Apr 2006
Friends with A.D.D
Do you know someone with A.D.D.? What can you do to
help?
Usually the only thing you can do to help is inform them of their problem. Send them an email say hey "You forgot to attach the document to the email again".
Attachment Deficit Disorder, they don't know if you don't tell them.
Usually the only thing you can do to help is inform them of their problem. Send them an email say hey "You forgot to attach the document to the email again".
Attachment Deficit Disorder, they don't know if you don't tell them.
|
Lost, a remake of Earth 2?
April/23/2006 02:15 PM Filed in: Television
Lost is a remake of Earth 2. Both remakes contain
subtle differences with very similar story lines.
Here are a list of the similarities between Earth 2 and Lost. Even with an exhaustive list of similarities below I would not say Lost is a rip-off of Earth 2, it is, however, no coincidence. I only have a few Lost theories or Earth 2 theories about the similarities.
I'm not going to list when occurances happen, which episode or in any particular order, just things that are remarkably similar.
(e) = Earth 2, (l) = Lost
All similarities below reference both shows or Earth 2 first then Lost.
1. They are called the Eden Project/Dharma Initiative.
2. They crash landed on the planet (G889)/island (origin unknown).
Both first episodes were 2 hours long about the crash, each following episode is related to a particular character. Both shows have a large main cast. Both with less than 50 survivors. We know that the Eden Project was crashed on purpose, many people think that the Plane crash from Lost was also on purpose.
3. There are people who live on the planet/island called Terrians/Others. Terrians/Others appear the be much stronger than humans. Terrians/Others have great ability to be stealthy.
Did you notice that when the others were first introduced that they were extremely strong. Now they appear to have been regular people. I don't think they came up with a good reason for them being strong and dropped that characteristic.
4. Pilot Seth Norris/Cmdr. Broderick O'Neill is killed within a few days of the crash.
5. The planet/island healed Ulysses Adair/John Locke who couldn't walk.
6. Ulysses Adair/Walt Lloyd has a connection with the planet/island. Both boys exhibit powers. The Terrians want Ulysses Adair, the Others want Walt Lloyd. Ulysses Adair/Walt Lloyd would not be the first child the Terrians/Others have taken.
7. We continue to learn about each characters past through flashbacks.
8. There are a few regular characters that receive little to no lines and very little screen time.
9. They live at the crash site for only a short time, then move on.
10. They crashed landed with single parent families.
11. The survivors have strange dreams and hallucinations. These dreams/hallucinations communicate different information to the person.
12. They met up with people that crash landed on a different part of the planet/island (married couple/tailees).
13. They meet a crazy person who has been on the planet for about 15 years with long frizzy hair (Gaal/Danielle Rousseau). Both of these characters killed everyone that was with them. Both characters attempt to abduct one of the survivors children.
14. James "Sawyer" Ford/Morgan Martin is seeing boars/grendlers that no one else is seeing and it's making them think their going crazy. Added 1/6/2008
15. Yale/Claire Littleton are without memories of who they were (Yale's were suppressed as part of the Yale program, Claire Littleton lost hers while with the others). Yale/Claire Littleton reclaim the memories of who they were within a few weeks.
16. They found a dome left image/station right image. The dome in Earth 2 is a geodesic dome and the station from Lost is underground and contains a geodesic dome of approximately the same size.
17. The dome left images/station right image has a special logo. The first image Yale had in his database and the second image was on the dome itself, both containing the image of a dome. In Earth 2 the logo may stand for the Federal Agreement of Science. The Lost Swan station logo is in the shape of a dome from above. Added 2008/03/30
18. Jack Shephard/Devon Adair has visions of a person who is dead.
19. They find a message from a woman Dell Curry/Danielle Rousseau that has been looping for more than a decade.
20. They found the bones of a man and a woman where they setup camp in the dome/cave. I think John Locke on Lost called them Adam and Eve. Reminder, the Earth 2 group is called the Eden Project.
21. We met a girl (Mary/Alex) who was raised by the Terrians/Others and is now a young adult. Mary is the daughter of the couple from the dome, Alex is the daughter of Danielle Rousseau. Both of these girls helped someone escape the punishment of the Terrians/Others.
