Potential SPOILERS in the extended section.. don’t read if you don’t want to be potentially spoiled.
Okay, so the buzz is someone gets offed tonight on Lost and it will be a SHOCKER. Leave a comment with your guess if you want to. My guess is Eko, my reasons are below the fold.
Was in my bill paying mode this morning, and when I looked at what I owed for power, I about fainted. You see, Angie and I signed up for a *new* Super Saver 24 whatchamacallit from TXU, and the dudes on the phone said we should see significant savings from the lower rate. Only we are on an average monthly payment plan, so our actual payment changes … hardly at all even with the lower rate. Wanna know why?
Well I did some number crunching, and I’m not at all sure that SuperSaver 24 is the best plan, but a little smoke and mirrors from the power company. You see the rates for power went through the roof this last year, and if you all remember gas prices, you’ll understand the shell game that TXU is playing here. We all remember the almost $3.00/gallon price for gas we paid through the summer. Well the price of electricity about matches upto that on a per cost basis, lagging a bit since the price of power isn’t as volitile as the price of gas.
Last October for instance the price we paid for power was ~$0.10/kwh (when gas was ~$2/gal pre Katrina), last month we paid ~$0.15/kwh. The new plan locks us into a price of $0.13/kwh. A two cent drop, which sounds good, until you realize that if the price of energy drops to the equivalent of what the price of gas. If gas stays at ~$2/gallon, then it seems we might have signed up for a plan that is 2 cents more expensive than the actual cost of power.
Check my math… or any other intangibles… Should I call up and cancel the locked in 13 cent rate, and see how the market responds? Because, since we pay an average monthly payment, the rate fluctuations don’t respond that significantly to the rate we pay. But I don’t want to be locked into spring 2006 prices either.
But winning is soooooo sweet.
Winner – Funniest costume at my place of employment.
Costume: Hugo “Hurley” Reyes from LOST
Note the backpack, the jar of official Dharma Ranch Composite. (Not pictured: box of “Lil Dharma Chocolate Swiss Rolls”) My t-shirt reads “4 8 15 16 23 42”
Another good episode, and yet another good cliff-hanger. I’m impressed that they’ve ran this back to back for six episodes, and have another one next week. LOST won’t have seven straight until after this first six episode tease.
Michael has a good recap, if you can get past the crowing of ‘I called it, EDEN is THE MOLE!’
As always it starts off where we left off, and we get some focus on the mystery of Niki’s powers. Up until now we have just skirted revealing her power, which is somekinda split personality disorder on steroids.
Last episode we left Peter answering present day Hiro’s phone call, and we pick up with Peter saying the battle cry!
Save the Cheerleader, Save the World!
Hiro and Ando have a broken conversation about which no one really knows what the next step is, or who the cheerleader is, but they agree to meet up in New York, while Peter and Issac work on figuring out who the is the cheerleader. Peter also spills that future hero has a sword, which later edges Hiro into katana geek-out mode.  Spoilers and recap after the break. Continue reading
Since my better blogging half is doing it. I may as well sign up to write a bit every day for a month. Last time I did a consecutive posting was on CrazyGator for 40 Days of Purpose.
I’ll be blogging mostly for myself and my 1.5 readers, so I’m unsure of what my topics will be all about. I can blather with the best of them, and I won’t tell you about my lunch (mostly because I hardly ever eat lunch.
I probably also need to be linking to other people more often, and drive the traffic up. I don’t have blogger ads or anything, so you linking and reading me just cost me money, not you. But I’m a traffic whore like anyone else, so feel free to link back to me.
I don’t know if I’m as good at content-free posting as Eric. I don’t have any important dates looming on the horizon. I watch way too much TV, and so do my virtual friends. I dabble on my PC too much, hacking away in vain. I study and prepare for lessons for Sunday School and Wednesday Discipleship class. I do take requests, and I love a good meme. Absolute won’t do any Melissa Theuriau blogging. And I promise not to video-blog.
Heh! This thirty-days of posting will practically write itself, then Fussy will have to give me a PRIZE. If I win. Which I won’t…
somewhere on misplacedkeys I detailed my Verizon FiOS Internet installation. Still smoking along just fine and dandy. Recently got a flyer in the mail that FiOS offers TV service now in my neighborhood.
Did the cost/benefit analysis, saved about $25 a month for basically what I had with TimeWarner (nee Comcast) so I booked and install, and today they came and installed.
The savings was enough that I put on some addons (the $25 savings is AFTER all the addons). Added the HDTV DVR and the MultiRoom DVR, and two extra set-top boxes. The MultiRoom allows the kids to watch recorded shows on their TV in the other room, while we watch what we want on our TV. The other extra STB drives the ReplayTV that still is capturing away.
