After long procrastination, I've finally set up a host for my own domain, so Utility Fog Blog will be moving to a new home. There will be no further posts made to this site, and sooner or later it will disappear altogether.

Reasons:

• More Storage. Sooner or later I was going to run out of room.
• Shorter, Cooler URL. No more yadda-slash-cgi-bin-slash-yadda-slash-blosxom.cgi nonsense.
• Probably Cheaper
• Indexable by Search Engines. Google has problems with the "~" in my old URL. Now Google can index individual posts, not just a month's worth.
• Better Syndication. The "~" problem extends to RSS and Atom feeds too. No more duplication of posts.
• Cleanup. Moving a site to a new host is an excellent excuse/opportunity to get rid of all the unneeded and unwanted files that have built up over the years.

How did I overcome the technical problems? It was pretty simple: I cancelled that hosting account and set up a new one with another company. Getting everything to work still took some work, but nothing like the death march before.

The New - UtilityFog.Info:

• Utility Fog Blog : New Location
• New RSS Feed
• New Atom Feed
• New Home Page - Minimal Enough?

Note: Everything should work fine, but I'm still tinkering and whittling down the ToDo list, so there might be hiccups.

Why the lack of posts? Well it seems that I've racked up 24+ man-hours, dozens of Google searches, multiple dozens of web-pages, 20 bookmarks, 10 Firefox tabs open at a time, deep study of the Apache server reference pages for Mod_Write, RewriteRule, and htaccess, baffled muttering , more Apache research, and uncounted attempts to upload and test a configuration of my new web site that will do what I want.

And all for naught. The problem kicked my mental ass. I could disable one of the security measures the hosting company set up, but that would be like cheating, and it might piss them off too. So I've sent a support-ticket off to the Help Desk. I know they can help me, an Apache Server can be configured to do just about anything you want, like turn squirrels into pocket watches. But the question is, will they? The support gods can be fickle, and may decide that my quest falls outside of their sacred purview.

So here's hoping for a happy answer.

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1977
• Now the horsemen ride up, nice guarding job there, cowboy.
• Why does Widmore think that Dharma's declared war? Faraday with a pistol?
2008
• Richard building Black Rock model in bottle?
• Dried squid on rack
• How did Locke kill boar? Knife throwing?
• Say hello to the new "take charge" Locke.
• Interesting that the 2008 Others aren't hostile to Sun.
• Richard is an "advisor".
• Richard watched "them all" die. This should be interesting. Still some uncertainty as to who "all" is.

1977
• I'm really looking forward to the explanation of why the Others are the way they are. I'm especially intriguied by their air of moral superiority.
• How do people with British accents end up as Others? It would be different if all the Others had the same accent.
• Here's where Hawking's lesson in how things can't be changed begins.
• Dharmaville was built over the bomb? Nice survey job.
• Radzinsky is staging his own off-broadway production of "Lord of the Flies".
• I'm surprised Radzinsky didn't threaten Juliet, as in cut off her hand or the like.
• Of course, closet Jimmy is the woman-hitter.
• You never know when vanilla cookies will come in handy.
• Hurley's ninja skills work on everyone but Chang.
• Hurley worries about other people. This is one of the defining aspects of his character.
• Is the dead guy right? Consider his record.
• Ellie seems to outrank Richard.
• Ellie has a condition, probably pregnancy.
• "Love can be complicated"-brother and sister? They're the only Others we've seen with British accents.

2008
• Richard confirms that Locke is the leader of the Others
• There were other people with Richard when he helped wounded Locke. Close observation of the scene partially showed Locke through the beechcraft window
• How did 2008 Locke know when 2005-Locke would appear at the beechcraft?
• Does the Locke/Richard beechcraft scene play out like it did before? I need to compare the dialogue.
• The Island told Locke when to help his earlier self.
• Locke thinks Ben has never seen Jacob.
• People disappear with a thumping noise when they time-shift.

1977
• There must be something really bad due for Radzinsky. I predict his mind will get scrambled in the S5 finale.
• Sayid is still killing people to protect his friends, and he doesn't seem to have much of a problem with it.
• Richard and Sayid-this ought to be good. It's like a summit of Island coolness.
• "Since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become OK?"
• Just how big is that sub? Can it hold all those people?
• He talked Juliet out of going on the sub because he wanted her with him.
• Water parallels-Sub and moon pool
• This isn't the big waterfalls
• No Jack, we won't bring the bomb back through the pool, you dick.
• Sayid can't miss the excitement.