22. There is a married couple (Bess Martin and Morgan Martin/Sun Kwon and Jin Kwon) that argue a lot. Both shows have one episode devoted to the marital problems of the couple. The husband is one class and the wife is another. The husband has relationship problems with his father-in-law.
23. Martin/James "Sawyer" Ford is always annoying and looking for the percentage in things. Both of these characters are weasels.
24. Shephard/Desmond Hume sends a message to Devon Adair/Penny Widmore through space/time to save the life of Ulysses Adair/Desmond Hume in the future. Added 3/30/2008
25. John Danziger/Sayid Jarrah is electronic handyman with curly hair.
26. Javier Grillo-Marxuach (writer/producer).
27. Terry O'Quinn played a character on the show (Reilly left image/John Locke right image).
John Locke, after whom the character John Locke is named, was a famous social contract philosopher who dealt with the relationship between nature and civilization.
This is an interesting name choice as both shows deal with the relationship between the island/planet and the people that crashed there.
I have to think that Terry O'Quinn is aware of the similarities between the two shows, he may have been chosen for this reason in an unexplained way.
28. Clancy Brown played a character on the show (regular cast member John Danziger left image/Joe Inman right image, is a C.I.A. agent in the episode "One of them, 2006").
29. Clancy Brown played a character on the show (regular cast member John Danziger left image/Kelvin Inman right image, is ex-C.I.A. Spook in the episode "Live Together, Die Alone, 2006").
30. Devon Adair and John Danziger/Jack Shephar and Kate Austen are trapped by vines/net next to one another and the female reaches in a compromising position to get the knife/gun that the male character has near his belt which is used to escape.
31. The name Rom was going to be used in Season 2 of Earth 2 for a mischievous cyborg, that name was used for Ethan Rom, an other than pretended to be a survivor.
32. Cmdr. Broderick O'Neill/Nikki Fernandez and Paulo were thought to have been dead after being stung/bitten and were buried alive. Added 6/5/2007
33. Dr. Julia Heller/Dr. Juliet Burke are spies and suppose to find out what they can about the survivors and report back. Dr. Julia Heller reports to Reilly (Terry O'Quinn) and Dr. Juliet Burke reports back to Ben. Both doctor characters abandon who they are suppose to report to and join the group they were reporting on. Added 3/27/2008
With so many similarities why did Earth 2 end after 1 season and Lost is one of the top shows on television? I think it has to do with the Science Fiction element, Lost removed any part of the story that related to space, space ships, other planets and aliens leaving us with fiction drama that appeals to a much wider audience.
It's nearly impossible to find legitimate information online about the connection between the two shows, but they know we know. I think they knew it was a good story 12 years ago and tweaked it for todays audience.
WEIRD BUT TRUE, last week (5/7/06) I had a dream that I worked with Terry O'Quinn in an office and asked him to do an interview for my blog. I got turned down by the Terry O'Quinn in my dream, he said he didn't think it would be right, damn that sucks. I would have posted it too.
Terry, if you ever read this please contact me, hopefully the real Terry O'Quinn won't turn me down for an interview.
Earth 2 DVD. It appears as though when the DVD for this show was produced they didn't do their homework to list the episodes in their production order and laid out the DVD in the same order the shows aired on TV, which is incorrect.
2007/03/26 So where are we today? Well I think for the most part the similarities have ended. Lost has lasted far longer than Earth 2 and it appears that any similarities to Earth 2 have been exhausted. I look forward to seeing a few more actors from Earth 2 making there way into Lost.
2008/03/29 I'm watching Earth 2 again and more similarities are coming out. I guess the writers for Lost have a few more pages of Earth 2 to go through.
Here are a list of the similarities between Earth 2 and Lost. Even with an exhaustive list of similarities below I would not say Lost is a rip-off of Earth 2, it is, however, no coincidence. I only have a few Lost theories or Earth 2 theories about the similarities.
I'm not going to list when occurances happen, which episode or in any particular order, just things that are remarkably similar.
(e) = Earth 2, (l) = Lost
All similarities below reference both shows or Earth 2 first then Lost.
