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(Cue Weird Science theme. A stern-looking old man in a white lab coat enters the room and turns on a projector.) "Zee science eez clear — crystal clear! Traffic, eet eez very, very bad for your health. Just 30 minutes of breathing highway fumes triggers eentense stress, vee have found. Scientists in Boston say older people suffer memory loss and other problems when regularly soooobjected to car congestion. So yez, my friends, the traffic, eet eez killing you. And nowhere in Miami eez killing you faster than the Palmetto Expressway between NW 41st Street and the Dolphin Expressway. How do I know? Science, dummies! Zee researchers at American Highways Users Alliance croonched zee numbers and found zat zees eez zee worst, most bottlenecked roadway in Miami. Drivers lost 1.4 million hours and suffered $30 million in wasted time on zat road just last year. As a scientist, I can confirm: Zose are big numbers! So stay off zee Palmetto. Do eet for your health."
Christian Yelich is the finest Miami Marlins player you've never heard of. Casual observers will tell you that great baseball players hit long dingers and get a crapload of RBIs. And that may be true to some degree. But what really makes a great ballplayer is patience — knowing how to take pitches and wear out opposing pitchers, draw walks, and hit it anywhere in the field where it's safe. And Yelich is arguably one of the best at all of these things in the majors. Baseball is a game of stats, and the stat gurus will tell you the most valuable hitters on your team are the guys who can get on base. Yelich is a wizard at fouling off bad pitches and a warlock at drawing walks. This season, he's been among the leaders in on-base percentage and is driving pitchers batty with his uncanny ability to hit safely. Best of all, he now has Barry Bonds — arguably the most cerebral hitter of all time — as his hitting coach. Yelich may not be the sexiest player on the Marlins, but he's the most effective. Someone's gotta get on base when Giancarlo Stanton hits his monster dongs.
Readers' choice: Giancarlo Stanton
So here we are in 2016, again writing about how Dwyane Wade is the best Miami Heat player — what a time to be alive! In 2006, Wade was leading the Heat to the franchise's first championship. Now, ten years later, he somehow continues to lead the team. The man has cemented himself as the greatest athlete in South Florida sports history. Yes, even better than a football player (c'mon, you know who) whose jersey hangs in the American Airlines Arena rafters. Wade is the reason Miami is considered a basketball town. Outside of ex-owners who brought teams to Miami, Wade is the most important man in South Florida sports history. He has brought class, stability, excellence, loyalty, and so much else to a franchise that before him was just trying to take the next step. Wade has not only helped the team take that next step, but he's also built the team an elevator that consistently makes trips to the NBA penthouse. Dwyane Wade is what the Miami Heat is all about.
Readers' choice: Dwyane Wade
Saying a 44-year-old man is the Florida Panthers' best player sounds crazy, but Jaromir Jagr is no normal middle-aged man. Sure, he's old enough to be a father to some of his teammates, yet his dedication to his craft has him in a position to lead. Jagr was a mainstay on the Panthers' front line in 2016, leading them to the greatest regular season in franchise history and a playoff birth. Though the team didn't advance past the first round in the postseason, Jagr's leadership has the franchise going in a new direction. He's committed to continuing to play for the Panthers for as long as his body holds up, and the team seems more than happy to have him. The man isn't just a coach on the ice; he's still producing, which makes him the most valuable Florida Panther to ever tie on skates in Sunrise.
Even Jarvis Landry would have had a hard time predicting this when he was drafted in the second round by the Miami Dolphins in 2014: 194 catches, nearly 2,000 yards, and nine touchdowns in two years. It's been quite the start to what might be a long career for Landry. He has not only surpassed fans' expectations but also blown them away. Landry comes up big when it matters most and is by all measures one of the tops in the league at his position. When the team needs a big third-down catch, Landry is quarterback Ryan Tannehill's guy. When the team needs an energetic-tackle-breaking red-zone reception, Landry is the one diving at the pylon. It's been a trend for two years, and it's what makes Landry the odds-on favorite to be the face of the franchise. Most teams would say their quarterback would hold that honor, but most teams don't have Jarvis Landry.
Readers' choice: Jarvis Landry
Let's be honest — there are only a few true candidates for this honor. Luckily, Erik Spoelstra would be a worthy candidate in any city or sport. He dealt with quite a bit this past season: blending rookies playing major minutes with aging veterans, adapting on the fly to a roster that continually changed all season, and, for the second straight year, picking up the pieces after losing Chris Bosh. Unlike last year, the Miami Heat this season made those mix-and-match post-Big Three-era pieces fit. The team not only made the playoffs but also did so as a top seed. Heat fans have been spoiled by LeBron championships, so Spoelstra is set to a higher standard than many other coaches. Everything the Heat achieved in 2016 comes back to Spoelstra, and for that, he must be recognized as the cream of the coach crop in South Florida.
Readers' choice: Erik Spoelstra


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In an exclusive telephone interview with the Los Angeles News Group today, Cardinal Roger Mahony -- who remains in Rome -- called the election of Pope Francis "an extraordinary grace" and said it is a signal of renewal for the Catholic Church.
"The word that comes to mind when I try to describe my own reaction is 'ecstatic.' Just look at the number of firsts involved in his first 24 hours as Holy Father -- the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit," said Mahony, Los Angeles' emeritus archbishop. "I think his selection of his name is a signal of other firsts to come. After all, when Pope Benedict chose his name, he automatically invited us to look back at the 15 Benedicts who had come before him. The choice of Francis invites us to look forward -- not into the past, but into the future."
Mahony wrote on his blog and spoke in pre-conclave interviews about his personal preference for a Latin American pope.
"So much of the vitality in the church today," the cardinal said, "flows from the Southern Hemisphere. We wouldn't have the full pews in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that we have today without the infusion of immigrants from Latin America, Africa and South Asia, with their enthusiasm for the faith and devotion to family."
Citing the new pontiff's lifelong concern for the poor as a kind of invocation of the beloved St. Francis of Assisi, Mahony said that "in some sense, he always has been a 'Francis,' and as I've watched him move through his first 24 hours, I've been continually reminded of John XXIII and the thought that we're in store for a wonderful period of renewal."
Mahony recalled what he called "the little things," including Francis' refusal to don all the elaborate papal vestments traditionally worn during that first blessing from balcony.
"He just left all that stuff in the closet," the Cardinal recalled, describing how, when he reentered the Sistine Chapel to receive the traditional pledges of loyalty from the cardinal-electors, Francis went first to a wheel-chair-bound prelate who could not rise and personally greeted him.
"These little things speak volumes at this early stage," Mahony said. "I was also struck that when he said Mass today (Thursday) in the Sistine Chapel for the cardinals, he did not wear his mitre when he delivered the homily, and spoke spontaneously and eloquently without a text. You could see some of the hardliners (among the prelates) we not pleased."
Asked whether Francis has the administrative experience to undertake the reforms of dysfunctional Roman Curia urged by a number of cardinals going into the conclave, Mahony said, "I'm not concerned about him having those qualities himself, but I think he's going to appoint men to surround him who do. Getting the right people to help him is the key, and none of those appointments will be more important than the new secretary of state, who essentially runs things. Benedict did not have the right guy in charge, and that hurt his papacy. I don't think Pope Francis will repeat that mistake."
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A small list of the ones I like.
Already finished:
- X-Files
- Twin Peaks
- The Sopranos
- Six Feet Under
- Lost
- Flight of the Conchords
- Californication
- Freaks and Geeks
- IT Crowd
Still watching:
- True Blood (but loosing interest)
- Dexter
- Mad Men
- The Walking Dead
- Breaking Bad
- Fringe
- Boardwalk Empire
- Game of Thrones
- The Big Bang Theory
No particular order This a great thread, will give me ideas on other series to watch
2. The Sopranos
3. Seinfeld
4. Two and a half men
- Chris
Watched: 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Heroes, House and loved all of them.
Don't have time to watch TV anymore
1 – Breaking bad
2 – Breaking bad
3 – Breaking bad
4 – Homeland
5 – Game of throne
6 – The Boss
7 – Californication
i didnt have time to check Walking Dead yet, but it sounds cool..
- Tour of Duty
- Twin Peaks
- Game of Thrones
By far my favourite is House MD. It is a true masterpiece. It is not a show about medicine, it is about people, their stories, their beliefs etc. Also, the acting and the soundtrack are top notch. I also watch (or watched): The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, Supernatural, Lie to Me, Smallville, Heroes, Fringe, White Collar, Suits, Two and a Half Men, Californication, Breaking Bad, The IT Crowd.
