beth is me! The BF mocks me for bringing so many books when I almost always either buy more or get them as gifts on my trip - and hardly ever finish all of them unless my relatives leave me alone enough (read: almost never) - BUT I'd rather carry the extra weight than chance being without reading material of my choice when away from home. Carryon: usually 2 - the one I'm currently reading and a spare in case I finish the first one on the plane. But often I buy another one or two in the airport bookstore/newstand. Those ones are usually either Elizabeth Peters or Stephen King. Very, very rarely I'll buy a magazine.

re: the Numbers Stations - did anyone else get a major wiggins from this:

The voices that can be heard on these stations are often those of children, or are mechanically generated.

Sounds like a horror movie gimmick but still - eeee.

re: Hurley as patient - count me on the side of those who say Yes - but I can't think what for. (Think if it was schitzophrenia or something involving delusions, he would have been a lot more doubting of his own instincts regarding the numbers being cursed. Yes, he badly wanted validation - and finally got it from Rousseau - but before that he didn't seem to question himself/his sense of reality even though everyone else kept saying it was crazy.)

Agree it was telegraphed pretty obviously - for this show anyway - but we've seen stuff that wasn't a major surprise in the flashbacks before. Jack's first ep telegraphed the second IIRC.

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Is there are buffista login for the Tribune, Kristen (or anyone)?

Finally got around to watching last night, and knew I wouldn't catch up here before bed. Nothing much to add. Loved the ep. Fury rocks it, per usual. Loved, loved, LOVED the scene with Rousseau and Hurley.

Also, I really hope Locke turns out to have his own agenda, but not necessarily an evil one. I like how he could go almost any way now.

BugMeNot gave me privacy1st@mailinator.com password=tribune and that worked.

Huh, didn't for me. Or did you need to put in the whole "password=tribune"?

No, just tribune. Worked fine for me.

Aha. I sussed the problem. My cut&paste of the email address was leaving a space on the end.

That's cool - hopefully other newspapers are following suit.

btw ita, I think it was you that first pointed me to BugMeNot.com. It is a wonderful site. Thanks.

Did anyone catch the voices in the backgroud when they did the close up on the hatch? I thought I heard a man speaking and a woman scream.

No, as was noted already, the sounds of screaming were the stereotypical monkey/chimp screeching you always hear in jungle/tropical island locations. Even when there is no evidence simians are within a thousand miles of said location.

I'm also betting Hurley was a psych patient.

I'm also betting the "sickness" that over-took Rousseau's party was mental. Remember, she never actually said it was a physical ailment, just a "sickness". Just like Leonard now has a "sickness".

I'm among the multiple books on a trip thing. And I travel (if not fly) all the freaking time, so I regularly carry about three times what I could actually read on given trip.

I used to be like that with music, too, until the blessed advent of the mp3 player, whereupon I could carry my whole collecation, all the time. I tried to go that way with ebooks, but it never took off.

Oh, yeah, the other thing was that I used to joke that I could survive on a desert island with just the (extensive) contents of my jacket pockets. I need to add one of those magnesium striker things, and replace my battery flashlight with one of those that you just shake to recharge, and I'll be set for months.

But then it finally occurred to me that I wouldn't get stuck on a desert island while wearing the jacket, because, winter coat! So. I guess I'll die like everyone else now.

I lurve that Sawyer was reading Wrinkle in Time and I'm going to scurry off to reread my copy in case there's anything relevant. It was a little mathy. Maybe they're going to tesseract themselves off the island.

Is it wrong that I have the series of numbers memorized and I think about them sometimes during the day? The SO wondered how many people played those numbers in the lotto yesterday.