xhonzi

This is where I pretend I mispelled "apparently" wrong on purpose.  *blush*

What makes you think he stobbed?

I can't spell forwards, apparenltly... I can only imagine how much Frink would have to correct me if I started gnitsop sdrawkcab.

Nice!  I missed that one.

I lived in San Antonion from 2001 to 2003.  It's where I started my career, met my wife and our first kid was born.

I really liked it and would move back if given the right opportunity.

You are dead to me, bkev.

The whole fam watched the new Chipmunk movie last night.  I realize you all might lose whatever respect you have left for me... but I found myself quite enjoying it.  Not as much as my kids! but it kept me entertained. 

http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/40236/halo/videos/halomovie_trl_040110.html

Enjoy.

My problem is that I don't do any April planning until April.  What's that you say?  Do some April planning in March?  But April is a whole month away!

Then I wake up on April 1st and think- Ah, April!  What planning do I need to do?  Well, there's April Fools Day, and then there's East- CRAP IS THAT TODAY!?!?!?!?

So, I never get to pull off any sweet capers due to my genetic inability to plan ahead.

TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

The DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY is a LIE featuring PETER MAYHEW coming soon to DVD!

Well that's weird, I could have sworn the prequel was supposed to be called Today is a LIE featuring KENNY BAKER coming soon to BLU-RAY!

 That's the first movie in the PREQUEL TRILOGY, duh!

Really?  Mine belongs to Gaffer tape, my wife, and when I'm really drunk, C3PX's come ons are really flattering.

Hmmm... planning some reshoots for ESB:R?

I'll buy two!

*whew*

I flipped out and became PSYCHO_DAYV for a minute there.

GUYS!  I THINK HE'S REALLY GONE!

Also,

If “dead is dead”, then perhaps “undead is undead?”  Could this lead us into the fabled 7^th Zombie Season?

This week's episode gave me some fodder for my undying Widmore is the Secret Founder of DHARMA theory:

1. He used Pylons just like DHARMA did to keep smokey out.  The other-others use Ash.

2. He had access to surveys that DHARMA (Jin) conducted in the 70s.

Back to the Ash/Pylons thing... it fits in with my idea that there's often conflicts between Science and Faith on Jacob's team.  When Ben assumed command of the Others, he represented "Faith."  "Faith that the island would fulfill its role."  Widmore, presumably, represented "Science."  I still think that Ben cast him off the island when he found out that Widmore had secretly brought DHARMA to the island.  He brought them to the island to study it, so that they could "cause" the island to fulfill its role.  So they could understand and then recreate the phenomena of the island in case it ever "went on the blink."

And the function of the island?  More and more it seems that it is to contain the smoke monster?

Also, consider The Book of Revelations in the Bible, chapter 20: 1-3 http://www.awitness.org/biblehtm/re/re20.htm

20:1  I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

20:2  He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

20:3  and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

It's possible that the island is the prison of that old serpent, the devil.  And that he is either preparing to be loosed for a season, or he is going to be bound again- to repeat the cycle in another 1000 years.

Yeah, he's still Bizzaro-Frink.  I'm kinda 'meh on that one.

It took you 7 minutes to do that math?  I thought you were some kind of genius professor type?

Dunce cap indeed!

I haven't seen the first one yet, but I've already pre-ordered the sequel:

YESTERDAY is STILL a LIE featuring PETER MAYHEW coming soon to DVD!

and the prequel:

The DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY is a LIE featuring PETER MAYHEW coming soon to DVD!

Okay, your math checks out...  just don't leave town.

I'm glad to see that

1. Frink and bkev have returned to their normal-ish avatars

2. C3PX has not.  I kinda dig the beard and mega-yarmulke.

I've always been very jealous of those.  Glad to hear that they're just annoying dust collectors.  ;)

So wait... are you 9 or 42?

Daala?

What this thread has helped me realize is how much of the EU I really don't like.  On average, I feel like I'm an EU advocate here.  I never pretend it's more than it is and I've read less that 25% of what's out there now... but I'm glad it exists and I'm a pretty big fan of the Thrawn Trilogy, of certain ideas in Dark Empire, less of Dark Empire II and a good portion of the Tales of the Jedi line.  I'm currently reading Bane stuff now and that seems to be pretty decent. 

The rest can go hang, I guess.  Even the stuff I find somewhat tolerable, the "new" characters seem to be the weakest part of it.  As in the Jedi Academy trilogy- I totally think Luke would start an Academy or something to try to recreate the Jedi order... so that part I can dig... and I think, inevitably, since he is a new master and making it all up from scratch that he would have several students "wash out" at best and "turn to the dark side" at worst, so I can dig that too...  But... Kyp and Daala.... I haven't read the books since they came out, but I have no fond memories of these characters.

So, in a way, this thread has asked me: What EU Characters are good enough that they deserve my effort in trying to come up with an actor to portray them.  And I think my list is mostly over aver 4 or 5 attempts.

Oooh!  I just remembered one more:  Cade's mom in Legacy.  She hasn't had a lot of... er.... page time... but she seems to be a pretty interesting character.  I'll have to dedicate some of that precious time to finding her a matching thespian.

In the book "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer, he talks about an experiment involving Strawberry (or, perhaps, grape) jelly.

They asked one group of students to rate 5 or 6 brands of jelly based on how "good" they thought they were.  The results were very repeatable and the top brand was always top and the bottom jelly was always bottom.

THEN!  They asked people to rate the jellies based on certain criteria.  i.e.: Texture, flavour, Seeds/Seedless, Spreadability, etc...  NOW the worst jellies were winning the votes! 

It seems that when rationale is demanded to explain our emotional responses... that we, unable to explain them rationaly, change our emotions to fit that which we CAN explain rationaly.  The worst part of this... is that we may never react emotionaly to that same thing again!