I guess I have too much free time
These are my favorite (but I'm sure I must be forgetting some), in chronological order (I think):Favorite dramas
- The Sopranos
- The Wire
- Breaking Bad
- Sons of Anarchy
- Boardwalk Empire
- The Shadow Line
- Homeland
- Boss
- Twin Peaks
- The X-Files
- Carnivàle
- FireFly
- The Walking Dead (stopped watching at Season 2, too melodramatic, but new season came back strong)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Fawlty Towers
- Seinfeld
- Mr. Show with Bob and David
- Brass Eye
- Spaced
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Arrested Development
- The Office (UK)
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- The IT Crowd
- Eagleheart
- Louie
Dexter, Game of Thrones, Suits, How I met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men and I used to watch Lost.
What do you find interesting about The Walking Dead? It is one of the worse TV Series I've ever watched.
Stargate SG-1, Game of thrones, Startrek Enterprize


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Kanye & Kim Keep Taking Wedding Losses
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So far, nothing has gone as planned when it comes to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wedding. First, his epic proposal in an empty baseball stadium was leaked to the media early, and now the guest list is appearing to grow shorter and shorter by the day. It has been widely reported that Kim is much more in favor of having cameras document every aspect of the wedding than Kanye. With that being said, a lot of the celebrity guests that were invited lead private lives outside of their professions. According to Star Magazine, around 105 people have declined the couples' invitations. Some of the people on the list included Barack and Michelle Obama, Robin Thicke, Anna Wintour, Jonah Hill, Oprah Winfrey and even JAY-Z AND BEYONCE!! Wow! If this is indeed true, maybe they should save the cameras for another occasion.


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Tuesday, March 11, 1969
Chasing promotion to the second division for the first time, the Hornets entertained Tranmere Rovers at Vicarage Road.
Goals from Barry Endean and Tom Walley helped Watford gain another valuable two points but the most memorable strike of the evening came from long-serving defender Brian Owen.
His shot was blocked by a defender and ballooned above the crossbar towards the back of the Rookery; Rovers' goalkeeper Jim Cumbes, also a fast bowler for Surrey at the time, jogged behind the goal to retrieve the wayward ball only to be caught out as it stalled in the wind, dropped on the line and bounced off the hard ground into the roof of the net.
The goal was Owen's last for the Hornets before leaving for Colchester at the end of the following season.
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The guy ropes are then payed out according to the directions of the aeronaut, as conveyed through the officer.
The valve was shut by order of the aeronaut, and we descended rapidly.
Not when you say you are going to leave me next month, declared the aeronaut.
"I fancied they were spring flowers," said the aeronaut in a stage-aside.
He had already won his spurs as an aeronaut, as may be briefly told.
The boys seized the silk, tore, and hacked at it; as did the aeronaut.
In vain did the aeronaut try to change the course of the airship.
The aeronaut had the good luck to get off with a broken thigh.
The aeronaut stood in a large wicker basket flanked on either side by bags of sand ballast.
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London, March 3 (ANI): Viagra came to the rescue of an under-performing four-year-old bull, Boris, who was all set to make it to the abattoir.
But farmer Dave Joyce used Viagra to help enhance Boris' sex drive at Heronsbrook Farm, Solihull, West Midlands.
Boris was given a diet of herbal Viagra for a week and just two days before the French Limousin was to be sent to the slaughterhouse he regained his sexual vigour.
"He just couldn't perform and we just thought - he's got to go. He was destined for the slaughterhouse," the Sun quoted Dave, as saying.
He went on: "But he is such a nice bull and we didn't really want to get rid of him so we started looking into alternative solutions.
"Since the herbal treatment we have never seen him so rampant. hen the cows come out - he's the first in there.
"Now he is totally on the straight and narrow and calves are back on the agenda.
"It means we don't have to turn him into burgers. He is on a rigid regime of the herb formula in his daily feed."
Dave's assistant Rob Smith, 52, came across the product on the Internet. The capsules are mixture of Horny Goat Weed, Cordyceps, Damiana, Avena Sativa and Muira Puama, all of which claim to revive one's sex life.
Dave, 41, added: "Boris couldn't finish off what he started with the cows. For some reason his tackle would veer off at 45 per cent at the vital moment and all was lost. But after a few days of the treatment Boris was back to his randy old self." (ANI)


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Swinging 60s Celebration Carnaby Street
This weekend is all going to be a bit Austin Powers in W1 as Carnaby Street swings again in true 60s style. If you visit the Carnaby.co.uk website you can print a 20% discount voucher for shopping.
Trooping of the Colour
It's the official birthday celebration of HRH The Queen and the Trooping of the Colour is a spectacular event to experience and it happens this Saturday.
The Glittering London Jewellery Week
Diamonds are definitely a girl's best friend and this week there are glittering events all over town thanks to London Jewellery Week.
London Open Squares Weekend
Another great event which makes London feel truly accessible is London Open Squares where the residents throw open the gates of the usually private garden squares to make all visitors welcome – you may even get a cheeky glass of Pimm's and a cucumber sarnie if you're lucky!
And finally…
London World Naked Bike Ride
You can expect to see a few cyclists and skaters in the buff around town this weekend as this eco event takes to the streets.
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Press Release – Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce
The film industry remains one of Wellington's greatest assets, according to data released by Statistics New Zealand yesterday.
The figures show that revenue from film in Wellington generated $828 million in 2012, up 67 percent from $495 million in 2011. And they show the region continues to outstrip the rest of New Zealand when it comes to expertise in post-production and digital graphics, animation and effects, with 60 percent of post-production businesses based in Wellington, compared to 31 percent for Auckland and 10 percent elsewhere. In 2012, total revenue from digital was $482 million – or $9 from every $10 earned.
"These numbers prove just how valuable this industry is to the city and the region," said the Wellington Employers Chamber of Commerce CEO Raewyn Bleakley.
"When it comes to ensuring the city remains a great place to do business in, the council and business must remind themselves of exactly what this industry generates in terms of income and jobs.
"Our leadership in digital graphics, animation, and effects has commercial benefits that extend outside the film sector. They help form the image internationally of a vibrant and forward-thinking 21st century city, and that in itself is a great marketing tool that we must strive to maintain."
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Starting a new business online takes guts. And a budget.
There are many unexplored market opportunities awaiting visionary entrepreneurs who spot them before anyone else does. But as cluttered as the internet seems these days, it's still a wild, wild west out there.
Many are the markets still running on traditional offline methods, and for which the internet can streamline processes and automate income. Constant innovations in technology create endless market opportunities and creative entrepreneurs are reshaping the way business is done.
Fortunes are made on a daily basis by those who spot these opportunities. The whole of Manhattan was sold to someone once for $1000. The seller made a fortune, the buyer made his family rich for generations to come… Today we see the same sort of "fore vision = profits". There is a whole new land rush. Only now the land takes the shape of ideas.
An idea is just an idea and you'll need the right set of tools and knowledge to make the most out of it. You'll need a business plan and a website, instead of a map and a pick. You'll need the type of support that will have you save thousands in startup costs.
The internet is a constant-change environment. Doing business online is all about an constant adaptation to systems and consumer habits. Technology changes quicker than google provides results… and the success of any business online depends on the ability of those who run it to adapt and foresee.
If you are reading this, you're probably one of the few visionaries who has spotted a market opportunity, and you are probably looking for a reliable partner who knows the ins and outs of what makes the web a viable and profitable business platform.
Yes, we can help you. We can help you tune in your business plan. – You already have one, right? – No?… we can help you with that too. In fact it is probably the single most important part of what will make or brake your start up. Would you go dig for gold if you didn't have a map of where the mine is?…
There is quite a bit of preparation to get a business started online. You'll need to address your business plan, branding, website design and development, marketing and of course there 's always that one thing we all love – logistics.. We can help you all the way.
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Let's start with your business plan. Have you set goals? people? strategies? systems? budgets? … Yes? great let's move forward.
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Only then we start the work on your Website. Design and build your website. Actually let's turn that around… the most important part of a website is how it works, not just how it looks… Frank Lloyd Wright once said – "form follows function". On the web, "design follows functionality."
You'll also need some fuel for your business. The fuel of any business are it's customers. They keep a business alive and when they stop coming in, a business stalls, loses money and eventually shuts down. Marketing is every business fuel pump. Fuel regularly and keep your business moving.


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The owners of MW Classic Cameras, Mahendra Modi and David Woodford (hence the company name), are enthusiastic and knowledgeable. They sell rare and collectable cameras and photographic equipment, with a wide range of brands stocked, including Hasselblad, Pentax, Rollei and Voigtlander, as well as an interesting selection of old Soviet-era cameras. Of course, pride of place goes to Leica, and there are many collectable examples for sale. MW also sells some fascinating examples of old plate and box cameras. There's a mail-order service available if you can't make it to the shop.
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Your order, and after a couple of weeks you email them asking about your order. No reply. Email again. No reply
As a last resort, you generate charge back via credit card or Paypal, and suddenly you get a reply "oh we have sold most of that stuff. Do you want that remaining one item out of 7?"
Get your act together guys. It has been like this for several years now!
I love going to MW, it's amazing in there, they're super helpful and are always happy to help.