1. They are called the Eden Project/Dharma Initiative.
2. They crash landed on the planet (G889)/island (origin unknown).
Both first episodes were 2 hours long about the crash, each following episode is related to a particular character. Both shows have a large main cast. Both with less than 50 survivors. We know that the Eden Project was crashed on purpose, many people think that the Plane crash from Lost was also on purpose.
3. There are people who live on the planet/island called Terrians/Others. Terrians/Others appear the be much stronger than humans. Terrians/Others have great ability to be stealthy.
Did you notice that when the others were first introduced that they were extremely strong. Now they appear to have been regular people. I don't think they came up with a good reason for them being strong and dropped that characteristic.
4. Pilot Seth Norris/Cmdr. Broderick O'Neill is killed within a few days of the crash.
5. The planet/island healed Ulysses Adair/John Locke who couldn't walk.
6. Ulysses Adair/Walt Lloyd has a connection with the planet/island. Both boys exhibit powers. The Terrians want Ulysses Adair, the Others want Walt Lloyd. Ulysses Adair/Walt Lloyd would not be the first child the Terrians/Others have taken.
7. We continue to learn about each characters past through flashbacks.
8. There are a few regular characters that receive little to no lines and very little screen time.
9. They live at the crash site for only a short time, then move on.
10. They crashed landed with single parent families.
11. The survivors have strange dreams and hallucinations. These dreams/hallucinations communicate different information to the person.
12. They met up with people that crash landed on a different part of the planet/island (married couple/tailees).
13. They meet a crazy person who has been on the planet for about 15 years with long frizzy hair (Gaal/Danielle Rousseau). Both of these characters killed everyone that was with them. Both characters attempt to abduct one of the survivors children.
14. James "Sawyer" Ford/Morgan Martin is seeing boars/grendlers that no one else is seeing and it's making them think their going crazy. Added 1/6/2008
15. Yale/Claire Littleton are without memories of who they were (Yale's were suppressed as part of the Yale program, Claire Littleton lost hers while with the others). Yale/Claire Littleton reclaim the memories of who they were within a few weeks.
16. They found a dome left image/station right image. The dome in Earth 2 is a geodesic dome and the station from Lost is underground and contains a geodesic dome of approximately the same size.
17. The dome left images/station right image has a special logo. The first image Yale had in his database and the second image was on the dome itself, both containing the image of a dome. In Earth 2 the logo may stand for the Federal Agreement of Science. The Lost Swan station logo is in the shape of a dome from above. Added 2008/03/30
18. Jack Shephard/Devon Adair has visions of a person who is dead.
19. They find a message from a woman Dell Curry/Danielle Rousseau that has been looping for more than a decade.
20. They found the bones of a man and a woman where they setup camp in the dome/cave. I think John Locke on Lost called them Adam and Eve. Reminder, the Earth 2 group is called the Eden Project.
21. We met a girl (Mary/Alex) who was raised by the Terrians/Others and is now a young adult. Mary is the daughter of the couple from the dome, Alex is the daughter of Danielle Rousseau. Both of these girls helped someone escape the punishment of the Terrians/Others.
22. There is a married couple (Bess Martin and Morgan Martin/Sun Kwon and Jin Kwon) that argue a lot. Both shows have one episode devoted to the marital problems of the couple. The husband is one class and the wife is another. The husband has relationship problems with his father-in-law.
23. Martin/James "Sawyer" Ford is always annoying and looking for the percentage in things. Both of these characters are weasels.
24. Shephard/Desmond Hume sends a message to Devon Adair/Penny Widmore through space/time to save the life of Ulysses Adair/Desmond Hume in the future. Added 3/30/2008
25. John Danziger/Sayid Jarrah is electronic handyman with curly hair.
26. Javier Grillo-Marxuach (writer/producer).
27. Terry O'Quinn played a character on the show (Reilly left image/John Locke right image).
John Locke, after whom the character John Locke is named, was a famous social contract philosopher who dealt with the relationship between nature and civilization.
This is an interesting name choice as both shows deal with the relationship between the island/planet and the people that crashed there.