2008
• Sun is focused on one thing, Find Jin.
• Locke wants to upset the traditional ways.
• Is Richard in on a "Jacob Con"?
• Forget why Jacob has to remain hidden, why do people follow his orders?

1977
• Nemo - heh.
• Juliet and Sawyer make a great couple, now let's get them armed.
• Nice CGI of sub leaving.

2008
• Locke is going to kill Jacob? Ben's life just sucks harder and harder.

Predictions:

1: Jack is screwing up. He went 180 degrees-from having faith in the Island to grasping at loony Faraday's half-baked "we can change things" theory. He's falling back into action-Jack mode in yet another attempt to Fix Things.

Of course, it isn't his fault. Screwing things up IS his real purpose, at least for now. Jack's job in 1977 is to help create The Incident-that's why he was sent back in time..

2: After the finale we will all be going WTF. I think the time-travelling will be gone, to be replaced by something even stranger.

3: Widmore didn't fake the 815 crash site to fool Ben and the Others-they knew exactly where the plane crashed. And he didn't need to fool the "real world"-If he can't find the Island, how can they? No, Widmore faked the deep-sea remains in an attempt to throw someone off the scent-someone who could tie the crash and the Swan event together and who is looking for the Island too: Illana's "Shadow of the Statue" group.

"As I write this, the EATR is under active development. The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, funded by Darpa, is a robot designed to eat everything in front of it for fuel. Fuel that it will use to swarm around with its mates and kill humans. Even better - once the human corpses have dried out a bit, EATR could eat them too, to fuel more roaming and swarming and human-killing. Sure, the builder, RTI, states that this filthy business is for "the benefit of humanity". But if Darpa could have found a way to fit a death ray on to the internet... well, most of you probably wouldn't be around to read this. EATR - they called it EATR! - isn't intended to roll around the farm and eat slugs for power like that cute little agri-bot that was on the BBC a few years back. EATR will eat logs and roadkill and shrubs and basically anything that is or was alive - and all in the pursuit of gunning down, blowing up and probably yanking the junk off humans."

"bone repair doesn't come cheap, and maintaining skeletal integrity consumes maybe 40 percent of our average caloric budget."

1: This episode accounts for all of Daniel's time once he gets off the Sub. He and Pierre Chang never have an opportunity to make the "Dharma Booth Video". So much for the DBV being "strict canon".

2: I found Faraday's explanation that "people are the variable" and that they can indeed change the past to be very, no, INCREDIBLY weak. That was it? The whole of season 5 so far has been predicated on the notion that "whatever happened, happened" and now it's all out the window because "gee, I guess I was wrong".

3: What happened to the sneaky "king of the jungle" Others? "Twitchy" Daniel Faraday just waltzed into their camp.

4: Just how stupid is Faraday's plan? In 4 hours he wants to convince the Others to let him dig up Jughead (and let him explode it on their precious Island), dig up said atomic bomb that should be encased in concrete and lead, transport it to the heavily guarded Swan site (without motor vehicles), repair it, and then make it go BOOM. Yea, that'll work.

"In January 2004, the carcass of a 50-ton sperm whale explodes in a Taiwanese city center. NGC examines the physics and the biology of this 100,000-pound animal whose body was destroyed by its own internal forces."

The Whale that Exploded

Make sure to check out the wallpapers - they're perfect for the office.

Not to be confused with Oregon's TheExplodingWhale.com.

Remember kids, dynamite is not an acceptable option for dead cetacean disposal. What goes up must come down.

• Number on microwave
• Pierre Chang's "wife"?
• White ceramic rabbit.
• Miles has been talking to dead people since childhood



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• Tommy Lasorda became manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 29, 1976.
• Sawyer: I owe you one - this is new
• Video tape numbers?
• Ponytail on Horace
• "Circle of Trust"
• Radzinsky is operating on Hostile territory
• Nice whistle, let everybody in 2 miles know you're out there
• Hairy guy, shot in head
• Sooooo looking forward to Radzinsky meeting the unpleasant end of a flaming arrow.