Awkward to purchase something through their website - despite advertising acceptance of cards you have to place an order, then they (supposedly) ring you up and take your card details - I waited for the call for 5 days, nothing. I rang them and he took payment, then I had to ring again another 5 days later to get them to bother sending it to me. When the camera arrived, it was sort of as stated - advertised with fungus, but also advertised as working- which it's not - the shutter sticks to hell. What really shows how much they checked over the camera before they sent it out, is the fact that it still had half a roll of film left in it. Probably not going to order again.
MW definitely deserves five stars - helpful, knowledgeable and competitive prices - there shop is a gold mine for dusty old camera users like me
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
King Ten scooped the pot, and then it started.
King Ten: Nice one.
King Ten: Thank you.
King Ten: Bad bluff.
King Ten: Donkey.
Now, I am getting better at staying out of these things, but here I could not help myself. I mean, OK, you played the hand well. You got maximum value. Don't act like you're Doyle Brunson.
Julius Goat: Classy.
Julius Goat: You run laps around wheelchairs, too?
There was nothing for another hand, and then:
King Ten: Poker.
King Ten: Classy.
King Ten: Don't really see the connection.
Julius_Goat: OK, gotcha. Enjoy your personality.
After that he got positively florid, and informed me that he was going to "slow play [me] out of the game." That's fine, I don't mind getting jawed at, especially since it was me who stuck my oar in to begin with. The great thing is that he tightened way up and basically slow-played himself out of the game. I went on to cash for like $4.60, so we know who the real winner is, don't we?
Anyway, I couldn't help myself. I understand that poker is a game of edges, and sometimes you want a psychological edge. For example, on PokerStars I have seen a George W. Bush icon (or a Barack Obama) unhinge people. It's insta-tilt for some. A player called "WifeBeat" once tilted half his table in the first minute without saying a word. So, tilting a weaker player through chat works, and can be a valid part of the game.
But what of this suggestion that poker and good sportsmanship are mutually exclusive? Why do people actually think that's true? Further, why would they WANT that to be true? You can't win without acting like you're Phil Hellmuth when you back into trips and manage to extract value?
It makes me want to punch a penguin.
And that's the point, isn't it? Mr. King-Ten wouldn't think of trying out this so-called "mandatory" classless behavior if he was within choking reach of his victim. But on ipoker sites (and even e-poker sites) all across the World Wide Web of the Internets, people think nothing of the rudest comments. King Ten was safe from punching, so King Ten decided to show us his insecurities and needle a guy with no chips. And why not? It's just part of the game, right?
Poker is a game of choices. Poker is also like life. Poker also tastes like chicken. Poker also is a metaphor for society. Poker is . . . I'm sorry, I got lost in the cliche for a second. What was I saying?
Oh yes. Poker. Choices.
Like the choice to fold your Ace Ten offsuit to five all-ins ahead of you.
Or, believe it or not, the choice to conduct yourself with politeness and good sportsmanship. You do have a choice.
I'm not a saint. I've had my share of outbursts when I've just lost a gut-punch of a hand. But I know I had a choice to react otherwise. And I don't think I've ever rubbed it in on some poor shmuck who just got bounced to the curb.
My point?
Wait. I was supposed to have one of those?
Be excellent to each other.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Friday Is Kids In The Hall Day
Thursday, May 28, 2009
My Brute
Also, if you click here, you can fight me, which will get you started with twice the normal daily fight limit (three fights) and also help me level my brute. So do it. Do it do it. Do it like seven times.
Also, "level my brute" seems like it ought to be a euphemism for something or others. Suggestions welcome.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Your Weekly Dose of Crazy
Monday, May 25, 2009
Uber 001: Quality Is Not Guaranteed
~ Ralph Wiggum on Poker
"The pursuit of bracelets is an obsession of mine, and a past-time of theirs"
~ Oscar Wilde on Poker Bracelets
Well, it looks like our favorite little dwarf is just not going to get around to drinking a lot of Guinness and giving us the long-promised uber, so here we go. Video killed the radio star, and Twitter killed the Blogfather. Oh the humanity. I'm your substitute teacher while Iggy is out, class. Just call me Squiggy. Don't put tacks on my chair.
Caveat to all: This is not your father's uber post. Quality is not guaranteed. Poker donk at work, please adjust your speed and your expectations accordingly. Also: I'm not terribly interested in poker right now, so you can bet your sweet bippy content will be less that 50% about a game played with two cards down. So it goes.
Time to quaff a Honey Brown and a handful of multi-vitamins and go to work.
The BBT4 is about to wrap up. Hard to believe but we're looking at even more Main Event Packages, ripe for the taking.
Step 1: Go over to Al Can't Hang and give him a big huge "Thank You" for yet another series of freerolls to major prizes. The guy has been hooking us up, and he knows how to use a crutch, to boot. Go give some love back.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit.
Step 4: Play any/all of the following events.
Tournament: Brit Blogger Game
When: Sunday's at 16:00ET
Game: NLHE
Buyin: $5+.50
Password: donkament
Tournament: PPI / Riverchasers
When: Monday's at 22:00ET
Game: Deepstack NLHE
Buyin: $24+2 or token
Password: riverchasers
Tournament: Blogger Skillz Game
When: Tuesday's at 21:30ET
Game: Limit Hold'em (with Knockouts)
Buyin: $10+1
Password: skillz
Tournament: The Mookie
When: Wednesday's at 22:00ET
Game: Deepstack NLHE
Buyin: $10+1
Password: vegas1
Tournament: Brit Blogger Game
When: Sunday's at 16:00ET
Game: NLHE
Buyin: $5+.50
Password: donkament
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When: Sunday, May 31st at 21:30ET
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This isn't rocket science, kids. You aren't going to find a smaller pool and a cheaper price for a shot at Moneymaker glory. Anybody can play, it's open swim at the public pool. Try to collect spare change off the bottom and don't try not to think too hard about the warm pockets you encounter.
Also, you might encounter me. Free chips this time around, for real.
Disturbing or awesome, or both? Here's the two-legged dog.
Here's a cartoon about me and the 4000 MTT I have played:
What else can I give you to destroy your post-Memorial Day productivity?
Uncyclopedia is a "content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Pure dada madness. Props to l.e.s.t.e.r. for showing me the way.
The entry on poker is the most fun you can have outside of Stupid/System and I'm very jealous I didn't write it, unless I did, in which case I am very proud and also have amnesia. Excerpts:
Poker is a very popular rigged card game in which players, sometimes referred to as poker players, put their money into a central pot called the toilet and make kebabs with each other. The money is awarded to the person whose cards are the least statistically disappointing. Poker is also very popular with the gay community, but playing a variation of poker called San Francisco Hold-Him.
The rules of the game are relatively simple regardless of the variation one chooses to play. Common games are five-card draw, seven-card stud, Russian poker (a gun is used in place of cards), Alaska give 'em, and Texas hold 'em.
Poker can also refer to video poker, a single-player game seen in casinos much like a slot machine, or to audio poker, which is played verbally with mandatory blindfolds; games of which can last some weeks. Uncyclopedia also plays part in this article as their funding came from a mysterious source in Las Vegas.
The rules of the game are relatively simple regardless of the variation one chooses to play. Common games are five-card draw, seven-card stud, Russian poker (a gun is used in place of cards), Alaska give 'em, and Texas hold 'em.
Basic rules
The rules of poker are fairly simple (although still complicated enough to confuse even those who actually know how to play).
The dealer first takes a full 52-card deck and rearranges the cards in his favour (this is called shuffling). Blind players must sit to the left of the dealer. After that is completed, a certain number of cards are dealt to each player. Depending on the game, each player may receive between zero and several cards. The players then take their cards and make a hand.
At this point most players will make an obvious indication that the hand is satisfactory, or will attempt to cheat. If a player is caught cheating he is hanged. Yes, he, women are not allowed to play poker.
Each respective player then attempts to fool the other players into thinking that his randomfold their cards in half and burn them, else they enter into a battle of wits with the very mathematics that allows the game to exist. If the player loses (and he usually does), he is then declared financially ruined. The player who manages to avoid the cruel backhand of statistical math gains the money from the toilet, although it is usually a temporary gain as the money will almost certainly be lost in a future game. set of cards is worth something when in fact it is not [also known as bullshitting or shitting bulls]. After the players decide whether or not they have been sufficiently tricked, they either
In the Wild West, the winner is the player with the biggest hat, and the dealing of cards is just foreplay.
Common hands
A hand is an arbitrary combination of cards, some of which are considered better than others. If a player somehow manages to defy logic and draws one of these hands, he may win the round (if it can really be referred to as "winning").