I have to think that Terry O'Quinn is aware of the similarities between the two shows, he may have been chosen for this reason in an unexplained way.
28. Clancy Brown played a character on the show (regular cast member John Danziger left image/Joe Inman right image, is a C.I.A. agent in the episode "One of them, 2006").
29. Clancy Brown played a character on the show (regular cast member John Danziger left image/Kelvin Inman right image, is ex-C.I.A. Spook in the episode "Live Together, Die Alone, 2006").
30. Devon Adair and John Danziger/Jack Shephar and Kate Austen are trapped by vines/net next to one another and the female reaches in a compromising position to get the knife/gun that the male character has near his belt which is used to escape.
31. The name Rom was going to be used in Season 2 of Earth 2 for a mischievous cyborg, that name was used for Ethan Rom, an other than pretended to be a survivor.
32. Cmdr. Broderick O'Neill/Nikki Fernandez and Paulo were thought to have been dead after being stung/bitten and were buried alive. Added 6/5/2007
33. Dr. Julia Heller/Dr. Juliet Burke are spies and suppose to find out what they can about the survivors and report back. Dr. Julia Heller reports to Reilly (Terry O'Quinn) and Dr. Juliet Burke reports back to Ben. Both doctor characters abandon who they are suppose to report to and join the group they were reporting on. Added 3/27/2008
With so many similarities why did Earth 2 end after 1 season and Lost is one of the top shows on television? I think it has to do with the Science Fiction element, Lost removed any part of the story that related to space, space ships, other planets and aliens leaving us with fiction drama that appeals to a much wider audience.
It's nearly impossible to find legitimate information online about the connection between the two shows, but they know we know. I think they knew it was a good story 12 years ago and tweaked it for todays audience.
WEIRD BUT TRUE, last week (5/7/06) I had a dream that I worked with Terry O'Quinn in an office and asked him to do an interview for my blog. I got turned down by the Terry O'Quinn in my dream, he said he didn't think it would be right, damn that sucks. I would have posted it too.
Terry, if you ever read this please contact me, hopefully the real Terry O'Quinn won't turn me down for an interview.
Earth 2 DVD. It appears as though when the DVD for this show was produced they didn't do their homework to list the episodes in their production order and laid out the DVD in the same order the shows aired on TV, which is incorrect.
2007/03/26 So where are we today? Well I think for the most part the similarities have ended. Lost has lasted far longer than Earth 2 and it appears that any similarities to Earth 2 have been exhausted. I look forward to seeing a few more actors from Earth 2 making there way into Lost.
2008/03/29 I'm watching Earth 2 again and more similarities are coming out. I guess the writers for Lost have a few more pages of Earth 2 to go through.
Happy Birthday to me.
April/14/2006 12:44 AM Filed in: Birthdays
Today I am 35 years old, of course I know that
because I asked my wife a couple days ago. After 30
I just stopped remembering which birthday it was.
I know it sounds odd but I really do forget, sometimes I have to do the math just to make sure. Unlike the year (2006) you're nor constantly writing it down and it just doesn't come up that often for me.
Anyway, I've already received my gifts, being the geek that I am everything I wanted is tax deductible because it's computer stuff. My wife got me a new 300GB firewire drive for editing video, maxed out my PowerBooks ram to 2GB. I got a flash drive which I needed for work. For me that's a pretty good stash for me.
In some ways I feel older and in others I still feel young. Based on average life span I only half way there.
Karen and Allyson are taking me to dinner tonight, I'm on Atkins so I get the pork-chops and green-beans. I don't have a problem with it since I've lost over 10lbs in less than two weeks.
I just received a Happy Birthday email from the Tivo Forums, how geeky is that?
UPDATE: They surprised me at dinner with a 1GB iPod Shuffle. Just what I needed for cutting the grass.
I know it sounds odd but I really do forget, sometimes I have to do the math just to make sure. Unlike the year (2006) you're nor constantly writing it down and it just doesn't come up that often for me.
Anyway, I've already received my gifts, being the geek that I am everything I wanted is tax deductible because it's computer stuff. My wife got me a new 300GB firewire drive for editing video, maxed out my PowerBooks ram to 2GB. I got a flash drive which I needed for work. For me that's a pretty good stash for me.
