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Libra

Because of where the date of my birth falls in the Gregorian calendar I am considered a Libra. The symbol for Libra are the scales of balance representing the balance that Libras continually seek in their selves and their life.

I don’t put much stock in astrology and my wife doesn’t either, but one or both of us must subconsciously because it is my job to balance the checkbook. And when I get done posting here I need to get back to seeking what happened to the $5.41 the bank says we have that I don’t think we have.

An interesting side note (or maybe not): Libra is the only inanimate sign of the zodiac, all the others represent either humans or animals.

Might be something to this astrology after all, because I am constantly seeking ways to be inanimate.

The FRS almost didn’t go to Japan for Opening Day.

To get you ready for tomorrow’s Episode 8 of Lost here are a couple of theories on what the “Island” is all about:
1. Coolest. Theory. Ever.
2. The Great Gedanken Expriment, a Tale of Time Travel and Schrodinger’s Cat

They are kind of long, so you might want to save them for next Thursday night, because Lost won’t be on. Tomorrow is episode eight of thirteen total for this season and there is going to be a six week break before we get to see the last 5 episodes (dang writers strike.)

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Another Lost Miata Connection

Lost MiataFirst the actress who plays Sun is photographed with an MX-5 last month and now this time a Miata makes a cameo in last night’s episode. Not only was this a Jin flashback, but it is a flashback for the car as well.

The episode was a sneaky one that broke new ground. We have had flashback shows and more recently flashfoward ones, but Thursday was a combination of the two. They were trickily edited to appear like just one flashforward our Korean couple. A few hints in Jin’s scenes were left for eagle-eyed Lost viewers to pick up. I would like to tell you I am one of them, but I’m not, I learn most that type of stuff from reading The Lost Forum and subsequent viewings of the show.

The production folks at Bad Robot made sure to give Jin a bulky older cell phone, a toss off line about being married for only a couple months and a stuffed dragon with a reference to it being that creature’s year (2000), but weren’t savvy enough to be aware of the difference between a 99/00 Miata and an 01-05 model.

If you look closely at the headlight in the background of the above picture you will see a sharp crease in the body emanating from the upper inside of it plus the separate projector low beam and standard high beam that are the big difference in the model years. Now I know technically you can purchase a 2001 model year car in 2000, but that doesn’t happen until the last couple of months of the year and if this was really taking place in Seoul, the people would have been more bundled up for the cold weather.

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Post “Ji Yeon” Viewing Thoughts

I read the spoilers, I watched all the teasers, so I though I knew what was going on, until the very end.

WTF?

But then The Lost Forum explain it for me:

Jin was in a flashback to 2 months after his marriage to Sun before the island. Sun was her flashword after the island after Jin dies by means we don’t know.

Fog

FogHad to use the fog lights this morning to get to work. Not that the fog lights on the Emperor are that great, but at least then I could see the road ahead of me. The first five feet of it anyway. When the fog is this thick you can get a real good idea of the sharpness of the cutoff of the projector low beams of the 2001+ Miatas. It was a slow trip in.

Via links in The Lost Forum I have downloaded the first 4 episodes of this season of Lost. I guess someone hacked into their DVRs and uploaded the files of the HDTV broadcast. Each episode is around 350 Megabytes and looks like about 640 x 360 native, which still looks pretty darn good on my PC when played full screen. I’m looking into turning them into DVDs that I can play on the living room TV instead of Donna and I having to cozy up to the laptop…

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Sssssssh!

Keep it down!

Lost is on.

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We Are Lost Souls

I spent the whole day wearing my Oceanic Airlines T-shirt. The seller said it was pre-shrunk, but there was a lot of shrunk still left in it. After washing it still fits, but it is a little short, so I ordered an XXL in dark blue for back-up.

At one point this afternoon I was on the couch trolling the net for Lost stuff using links from other Lost pages while Donna was in the other room on the desktop reading the Lost forums. The best find is a toss-up between a blog from Jorge Garcia the actor who plays Hugo Reyes, AKA Hurley — Dispatches from the Island or some nude images of Mira Furlan who plays Danielle Rousseau, or as Sawyer refers to her, the French Chick from a 1985 Yugoslavian movie called ‘When Father Was Away on Business’.

With nothing left to watch DVD-wise, this evening, using the laptop, resting on the dinner table between us, we went online to ABC.com and rewatched the 3rd episode of season 4, The Economist, to see what all the losties on the forums were talking about.

We bought our next 5-week Powerball ticket today. Instead of the usual quick pick, we opted to pick our own — 4-8-15-16-23-42. That’s right, we are risking the curse, which I figure in this case will be nothing more than having to share the prize with thousands of fans of the show.

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Now That’s Interesting

On tonight’s episode of Lost we find out that the island has some strange power over the surrounding environment and every person on it. Oh, that’s right, we already knew that…

So of the “Oceanic 6” that get off the island, we now know 2/3rds of them. In the “flash forwards” so far we have found out that Jack is so afraid of something that he goes back to being a drunk, Hurley is so afraid of something that he hides out in a funny farm, Kate is so afraid of something that she is hiding and now we discover that Sayid is so afraid of Ben he kills people.

Interesting thing about watching the show on “live” TV is watching the commercials. For the longest time I figured I was the whole wrong demographic for the show. The ads skewed way young. Old Navy clothing, birth control pills, the hip new Ford car that you can talk to get it change the music playing instead of the archaic button pushing, etc. But finally in the next to the last commercial break I felt better, there was an ad for Viagra.

Speaking of Old Navy ads, was the new Urban Safari look advertised inspired by the whole running through the jungle on Lost or is that the new look and they picked Lost to sell it because of the whole running through jungle thing?

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