- Brunson: Ten Twos aka T2s. Only wins in a showdown as it will always lose if your opponent(s) fold. Example: 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣ 2♣
- Royal flush: All five cards are the same card. This is the highest-valued hand because of the astronomical odds of actually drawing this hand (especially with just one deck). Example: Q♦ Q♦ Q♦ Q♦ Q♦
- Straight flush: All five cards are of same suit, although not all of the same sex. Example:K♦ Q♦ J♦ Q♦ K♦
- Gay flush: All five cards are of same suit, and same sex. Example: K♦ J♦ K♦ J♦ K♦
- 7-Card Stud: Hand contains exactly 7 cards (due to dealer fault/bribery). Example: Jok 8♠ 9♠ K♦ A♣ 10♣ 3♥
- EXTRA flush: Contains at least two cards of the same suit. Example: J♦ 5♥ 3♣ 6♣ A♠
- Impossible card: Hand contains one or more impossible cards. Example: 5♠ 10♣ 12♪ X♥ A♦
- Royal Twister: All cards are of different value and color. Example: K♣ 3♥ 1♠ Π♦ 8♦
- Four of a kind: Four of the cards are the same suit. Example: 8♣ 4♣ 9♥ 3♣ 6♣
- Value combo gold: Cards are exactly as follows: 3♣ 8● J♠ A♠ K♥
- Value combo silver: Cards are exactly as follows: 2♠ 3♣ J♦ 7♣ A♦
- Value combo bronze: Cards are exactly as follows: K♣ 8♦ 10♦ 94♣ BATMAN♦
- H4x0r5 house: Hand that contains 1337: 1♠ 3♣ 3♦ 7♠ A♥
- Smith: When you have a four and a random high card. This one is only eligible when you live in the town of Hilversum and are 2metres tall. This hand wins from any other hands. Example: 4♣ J♥ K♣ A♠
- flush H4x0r5: Hand that contains 1337 of the same suit: 1♠ 3♠ 3♠ 7♠ A♠
- Check: Cards form a valid Chess move. Example: ♘♦ A♥ 3♣ A♣ 5♦
- Oscar's potty: Hand that can spell out any 5 letter word when squinting. Example: 8♦ 0♥ 0♦ 8♣ 5♥
- Fibonacci house: Cards follow a fibonacci sequence, regardless of suit. Example: 1♠ 2♣ 3♥ 5♣ 8♦
- Straight: All cards show numbers or letters constructed purely from straight lines. Example: 1♥ 4♠ 7♦ K♥ 11♠
- Equation: Cards form a valid equation. Example: 2♥ =♠ 8♦ -♠ 6♣
- AAAAA AAAAA: AAAAA AAAA AA AAAAA AAAAAAAA. Example: A♠ A♣ A♦ A♠ A♥
- Motorhead: Cards are exactly as follows: A♠ A♠
- The Portfolio: Your cards are the stock ticker symbols of Fortune 500 companies or large-cap mutual funds.
A'zample: K♠ GE☼ F♦ C¢ AAPL● FCNTX♥
- Credit Cards: Obtaining one or more credit cards in a hand (debit cards are acceptable). Example 2♠ 9♣ VISA 4♠ 10♥
- AC/DC Combo: Cards are exactly as follows: A♠ C♠ / D♠ C♠
- Devil's Hand: 3 of a kind spade sixes. Example: 6♠ 6♠ 6♠
- Pi Hand: when you have the pi number. Example: 3♠ 1♠ 4♠ 1♠ 5♠ 9♠
- Klansman Hand: You have KKK. The klansmen will come with their spades and ropes, poke you and hang you. Example: K♠ K♠ K♠
- Other: All other hands are considered worthless. Example: A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ 10♠
- Crazy house: When you get cards that don't exist Example: sdfopihfosihdfoihsdfn♠ 123455261723♠ HMRFRA (her majesty's royal flying rat's ass)♠ Peter Griffin♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠
Penthouse: When you get cards that have celebrity names. Example: Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠ Barney the Dinosaur♠
Poker Terminology
Wilde Cards - 'Wilde cards' were those most used in the early days of poker; however they were outlawed due to their persistent reckless behavior. Players tired of being thrown from their chairs and in time, thanks to dedicated breeding, domesticated 'tame cards' became the norm.
Jacking Off At The River - a practice severely frowned upon by most players, involving repeated fast play of one's hand. Known in the UK as the 'One King' strategy.
The Fosbury - A kind of 'flop' invented during the 1960s, when the introduction of extra thick baize on poker tables permitted this without fear of injury to the player. This enabled Dick Fosbury to attain the highest recorded poker hand at the time, measuring 2.24 meters / 7 feet 4.25 inches.
Floppy Nuts - when a player goes all in on 2♣/7♥, and the flop is J♠/Q♠/K♠, he is said to have drawn floppy nuts. This is not to be confused with the Nutty Flop, which is a flop consisting of seventeen 2
cry me a RIVER - this is when the poker game is abandoned due to unforseen circumstances ie flooding or natural disasters such as the releasing of an unbearable gas from an opponants arse or the general arrival of chuck norris
Poker was invented around 1800 by Braggy McJebus, sixth President of the United States. Originally the deck consisted of 48 cards, with an additional 52 Jokers, all of which were wild. Split pots were not uncommon. Back in the old days, they didn't have things to gamble on like those newfangled horses or hats with feathers, so they had to gamble on less frivolous things such as PSP's, PS3's, and Pamela Anderson clones.
Origins of the ace
Once the wild cards were reduced, 'to generally less than 17 per deck' ("Hoyle On Poker: A Dead White Guy Teaches You How To Think Like One" London, 1865, pp134), people started winning (and losing!) at Poker. The non-wild cards in the deck ran only Deuce to King, as it was generally held that Ones were a bit pointless, since no-one could think of a cool-sounding nickname for them like 'treys'. But in 1877, a tense game of Poker in the 'Wild West', a bar two miles north of Schenectady, NY, ended in uproar when James Jessey, a keen player, took umbrage at one too many 'bad beats' and, on seeing at the showdown that his opponent's 4 kings could not be beaten, simply took four blank pieces of paper and placed a letter 'A' on each one. 'This is a higher card', he said, producing his six-shooter to quell all arguments. The 'ace' quickly became popular, and was incorporated into the deck. The practice of inventing new ranks of card mid-game died out in the 1890's, during the Great Paper Famine.
Often inferior players would, when faced with a tough raise, ask their opponent to give them 'a clue' as to the cards they held. If the other player agreed, the requesting player (the 'divot') would turn one of their own cards face-up on the table. This, combined with an overenthusiastic dealer, led to the invention of 7-Stud in 1884. Further variations like Texas hold' em, Alabama chew 'em and electric boogaloo high-low split (now, alas, played almost nowhere) soon followed.
The most popular form of Poker in the world today is Mississippi Sip'em (or 'Mahjong'), which has only one rule which can be expressed linguistically (and this is it).
Furthermor the variation of gimpetus verticalis where players will be forced to sit on the ceeling and attempt to throw their best cards into eachothers eyes before the blood rushes to their brain ultimately ending in their inevitaable death, mostly played by sucidals and gimps!
Most Humans will bet small children, unborn fetuses, mother-in-laws, vital organs, another human's vital organs, and animal remains. Often the bets are decided before the game is started. Bets can include anything of value from toilet paper to solid gold breasts. Many young women decided to put their dignity as well as their virginity on the poker court. This is popular amongst Las Vegas whores and extremely drunk women. Sometimes men try to place their dignity on the table but that usually ends in their death.
By the mid 1800s, poker was very popular and, for a brief period, Friday was renamed Pokernight and men were relieved of all prior family commitments in order to participate in the game. However, as more and more people began to realize the truly evil nature of the game, a public outcry from concerned citizens resulted in the United States government passing the Devil's Card Game Act of 1844.
The act prevented the game from being played anywhere within the country, and also disallowed poker chips from being manufactured or sold. While the act was backed by many citizens, it was despised by others -- poker players mainly. Desperate players turned to bootlegging; that is, the manufacture of illegal poker paraphernalia for unlawful poker games. The illegal games were often set up in the backrooms of bars and pet stores, where men would congregate for hours at a time. The government stopped paying attention after awhile and the prohibition law was de facto repealed, although technically it is still punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Present day
Today, poker remains illegal, though like murder, people do it anyway. It is most commonly played in the home or outside of the home. While early generations were well aware of the true nature of poker, the last few generations seems to remain oblivious to the evil intentions of the game. It continues to destroy lives on a daily basis.
Famous Players
The most famous player in poker history was Inflatable Bill [Explanation unavailable due to uncontrollable circumstances involving Interpol].
Mr. T was famous poker player. He play to get mo' gold on neck.
Optimus Prime won his role in Transformers by betting against the Honda Robot back in 1976. He later bet the role in a game against Satan on the Spanish Train. Satan was later caught cheating by the almighty God. He promptly returned the role to Optimus.
Michael Jackson once won a small human boy in a game of poker against Bill Gates and Edgar Allen Poe.