In some ways I feel older and in others I still feel young. Based on average life span I only half way there.
Karen and Allyson are taking me to dinner tonight, I'm on Atkins so I get the pork-chops and green-beans. I don't have a problem with it since I've lost over 10lbs in less than two weeks.
I just received a Happy Birthday email from the Tivo Forums, how geeky is that?
UPDATE: They surprised me at dinner with a 1GB iPod Shuffle. Just what I needed for cutting the grass.
Misconception of a self-propelled mower.
April/12/2006 12:12 AM Filed in: Product
Reviews
I always thought self-propelled mowers were for people with banked yards and people who had trouble pushing a mower.
With that mindset I have been avoiding self-propelled altogether. My yard is flat and small, why do I need a SPM?
Last week I needed to cut the grass for the first time this year and with that I needed a new mower.
Knowing I wanted a push mower with a Honda engine I set out to find my new mower. Several stores later I realized that the regular push mower is fading away.
I decided to get a Honda mower instead of a mower with a Honda engine, only self-propelled were available.
What did I learn from using my first SPM? Well for starters I realized half way through my yard the muscles in my back weren't tightened.
Normally with a push mower you lean or hunch forward to push the mower through the grass. With the self-propelled mower I was able to walk upright behind the mower.
I wasn't expecting that and I have to say it was a much better experience and I recommend self-propelled to anyone with back pain.
What else, the propelled wheels on my new mower are on the back. Being on the back I never lost traction, regardless of how often I raised the front end, I imagine a front propelled would constantly lose traction due to lifting the front end repeatedly.
The mower is very well balanced, the front end doesn't feel heavy making it easy to turn and maneuver.
My daughters conversation with an important Baptist figure.
My wife (Karen) and daughter (Allyson) went to a
Choices for Women Annual Banquet today. They
arrived early because Rose, the center's Executive
Director, picked them up on her way.
Allyson always likes to sit in the center row up front. When others began to arrive, they grabbed a couple drinks and sat down. A woman Karen's knows from church was sitting at the table behind us and began talking to her. Karen was turned around and didn't notice when the seats across the table from Allyson and hers were taken. When Karen finished talking with the woman, she turned around to find Allyson talking with the gentleman that sat across from her.
He was in his late 50's and well dressed. He didn't appear to be with family. Allyson didn't have a clue who he was. Karen introduced herself and extended her hand, which he shook, but he didn't tell her his name. He told her he had been having quite the conversation with Allyson. He mentioned they talked about homeschool and he thought she was very mature and ladylike.
We were interrupted by the blessing prayer and everyone was invited to the buffet tables. Allyson and Karen went for something to eat and brought it back to our table. During dinner, the man continued to talk to Allyson. He showed her his cufflinks which were a gift from our current president. He explained to her that he was just with George W. on March 23rd giving his opinion on immigration. That's the kind of thing he does.
Promptly after dinner, the man was introduced from the podium as the keynote speaker for the evening, Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
Allyson always likes to sit in the center row up front. When others began to arrive, they grabbed a couple drinks and sat down. A woman Karen's knows from church was sitting at the table behind us and began talking to her. Karen was turned around and didn't notice when the seats across the table from Allyson and hers were taken. When Karen finished talking with the woman, she turned around to find Allyson talking with the gentleman that sat across from her.
He was in his late 50's and well dressed. He didn't appear to be with family. Allyson didn't have a clue who he was. Karen introduced herself and extended her hand, which he shook, but he didn't tell her his name. He told her he had been having quite the conversation with Allyson. He mentioned they talked about homeschool and he thought she was very mature and ladylike.
We were interrupted by the blessing prayer and everyone was invited to the buffet tables. Allyson and Karen went for something to eat and brought it back to our table. During dinner, the man continued to talk to Allyson. He showed her his cufflinks which were a gift from our current president. He explained to her that he was just with George W. on March 23rd giving his opinion on immigration. That's the kind of thing he does.
Promptly after dinner, the man was introduced from the podium as the keynote speaker for the evening, Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.