TDTVS

Down The Dharma Hatch

Since the last post 2 days ago, I have watched 6 7 8 more episodes of LOST. That quote below is from episode 5 (or 6) where some of our castaways move from the beach to a cave where there is shelter and a fresh waterfall.

“If we can’t live together, we’re going to die alone.”

Since the last post 2 days ago, the Red Sox have lost 10-3 and won 17-1. Oh, and they fired manager Alex Cora and five of the staff.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 39.1%

 

LOST Again

LOST Character Poster

I’m not sure how far I’ll make it, but I’ve started to rewatch LOST. Today I watched both of the 2-episode pilots. Two down, 119 to go. The last time I tried this, I don’t think I made it past these first 2 episodes.

If you have several days and want to see what I posted here about my original watching of the whole show, and any subsequent rewatching of the show, hit this link to the tag TDTVS. It is annoying, though, because it comes back with the most recent posts and goes chronologically backwards. I used to have a plugin that made it start at the beginning, but that ship sailed a long time ago.

We missed the show’s whole first season and only got turned on to it towards the end of the second season, so we had to go back, and watch season one on DVDs and then caught season two when those DVDs came out. Here is my favorite post from those early days of LOST, The Lost Weekend.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 43.8%

 

Very Losty

While trolling Netflix for something to watch, I came upon Yellowjackets and I remember there was good buzz about the show when it first came out in 2021. It had a 7.7 IMDb ranking, so I started watching it late Thursday night; I stopped after two episodes. On Friday I did my morning grocery shopping and watched the other 8 episodes of season one. Saturday passed in a blur of all 9 episodes of season 2.

When I say, “Very Losty, I mean like the show LOST. I’m talking about a plane crash, scenes of the past, of being in the wilderness, followed by scenes of the same characters in the future, plus lots of questions about what is going on, and whose answers pose more questions. None of that mattered; I was sucked right in and buzzed through the show in two hazy days on the couch.

Now there is already a third season done, and the fourth series has just started shooting. The show is a Showtime feature, so #3 is available on Paramount+. Should I wait on watching season three until the 4th (and final) season?

I’ve Been Blogging Too Long

It has been 8,108 days since I wrote my first blog post, Happy 2002, on January 1st of that year. That post consisted of 34 words. Since then there have been, not including this one, 6,047 more posts written with a total word count of 1,401,582 words. The average post word count overall is 232. Some posts have had a lot fewer words, including some with no words, just a picture. Others have been so wordy that you might not want to read the whole thing. The shortest post, That Hosting Company VIII cont., was a mere 4 words and the wordiest post, BMW Ultimate Drive for the Susan G. Komen Foundation was 2,374 words.

One of my and my wife’s favorite features on the blog is the “On This Date” widget in the right column. It is set up to throw a link to a couple of posts from the same date as when you are looking at the page. It is kind of fun to get tossed back into the past and see what was going on it 2002 or 2008 or 2014, etc.

Yesterday’s headliner in the past links was Sorry To Leave You In The Lurch that concerned a nail in the Miata’s tire, Netfix movies and the TV show LOST. There were seven links to other places on the web in the post and not a single one lead me to where they were originally when I wrote the post in 2008 or 15 years in the past.

The first 2 are for Netflix movies and I linked to them using a URL shortener TinyURL and the first movie’s text is just called “this movie” while the second one lists the title and it is called The Good German, but send me to a Netflix error page. The last five are basically just screencaps from the show LOST.

When I take these time jumps to the past me and there are links that don’t work for various reasons, no S at the end of HTTP, the site is no longer there, etc., I will usually try and fix them. This time there are seven and that many caused me to write this post, but because I’ve got nothing else to do and even though these new links may fall by the wayside as well in the coming years, I still went ahead and put my Internet Sleuth Hat on. So if you click on Sorry To Leave You In The Lurch you too can be whisked away to 15 years ago and get a peek into my 2008 mind.

P.S. The word count for this post is an above average 423…

Times Miata Driven since 10/28/22: 9

 

Schrodinger’s Lottery Ticket

For practically forever, we have been buying a Mega Millions quick pick ticket that gets us into the bi-weekly drawing for 5 weeks at a time. We routinely end up not winning squat, so every month and a quarter we get an Andrew Jackson out of the ATM, and place that money down on a chance at winning mega-millions.

Thursday last week, we when out for an evening drive and in the middle we stopped at Fred Meyer to use the lottery vending machine and bought our next Mega Millions Lottery Ticket.

The bought ticket hangs on the upper shelf of my computer desk and earlier this week while watching a movie on the PC I noticed there wasn’t one there. My “prop” Mega Lotto Jackpot ticket with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 & 42 that Hurley won $114 million with was still there, but no real life Mega Millions ticket. By the time I finished watching the movie I had forgotten all about the lottery ticket.

Yesterday, while I finished watching the last episode of Devs, I again noticed the missing lottery ticket. This time I clued Donna in, so we commenced to searching for it. The last time I remember seeing it, it was in the center console of the Miata. That was what we were driving that evening. I put the ticket in there because I didn’t want to put in my pocket where it would get wrinkled. We started there. Not in the center console. It was also not in the glove box. Or the trunk. For thoroughness we looked in the Mini too. We came back upstairs and while I searched every pocket in every item of clothing that I could have been wearing when I bought the ticket, Donna was busy searching in the living area where any piece of paper could be laying. We both came up empty.

Thus we became owners of a Schrodinger’s Lottery Ticket. Because I didn’t think to memorize the 6 numbers on the ticket and there has been two Mega Millions drawings since then, right now we are both winners, and losers, until we somehow happen to find that ticket.

Not wanting to not find the ticket and then read in the local paper of a Klamath Falls individual who purchased a jackpot winning ticket and never coming forward to claim the prize, we went out this evening and bought another ticket.

Chronologically TDTVS

While searching for LOST podcasts I stumbled onto one by two women called “Lost in Order.” Anna & Wendy watched an episode and every week or so dropped a podcast on their thoughts. I can’t listen to it though, it is not their voices or the sound quality, it is in the way they are watching the show.

Not long after the sixth and last season of TDTVS came on on DVD, some genius or madman or possibly Mad Genius, using a timeline found in the Lostpedia re-cut the show in chronological order. Anna & Wendy are podcasting about the results of Mike Maloney’s masterpiece, Chronologically LOST. Mike has taken all 118 aired TV episodes and created 101, roughly forty-five minute long, chronological episodes for a total of 84 hours of LOST watching pleasure.

In a way I wished I’d found out about this a month ago before starting to re-watch the show as I think it would be interesting to see the show in linear time. Would it be more interesting than the non linear original? I’ll let you know someday, I’m a little more than halfway through downloading the torrent. It is going to take about a week to get it all because unlike current popular movies, there aren’t hundreds or thousands sharing it, but each time I’ve looked in on the progress I am connected to anywhere from six to twelve peers.