Oz Pearlman is also known for inventing the infamous poker strategy of wearing black sunglasses. The general idea behind it was that other players would not notice when he fell asleep and would themselves become tired waiting for him to end his turn. This would however, often backfire once someone realized that he had actually fallen asleep, and then proceed to draw on his face with permanent markers. Today, this strategy is still used to make it harder for others to read one's facial expressions. Considering that sunglasses only cover a small portion of the face, it is easy to understand why this strategy is amazingly uneffective. Additionally, the sunglasses make you look like a jackass (perhaps the only positive aspect).
Chuck Norris owns the greatest poker face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 world series of poker despite him holding just a joker, a 2 of clubs, a 7 of spades, and a green number 4 from Uno and a monopoly 'get out of jail free' card.
Zhuge Liang was undoubtedly an enormously famous and successful poker player due to his extraordinary intelligence. He was able to predict absolutely everything and hence always wins, especially when he's playing against Cao Cao and Sima Yi. It's very unfortunate that he died on the Wuzhang Table during one of his matches because he refused to take breaks and kept on working on his plans for his hand.
Psychics are all excellent at poker, but many did not play because their predictions has told them that they were going to lose.
Doyle Brunson and Chris Ferguson also merit a shared line between them.
Chipolucho/Chipolino - some Mexican. Loves donkeys.
Oh Lordy. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to go spend the rest of my life reading and writing for Uncyclopedia. I've found my calling.
Some quick blogger shout-outs:
Falstaff is killing it with a modern-day Adam and Eve parable. Check it.
Shamus and others will be bringing us WSOP news and views from PokerNews.
Drizz is covering Sunday Millions for PokerStars.
Al is covering the WSOP over at Poker From the Rail.
And, of course, Pauly will be giving us urinal updates over at Tao.
WSOP is here again. Seems like only yesterday I was writing nonsense about the November Nine, all of whom I know personally. What are the odds I will know the upcoming November Nine? Better than you think.
A lot of parents are rightly concerned about this new "sexting" trend among teenagers. Happily, the internet is here to provide parents with a helpful guide to various "code" that the "teens" are using these "days" for "the sex."
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Seriously, Iggy, it would probably be better if you left Twitter and came back to us. This post was like when the Superfriends were off on a mission and it was up to the Wonder Twins and the blue monkey to save the day.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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Friday, May 22, 2009
LOST 039: Old Country For No Men
It was a very good episode. I liked it very much.
OK, not too much more than another 10,000 words to say about the Light/Dark Jacob mythology, since I've covered that pretty extensively already. Suffice it to say that, once again, I am incredibly impressed by the command the show creators have over the story. In two hours, they told a frenetic, engaging, action-packed tale, and at the same time answered a LOT of questions. I've taken off my speculation hat, but let's just run down the things we now know beyond doubt.
1) There are only two factions. It was getting cluttered, wasn't it? You had the Branch Dharmidians, Radical Richard and the Hostiles, Widmore's Crusaders, Eloise Hawking and LampPostials, The Shadow of the Statue Crew, Lostaways, Tailies, Ghosts, Muppet Babies, Autobots, Decepticons, Cylons, Superfriends, Chuck Norris, Ghostbusters, the REAL Ghostbusters, C.O.B.R.A, and Gummi Bears. It was the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
Now? There are two factions. Those who are with Jacob, and those who are with his enemy. We may not know who is on which side. Hell, THEY may not know which side they are on. Locke at least thought he was Jacobian and was being played. However, I think we can semi-safely put Richard, the Other extras (in fact, I'll just call this group the Jacobians now), and the Shadow of the Statuians with Jacob. Eloise? Widmore? Well. Let's just say this. They were leaders of the Jacobians at one point, which means, ostensibly, that they had access to Jacob and/or a Ben-like level of worship for him. I'd say for that reason alone Dark Jacob would have been trying to corrupt them. Let's set them aside for now.
2) The idea that humans can make choices that allow them to progress appears to be the main bone of contention between the Jacobs, and is perhaps the big question of the show itself.
This augers well for the idea that the bomb changed something.
3) Whatever the Dark Jacob's "loophole" is exactly, it involves getting access to Jacob, which requires the ability to impersonate a dead man who would be seen as the Jacobian's leader, and also another person who is willing to kill Jacob.
I believe that most of the mysterious events we've seen, including time travel, the ghosts, the freighter, the island moving, the Oceanic Six, and the return to the island, have involved Dark Jacob's attempts to set up this loophole.
I think that the way many of these characters have made peace with their demons is Jacob's influence in some way.
I think Locke is dead and Locke was duped. I also think that Locke truly is special to the island and that we'll see Locke again? Why? Simple economics. The story has invested too much of itself into Locke to allow it to end this way. Let's just say he has become far too compelling to fail.
4) Jacob has been involved in the lives of the people he wants to come to the island. I think we can safely say that he's been orchestrating it all along, behind the scenes. This to me is a pretty strong explanation for the strange coincidences we've been noticing throughout the story's run. It also explains the Others, if not the details. These are people who have come to be part of what Jacob is doing. For whatever reason, they have been given knowledge about what is going on here, and they want in. Perhaps whenever a new group is drawn to the island, there is this period of hostility and indoctrination. This may explain why the Jacobians don't just crush Dharma, even though they have tunnels leading right into their homes.
This would say rather dark things about the eventual total Dharma purge (though, since Ethan was Dharma, I guess it may not have been a total purge). I would say that it seems like something that would have been orchestrated by Dark Jacob.
5) We know the bomb goes off, whatever that might mean. Because of it, there is almost no way on earth to predict what will happen next.
So let me make some predictions.
Insane Predictions
These predictions are more general than the "here's specifically where the main plot is going" stuff I've seen elsewhere. I think any prediction made on that front will probably be proved wrong. However, here are some things I think based on story. Because in many ways, the story is like the island. It demands certain things. There are specific rules. And, if we think about what the demands of the story are, we can pin a few things down, sort of.
1) Everybody will be reunited in the same time-frame. We have a whole lot a freaking mythology to cover. There really isn't much point in spending a few precious episodes getting everybody on the same time line.
Plus, then Sun can transition to being frantic about reuniting with Jin, to being frantic about reuiniting with the child she totally left behind without a second thought.
2) Nobody can be assumed dead. Not Locke. Not Jacob. Not even Juliet. Let's face it, she was sitting on top of an atomic blast, and that does usually kill a person. But Desmond was on top of something or other that looked quite similar, in the exact same place and it basically just Hawkinged him through his own Einstein and back on the beach again. More on this in a bit.
That said, I don't think we'll be seeing much of the actress playing Juliet next year, but I wouldn't completely rule out a brief but vital appearance.
I also am worried about Sayid. Very, very worried.
As for Locke, I think we've already seen Jacob bring him back from the dead once.
As for Jacob . . . well, he just seemed to sure of things. He had an ace up his sleeve, no doubt. I strongly suspect that dead is not dead for that dude.
3) Some viewers are going to HATE the ending. In fact, I'll say that if you didn't like Season 5, you may well hate the series ending. I think that for some, Season 5 was about needless convolution. For others, it was all about answers. In fact, it was almost exclusively answers. I'm in the latter camp. Yes, I still have questions. But they are different questions. This isn't some X-Files scenario where I'm still wondering what was in the hatch, or if the guy they captured is an Other or is really a balloonist named Henry Gale. Almost every question I had going into Season 5 has been cleared up to one extent or another, or has been put into a context that allows me to see that we are driving toward an answer.
Bottom line? This is a show that trusts its audience to an unprecedented degree. We are never going to have somebody just sit down and tell us, "OK, so here's the whole story." But we WILL get almost everything answered, if we put in the work. However, it will be answered in the same way that questions have been answered up to this point; by inference. And there will still be questions. Other questions. Questions to keep us arguing long after the show is over. If you don't like that, that doesn't make you dumb, or unsophisticated, it just means you have different taste. But it does mean that you probably won't like the way this show wraps up.
Here my friends, is how LOST gives you answers. They just show the story, and in the story allow you to make the necessary connections. It is (to my taste) by far a preferable way to tell stories, especially when compared to having some character named Barnabus Pontificator Expositioncakes appear with a few heavy pages of dialogue. (Exhibit 1: The Matrix Sequels).
For example, with the information we've received over the last five seasons, we can make any number of very strong guesses that clear up a lot more of the mystery for us.
For example, given the fact that we know Dark Jacob can impersonate one dead guy (Locke), it is not unreasonable to extrapolate that he can impersonate other dead people.
Then, just think about the appearance of any of the "ghosts", what they've said, what they did. See if any of those appearances don't in some way further Dark Jacob's goals. The ghosts have served to either make Ben feel bitter and alienated, or were the impetus for the island moving and the time jumps.
It's not overtly stated, but I think you can pretty strongly assume that the ghosts and other odd apparitions have been explained. They are Dark Jacob. At least most of them definitely were. There are a few instances where the ghosts seemed to have a neutral or even helpful effect. Perhaps those were something else. Perhaps they were Jacob. However, if the ghosts are not Dark Jacob, then they were some other entity, appearing as dead people, and basically making the plan of some other entity who can also impersonate the dead happen. It seems logical to say that the ghosts were Dark Jacob. If nothing more is ever said about Christian et al, I think we can safely assume this.
