My struggles with the comment spammer continue. For what it’s worth, I’ve won the battle to this point, and not a lick of comment spam exists on this site. The measures I have put in place should prevent any from ever showing up again, while still ensuring that legitimate comments are not lost. Worst case scenario, I will have to manually moderate the comments, but I will not let some stupid spammer force me to turn comments off.

That’s not the reason for the title of my post though. The real reason is because I’ve been watching the show “Lost” lately. I mentioned it to Dave when they were in town visiting last time (or he mentioned it to me, I don’t remember) and so we both fired up a download to catch up on the show. It’s not 100% necessary to see all the episodes in order, but what I’ve seen so far has led me to want to do that. The premise is that a plane crashed on a mysterious tropical island. I won’t divulge too much more than that, but to say that it’s a really well done show (for as much of it as I’ve seen) with a good ensemble cast. I’ve seen four episodes, and they’ve all been pretty good. There are certain things that you have to just suspend disbelief over (only example I can think of is the dog whistle - what a monumentally bad idea) but nothing that really takes you out of the show.

I’m struck by how poorly a lot of people are taking the election in the South. Granted, there were some oddities with the election (one E-voting machine in Ohio counted an extra 3900 votes for Bush - and there were only 700 votes on the machine total…) but overall, Bush won with a majority of the popular vote. There are a lot of people saying things like “I’m moving to Canada,” which is responded with “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.” which really blows me away. I love Canada, and I can understand why someone might want to live here instead of the US (I mean, I do after all) but I don’t understand why the outcome of an election would be impetus to move. Give me a break. Bush having won the election will not make any major changes in most people’s lives. If you’re unhappy with the direction that the government is going, that’s fine, and it’s your prerogative to leave the country, but things like the Patriot Act, the DMCA, and the Induce act weren’t going to just go away if Kerry won. If anything they’d have been followed by a bunch of “friends.” I guess it’s a case of straw meeting camel’s back for some of these people. If they’re looking for utopia though, they’ll quickly come to realize that they haven’t found it here either.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I hope you enjoyed my one-man pie fight, kids!” - Krusty