The HDTV DVR is a dual-tuner DVR that can record two shows at once. It is a different dual-tuner setup, in that the TV actually either shows live TV or a recorded show, you can’t switch back and forth between the two tuners (if you are recording two shows, you can move back and forth between them)
So we can now record that third ‘must see’ show and catch up on somethings that we miss. If we do that at all. The things we lose, is mostly in usability. The old DVR could use a reprogrammed remote to have a 30sec advance, as well as the quick 15-sec review. That is gone on this system, FFW and REW, but no single button skip, and so moving through the commercials will be a skill building exercise.
The program package is fairly complete, with more HD channels that TimeWarner, and they are grouped ‘intelligently’ you want kids shows, 200-220, HD starts at 801, etc… Picture quality is excellent. Programming the DVR is a snap, and will basically record w single shows, or series, with a lot more options than the TimeWarner DVR. Not as great as the ReplayTV, but very close.
Also the MultiRoom package enables a MediaManager that can serve up music and photos from a Windows Computer. Â Which is gimmicky.. but kinda neat.
Video On Demand has some good choices, in both Free and PPV. Bring on the television shows!
Not a full recap, just comments, observations.
When Benry came in to get Juliet and tell her about Colleen getting shot, did he says, “The Sub is back?” The Sub, as in submarine? Or sub as in sub-group? Thoughts?
Didn’t learn much about anyone, we knew Sawyer could dupe and be duped. We knew Henry was a lying sack of manure. We knew that Sawyer gets beaten up … a lot…
So What’s New?
We got a glimpse of the island from the nearby island where Jack, Sawyer and Kate are being held. So the zoo is an another island, and if the zoo is where they kept the polar bears, then how did the polar bears get to the other island If the Others illylic town on the new island, or the main island? Ethan and Goodwin were able to ‘run to the beach in about an hour’, so I think they live on the main island, and are currently in the zoo research wing. Perhaps there was a land bridge across the two, and Dharma sunk it for research programs.
Kate, didn’t leave Sawyer alone… why? She’s been known to take care of herself, and she could have gotten back to the main camp (well maybe not given they are on another island…)
AHA — The SUB!
Okay… they do have a sub to move back and forth from main island to ‘the zoo’. They covered their captives head on the dock, before they moved them to their cages/tanks. They raided the sailboat, from the water side not the peir side (thought it was a continuity error before). They let Hurley go before thy hooded the rest of the captives. So I think the submarine actually !!!!! makes sense.
UPDATE: Added Screecaps, click to embiggen.
This is how the boat was docked on the pier, the bow facing the beach, port side to the open sea.
This is when the Others came aboard the Elizabeth. Note the port side of the boat is boarded, as the sail is tending to the stern. You can make out two sets of handrails, one for the sailbaot, and one from the SUB!
Okay, back to Kate. I think she’s been turned, and her role was to help turn Sawyer, then they’ll both battle Jack. The Other borg will assimilate them.
Desmond has some pre-cog, he wanted to move Claire’s tent, to avoid the lightening strike, then ruined Hurley’s radio antenna using it as a lightening rod… If you can’t move one, move the other. It’ll be interesting to see what they develop from that new power. I wonder if he’ll be able to contact Hiro Nakamora and have him call in the help in the big battle with the Others…
Okay.. That’s all I got… What are you’re theories?
Okay… I’m stating for the record that this showed has Jumped, quite possibly the proverbial shark.
9:02 – I gather is the time of ‘Federal Response’ and the time that the magical EMP blows out ever electronic part, everywhere. Impressive range, but I call plot device. Like someone would explode an EMP over rural Kansas, because … we’ll there just is so many Military Industrial Complexes… *grr*
So now we really get into post-nuke phase. Back to the stone age, and HAwkins is ‘compromised’ so he’s getting ll domestic, looking out for number one. The hoodlums are being hoodlums, and Ms. IRS chick is going after farm boy.
Nothing much else happens, except we learn a little about why Jake left… he was involved in a theft gone wong apparently, and some poor kid got shot. *yawn*
I watched happy days after the shark jump, so I’ll keep watching.
Save the Cheerleader – Save the Future.
C’mon, say it with me!
This show is getting better with each episode, I hope that NBC’s showing the first three post-pilot episodes back-to-back on Sunday night, brings more audience to this awesome show. The standard cliff-hanger re-applies without the gore, infact this was the least gory Heroes I’ve seen. The powers are coming out, as the cast starts migrating in the right directions. Click to read the spoilerish? spoilery? recap.
Other links:
From Snarkwife, who got it from Becky, a list of well things that keep my living room warm, because the HDTV can get pretty hot being on all the time.
Shows I Love
Shows I Like
Shows that have been on but I just started watching and they’re pretty decent
Shows that have either jumped the shark or suck, yet I still watch (or my Replay Slavishly records…)
New shows that I really like
New shows that I kind of like and am still “trying outâ€
New shows that I tried but didn’t like
New shows that I liked but have already been canceled
New category – Old cancelled shows that I mourn, and shake my fist at respective network muckity mucks that pulled the trigger.