Also, it has been noted long before this that the ghosts seem to have the black smoke either appear before them or after them. It has been speculated (not incorrectly, I think) that the black smoke is the ghosts. I think we can assume with a high degree of confidence going forward that Dark Jacob is the black smoke.
Now, all of these are assumptions, but they really fit well. In fact, they fit so well that I think it can be considered the answer until we're given further info. By that I mean, if they never explain the smoke monster further, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on how the smoke monster fits into the story anyway. I'd like more, I think we'll get more, but if that's all we get, it can suffice.
Let's take another example, and this time let's make it something that has always bugged me.
They killed Libby off with a big mystery still hanging. To wit: Why was she in the same psyche ward as Hurley, anyway???
Then, after she was dead and in the ground, she returned in the season finale, in a Desmond flashback, to give Desmond the boat that took him to the island. Just out of the blue, boat for Desmond. Desmond gets a boat from a stranger. Who is Libby.
And then, the show's creators informed us that there was nothing left to say about Libby. To which I replied, "the hell there isn't." It seemed like almost willful ignorance on their part, as though they were baiting us. I mean, obviously there were HUGE unanswered questions about her. How could they say they thought her tale was told? But now? I've realized that Libby has pretty much been explained, if you stop and think about what you know, and then make the logical inferrence. She just hasn't been explained in laborious detail, with her own one-hour long flashback, but we still have it.
Eloise Hawking is part of a group that is dedicated to maintaining the timeline, perhaps the timeline in general, but certainly the particular part of the timeline in which Desmond and the Oceanics take their various paths to the island. This in and of itself might give us certain hints about what the nuke really did, since the last time we saw her she was dedicated to preventing that timeline, but nevertheless, that's what Eloise is up to. Furthermore, she's assisted by operatives (like the butcher who stored Locke's body for Ben) who seem to live and work among everyday people.
We also know that Eloise was the leader of the Jacobians.
We also know that there were Jacobians off-island, who made sure that they were on the Ajira 316 flight.
We also know that Eloise has equipment that allows her to predict the location of the island, and to know when a airline flight is likely to cross paths with the island.
We also know that one of the Tailies was "kidnapped" by the Jacobians that were on-island.
Thus, it's not impossible to infer that Oceanic 815 may have had some Jacobians onboard.
And we know that Libby showed up and gave Des a boat that was fated to bear him to the island. Thus preserving the timeline.
Do I need to fill in the dotted line for you?
Question 1.
Libby was a ____________.
A. Jacobian.
B. Jacobian.
C. Jacobian.
D. I hate this show, they are just making stuff up.
What about Libby in the psyche ward? In this case, I don't think we have quite such a clear picture, but we have enough. Libby in the same ward as Hurley is a rather large coincidence, but there have been literally dozens of similar ones between various characters. Most of them haven't been played up as a huge end-of-show reveal, so it was probably sloppy on the writer's parts to give that coincidence so much more weight than (say) Sawyer meeting Jack's dad at the bar, or Jack operating on Shannon's dad, or Eko visiting Claire's psychic (another likely Jacobian).
But we've seen Jacob in the lives of these people now. We know that their lives have been orchestrated by him in some ways, though we don't know the exact mechanics of it. That, I think, is going to be our explanation for the coincidences. That's good enough for me, and I hope it's good enough for you -- because if it isn't? You are probably going to be disappointed.
So, it's show-don't-tell storytelling. Double shot of ambiguity. It's great. I love it. Even if you don't, I hope you agree that at least it's preferable to a Locke-flashback that is all about how he came to be Nadia's housing inspector. Or, you know, the origin of Jack's tattoos. That's where it would be if they were still doing the same show we loved in Season 1. Let's not forget what this show nearly became, and shudder.
* I've gone on long enough about stuff I loved. Here's something that I just hated. Jack. Specifically, Jack's stated motivation for setting off the bomb. He was willing to erase 3-4 years of everybody's life, progress made, love experienced, children born, all because Kate didn't wuv him no mo? That's sick. What's worse, it isn't even Jackian. Jack is a great character, in that he started as a superhero and gradually got revealed for somebody with a deeply destructive messiah complex. He was at his most likeable this season, as he surrendered to fate and seemed to have gotten over that, but it was still compelling to see him fall into the same "Me Jack Me Hero Savior" trap as before, and decide that his destiny was to exercise his free will. Perfectly nonsensical. Perfectly Jack. But to do it all for a chance at a girl he never had chemestry with? Whatevs, show. I only accept this as something he'd tell Sawyer because he thought that's what Sawyer would understand, as opposed to his REAL motivation. Sadly, there's no hint that this was the case, and to pretend otherwise is wishful thinking. Happily, Sawyer kicked Jack in the testicles for being such an idiot.
* Juliet's motivation for backing Jack was pretty dumb too. They didn't have as strong a ready-made good motivation for her actions as they did for Jack's, but they could have done better than to introduce the eleventh hour parental divorce-back. Silly. And good on Sawyer for proving her wrong.
* Speaking of bad motivation, given that Jack's reasoning was screwy, and given that Eloise is now trying to preserve the timeline she was meant to destroy . . . and given that Desmond's turning the key on the failsafe created something that looked semi-nuclear . . . I just get the sense that the nuke was always a part of the Incident. It's just a feeling. Also, to follow this line of thought, the failsafe key Desmond turned was very clearly refered to as a Big Reset, so . . . might that event, way back in Season 2, be the reboot event? Remember, we have some strong indications that we are dealing with some kind of time loop here. If something is breaking time, it follows that it is occuring outside of time itself, and if that is the case, it really doesn't matter at what point within perceived time the reset event occurs, it would permeate throughout time.
That would mean, though, that a reset would not have been possible without the detonation. Thus, destiny has been served. It sort of fits.
By the way, my wife has to put up with this stuff all the time. Pity her.
* Sawyer may have been this Season's MVP. Holloway's performance as he tried to save Juliet was shattering. Seriously amazing work.
* I still want to know why Sun didn't travel back. In the clip show, Lindeloff said it was because they hadn't perfectly re-created the flight, but that just doesn't wash for me. Did Sun re-create it more perfectly, somehow? In what way? That whole thing could use some explaining. I think we're going to lose it, though.
* Do you think ANY of the Jacobian leaders ever got to meet Jacob? I wonder . . . One wonders, when one considers just how instrumental both Eloise and Widmore were in getting Locke to the island in the first place, and then in getting his corpse back to the island, just which team they are batting for.
* What do you think led Ben to set up Jacobian camp in Dharmaville? Might Dark Jacob have done it, knowing that it would lead to Jacob ostracizing Ben? While we're at it, who could have seen this character arc coming for Ben? The man with all the answers is forced to admit he was pretending the whole time. I feel for the guy, which I didn't think was possible. Delicious again, LOST.
* The statue has been confirmed by ABC as being that of Taweret, Egyptian goddess of fertility. You think the bomb destroyed the statue? You think maybe that explains the childbirth problem? Maybe, maybe . . .
* You know what's cool? With the Jacob vs. Dark Jacob scenes, we now have information that none of the characters have. For the first time, we know more than Ben. And, given that we know almost nothing, Ben really was in the dark, wasn't he.
OK, folks. I'm done. It is going to be a loooong nine months.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Haiku 004: The Gap Theory
You are the gap between
reading Sklansky and
understanding Sklansky.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Your Weekly Dose Of Crazy
You won't believe what Mr. Stitches saw . . .
Monday, May 18, 2009
LOST Prologue 06: Wrong
"I was wrong."
-John Locke, Season 2
"There's a battle coming, John. And if you aren't there, the wrong side is going to win."
-Charles Widmore, Season 5
OK. I'm wrong about all this.
You know that, right?
I wrote my theories as authoritatively as possible, but I do want to disclaim, now. All this was my reaction to what we saw last night, which changed our perspective of the show like nothing else has previous, not even the flash forwards. So much has been revealed. So much has been hinted. And, of course, a lot is still unclear. But the scope has widened by a factor of ten, and we're starting to understand the stakes of this battle over the island. We're starting to see the various sides.
So, you have hopefully enjoyed, or at least borne with me, as I have set out my educated guesses as to what it all means. To boil it down to the essentials, that is:
1) Jacob and his Dark Brother are adversaries over the role of people. Most specifically, over whether or not they can improve, or if they are fated to remain the same, and if they have choice, or if they are merely slaves to destiny. Jacob is humanity's Advocate. His brother is humanity's Adversary. Yep, it's just that Biblical.
2) The island is Jacob's laboratory for these experiments, and he draws people to it by playing an active, though hidden, role in their lives. They are on a kind of a time loop, replaying these events with only slight changes again and again and again. Jacob rules at a distance on the island, preferring to give his subject room for choice and free will. This island is analogous to, or perhaps in fact is, the Garden of Eden.