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• Have a few piercings - they would not react well to Island electromagnetism.
• T-shirt pattern?
• Miles' Mom has cancer.
• Pierre kicked Mom/Miles out - Mom's story.
• Pierre died on the Island



---

• Still no sign of Jimmy
• Miles doesn't like what he heard from the corpse
• "You on a secret mission?" - Hurley not as dumb as he looks.
• Juliet and Kate don't have a story ready.



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• Song - boarded 747 Seems It Never Rains In Southern California Hammond Albert
• "There is no bounty hunter"? What the heck?
• Alvarez died from EM yanking out his filling through his brain
• Hugo calls Miles' talent.



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• When they're desperate, ask for more money.
• Miles lied to the Dad
• Naomi is a fox.
• T shirt pattern?



---

• Lost loves that swing set.
• Nobody can lie to anybody this episode.
• So much for the Kate/Roger friendship
• Captain and Tenniele, "Love Will Keep Us Together".
• Young Miles would have preferred Joy Division
• Hugo goes by Hurley in Dharma
• Pierre isn't impressed with the Hydra Polar Bear experiments



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• Dead guy is Felix, delivery guy (like Miles) to Widmore.
• There really were empty graves, who emptied them to fake Flight 815 is still uncertain. Why would Widmore need pictures if he emptied the graves?
• 1.6 million, half what Miles asked from Ben.



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• Yes Miles, why did you tell Hurley?
• Miles' Mom is on the Island.
• Moist rags work better to clean blackboards.
• Blackboard lesson is about ancient Egypt
• Jack is incurious about Ben's disappearance.
• OK Jack, let's see you be apathetic about a threat to Kate.
• Porter? Who's Porter?



---

• Miles is 3 months old in 1977, which would make him 31.
• Miles is horrified that his Dad like Country Music.
• Hurley is really pushing it.
• Yea, that fake bush will really fool the Others.
• Hurley is thinking about trying to change the future.



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• Bram, one of Ilana's merry men.
• "Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue"
  
  Why would Bram think Miles might know the answer? Why would Ilana think Lapidus might? It sounds like they don't they know who might be in their group. Were the members of Ilana's group recruited/enlisted one by one, and then "spontaneously" came together?
• Bram offers knowledge and community, he sounds like a true believer - like the Others, if they recruited.
• If Bram works for Widmore, he either doesn't know it, or he being used to test Miles.
• Bram's recruitment spiel to Miles doesn't confirm my theory that Ilana's group are the ancient pre-Other inhabitants of the Island, but it doesn't hurt it either. They don't seem to be Others or Widmorean. And their zealotry fits well.



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• Hurley in van mirrors Bram in van.
• Hurley's notebook has a Dharma logo featuring an apple and a book - school?



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• Pete shows some loyalty. Too bad it got him busted in the chops.



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• Miles shows a sense of responsibility..



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• Oh crap, Juliet is wearing a red shirt. Don't do this to me.
• Luke Skywalker got hand cut off - Pierre Chang will get his arm cut off.
• Dharma baby clothes
• Polar bear storybook.
• Faraday got off the Island, did he stowaway on the Sub?

1. Screencaps - "Some Like it Hoth"
2. LOST Episode 5x13 "Some Like it Hoth" - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis

I have an idea about Ilana and her band of merry men. Even for a Lost theory, this is very speculative, but I like the way it might work.

I think Ilana and her crew could be members of an old (or even ancient) group that is the true enemy of the Others.

Pro:

1. Ilana's question: "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" is a reference to the far past, when the statue was still standing and had more of a shadow than from a giant ankle.
2. Ben's famous answer to Michael: "We're the good guys". This implies that there are Bad Guys.
3. The Others are fanatical about defending the Island, and have been since at least before 1954, when they repelled a US military force. What if their focus on defense stems from knowing about a specific persistent threat? And by persistent I mean a group that has been trying to take the Island for possibly centuries.
4. If Ilana is working for Widmore, either he neglected to tell her about Ben and Locke, or she was told to leave them alone.
5. Lost is a show full of reversals. Losties become Others, or become Dharma. Dharma members become Others. Others live where Dharma lived, then Losties live where Others lived. Con men become heroes, Doctors become addicts. Dead men become live. I could go on and on. What if the Others, who are seen as the "indigenous" true-believer defenders of the Island, were actually once the invaders? What if they took the Island from an earlier group, and then "went native"?
6. Widmore seems to be fading as an active villian. I can see the show wanting a clear antagonist in the run to the grand finale.

