Really, Google? Really?!?!?!?!

This is what you have special on my birthday? I don't even know what the heck this is. Or what it's supposed to mean. Or why it's even up there. This is just stupid.

Stupid, Google! Stupid!!!

What about Locke and Alpert?

So, we know Alpert lingered around Locke's birth and later had the "test
encounter" with him. Yet this season we learned that Locke told him
about his birth. It wasn't some Dali lama type search Alpert was
conducting, but rather something he was directly informed about
himself. This sets up a whole pre-destination paradox for Locke.

You can reason this away by two thoughts. 1) Since that scene was a
flashback, it stands out from the others. Or, 2) The encounters are
known, but the characters do not acknowledge it. Why? Perhaps those
who experience the time travel learn the dangers of it and don't speak
up because they feel they may disasterously alter the events of time.
There may be some code they adopt. Perhaps a new form of "the lie,"
albeit a silent one.

For the second one to be true, Rosseau sticks
out. But I won't discount the possibility that she's time travelled
before. She's been on the island awhile and there is more to how
Danielle got to be Ben's daughter too.

Overheard in ATL

Listening in to convos is kinda fun.

"The national guard is the army retard."

...

"So get this, you know the woman that took me to the airport? Well she's going through this divorce and he's trying to accuse me of adultery."

...

"I know. Can you believe that?"

...

"I know. So what are you doing for the Super Bowl?"
...

"I know. We gonna smoke later."

...

"I know. Me too. I'm still a couple hours away."

Then like everyone around me started talking and I lost aural contact. 

Sounded fun though.

Fun Fact About the Real Jeremy Bentham (Is It Fun???)

Upon philosopher Jeremy Bentham's death, as requested in his will, his body was preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet, termed his "Auto-icon". Originally kept by his disciple Dr. Southwood Smith, it was acquired by University College London in 1850.

The Auto-icon is kept on public display at the end of the South Cloisters in the main building of the College. For the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the college, the Auto-icon was brought to the meeting of the College Council, where he was listed as "present but not voting." Tradition holds that if the council's vote on any motion is tied, the auto-icon always breaks the tie by voting in favour of the motion.

The Auto-icon has always had a wax head, as Bentham's head was badly damaged in the preservation process. The real head was displayed in the same case for many years, but became the target of repeated student pranks including being stolen on more than one occasion. It is now locked away securely.

In Lost, we have the body of a Jeremy Bentham that seems to figure in prominently in the future. The real Bentham wanted to keep his legacy alive. The Lost Bentham may have done just that as well. Are we facing some sort of vote down the rode, perhaps back at the island, that requires John Locke's vote??

Whispers in the Dark

So how about those whispers in the forest on Lost? Well, now that we know we are doing with time travel, here's a theory. Those whispers are of people there...just slightly off time. Maybe those voices are of people who are just a few nanoseconds in the past or in the future. The space-time continuum makes it so those people can't be seen, but can be heard.

Maybe?

Big words...

CNN Just Had to Do It

Journalism is dead.

Saving Claire

I started to watch "Flashes Before Your Eyes" again from Lost, the episode that Ms. Hawking first appeared, because I felt it holds a lot of relevance to this season. And within the first few minutes I realized something really interesting.

Desmond saved Claire first.

Of course, we all remember quite well "ya gonna die, Charlie." We remember story after story of Desmond trying to save Charlie, but ultimately undone by "fate." The show drew us to Charlie being saved.

But Desmond saved Claire first.

At the beginning of "Flashed Before Your Eyes," Claire is drowning in the ocean and Desmond's intuition draws him to the water to save her. Now think of the other times Claire seemingly was in a situation that faced certain death when she was saved. It happened A LOT.

So if we go with the theory that time must unfold a certain way, that you can't beat fate, then Claire has been supposed to die for quite sometime. Her disappearance still remains a mystery. But maybe she's already been dead for quite sometime, like the other "dead" on the island. Perhaps she only came to terms with that fact when she saw Christian Shepherd, her dad.

I think Claire is dead. The question remains: when did she die?