3) Jacob and the Dark Brother are bound by rules which include not killing one another, or at least the Dark Brother is bound not to kill Jacob. However, he can convince somebody else to kill on his behalf. Dark Brother needs access to Jacob and a willing killer. This is complicated by the limited access Jacob gives his followers, and the devotion he inspires among those who follow him.
4) Dark Jacob manifests as himself, but also as the dead, and also as the entity known as the smokemonster. He has used these manifestations to guide Ben and Locke to this point.
5) Jacob's death is, in fact, a larger part of Jacob's plan, though his brother doesn't know it. Something in his death gives Jacob the upper hand in a way his brother never anticipated.
Those are the educated guesses. Some of them aren't really up for debate (like Jacob being involved in our character's lives) except in terms of degree. Others really are just guesses and assumptions, though plausible ones. The Eden thing just resonates, and since I've been proposing it since late Season 2, I'm sticking with it. It is still possible.
But I'm wrong.
Of course I'm wrong. Remember, I'm the guy who had Sawyer as a lock for the Season 5 dead pool. I'm the guy who was positive that Locke and Jacob were one and the same, or perhaps maybe Jack was. In any event, Jacob was FOR SURE somebody we already knew. So was the statue. Etc., etc.
So I've made lots of assumptions. And I'm doing it again.
And here's the big one: I'm assuming Jacob is the good twin. Just because he's the light one. How ethnocentric of me. I will now return my liberal arts degree.
No, not just because he's the light one. Also because of his empathy, and his willingness to be killed. And because he hasn't seemed to truck in lies, whereas the Notorious DB has dealt in nothing but. But really, who IS the "wrong" side? Who is it to Widmore? To Eloise? To Richard? Do they even know which side they're on? I think at this point we, the audience, may finally have more information than any of the characters.
So, that was a pretty key episode.
But still. If LOST has taught us anything, it's that first impressions are often the ones that lead us astray, and easy assumptions are quickly reversed with proper context.
I have no idea if the bomb was a part of The Incident all along, or if it changed everything. My current opinion is that it alters things, but not as expected, and that it may be the event that causes this time loop. So we run it again and again and again, and each time the bomb goes off, and each time it is part of the incident, but each time it changes things . . . again.
I have no idea if Real Locke will ever return. I hope he will. He ought to. He deserves to.
I have no idea if Jacob will stay dead. I hope not.
I have no idea what's coming next.
All I know is two things:
First, all future plot twists will involve the revelation of John Locke's corpse in a series of different boxes.
"They're coming."
Whatever that means.
Next: It was a good episode, and I really liked it quite a lot.
Prelude 01: Bad Twin
Prelude 02: Wheel
Prelude 03: Push
Prelude 04: Deep Magic
Prelude 05: Converge
Friday, May 15, 2009
Your Weekly Dose Of Awesome
LOST Prologue 05: Converge
"What about you?"
"Teilhard imagines a critical threshold, Omega Point, in which mankind will have reached its highest point of complexification (socialization) and thus its highest point of consciousness. At this point consciousness will rupture through time and space and assert itself on a higher plane of existence from which it can not come back.
So, why Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? Walk with me.
Jacob is sitting on a park bench, waiting for John Locke to be pushed out of an office building and die. He's going to bring him back to life when it happens. How odd; he's not going to heal his spine.
In the meantime, he's killing time until Cooper kills his son. He's reading a book, holding it up so you can read the cover and be momentarily impressed by him. Flannery O'Connor's book of short stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge. The title story is about the post-segregation South, back when the corpse of Jim Crow was still warm. It's about the difficulty of human contact between white and black. It's about fear of The Other.
The title was taken from a passage by Teilhard, the Jesuit priest who got in some hot water with the Catholic church by suggested that creation wasn't done, and that humanity was, in fact, evolving toward something. He called that something the Omega Point, the purpose of creation. He suggested that it is drawing itself to us from the future, and once we arrive, we'll become something else.
What is Jacob up to?
Why doesn't he heal Locke?
Why does he stay in the shadows? Why does he only show himself to a chosen few prophets?
Why doesn't he ever show himself to Ben? One minute of his time would have been enough to prevent a stabbing. Ben was so hungry for his attention, his approval. Would it have really been that hard to do?
Perhaps it all comes down to choice.
"Whatever you've been told," Jacob said, "You have a choice."
Ben thought that the island had told him to follow Locke. But that had been the dark brother. Perhaps Jacob knew that this moment needed to come. Perhaps he needed to leave it up to Ben.
How many times has this happened? How many times has Ben had a choice to make? Evolution takes a long time. After a while, the best traits win. The best genes. The best organisms. The best ideas.
The best choices.
As Jacob prepares for another turn of destiny's wheel, as this Omega Point draws people once more to him, is he surprised by the choices from the time before? Does he wonder at the intricacy of the tapestry, and how slowly it moves, how surprisingly the smallest choices make the thread wend in new directions?
He draws them here, with little pushes, to his laboratory. Here, where perhaps the Fall of Man is not something that happened, but something that happens. Or, perhaps, someday . . . doesn't.
He leaves them choice. The tree of life? Or the tree of knowledge?
Is he proud of Bernard and Rose for stepping out of the endless struggle and enjoying life and love? Is he proud of his Adam and Eve, who have chosen wisely?
He brings these people here to lead their lives. He heals some. He allows others to die. He helps some on a healthy course. He allows others to keep their demons.
He preserves choice. Above all, inside and outside and throughout time, however much his dark brother hates him for it, he preserves choice. And waits for perfection.
"What about me?" asks Ben.
Yes, exactly, thinks Jacob. Sincerely curious.
Yes. "What about you?"
Next: Wrong
Prelude 01: Bad Twin
Prelude 02: Wheel
Prelude 03: Push
Prelude 04: Deep Magic
Thursday, May 14, 2009
LOST Prologue 04: Deep Magic
-John 14
"It means," said Aslan, "that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who has committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward."
-Clive Staples Lewis
And now a word about deep magic.
Doesn't Jacob look a little like a lion?
Oh wait, never mind. I was talking about deep magic.
Deep magic is the claim the witch had on the traitor Edmond. She was as old as time, and she knew the law that was born with it. Blood was her right by law of deep magic, and she claimed it, knowing that her enemy Aslan would offer his own. And Aslan submitted to the darkness, the law inscribed on the table, and the table broke. Light took over.
Aslan the lion - that old school Trojan horse Christ figure of children's literature - knew about a deeper magic. Magic outside of time. And Christ? He said he'd come back, and he did for a time, so the disciples recount. But before he was killed, he said he'd live on. He said he was going to a house with many rooms. Only later did they realize that he meant that they were the rooms. Them. The ones he'd been with. Those he'd touched.
At this point, you know who lies in the shadow of the statue if you know Latin or at least how to get to Lostpedia. Richard's answer was "The one who will save us all." And, of course, we know that it is in the shadow of the statue that Jacob makes his home.
Did Jacob seem at all worried when his brother came to kill him? His brother had been sharpening Ben to a razor's edge for thirty five years. Death had come. The loophole had been found in the Deep Magic. He didn't seem worried to me. To me, he seemed . . . ready. When he'd been stabbed, but before he'd been made into a burnt offering, he told his brother "they're coming."
His brother did not seem happy.
What was that all about? Who is coming? From where are they coming?
From when?
Does Jacob perhaps see them, these people he has called, these people he has touched . . . as many rooms? There is deep magic on this island, and the brothers submit to it. Is it possible that Jacob knows of deeper magic still?
At the end of season three, LOST threw us a curveball. Three years of flashbacks . . .and then a flash forward.
But this season we have a curveball that is just as noticeable, but perhaps not as immediately understandable as such.
The final L O S T card, the one that says, "show is done, here comes Bad Robot."
Five years of a little bit of light against the consuming darknes. And suddenly, now, at the moment of Jacob's death, and of his dark brother's triumph . . . just a bit of darkness consumed by light.
Why is that?
A reach? Yes. Probably. Certainly. Total reach. To conflate LOST of all things with a Christian children's novel of good versus evil, a dimensional portal near a Lamp Post, written by Charlotte-I-mean Clive Staples Lewis.
Total reach.
But Jacob does look a bit like a lion, doesn't he?
Next: Converge
Prelude 01: Bad Twin
Prelude 02: Wheel
Prelude 03: Push
LOST Prologue 003: Push
-John 8
"Maybe all it needed was a little push."
Now let's speculate a little. About the brothers, and about the push.
Both of these brothers, the light and the dark, influence the people who come into their sphere. Jacob, we've already noted, calls them to himself.
He does this softly. Gently. Empathetically (I'm sorry this happened, he says to many of them.)