Con:

1. A third group would complicate things even more than they already are, which is PLENTY.
2. I can't think of any clues to this new group appearing in the first 4 seasons, which is kind of like having the Empire show up only in the last half of Return of the Jedi.

"Then, as quickly as a balloon inflated at a vendor's tank, and with much the same hiss and squeak, the gryphon was as large as a Great Dane. Bronwyn felt the recoil from a sharp glance of molten copper eyes, before a final burst flung the monster to its full height, far above her head. She held breath and heart still in utter, utter awe. ...

Its steel claws had enveloped her like a cage when, with a shriek like a steam locomotive, the gryphon disintegrated. Bronwyn was scooped from the earth, tumbling into a huge, soft hollow, and the pit of her stomach wrenched with the sensation of rising rapidly. She looked up and for the one dizzying moment before she lost consciousness she saw, towering above her like a mountain, the abundant, boundless, heaven-crowned figure of Thud Mollockle. "

• Widmore rode up on a horse, where the heck did they get horses?
• "Island chooses who it want to"
• 1977 Charles is rocking the flowing pirate locks. I bet he missed that hair.

---

• I knew Ben would have a story
• We don't even have a word for it - my ass, they've got to call it something, even if it's "That which shall not be named".

---

• What's in the box? Is it MAGIC?
• "Have a great day" - Friendly Ben is double creepy.
• Caesar doesn't work for Ben, at least not knowingly. And he doesn't seem wary of him, so it seems he isn't much in the know.
• Look, Ben has found another Sayid

---

• Ben and Ethan, messing with Danielle - pre-Purge?
• 1992 - 1977 = 15, that might work for Ethan's appearance.
• The French arrived in 1988, when Danielle was 7 months pregnant. So at the latest Alex was born in 1989. That was not a 2+ year-old Alex. So either the facts about the French are wrong, or the Purge didn't happen in 1992, or this scene is 1988/89, before the mass murder of the Dharma Initiative.
• And that's how Ben learned Alex's name.
• Run away from whispers- Why?
• Ben knows something about Whispers, they existed before the Losties.

---

• Photo of Alex
• I was afraid that Locke was letting Ben run around free
• I killed you to get the O6 back, and hey, It all worked out in the end. I did it for the Island.
• Ben didn't apologize
• Be careful what you wish for, Ben.
• How exactly is Locke supposed to be forcing Ben to go?
• Well, that was unexpected. Why did Ben kill/shoot Caesar? Why did he manipulate Caesar into confronting Locke? How convenient that Caesar left his most important asset unguarded.
• Ah Caesar, we hardly knew ye.
• "Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile? I have overshot myself to tell you of it. I fear the honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar, I do fear it!"

---

• Ben lying? I'm shocked, just shocked.
• Locke has insight now.

---

• Much older Widmore,
• Ben refuses to kill innocent child
• Widmore's case is that killing babies protects the Island? How are Danielle or Alex threats to the Island?

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• Ben didn't answer Locke's question - was it his idea?
• Locke is just wonderfully spooky this episode, almost Richardesque. Except that Caesar would have shot him.
• Game of Risk shows this isn't an alternative timeline (w/o Losties).
• Ben freaks at hearing Christian's name. This whole episode is a Bug-eyed-Benfest.
• Ben says he didn't know the Losties were in 1977. Is he lying or did his Temple visit erase it all? Does this mean Young Ben doesn't return to Dharma until after the Losties have left?
• Ben doesn't know a everything, in fact he's in the dark.

---

• Stone faced Sun
• "As long as the dead guy says everything is ok..."
• Jacob Lantern
• Ben pulls the plug - Smokey contained by water
• Ben can talk directly to Smokey

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• Widmore wasn't tricked into turning FDW
• There has to be more to Widmore's "exile" than Ben kicking him off.
• How did the Others get on/off the Island before the Sub?
• Widmore broke the rules by constantly leaving the Island and having a daughter with an outsider - so Penny isn't Ellie's daughter.

