Questions From the Lost Season 5 Finale

Answer/discuss in the comments….Thoughts about the Lost finale:

1.  How does Jacob get on and off the island?

2.  How does the Black Rock get to the MIDDLE of the island?

3.  Did Jacob touch everyone except for Jack (and actually Juliet)?

4.  Is Richard from the Black Rock?

5.  Is Jacob made of flash paper?  Jeeze.

6.  Is the 4 toed statue Anubis?  Or is it more likely it’s Sobek. http://lostcontinuity.blogspot.com/2009/05/episode-516517-incident-statue.html

7.  Is Dark Jacob really Esau?

8.  Is Juliet pregnant?

9.  Is Juliet really dead or did the ‘reset’ save her too?

10.  Before Ben ‘killed’ Jacob, did he realize that John wasn’t John?  That he was Dark Jacob?

11.  Are Rose and Bernard Adam and Eve?

12.  Why was the logo color switched at the very end – black lost on white background?

13.  Is Dark Jacob Smokey?  Or does Smokey work for DJ?

14.  What might Frank be “a candidate” for?

15.  Did Jacob bring John back to life when he touched him after John was thrown out the window?

What I Learned from Wikipedia (And Jeopardy), March 12

Epicurean, in its original meaning, refers to the philosophy of Epicureanism, founded and developed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, c. 300 BC

In modern parlance, an Epicure refers to a Gourmet, a person concerned with fine food and drink, or refined sensuous enjoyment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicure

Gripes

Gripe #1 – ScrewTube

I remember when I first found YouTube.  It was this little video site that didn’t have a ton on it, and honestly I didn’t find it all that useful.  Videos on the internet.  Right.  Man are they shitty quality.  Fuck that.

Did I ever eat my hat.  Soon it became an indispensable wild west of great video.  TV Show clips that I hadn’t seen in forever.  Music Videos from the heyday of MTV that were never in heavy rotation.  The latest movie trailers – even before they’d been released…

It… was… awesome.

If I had a video I wanted to show a friend, within two seconds I’d have it up and playing on YouTube for them.  It became, to me, as necessary to my daily Web Fu as google and wikipedia.

Flash forward to today.

YouTube sucks.  There.  I said it.  The other day I wanted to find a South Park clip* to show a friend who has never watched the show.  I wanted to show her how funny it as.  What did I find?  Twenty five hundred fan videos  of kids singing to south park songs.  Or audio with fan made slideshows.  Or the occasional DMCA violation notice.  I couldn’t show her.  So you know what.  There’s a potential fan that Viacom loses.  Same goes for the Daily Show clip I was going to share.  Same for the old clip from “Wait Til Your Father Gets Home.”  I can’t find anything now w/o wading thru hours of shit.  Thanks DMCA.  Thanks asshole teens who think “Fred” and his helium antics are funny.  Thanks to networks who can’t figure out that allowing us to watch their stuff legally is 100x better advertising than not.

Goodbye YouTube.  You were wonderful while you lasted.

*I know I can get all the South Park stuff on South Park Studio’s web page, but for some reason their video player doesn’t work in my browser.  It works if someone embeds it, but not if I go directly to the page. Plus I was already on YouTube failing to find other stuff.

Gripe #2:  FacialBook

Facebook unleashed their new layout over the last day or so and yes I bitched briefly about it last night (I still haven’t found an easy place to put in a new status), but already there are torrents of people whining about it.  “This sucks.”  “New settings suck.”  “Facebooks sucks.”  Half of the statuses in my….  feed…. or whatever the fuck they’re calling it this week… are complaining about the changes.  Clam up people.

While I question Facebook’s logic in a lot of their changes (Why the hell do I have to see applications other people are using while pushing “poke” down below the screen of my laptop) and applaud some others (YAY being able to “hide” certain pseudo friends whose daily minutiae I could care less about!!), I hope everyone remembers a few scant months ago when they did the exact same thing – changed the layout from the one we had grown so accustomed to.  People whined. People moaned.  People woe-is-me’ed.  Myself included.

A few weeks later?  We were a’pokin’ and a statusin’ and a’little-green-patchin’ away like nothing had ever changed.  And the same thing will happen this time.  Take a deep breath and get used to it.

Until four months down the line where instead of just changing some of the simple stupid things that bug us all, they massively redesign the whole page again.  And allow us to add in our own backgrounds.  And autoplay music.  And giant movie ads.  Viva la FaceSpace.

Gripe #3:  Emo Elvis

http://riosoriano07.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/adam-lambert-01-2009-02-25.jpg

You know who I mean – that no-one-really-wears-their-hair-like-that “young” dude from American Idol this season, who in high def looks about 30 after a pack a day generic cigarette habit, but dresses all gothy and growls at the camera like a  junkyard dog with a meth addiction.  The cougars are creaming for him in his eyeliner and his macho swagger.  The judges are creaming for him in his My Chemical Tight Pants.  He needs to comb his hair, stop scowling, take off all that fucking foundation, and just fucking sing.

Oh let me rephrase that. Sing WELL.  I’ve had beer farts that had more tune than that version of “Black and White” on Tuesday.

There. I said it.

Podcasts…

Morning all.  (And I think by all I mean Peter and Chris… not sure who else is still reading this woefully underposted thing.)

