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More specifically, let’s talk the volcano eruption in Iceland. I assume you’ve all heard of it, it’s caused mayhem for airlines and people waiting to go anywhere, though they did start up air travel again. In fact, due to the volcano, Jim Groom won’t even be able to complete his much-anticipated plans to take an epic journey to Svalbard, Norway and fight polar bears!



What some of you may not know is the name of the volcano (or rather glacier above the volcano, in this case). I want you all to stop reading this post, find a piece of paper, and try to write down (with correct spelling!) the name. … Alright, are you done? Good. Look back up at your screen now. If you wrote “Eyjafjallajökull,” you’re correct! Yeah, it’s a mouth-full. But now we come to the bigger problem: how do you pronounce it? Look at it and try it. Eyjafjallajökull. In fact, it would be great if you all could try it, record it, and leave a link in the comments so I can laugh at you! And yes, thanks to YouTube I know how to spell and pronounce it! It only took my and my roommate 30 minutes the other night!

Most newscasters don’t even attempt pronouncing it, simply calling it “that volcano,” “the volcano in iceland,” or something of the sort. But when they do try, it’s pretty funny! Interestingly, even the Wikipedia pronunciation at the beginning of this first video is party wrong.

Or you could just watch these two ladies fail.



It’s an Icelandic word that literally means “island (eyja) mountain (fjall) glacier (jökull)”. You language-buffs may like to know that fjall is where the English word fell comes from, as in a mountain or hill. Yeah, leave it to them Vikings to make things unnecessarily hard. And just cause they can. The closest way to pronounce it I can think of using random English words is to say “heya fee-yacht-lie you-gut-th” (and say fee-yacht quickly). There’s a good example here. Or you could listen to this awesome Icelandic musician explain it live on tv!

If you were wondering: yes, that song will get stuck in your head. Enjoy! and I hope you’ve learned a little something about Iceland, your lack of language-skills, and the world at large!

Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

This Tuesday I posted a survey asking readers two questions.

1. Of all the concerts you’ve been to, which band played your favorite?

and

2. Where was the concert?

The survey is closed and the 29 responses have been plotted to a map on Google Earth. Check em out below:

As you can see, the responses ranged all across the United States, though mostly centralized to the east coast and especially to concerts located in Washington, D.C.

The favorite bands also varied greatly, with music from many different genres. The most popular bands answered were: Relient K (3), Jack’s Mannequin (2), Blink 182 (2), Animal Collective (2), and Switchfoot (2). Someone, I can only hope jokingly, put down Nickelback as their favorite band. Haha you are funny, whoever you are! Apparently someone has seen “Never been to one” up in Wisconsin, which is crazy, cause I didn’t know that they were still touring! Also I don’t know if Snoop Dogg performs in Alaska much, but it was an interesting response Thanks everyone for helping out!

Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

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Dear Reader,

What is this? A book? A code? A picture? A father? A fake? A clue? A test? A link? Or maybe just a friend. Why ‘Keep Hide – from a friend’? Will Michaels listen? Then again what do I know? I’m just the uploader, of course.

April 2009 is almost upon Samuel Michaels. This book may contain more than you know yet. If you are wondering, the papers do contain direct test results relating to Burke Pharmaceuticals and one “Cawley Tech”. I am in possession of a few scraps from this group of papers that weren’t destroyed. If able, I will post scans of what I have before the week ends…

NOTE: Results have already been processed and answers are no longer being accepted. Click here to see results.



Wanna be famous? Wanna make known what your favorite band is? Wanna help ME out? Really? Wow…



Anyways please fill out the form below to help me complete some work! Thanks!

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of “Happily Ever After” (A Desmond episode )

Also:

1. Desmond episodes ROCK!
2. Mikhail
3. Jacob’s list
4. Seeing old characters
5. Everyone loves Daniel
6. Extreme emotions and the two timelines
7. Hearing things…
8. Hawking? HAWKING!? WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON??
9. How this will all end
10. Wrapping up the ALT Timeline… uh, yeah, how?
11. Desmond’s “sacrifice”
12. (yeah… we kinda talk about A LOT this episode!)
13. Taking sides, the final battle is coming
14. Eloise Hawking: The ethereal, multi-dimensional, time-travelling, knowledge dictionary
15. LIBBY NEXT EPISODE!
16. And MORE!!!

Yes, this is a longer episode, but in our opinion it’s our best, most thought-filled podcast we’ve done this whole season! Enjoy!
Happy Trails,
Sam.