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• Ben basically admits to killing Locke, claims he didn't know Locke would be resurrected/reanimated, it scares him. I think he's telling the truth.
• Ben expects Smokey, gets Locke instead. We're clearly supposed to make a connection between Locke and Smokey.
• Was Locke dealing with Smokey or is Locke Smokey? Or Smokeyesque?
• Ben can't control Smokey, and he can't control Locke.
• "Not a train", though sometimes it sounds like one.
• "it's weird for me too" "I'm the same man I've always been" - maybe he's always been Smokey, at least since Sun knew him.

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• Our Mutual Friend - Dickens
• Widmore hasn't got people watching over his daughter? What good is having bazillions of dollars if you don't use them?

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• Ben and Locke have traded places from their first time around Jacob's cabin.
• Wall around the Temple. Temple is half-mile away - BIG WALL
• Locke is receiving special knowledge.
• Is Ben sorry?

---

• Ben wouldn't kill Danielle/Alex, but he would kill Penny
• No bullet wound that I saw on Desmond, groceries or Island/Timeline?
• That is one pissed-off Scotsman
• I would say no dead Penny or Charlie. So how is Desmond going to get to the Island now? Or more importantly, "Why"?

---

• Illana and which three?
• "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" - Is this a passphrase like "What did the one snowman say to the other snowman?" - Others?, why not Latin?
• Did Illana have allies on board, or something else? Sudden conversion to Othership?
• 
  

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• Ben's fall mirrors Locke's down the Well
• More hieroglyphics
• Jackal god and Smoke monster
• Grating - 7x7=49
• Shows Ben scenes from the past
• Torch relighting, nice touch
• That's not Alex - It's a Yemi/Smoke-Zombie
• Smokey wants Ben to follow Locke. This is going to be interesting.
• 
  

I have got to cut down on the toad licking.
I had a dream that Billy Holiday was licking my frontal lobes.

or,

Dammit, just when I get the DharmaBong© fired up, you buzzkills drop in

The Play-by-Play

Theories, Predictions, and Deep Thoughts

Articles

"With any luck, the economy will never recover.

In a perfect world, the stock market would decline another 70 or 80 percent along with the shuttering of about that fraction of our nation's banks. Yes, unemployment would rise as hundreds of thousands of formerly well-paid brokers and bankers lost their jobs; but at least they would no longer be extracting wealth at our expense. They would need to be fed, but that would be a lot cheaper than keeping them in the luxurious conditions they're enjoying now. Even Bernie Madoff costs us less in jail than he does on Park Avenue.

Alas, I'm not being sarcastic. If you had spent the last decade, as I have, reviewing the way a centralized economic plan ravaged the real world over the past 500 years, you would appreciate the current financial meltdown for what it is: a comeuppance. This is the sound of the other shoe dropping; it's what happens when the chickens come home to roost; it's justice, equilibrium reasserting itself, and ultimately a good thing.

I started writing a book three years ago through which I hoped to help people see the artificial and ultimately dehumanizing landscape of corporatism on which we conduct so much of our lives. It's not just that I saw the downturn coming-it's that I feared it wouldn't come quickly or clearly enough to help us wake up from the self-destructive fantasy of an eternally expanding economic frontier. The planet, and its people, were being taxed beyond their capacity to produce. Try arguing that to a banker whose livelihood is based on perpetuating that illusion, or to people whose retirement incomes depend on just one more generation falling for the scam. It's like arguing to Brooklyn's latest crop of brownstone buyers that they've invested in real estate at the very moment the whole market is about to tank. (I did; it wasn't pretty.)

Now that the scheme we have mistaken for the real economy is collapsing under its own weight, however, it's a whole lot easier to make these arguments. And, if anything, it's even more important for us to come to grips with the fact that the system in peril is not a natural one, or even one that we should be attempting to revive and restore. The thing that is dying-the corporatized model of commerce-has not, nor has it ever been, supportive of the real economy. It wasn't meant to be. And before we start lamenting its demise or, worse, spending good money after bad to resuscitate it, we had better understand what it was for, how it nearly sucked us all dry, and why we should put it out of our misery."

"President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so?

