The Fascinating Life and Times of Me

Joining such popular games as Life and Clue, Graduation! the Game realistically recreates the UC Davis undergraduate experience in board game form.

In the final installment of L:WitH?, we see what would be in the hatch if the Lost writing team would just admit that they have just been screwing with us this whole time and that they are making it up as they go.

Apparently, Animals+Urine=Disaster, as we see in Today's inaugural installment of Today in (fill in the blank) News

The Dangers of Cat Ownership

Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire
TOKYO (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.

Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the fire in January was caused by a spark generated when the urine soaked the machine's electrical printing mechanism.

The fire damaged the kitchen and living room before it was put out by the house's owner, who was treated for mild smoke inhalation, said Masahito Oyabu, a fireman at the Nagata fire station in central Kobe.

The kittens quickly ran to safety, he added.

"If you have a cat, or a dog for that matter, be careful where they urinate," Oyabu said. "Especially keep them away from electrical appliances and wires."

Those Wacky Cows

Police arrest killer cow
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested a cow that killed a bus driver who was urinating on a highway, a police spokesman said Thursday.

The horned African cow, which was wandering stray in the Ojo district of Nigeria's biggest city Lagos, also injured several bystanders after killing the man.

"The cow went mad, ran into a bus driver and knocked him down. Efforts to revive him were fruitless," said Lagos police spokesman Olubode Ojajuni.

Some people suggested the animal be shot, but the district police officer ordered it to be taken alive.

"You know what it will take to arrest a mad cow?" one newspaper quoted a policeman as saying. "We applied ingenuity and arrested the cow, which is now being detained at the station," he said without going into details.

Ojajuni said police were seeking the cow's owner to press charges for failing to keep it under control.

All I can say is, I'm sure glad Reuters News is here to keep us informed about these pressing global issues.

In this installment of Lost: WitH, we look at an explanation of who the mysterious "Others" on the island might be. It is possible that The Others are another group of castaways, lost years earlier when they too mysteriously found themselves on an uncharted island.

In honor of Jody's Birthday, I have created this exciting maze. It is a reenactment of Mellie and Gimpy's great escape. Save the image, open it in Paint, print and enjoy!

On the Lost finale, we sat through 2 hours of build-up only to be left with the final image of Locke and Jack staring through the FINALLY opened hatch into a seemingly endless tunnel going straight down.

Here is a screenshot of the guys looking down into the hatch, which is eerily lit only by Locke's inexplicably long-lasting jungle torch. The only things we could see in the hatch were that its sides looked like concrete and there were ladder-like steps descending the wall, stopping after a few feet.

In the second version of WitH: Stair Edition, things get a little more complicated.

I’m about ¾ of the way into AHWOSG. I like it. I’ve been reading mostly children’s lit lately, so it is a nice change to have a book that is actually written for adults.

The story is about Eggers coming to terms with the deaths of both of his parents, and about the trials of raising his younger brother, who is around seven when both of his parents die. Eggers is a funny but very self-conscious writer, which makes sense considering this is a slightly fictionalized autobiography. He admits in the lengthy forward to the text, and throughout the text itself, that he is adjusting events, changing places and names, and inventing dialog. Several times, characters have been talking away when suddenly they start to address the narrator/ author, accusing him of exploiting them or twisting reality to suit the story or his own self-image. It is clever really, because it shields him from what he would be accused of it he claimed it was purely autobiographical, and if he didn’t acknowledge that he is obsessed with himself and his story.

Does the book live up to its title? It is heartbreaking when Eggers writes about the deaths of both of his parents from cancer, and how he tries to accept this. Staggering genius? Maybe I’ll know when I’m finished. But Eggers is a good writer in his own, self-aware way.

Although my theory about the lost monster appears incorrect, I nonetheless turn to the next mystery of the Lost island: What's in the hatch? Today, I present Theory 1.


Theory 1: A famous missing person or persons.

Today I am going to start reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, who, accoriding to the "about the author" info before the title page, is the brains behind McSweeny's.



Based on the tiny bit I have read so far, it seems to be a unique and funny novel. And, according to most of the thing's I've heard and read, this really is a great book like its title suggests. I'll let you know.