Today is a day to pimp some of the podcasts I’ve been listening to.  I’ll skip the big ones like Smodcast and The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack because you should already know about those.  But here is a sampling of 5 that I really enjoy…

Cabin Fever

From their page:

Cabin Fever (hosted by the twisted souls Brian Fitzpatrick and Aaron Poole) is the result of having too much time on your hands and access to your local community radio station.

Over the course of an hour, they manage to trawl the depths of good taste, plus throw some music in. How much more could you want from a podcast?… Quality? Oh… we didn’t think of that.

Misinformation

Their page on popsyndicate says “info goes here” so I’ll just post a description of their latest episode:

This week The Guys discuss how many it takes to attain a few for several minutes.  Recent developments begin to turn bloody a rivalry, especially after a post recording revelation. (More on this next week.)  The Glitter Contest winner is announced this week, changing a lucky listener’s fortune by awarding a reward from the prize closet…oh, the spoils.  The Misinformation Mixer ‘09 is discussed; briefly this time.  Quality and the expectation of such is discussed and a battle gauntlet (as opposed to a huggie lovey gauntlet) is thrown down against naysayers and poo pooers the world over.  Rants, cursing, comedy, beer, plus much MUCH MORE!

Donald Is Lost

From the “About the Hosts” Page:

Donald was born in Lake Charles, LA. Although this information is subject to change. In Episode 25 of the Donald is Lost podcast Charlotte S. Lewis reveals that Donald was actually born on the Island and grew up with Charlotte. All info of the first 18 years of Donald’s life is now being brought into question. At the age of 18 Donald attended Mcneese University where he studied art and commercial art. At age 23 he decided to start a podcast devoted to the show Lost, as his show became more and more popular characters from the show started to show up and help out with the podcast the first of which is Mikhail Bacunin. Donald would make weekly trips to the Island to visit the communication station and pull up voicemails and emails sent in to the podcast. A few months into the podcast Charlotte Staples Lewis was given a full time co-hosting position and together the trio grew to world wide fame, until the Studio became under attack by an unkown force presumed to be the IRS but the exact threat has never been identified. Mikhail Bacunin turned the studio’s donkey wheel and moved the studio, which ended up on the Island. As of January 2009 Donald is Lost takes place on the Island where Donald, Charlotte, and Mikhail’s adventures continue.

The /Filmcast

The podcast of the webpage http://www.slashfilm.com/ where they have weekly discussions on what’s in theaters and coming out on DVD.

The Lost Mystery Podcast

From “About the Show”:

The primary purpose of The Lost Mystery Podcast is to give new viewers of LOST the same great experience that those watching the show from the beginning have had. Evan is a LOST fanatic that has been watching from the very beginning while Anton has just started watching the show.

We’re starting from the very beginning of the series and working our way to the very end. But this podcast isn’t just for those who are getting a late start with LOST, we’ve had many comments from listeners saying that they’ve heard us mention things they never noticed even when they’ve seen that episode more than once! So there’s definitely something for everyone here!

So there ya go guys.  Give ‘em a try.  Let me know what you think.

What I Learned from Wikipedia, March 1, 2009

Fatal hilarity refers to death resulting from the physiological effects of laughter.^{[citation needed]} Versions of the phrase date back to 1596^[2] and records of laughter causing death date back to Ancient Greece.

Learn more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_hilarity

What I Learned from Wikipedia, Feb 4, 2009

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. The term, “Ponzi scheme,” is used primarily in the United States, while other English-speaking countries do not distinguish colloquially between this scheme and other pyramid schemes.^[1]

Read more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

Kept hearing that term thrown around and figured I should probably get off my ass and learn what it was.

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish…

President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush’s final approval rating at 22 percent.

Read more.

What I Learned from Wikipedia, January 20, 2009

The megalonychid ground sloths first appeared in the early Oligocene, about 35 million years ago, in southern Argentina (Patagonia). Megalonychids first reached North America by island-hopping, perhaps from the Antilles. With the rise of the land bridge at Panama there were further northward migrations as part of the Great American Interchange. Some lineages of megalonychids increased in size as time progressed. The first species of these were small and may have been partly tree-dwelling, whereas the Pliocene (about 5 to 2 million years ago) species were already approximately half the size of the huge Late Pleistocene Megalonyx jeffersonii from the last ice age. Some West Indian island species were as small as a large cat; their dwarf condition typified both tropical adaptation and their restricted island environment. This small size also enabled them a degree of aboreality.

Read more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonychidae

What I Learned from Wikipedia

The Guns and Dope Party is a United States political party envisioned by cult author and libertarian Robert Anton Wilson. While the party has proposals that can be considered generally libertarian in its principles, it presents these positions in a facetious manner, and advocates extremely absurd things, for example replacing one third of Congress with ostriches. This is consistent with Robert Anton Wilson’s and chaotic Discordianism’s tradition of advocating freedom through parody and surrealism. Indeed, this school of thought regards dogma as the main root of humanity’s evils and holds the view that people shouldn’t take things – or themselves – too seriously.

The party’s political ideology stems from Wilson’s insight that “every ostrich is a tsar” – that is, a radical political belief that each individual should be capable of governing him/herself. Guns and Dope has consistently supported “everybody” for President of the United States, where voters are encouraged to write-in their own name on the ballot.

Members of the Guns and Dope Party regularly host a theme camp at Nevada’s yearly counter-culture rich Burning Man festival.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_and_Dope_Party

Justin Timberlake needs to be on SNL full time.

http://www.dhadm.com/content/snl-weekend-update-with-justin-timberlake/