You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question. "

"We moved to Vancouver in late 1997 and discovered our otherwise macho little alpha dog was afraid of water. I'd jog on the beach with him every morning, and he wouldn't go near the ocean. When my soon-to-be-wife ran a bath (for her, not him), he'd hide under the bed.

That all changed the day we went deep sea fishing off English Bay, and brought the dog along (before kids, you always bring the dog along). He mostly stayed inside the boat, cowering in fear, until we reeled in the first salmon. The moment that fish flew out of the water and flopped back and forth on the floor of the boat, a bell went off in Tanner's head: water equals fish. Fish equals...something I must have in my mouth right now!

He spent virtually every moment of the next decade trying to catch one. The size of the body of water was irrelevant: ocean, lake, river, puddle, bathtub, sink. In Tanner's mind, all water must contain fish. Fish flop. Fish = fun.

No dog obsesses quite like a Jack. Every time I bathed the kids, he would sit on the edge of the tub, waiting for that salmon to leap out of the water and into his jaws. It would eventually happen, he figured. He'd seen it. He had proof.

He would sprint along the shoreline of our cottage lake for 14 hours a day, chasing schools of minnows. In recent years, as my son grew old enough to cast off our dock, Tanner would leap off after every cast, trying to beat the worm to the sunfish.

He never did catch one. But he never stopped trying. Man could learn something about perseverance from a Jack.

Tanner had more success with rocks. Some dogs fetch balls, some fetch sticks. He fetched rocks. Not little rocks. Rocks half his size. Boulders.

One day at The Beaches in Toronto, after we'd moved back east, Tanner drew a crowd of 100, all stopping to watch him "rock-fetch." He'd swim out 20 feet, dive under the water, disappear for 30 seconds, and emerge with a rock twice the size of his jaw. The crowd went nuts. I should have put a hat down and collected tips"

"Bizzang!! Here comes THE SUN! Ow ow!!"

"Let's go, Frank. The Magical Mystery Tour is waiting to take you away."

("Dad, drop us off at the end of the street. I don't want my friends at the dance to see you.")

--2008--

• Frank has a bad feeling about this.
• Illana doesn't look worried at all
• "You're gonna rip us apart"
  THATS WHAT SHE SAID.

• Now would be a great time for the vehement "nothing that already happened can be changed!" movement to explain why the original Dharma radio transmission is playing on the co-pilot's radio as he attempts his mayday call. Especially since Rousseau had changed the message in the mid-80's and had actually turned the message off about two seasons ago. Following the one time string theory, hearing that message in 2007 would be an impossibility.

  Vozzeck69 - (Were there 68 previous Vozzecks? Ah, nevermind)

  Well, not impossible, just highly improbable. Someone would have had to turn the message back on. And why would they do that?

  Hey, isn't the Looking Glass jamming gone for good? Could the "new" numbers broadcast be reaching the outside world?

• That sounded like Pierre Chang reciting the numbers to me. This is turning into an internal "guest shot" - first Hurley, now Chang.
• Lapidus is a damn good pilot, even without a beard.
• Lost's Emergency Plane Landing Goes off the Runway - Popular Mechanics
• Damon and Carlton infer that Jacob ordered the runway built. In any event, somebody had foreknowledge of Flight 316's arrival.
• The Others had 3 years after the Island moved to finish the runway.
• We've got one dead copilot added to the moral cost of going back to the Island.
• Does Illana says "Sarah" or "Jarrah" when she wakes up?
• Caesar and Illana don't seem to know each other from before the flight.
• Sun not teleported - dead in original timeline, or work to do in 2008?. I vote for "still work to do".
• Ben not teleported - Still full of deadpan, bugeyed snark.

--1977--

• Sawyer calls him Hugo-graduated from Hurley.
• Losties think Locke is dead
• "Dead, how?" - "It doesn't matter" - one thing is certain about the Losties: They never pass up a chance to NOT share information.
• It's 1977, so much for Jack's "Nothing weird is happening" schtick.
• Good for you Kate, ask questions.
• This finally got to bothering me: Sawyer has had 3 years to think about what to do if Locke brings back the 06 - but he doesn't have any plan ready.
• The long awaited Radzinsky, who is a MAJOR DICKHEAD.
• He's got some nice paintings though. No landscapes for him.
  

