I hate worms

I hate worms. There's a real plague of tentworms this year. They fall on you when they go outside, their droppings cover surfaces, and some buildings are covered with them. They even get into houses sometime. The pictures show one on a tree trunk, and then the same tree trunk a few days later. This trunk had a few patches of worms like this.

"LOST" Finale

I fnally saw the rest of "Lost" recently. I'm really not sure of what exaclty happened, with the live characters on the plane and the dead characters elsewhere. And how long they were dead and all.

How did everyone else like it, if you saw it, and did you figure it all out?

"Lost" TV Show Series Finale

Tonight, they are showing the series finale of "Lost" at the State Theatre.
And it is free, of course. I wish I could go, but I can't. I'm not as far behind on "Lost" as I was before. At the time of writing, I have two episodes to watch before I am caught up. I will have to catch them on Hulu.

Some comments on recent episodes:

- Hurley's mention of a fundraising event for the "Human Fund" charity bridges "LOST" with the Seinfeld universe. I guess the backwards episode of "Seinfeld" makes more sense now that "LOST" and "Seinfeld" are connected. Wouldn't Newman have made a great castaway?

- Wouldn't the Sawyer and Miles police thing make a great cop show?

- I am waiting for Sawyer to snarl "No Smoking!" at Locke, or some similar such wisecrack.

- Sawyer DOES call Lapidus "Chesty". I did not know why, until I found this page. I guess it is reference to pilot Lapidus always being in uniform. By the way, does anyone remember that Lapidus was the Lawnmower Man? Keep them mowing blades sharp.

- I think this is a spoiler-free comment: If you want to get something off of a submarine real fast, can't you use the torpedo tubes?

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Is anyone else keeping up with this, and what do you think so far?

Got the toaster oven.

Got the toaster oven. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Found it at Wal-Mart, after looking all over the place. When looking around, I made the following observations:

1) The old "legacy" non-big-box appliance stores had no toaster ovens at all.

2) Almost all I found, even at appliance-heavy stores like ABC Warehouse, were very tiny, and could not hold a cake pan.

3) There's some expensive microwave ovens out there!

Our new oven is an "Oster Convection Toaster Oven". Keeping tnlib's comment about convection ovens in mind, convection cooking is an option in it, and you don't have to use it. I did try it with fish sticks. Yes, they seem more dried out. But they did cook in half the time.

New "Land of the Lost" Spielberg TV show coming to NBC.

Misleading headline, I will admit right off. The new TV show is not actually "Land of the Lost" But the concept of the TV show does remind me of "Land of the Lost", a TV show from the 1970s

"Terra Nova follows a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to prehistoric Earth ruled by dinosaurs."

Read more about it here.

I wonder if this new show could have actually been a re-imagining of "Land of the Lost" if Will Ferrell had not tarnished the name with his recent bad movie. The executive producer of "Terra Nova" is Star Trek guy Brannon Braga. Science fiction, dinosaurs, time travel, and what will probably be a Swiss Family Robinson-type situation. What's there not to like? I hope they find room for a Sleestak or two also.

I am not the only one drawing connections between the "Terra Nova" concept and "Land of the Lost": click here to find more.

As for Will Ferrell, click here to see Stewie's informed opinion about his work.

Sometimes I don't understand eBay

I've posted about bad eBay experiences before.

Well, this is about an inexplicably good experience. Read on...

Several weeks ago, I sold a barely-used collectible book to someone on eBay. In the expected amount of time, I got positive feedback from the buyer, that it was in great condition and a great value. That's all fine and good. End of story.

But no. Today, I get the book back in its box. Unopened, with a postal UNCLAIMED sticker on it.

What's up with that. I get my book back, and I have a happy customer who thinks the book is in great condition inside a box that he refused to take delivery of or open.

Toaster Ovens

We're thinking of getting a nice new toaster-oven for small oven cooking needs. I'm also considering a convection oven. Does anyone have any recommendations about what to get and not to get? The highest quality one out there?