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Category: LagniappeThe Definitive Guide to WTF Just Happened on ‘Lost’
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for last night’s series finale of Lost. It is intended only for readers who watched the episode. Seriously, if you continue reading on for another paragraph, it will all be ruined for you. We wash our hands of this.
Face it: LOST is over. And whether your eyes are puffy from a night of post-reunion crying or simply one to many Dharma beers, chances are you’re now searching for the meaning behind those last two-and-a-half hours — or at least confirmation that you’re not crazy in your interpretation of them.
So whether you loved it or hated it, here’s your Definitive Guide to WTF Just Happened on LOST.
Who’s dead now?
Everyone and yet only the people you saw die during the course of the series. Let me explain.
When Jack meets his father, Christian, in the last few moments of the finale, he suffers the revelation that they both are now dead. But as Christian explains to him, they’re not the only ones dead in the church, with everyone currently awaiting him in the pews having undergone their own deaths either before or long after Jack. The Sideways World has no time (As Christian said, “There is no now here”), and thus everyone, regardless of when they died is there to meet with each other even though for people who died long ago, like Jack, it might seem like just seconds have passed between his death and him taking his seat on the non-doomed Sideways Oceanic Flight 815.
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Just sharing a larger version of this, my personal favorite photo-illustration. It took a couple weeks of work, fitting in time whenever I could, so i don’t have an accurate hour count. Most of the major elements were purchased from istockphoto.com. I like the appeal of the the city in the opening credits; it’s completely busy from ground to air. I usually try not to make things so cluttered or without a clear subject… this had a collage feel in the end and I think it helped capture that ongoing busyness of the cartoon city.
I am thoroughly enjoying Windows 7 at the moment but do find this video quite funny. Wolves! Love it!
There’s a new killer on the loose – boredom.
A new analysis to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April warns of a possible link between boredom and an early death.
After analyzing questionnaires, researchers Annie Britton and Martin Shipley of University College London concluded that boredom could be a symptom of other risky behavior.
The Associated Press reports that the researchers examined surveys, completed between 1985 and 1988, of 7,500 London civil servants between the ages of 35 and 55. They found that those who were bored at work during the previous month were two and a half times more likely to die of a heart problem than those who were interested in their jobs.
While boredom alone wouldn’t kill you, it could lead to unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking and drug consumption.
“The state of boredom is almost certainly a proxy for other risk factors,” write Britton and Shipley. “It is likely that those who were bored were also in poor health.”
Twilight : New Moon Trailer
A little Thursday evening lagniappe for all you Twilight fans. The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie is due in theaters on November 20th of this year. Here’s a little taste to wet your sanguine appetites.
A Sacramento County teenager is bragging about a big accomplishment.
She logged more than 300,000 text messages in one month.
“My friends said, ‘Text your little thumbs off’,” Crystal Wiski said.
“Thank God for free texting,” added her mother, Jacki Wiski.
Jacki Wiski said she just bought the iPhone for her daughter a month ago.
“I get cramps,” Crystal Wiski said of her habit.
Needless to say, it didn’t take long for her to get used to it.
Her mother is amazed by the number of texts.
“Oh my God, that’s unbelievable,” Jacki Wiski said. “She must text while she’s sleeping.”
“I am popular. I can’t help it,” Crystal Wiski added.
To put 303,000 text messages into perspective: that’s more than 10,000 text messages a day, 421 messages an hour and seven texts a minute.
Yikes. Hey mom, how’s the family time? Just curious.