  

• Radzinsky is building a model of the Swan.
• Swan Model and Blueprint Image
• Radzinsky (he needs a nickname) refers to the Island as "Our Island".
• Radzinsky started the Blast Door Map in the yet-to-be-built Swan:

  The big question now is "Why", since Radzinsky should have known already known all the info on the map, and wouldn't need it, or need to go exploring to locate stations.

  Maybe the upcoming "Incident" scrambles him, like Faraday, Charlotte, and Minkowski.

• Jin has no good story ready.
• If Hugo hadn't told Jin that Sun was on the plane, if Jin hadn't gone running off, if Sun had just asked Radzinsky if anything was up, if Jin hadn't found Sayid-well, I think Sayid would have eaten Radzinsky's lunch, handcuffed or not.

--2008--

• So much for Frank's attempt at leadership. He would have had an interesting time telling the survivors the truth.
• Time for Ben to make his exit.
• Freaky deadpan Ben - he's getting creepier.

--1977--

• What book is Amy reading? It looks like a Bible.
• Juliet is still baby-doctoring. I wonder how they explained that.
• Dharma used sedatives on immigrants like the Others, or visa versa.
• Amy and Horace's baby is Ethan Rom, who goes on to join the Others and be their surgeon. Is "Rom" Amy's maiden name? How Ethan becomes an Other sounds like an interesting story.
• Don't play poker with Juliet - she doesn't blink.
• Could Amy become the Other Amelia, of bookclub fame?
• Ethan sure as hell didn't look 27 in 2004.
• Juliet: "Timings gotta be right" - heh, like not 30 YEARS OFF.
• Sawyer: "Everyone gets knocked out before the trip, so no one meets each other until we process 'em." -What, EVERYONE on the sub is unconscious? How does that work? Who's driving the bus? How do people really get to the Island?
• The Looking Glass exists
• Dharma has motion sensors (1977)
• Rad leaves his post
• Jin doesn't know the wink-wink signal.
• Hurley cuts to the chase - the shit will hit the fan in 1992.
• Sawyer: "Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories on what we can and can't do here." - Are there interesting things they can do?
• Faraday is gone? Where?
• Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride:

  Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
  Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
  Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
  On your way to a world that others might have missed

• Dharma has some interesting haircuts.
• 14-J at the Flame - Intruder Alert.
• And there's tonight's "Son of a bitch"

--2008--

• How does Ben know there are 3 outriggers?
• Ben actually tells the truth, he doesn't know where Jin is. He's gotten to the point that when he doesn't lie it's news.
• Hi, I'm Ben, and I'll be your tour guide.
• Ben: "Why are you following me?"
  Sun: "Where are you going?"
  Ben: "Back to our Island. ...You wanna come?"
  

  Interesting choice of words. Does Ben now consider Sun to be a rightful inhabitant of the Island?

• Those branches covering the canoes look fresh.
• Oh, that's why Sun followed Ben-nice move. No more "I'm a scared female" or half measures for her - she's a player now dawg.
• Ben is injured not by crash, but by oar.
• Where is Locke on the first day?

--1977--

• Pierre Chang!
  Why is he processing lowly workmen? Doesn't he have some science to do?
  Oh, he's doing Amy's job.
• Why is Chang wearing a Swan station logo? According to Radzinky they haven't built it yet.
• Chang thinks the home office in Ann Arbor has their head up their collective behinds.
• Jack's not a good liar
• Chang: "You've been assigned to the Shed." - I believe we have another station. One without a cool name.
• Kate is quietly freaking out.
• That baby blue color scheme is getting old fast.
• Juliet to save the day!
• Will Chef Hurley arrange the Dharma food drops?
  From The Fuselage
• Did the Losties get shots of Mystery Vaccine?
• They haven't built the Swan yet.
• Radzinsky is fraking OBSESSED with the Swan. Hey buddy, if you like it so much, why don't you marry it? It's not like you'll ever become trapped in it until you blow the top of your head off.
• Sawyer: "The terms of the truce say you gotta identify yourself as a Hostile, or we got the right to shoot you."

  This makes no sense at all. Who the hell else would they be? Is there a third party on the Island they might be confused with?

--2008--

• Oh Oh, Smokey time.
• W