He does it annonymously. He comes to them at key moments. Sometimes what he gives them isn't much. The price of a stolen lunchbox. An extra candy bar. Sometimes he influences them in major ways. A distraction that saves a life. A touch that restores it. His influence doesn't always seem beneficial. He provides the pen that helps a boy become a man consumed by thoughts of revenge.
He touches them. Every time, he puts his hands on them.
He guides them, behind the scenes. Nudges. Push. Push. Push. Do you think the instances we saw of his interactions with these characters was the only time he ever entered their lives? I don't.
But his brother interacts with them, too, in different ways, no less subtle and annoymous. Insidious. Lies. He lies with his lips, but he lies also to their eyes, to their hearts. He appears as those that were dead. He takes on the guise of Locke.
Think of who else he has appeared as, and to whom. Think of the influence of the walking dead in this show.
To Ben he has appeared many times. When Ben was a child, he took on the appearance of the boy's dead mother, and lured him to himself. When he was older, he appeared as Alex and ordered him to follow "Locke." As Christian, he convinced Locke to move the island, and to bring his departed friends back to play their part. In the cabin, he played the part of "Jacob" to tow men -- Ben and Locke -- ignorant of his nature and of Jacob's. As Locke, he convinced Richard to give him access to Jacob, chosen murderer in tow.
He never touches anyone, not even to help a man with a broken leg off the floor. Perhaps he can't. Perhaps that is one of the rules that binds him.
He pushes, as well. He pushes with lies. He crafted Ben with such meticulous lies that Ben himself became a master liar. To those desperate for meaning and approval, he gives false promises. With lies he convinced Locke to follow the path of his choosing, convinced Ben to kill the man whose approval he craved so desperately.
He needs a loophole. Lies can crawl into the tiniest cracks. Though the slightest seams. They are as noxious and as ephemeral as . . .
Next: Deep Magic
Prelude 02: Wheel
Prelude 01: Bad Twin
LOST Prelude 02: Wheel
-Stephen King, The Dark Tower
"They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same."
"It only ends once. Anything that happens before that, it's just progress."
LOST, Season 5 Finale
Now let's talk about The Dark Tower.
No, not the unfinished C.S. Lewis novel about time travel and inter-dimensional travel. No, no, no, I'm talking about a work that has even more parallels to LOST. Besides, my CS Lewis prelude post is forthcoming.
No, I'm talking about Stephen King's Dark Tower series. If you haven't read it, um . . . major, major SPOILERS here. You've been warned.
Roland is a gunslinger, half Clint Eastwood, half knight of the round table, who is chasing a man in black across an endless desert. When he catches him, he discovers his true quest. He needs to find the nexus of reality, and save it from unraveling. He'll need to sell his soul on the way.
The story deals (and this may seem familiar) with time travel, and with interdimensional travel, and with certain numbers that keep cropping up everywhere, with two sides – dark and light – in opposition, and with an inescapable collective and individual destiny. Especially with destiny, which Roland and his company refer to as ka. Time is a wheel, we learn, and at the end of the book we discover that Roland is fated to go back and live it all over again.
And again.
And again.
Only for an instant does he realize how long he's been doing it, and then it's gone. It's hinted that Roland has walked this hard, hard road nineteen times. Elsewhere, it's hinted that Roland has walked it 1,999 times. As the book ends/begins, we are told that just one thing is different now. He has his ceremonial battle horn with him, the one he lost when civilization fell. Just one little change. A small, almost insignificant reason to hope that this time . . . this time . . . the cycle will break.
Time is a wheel, you see. It keeps coming around.
Which brings me back around to LOST. I don't think our friends kept Oceanic from crashing. But I now do think that they changed something. Maybe some little things. Maybe when we start Season Six, much will be familiar, but smaller things in the grand scheme will be different. Penny is in the hatch instead of Desmond. The plane in the tree is red. Hurley has a violin case.
You see, Jacob and his brother seem to hint in this conversation that it's all happened before. And it will all happen again. And yet Jacob keeps trying, keeps reaching out to these flawed people, keeps asking them to come to him, to follow him. Every time it goes wrong. And Jacob's brother hates him for the trying.
Each time it ends the same, complains the brother. It only ends once, Jacob insists. And in between is the progress.
Can destiny be changed?
Do you have a choice?
Jacob thinks we do. He plays white's side, as humanity's Advocate.
His brother disagrees. He plays dark's side, as humanity's Accuser.
How many times has Jacob tried? If I had to guess? I'd say 108 times. And if, next season, Hurley's numbers add up to 109 instead? I won't be a bit surprised. It's Roland's ceremonial battle horn. Little changes, you see.
Oh, and if you think I'm making a stretch in my allusions here, go see what JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof are doing when they wrap Lost up.
Prelude 01: Bad Twin
Next: Push
LOST Prelude 01: Bad Twin
23 The LORD said to her,
"Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger."
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. [e] 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. [f] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
-Genesis 25
WALT: What is it, like checkers?
LOCKE: Not really, it's a better game than … checkers. You play checkers with your Pop?
WALT: No. I live in Australia with my mom.
LOCKE: You have no accent.
WALT: Yeah, I know. We move a lot. She got sick. She died a couple of weeks ago.
LOCKE: You're having a bad month.
WALT: I guess.
LOCKE: Backgammon is the oldest game in the world. Archeologists found sets when they excavated the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Five thousand years old. That's older than Jesus Christ.
WALT: Did they have dice and stuff?
LOCKE: [nods] Mhhm. But theirs weren't made of plastic. Their dice were made of bones.
WALT: Cool.
LOCKE: Two players. Two sides. One is light … one is dark. Walt, do you want to know a secret?
-LOST, Season 1, The Very First Freaking Episode
OK, so.
Two brothers live on an island. One light. One dark.
They live together in a peace imposed on them by rules, which appear to be mystical in nature, and of a power greater than them.
They appear to need to eat, or at least they do eat. They do not seem to age.
The light one devotes himself to art. He appears to have the ability to come and go from the island at will. He draws people to the island, to himself, apparently of his choosing. He visits them. He touches their lives, briefly. He touches them, physically but subtly.
The first he brings may be a slave ship.
The light brother has hope for these people.
The dark one has no hope for these people, whom he sees as fallen and unworthy. He hates his light brother, and hopes someday to kill him. He will do anything to accomplish this.
They are, perhaps, men. They are, certainly, also something more then men. They may be ideas. They may be scientists. They may be playing nothing more or less than a game, the island their board, these people their pieces.
But even in a game, the stakes can be desperately high.
They are brothers. And they have been in contention for a very, very long time.
Next: Wheel


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Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
2ND playthrough chest reaper?
Hey i've defeated it but only my MC is alive and i got an item for my MC
my question is.. when theyre all alive... CAN they have their weapons in the treasure chest?
2.how many chests w/ reapers are there in the 2nd playtrough?
ronaldj44 - 7 years ago
Top Voted Answer
Ultimate weapons are only acquired by the characters in the active party during the Reaper fight. Also, you can only have one of the ultimate weapons ever, so don't worry about missing it unless you never get to fight Reaper again.
Any common chest has a chance to contain the Reaper instead of an item, but this can be influenced by drawing the Lovers Arcana Chance in reverse. This will cause all common chests to contain the Reaper, however, getting that specific card chance on reverse in itself is already a rare point on its own.
xeare - 6 years ago
You only will get ultimate weapons in sort depend on your party. For example I bring Yukiko, Naoto, and Chie in battle. 1st time you defeat reaper you'll get MC's weapon, 2nd time you'll get Chie, 3rd time it's yukiko, and 4th you get naoto. When you defeat reaper 5th time, you'll only get godly robe (ultimate armor for everyone).So if you want to gather all 7 ultimate weapons just bring the party that you don't get the weapons before. In this example I must bring the guys team (Kanji etc) to battle.Reaper chests are completely random so just grinding in final dungeons (Either magatsu inaba/mandala or yomotsu hirasaka)
handryspoof - 7 years ago
If you manage to bring down reaper easily, just defeat it using your MC alone, ultimate weapon good for strength, the godly robe is amazingly give you 10+ stats, and the Orb is very useful making you invisible(nullified against all attacks except almighty). just a reminder that the orb is for MC alone cuz I've tried more than a couple times alone, but still, cant get the orb again...only godly robe again and again...
blazekusanagi - 5 years ago
^ actually, you COULD get the orb again, but the chance of dropping is like less than 1% so getting a second one isn't out of the question.
xeare - 5 years ago
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Studies on the significance of names tell us that the name we are called by can has a powerful impact both on the way we see ourselves and the way others see us. One of the reasons the Church encourages Catholic parents to choose a saint's name for their children is that, as Christians, our identities ought to be completely devoted to the pursuit of heaven–the ultimate prize–from the first day of our birth.
There is power in a name. It announces us, and in many cases, it may come to define us.
The ever-entertaining and insightful, Rocco Palmo offers this brilliant off-the-cuff analysis of the significance of our new Holy Father's name.