Lost, what the hell did it ‘mean’?
May 24th, 2010
After the Lost finale last night, I had a lot of conflicting ideas on what-was-what. I even went back to the “The Island Is Purgatory!?!” idea from years back. However, after some consideration, I came up with the mess below. I don’t really care if it illuminates much for anyone else, it’s more for me to try to make sense of things (even though it’s all based on someone asking the question below).
jmiller wrote:
WHY DID THE OTHERS WANT TO RUN TESTS ON WALT???
Walt’s powers – electromagnetic in nature. The Others wanted to see if he could basically fulfill the role that Desmond would end up having at the end of the series. For his ‘mind powers’, see What Is Island/Black Smoke below. -OR- under orders from Jacob, they wanted to test him to see if his powers would allow him to confront/battle the Smoke Monster/fake MIB.
Who built the 4-toed statue? (I thought that was taken care of a while ago, but keep seeing the question)
The statue was revealed a while back to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the guise of Taweret, who as a god and not a human, couldn’t really be bothered to have feet just like a human. Wait? Egyptians? Yes, they made it to the island (remember, it isn’t stuck in a fixed, singular location on earth – think of Ben & Locke ending up in Tunisia when exiting the island), and discovered many of it’s secrets, but didn’t understand the full width/breadth of it all. Remember the heiroglyphics under the statue and in the tunnels around the temple? There must have been a pretty large Egyptian colony there at one point. What happened to them? Well… I’ll get to that.
The statue was revealed a while back to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the guise of Taweret, who as a god and not a human, couldn’t really be bothered to have feet just like a human. Wait? Egyptians? Yes, they made it to the island (remember, it isn’t stuck in a fixed, singular location on earth – think of Ben & Locke ending up in Tunisia when exiting the island), and discovered many of it’s secrets, but didn’t understand the full width/breadth of it all. Remember the heiroglyphics under the statue and in the tunnels around the temple? There must have been a pretty large Egyptian colony there at one point. What happened to them? Well… I’ll get to that.
Here’s a logo that I did for the 2010 Team MDO sports festival. Team MDO is an annual sport festival for deaf youth that is centered here in Louisville, KY.
Team MDO 2010 logo
April 20th, 2010
WordPress Custom Dashboard Panel
I made up a little custom dashboard widget for our clients at Louisville Web Group. At current, we’re placing this on the majority of our client’s WordPress installations. It gives the client a quick, easy way to see our contact information as well as a central spot to download their support documentation/”how-to guide”. I’m going to look into expanding this a bit in the future, possibly with a bit of JSON so that instead of having to update each dashboard with new info individually, I could update all dashboards simultaneously. This would be great for alerting clients to upcoming server maintenance or holiday hours.
WordPress dashboard widgets
April 5th, 2010
DNS goofup?
I guess I was the only person that saw this on Tuesday evening when tying to view Hulu. The only thing that I can think of was some sort of DNS messup on my computer, as once I restarted everything was fine. I clicked around this blog for about 5 minutes, and all of the Hulu links (even from Google) were forcing me to it. Weird.
Hulu, wth?
March 24th, 2010