PS — We forgot to mention this picture from the episode, which is REALLLYYY interesting. It’s of a painting in Widmore’s office:




Interesting, the two scales are balanced here, instead of constantly one way or the other as it seems to be in the original timeline… Perhaps it is this fact which created this ALT timeline? The scales being even is the cause of this timeline. But then how could the scales be evened? Just an idea from Sam here, but what if the two scales are evened because they are both dead. What if in the ALT both are dead, and this is the cause, a world without men wearing greyscale clothing. Just Hawking wanting to keep it that way.



As always: Watch LOST tomorrow night!

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Dear Reader,

Things not seem weird yet? Good. This is the last of the background you need to know. The next uploads are the ones which are in danger of being taken down by Burke. The book is introduced, the video seen, etc.

We see from the LOST reference in this vlog post that the video was originally filmed on March 19, 2009. If you don’t understand yet, wait for April. That’s all I can write at this time…

So I have been finding a bunch of cool videos recently, and figured I’d share ‘em around. If you’ve already seen them, then good for you, never hurt to watch again!

First up is a music video from a Russian singer made in the 80s. For the last year or so it’s been gaining a following of it’s own in the internet meme-sphere, and it’s starting to become the new sort of rickroll, and in my opinion it’s even better:

Wanna “trololo” somebody? Just link them to this site.

This second video I found on a graphics website I frequent and I just thought it was extremely cool. What if all the pixelated arcade video games we know and love were real? Find out:

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Discover more animation and arts videos.

Until next time,
Sam.

My latest video for the “Samuel Michaels” digital story is still processing on YouTube, so I thought I’d take the extra time and write a post on some cool information on recent happenings. Now onto… Chatroulette!

I’m sure nearly every one of you who is reading this has heard of the little internet phenomenon known as “Chatroulette“. For those of you who don’t, Chatroulette is basically a website where you video chat with random people throughout the world. The site pairs you with someone, then you click “Next” to move on once you are either bored, confused, or (most likely) grossed out by the other person. It’s very popular among some colleges, 16 year old girls, Germans, and perverts. Most of you have also probably heard the stereotype that Chatroulette is filled with… well… genitalia. I’ve heard many people say it, my friend yesterday told me the site disturbed her, and Jim Groom even commented one class that he was amazed at how many naked people there are on the site. To be honest, I didn’t really believe it. I thought it was just another over generalization about a popular internet site. So of course I had to see for myself!

I can now confirm after using it myself very briefly that this stereotype is absolutely 100% true. Beyond that, I would strongly suggest that you don’t go check it out for yourself, unless you enjoy male genitalia being stuffed in your face literally every third click. Please take our and the rest of the internets’ word on this one. However, I seem to have done the impossible. I made a friend on Chatroulette. Yes. That’s right. I created a legitimate relationship with a normal human being on Chatroulette. In between all the awkward pervert-looking people, overly-contrasted faces in dark rooms, and guys “laying” on their beds, I ran into a really nice girl from Germany. And after a very lengthy translator-assisted conversation even agreed to friend eachother on Facebook. I feel like this should go down as a major turning point in the history of mankind or something.

This is proof that there is a small hope for decency on these mostly creeper-ridden chat websites that are becoming so popular. And I can’t help but hope that interactions such as these are what the sites were originally intended to create. We don’t live in a world where friendships are limited by how far we can walk in a day, we live in the modern age of internet and social media. Despite this hope, it seems as though the perverts will always overrun these sites. It’s because of them that you won’t ever see my face pop up on your Chatroulette screen again. Maybe if stronger blocking/reporting was added to the site. But I’m not gonna hold my breath.

Have any of you ever actually made a friend on Chatroulette or any site like it? I want to know! Leave a comment…



Happy Trails,

Sam.



Addition:
I should probably explain the stereotypes I mentioned earlier. Those being that Chatroulette is popular among 16 year old girls, Germans, and perverts. I say that because consistently I ran into 16 year old girls who said they lived Germany. I don’t know if I just happened to be placed on a server with a bunch of Germans or if Germans just love Chatroulette, but that’s what happened. Also every single German I saw was eating M&Ms. Dunno if it has any significance, but maybe we should add it to The Stereotype List. Oh and why did I say perverts? Well that one should be obvious.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the “The Package”

Also:

1. Talk about many theories
2. Actually exciting Sun and Jin episode??
3. Loving the old characters! Yeah, we’re talking about Keamy, Mikhail, and more.
4. Mikhail thoughts
5. LOST FANS: START WATCHING FRINGE NAO!
6. Flocke can’t float on water?
7. And MORE!!!

Happy Trails,
Sam.

PS — Watch LOST tonight!