Saturday, June 21, 2008

Who is the Last Cylon?

Thinking logically now. Consider the following:

The Xena Cylon said that the last Cylon is not in the fleet. How would she know that. Does she know what all 36,000 people in the fleet look like? Not likely.

So, I believe that she must know the wherabouts of this last Cylon.

Sometime in last season, a person excaped from the Cylons and found the fleet. Could there be others like him. Quite likely, I think.

There must be someone still on that very same Cylon base ship that is in captivity there. I believe that this is the last cylon.

But who is it?

One of the other Cylons once claimed that "Adama is a Cylon". There are three Adamas. One is dead - Zach, having been killed somehow before the series started. We have never met him. He was killed in some sort of accident or something in one of the vipers, I believe. We know that people can get blown up, yet live (Starbuck). Could this have happened to Zach as well? And, could he have come back to the Cylons and be captured by them?

I think Zach is the guy. He has "been with us since the beginning" (sortof). The only question is his origin. He would have to have been adopted by the Adama's or something.

Of course, Xena might just be going on some sort of vision she had. I hope it isn't that, though.

Monday, June 09, 2008

Piano Movers

For some reason, piano movers are funny. Why is that? I just saw a commercial on TV featuring two guys hoisting a baby grand piano up to an upper floor via a rope and pully system. Alas, the rope was not strong enough and the piano fell. But since pianos fall very slowly, the two were able to get below it to attempt catching it using some sort of fabric or plastic. That didn't work so the piano broke into a million pieces. They gathered up the pieces and stuffed them into a strong plastic bag (the subject of the commercial) and then delivered the bag of parts to the intended apartment.

This piano moving gag is not new at all. There was a silent Charlie Chaplin film from 1914 called "His Musical Career". You can watch the entire short film on YouTube. He has to deliver a piano up a single flight of stairs and he does so all by himself with the piano on his back!

In 1932, Laurel and Hardy made their classic film "The Music Box". They are piano movers who have to deliver a piano up a long flight of outdoor stairs. These stairs and their 131 steps still exist out in LA. Once they finally get the piano to the top, a postman informs them that they could have driven their horse-driven cart around the block to get to the same location. So, they heave ho the piano back down the stairs to do just that!

This L&H film was a remake of a similar film from 5 years earlier called "Hats Off". In this film, the boys have to lug a washing machine up the very same stairs. Unfortunately, this film is lost.

The Three Stooges made a film called "An Ache in Every Stake" in which they are ice men delivering blocks of ice on a very hot day. So hot, in fact, that they can't get the product up the 147 steps of a similar stariway in LA before the ice shrinks from a one foot block into a one inch cube.

Bonewop

You might be wondering about the name I chose for one of my geocaches - Bonewop. I believe there are only two people in the world who know the true significance of this word and of course I am one of them. I just googled the word and it came up with only 3 hits all referring to this geocache.

The description of the cache is below. It has nothing to do with the real significance of the word.

Bonewops were previously thought to be extinct but I saw long haired red one while placing this cache.

Bonewops were so named because of their strange clublike feet that were often used to konk predator animals on their head to fend them off. This was purely a defensive action since the bonewop is a grazing animal about the size of a beaver. Its favorite food is puncturevine. Perhaps the increase in the amount of puncturevine in Colorado is what has brought them back from the brink of extinction. Watch out for puncturevine, by the way. These are the plants that produce goathead thorns that are the bane of many bicycle tires.

For some really peculiar reason, it is common to see very unusual animals near this cache. Besides that red bonewop I saw, I have also seen a parfer, a floober and a grindleflick in the area as well. Please log what you "see" and describe in as much detail as you can. A photo would be great!

Caching Stats and Facts

On the left side of this page, I have added information about my hidden caches and travel bugs. The caches are listed in order of how many times they have been found. The bugs are ordered by last found first. You can keep track of them this way and see where the travel bugs are right now.

On the cache list, one of them has been archived because it disappeared. That's Count for Marcy.