Severe Jam Damage

I’ve been sorting out my books since I moved. Trying to arrange them in some sort of order… not alphabetical or anything like that because that would just be far too complicated. At the moment they are arranged sort of by topic and \ or genre and \ or author.

Which I guess sounds complicated enough itself, but it makes absolute sense for me. Also there’s a size issue… Big books have to go on tall shelves, while paperbacks and the like can be stacked double thick and 7 high for space saving measures.
Damn, I should’ve taken a photo.

Anyway, I just found another load of books that I’d thought lost forever, but it turned out the Father had stuffed them into a load of old drawers out in the garage to ‘get them out of the way of his golf clubs.’
Hmmm, yes.
This meant a lot of shuffling and sorting and making space on my already filled bookcases during which time I found that I am the owner of TWO copies of Stephen Fry’s ‘The Stars Tennis Balls’ and TWO copies of Transmet 5: Lonely City.

It sort of says something when you find that you have two copies of the same book. When you have two copies of multiple books it’s probably more of a scream along the lines of ‘STOP BUYING BOOKS BITCH!’.

Anyway, I digress.

If anyone wants the spare copy of either of these let me know. This offer only applies to citizens of Dublin who I can meet in a pub cos I’m too cheap to spend money on things like postage etc.

Here in Fair Eire (apparently we’ve lost our fada) the telly box has been showing season 2 of ‘Lost’ for the last few weeks. I think at this point we are only about 4 episodes behind the States, unlike the UK where Channel 4 has only just begun to show season 2 and I’m guessing the Aussies are still wondering What’s In The Hatch. So if you haven’t seen any of season 2 you might be better off skipping this entry as it contains spoilers.

So season 2 and new characters… Ye what?

How bloody big is this island anyway? By my reckoning it’s got the following population:

Originals
They started out with um, 42 people, a bunch of extras died, then Boone died and lastly Shannon. It hasn’t been mentioned lately how many are left living on the beach \ cave \ hatch but a guesstimate would put it at about 35.

Tailes
They started out with 23 people. The first night the ‘Others’ took 3 people, then they took 9.
There are only 5 of them left when Jin, Sawyer and Michael find them so where the other 7 disappeared to is not explained.

Others
God only knows, there were 4 of them on the boat and anything from 7 to 14 tromping through the jungle past Jin and Eko’s hiding spot. Then of course there was the big moment when Jack and er, Beardy Bloke come face to face and Jack taunts him that there are only a few of them on the island. Cue massive lighting up ceremony, but we don’t see any other humans so lets just put the Others at a comfortable guesstimate of er, 18. Oh wait I forgot the 12 that were abducted from the tailies group. So maybe 30? Oh yeah and Cindy as well, which makes 31.

Random Wandering Mentallers
As so often happens when you go on holiday with friends, relatives or total strangers who you crash landed with sometimes you just need a bit of ‘Me’ time. And Craphole Island is no different. By my reckoning we’ve got the following peeps stumbling around the island by themselves:
Desmond, after 3 years of pressing buttons and living on the set of ‘That 70’s show’ you would imagine he would be delighted to have someone to talk to, but no.
Rousseau, everyone’s favourite Crazy French Lady, all she’s missing is the cats.
Michael, hopefully by this stage he’s got laryngitis. Either that or he gave the writers a good smack as screaming ‘WALT’ while running through the jungle is not exactly a good way for an actor to get his chops.
Walt, who it would seem has pretty decent wifi coverage. When he’s not chatting to Michael through IRC on a Commodore 64 he’s appearing like Banquo’s ghost just stepping in from the rain for a wee chat, jabbering a load of backwards nonsense.

So that’s another 4.

Other Species
In addition to the humans there also appear to be polar bears, wild boars, Kate’s horse, Vincent the dog and the Smoke Monster.

By my calculations that makes 74 human types and an unknown number of animals.

Now that’s a lot of things on an island to not be bumping into each other on a much more regular basis than they have been. Yet, apparently this lot can wander about freely without ever seeing any indication that anyone else on the island exists.

That’s about it really. Sorry there wasn’t more of a point to the entry, but it was just something I was thinking about there the other day.