Oh No, it’s TiVo!

Not your father’s VCR.

Digital Macht Frei

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YouTube video: “Devo -- Whip It!“

Click it, click it good.

Wrong diagnoses,

Siezures, mind games, MRI’s --

Every week on “House”.

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YouTube video: “MAD TV -- House Parody“

Hugh Laurie as Dr House

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Look up, Twitter shark,

See Oprah’s butt sailing by?

Shark, you have been jumped.

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YouTube video:  “Fonzie jumps the shark“

From Wikipedia:

Jumping the shark is a colloquialism coined by Jon Hein and used by TV critics and fans to denote the point in a TV show or movie series’ history where the plot veers off into absurd story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations. This usually corresponds to the point where a show with falling ratings apparently becomes more desperate to draw viewers in. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have “jumped the shark” are typically deemed to have passed their peak.

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They’re the Cranky Geeks.

They’re cranky, and they’re geeky.

And they have a show.

… but not on TiVo any more. Which sucks. Now I have to watch a show about the Internet, ON the Internet.
Which I think may be ironic.

From the Cranky Geeks website:

John C. Dvorak, whose crankiness knows no bounds, is a contributing editor of PC Magazine, for which he has been writing two columns, including the popular Inside Track, since 1986.

The consistently irritated Dvorak has won eight national awards from the Computer Press Association, including Best Columnist and Best Column.

Recent episodes do not seem to be included on the Cranky Geeks YouTube channel, and the videos on crankygeeks.com were not easily available for embedding here. Which makes me cranky. You’ll just have to watch via the website, like the rest of us.  Curse you Cranky Geeks!!

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What a tangled web:

When plotlines criss-cross in time,

Causation is LOST.

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YouTube video: “Lost, 5x14 “The Variable” Sneak Peek 3“

From an article about time travel, on Wikipedia:

David Lewis’ analysis of compossibility and the implications of changing the past is meant to account for the possibilities of time travel [...]  without creating logical paradoxes. Consider Lewis’ example of Tim. Tim hates his grandfather and would like nothing more than to kill him. The only problem for Tim is that his grandfather died years ago. Tim wants so badly to kill his grandfather himself that he constructs a time machine to travel back to 1955 when his grandfather was young and kill him then. Assuming that Tim can travel to a time when his grandfather is still alive, the question must then be raised; Can Tim kill his grandfather?

Consider the fact that Tim’s grandfather died in 1993 and not in 1955. This fact about Tim’s situation reveals that him killing his grandfather is not compossible with the current set of facts. [...]  So what must happen to Tim as he takes aim? Lewis believes that his gun will jam, a bird will fly in the way, or Tim simply slips on a banana peel. Either way, there will be some logical force of the universe that will prevent Tim every time from killing his grandfather.

“His gun will jam” … This is a device we’ve seen on LOST before!

Actually, the gun jamming occurs a little bit after the events (from season 4) shown in the clip… but the point is what Tom says here, “You can’t kill yourself, the island won’t let you”.  And since the island itself seems to be acting as a giant, barely manageable time travel machine, the whole series begins to look like a primetime TV illustration of David Lewis’ compossibilty argument. Well, among other things.

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New Yankee Workshop:

Norm makes it look so easy.

Love to see outtakes…

YouTube video:  “Woodworking: Table Saw Rabbet Fence Improvement”

My Steel City 10-inch Cabinet Saw is outstanding in its field.
The Delta… well, after too many heartbreaks, we just couldn’t make it work.

West Wing drinking game:

“Thank you Mr. President”

means you knock one back.

Of course you’ll need to be watching on DVD, as The West Wing, tragically, is no longer in production.

YouTube video: “West Wing -- Dr Jenna Jacobs” (fictionalized version of radio quack Dr. Laura)

YouTube video: “Mad TV -- The West Wing Parody”

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What’s up,  C.S.I.?

Always with the big flashlights –

Just turn the lights on.

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John Locke’s life not LOST

now he’s risen from the dead

like Gandalf, Jesus.

From Wikipedia:

“Faith: Locke’s life has a repeated pattern of believing in a higher being or purpose (for example: his father, or pressing the button in the hatch). He begins to suspect that he was destined to be on the island, which coincided with the partial loss of his recovered ability to walk.

“Midway into Season 2, however, his faith begins to falter as he slowly grows disillusioned with repeatedly pressing the button. The season finale of Season 2 concludes with Locke ultimately deciding not to press the button, despite the protests of Mr. Eko, who tries unsuccessfully to convince John to keep believing (and keep pushing). After the cataclysmic events that occurred when they stopped pushing the button, Locke admitted that he was wrong to stop believing.

“At the beginning of Season 3, Locke’s faith seems to be fully restored. This is supported by the fact that Locke’s first action after regaining consciousness is to “talk to the island,” a strongly spiritual action that harkens back to the Locke of Season 1, who considered the island to be a nexus of spiritual energy, and an entity that could be communicated with. After Mr. Eko is killed by the smoke monster, it is Locke who buries him, thanking him for restoring his faith.”

also: “John Locke is named after the English philosopher of the same name, and his alias, Jeremy Bentham, is also the name of an English philosopher.”

YouTube video: “Ben wakes up to resurrected John Locke”

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Past, future, entwined,

History is destiny,

Dharma of the Lost.

YouTube video: Lost -- The Syncronizing

Relive the events leading up to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 and see what happened on the ground and in the air at the same moment from multiple angles.