TDTVS

Oh Crap

There are some nasty looking thunder storm cells headed our way. That is bad on so many levels. First they could bring heavy rains, strong winds and possibly spawn tornadoes. Second, because they are dangerous the local weather guys will be breaking into programing to keep us informed of there progress and that will mean they might interrupt TDTVS. We can’t just not watch it, what will we talk about at work tomorrow around the water cooler? Or third the storms might knock out the power here or in Augusta or the cable and then we’d miss the show entirely.

I had a really cool idea to that involved mixing up a photo rally I did several years back and geocaching to create an event for the MMC. I would give them a set of coordinates to go to where they would find a cache that held another set of coordinates to another cache for another of coordinates which would send them to a restaurant for lunch. Sounds kind of cool, but when I went to my GPS receiver to enter coordinates, there was no place where I could do that. I could get directions to an already entered waypoint, but where is the fun in that, if everyone kows where they are going. Are all GPSs like that? If so, that kind of kills this idea.

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Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

When the Losties left on the Island started jumping around in time I have to admit I was intrigued, I’m a sucker for a time travel story, but after last night it was almost too much, like too much cheesecake can be too much of a good thing.

Sort of seemed like they are doing it to show how clever the writers and producers of the show are. See how smart we are? Remember way back in episode X of season X when character A did that thing in the jungle and there was what appeared to be a throw away comment to soon to be dead character B? Didn’t seem like much at the time, but now, in season 5 episode 4, it is a major plot point that lays out the story arc for character C.

Well I’m hooked now, so, I say:

It’s so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can’t see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You’re there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You’re spaced out on sensation, like you’re under sedation
Let’s do the Time Warp again!

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Who Is This Woman?

Not too much time, TDTVS is on in a couple minutes. After tons of typing in cryptic commands in three attempts to get the wireless to work under Ubuntu, I did it, but only after running some temporary commands. I was then led through more typing to make it permanent. When I rebooted, it turned out to have been anything but permanent. I tried the temp fix again and it would have worked, but the thing that turned out to be permanent was the wrong WEP code that I had entered last night it seemed to be preventing me from logging in.

I may just have to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch again. Or maybe I should see if I can find a different distro that does support this wireless card.

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Red Shirt

Although originating in Star Trek, the term “redshirt” has been used in commentary on other action adventure stories, particularly serialized television. As a plot device, redshirts are most commonly used on shows which focus on characters who are prominent members of a larger group. In terms of plot function, redshirts serve to highlight the danger of a situation without forcing writers to sacrifice lead characters.

February is National Heart Month and this coming Friday is Wear Red Day 2009 to support the fight against heart disease in women.

For whatever convoluted reason our company nurse decided to pass around a memo last week to try and get everyone to wear red today, Monday, February 2nd and in spite of what happened to Frogurt while wearing a red shirt in last week’s episode of TDTVS…

…I took my life into my hands and wore a red sweater to work today. Obviously because I am home sitting on the couch in a yellow shirt, nothing bad happened to me on today’s “away mission.”

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Achoo!

Last Friday after a couple days off battling the flu, I was not fully back to normal, so I had to take a box of Kleenex in to work to keep handy at my desk. I was given one off the shelf here at home and it was covered in flowers and such, not very manly, so when I got into work I measured the box and drew up a template in AutoCAD. My first cover attempt consisted of dropping the template over one of our part drawings. While initially satisfied with the first cover, it didn’t take long before I had an idea for a better one, behold cover #2. Looks like Jack is running to the box because he has to sneeze.

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I Need A Cool Code Name

During one of the episodes of TDTVS on Wednesday night, Sayid is taking Hurley to a safe house (which turns out to be just the opposite) and they are having a conversation. I don’t remember exactly what was said, but it went a little like this:

Sayid: I’m not taking any risks after Bentham died.
Hurley: You mean Locke.
Sayid: ..Yes, I mean Locke.
Hurley: I need a cool code name.

I think this would be a cool little applet to put on the ABC Lost site, sort of like the Sawyer’s Nickname Generator. The writers and producers are fond of creating characters who names have a hidden meaning relating to philosophers, scholars and writers. John Locke is actually the name of a 17th-century philosopher, so when they made up a pseudonym for him to come back to the world from the island, they gave him the name of a 19th-century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham.

So in that spirit, since I did so well in algebra in high school and am into computer stuff, my Cool Code Name™ is George Boole.

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It’s Here

Season 5 of TDTVS starts tonight. I was so excited that I couldn’t go to work today, I had to stay home under sedation. Well, aspirin and antihistamines. I’ve got the flu or something, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, you know the drill. Hope I can stay awake until 11 to watch both episodes…

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