it, to get the suspension of reality up to the level required to forgive the unbelievable turns the show takes at times, making a couple of the last bunch real enjoyable. They are starting to let us in on just how tricky the whole time travel thing is, seems like every time our intrepid heroes think they have done something to thwart the coming of judgment day,another thing happens in parallel that keeps the it on track.

Cameron, our hottie good Terminator, in a few places during episode #8 is shown walking away and she has this way of walking by placing one foot right in front of the other along a straight line. Very robotic looking gait, exactly like the walk used by models walking along the fashion runways. A comment from the producers on the humanity of supermodels?

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Sky City

I just saw a trailer for the new movie Australia and is it just me, but did they totally rip off that theme from TDPM?

Do you think the newest versions of the Chrysler minivans (which don’t seem to be too mini anymore) with it’s more angular look is meant as retro in the same mode as the new Beetle or the new Camaro?

Dear Fox, I downloaded the the illegally copied & shared bitorrents of last three episodes of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles because I couldn’t watch them directly from your site. I used to be able to watch shows directly, but something has changed since last year. The video herks, then jerks and then the audio becomes unsynced. At first I thought it might be my high speed connection had slowed, but I can still watch stuff on ABC.com. Ironically when it usually happens is at your minimal commercial breaks, even the ones where there is no actual ad there.

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