Both of your calculations are wrong. For the no repetition case, you also need to multiply by 10, since there are 10 different ways that that could occur (10 unique possible first numbers). The calculation for at most 1 repeat is also fucked up. I'm too lazy to do the latter case analytically but I wrote a script to…

Both of your calculations are wrong. For the no repetition case, you also need to multiply by 10, since there are 10 different ways that that could occur (10 unique possible first numbers). The calculation for at most 1 repeat is also fucked up. I'm too lazy to do the latter case analytically but I wrote a script to…

Nice Reference
Hank: What about the time I chipped my tooth on the bathroom urinal? What the FUCK is so comical about that!
Larry: It was a back tooth Hank.
Larry: I don't know how you did it.

Gay Demographic
Geesh, between Tim Gunn, NPH in a towel and a song and dance number they were really going after the gay demo quite hard. And Rachel Bilson for the straight men, they really have their basis covered. I loved this episode so much.

Yea, it was similar to the S6 teasers, with Oceanic claiming to have a perfect safety record, implying SPOILERS**** That Jack's plan worked.

I concur with the OP. This whole thing was always a business move by FOX, they did the same thing 5 or so years ago with the Simpsons cast. And in many ways it was a win-win for them. They trimmed dollars off of the contracts while raising awareness for the upcoming product, brilliant. I could express this as a 2-d…

I was excluding the side that was hit and repaired, because no one likes re-runs.

Well, the Pentagon still has 4 other sides…

Well, it was the second song they played on SNL tonight, so it seems like a safe bet at this point.

Compass Conundrum
Is anyone else concerned about the seemingly infinite loop that the compass is now in? I mean, not so much from a paradox point of view, but from the fact that on each loop it will age about 60 years? They even had Richard comment on how it was a bit rustier. This leads me to believe that this is a…

Season Two Symmetry
Lots more of the parallels with season two. Except instead of faith in pushing the button, the faith is in destiny and the malleability of time. Similar questions of futility and destiny wrapped up in that.

Well, the CIA did get Stanford to give him his degree, so that's something at least.

I think Francois is right, that the first scene of the season takes place shortly after the events of SLiH. There are many plausible explanations for why Faraday would be hiding from Chang, such as perhaps he is assigned to the Swan and would have no reason to be at the Orchid. Or perhaps the fall out from the actions…

I could eat a knob at night.

Also, Christian has shown the ability to appear as an apparition, such on the freightor right before it blew up and to Locke (in the distant past?) right before he turned the wheel. So Christian is certainly more than just a reanimated body.

Arsenio- Technically, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network are separate entities that share a single channel. This became official a couple of years ago, primarily I believe so that their ratings would be counted separately. So it is completely appropriate for Adult Swim to show live action, since no where in their mission…

I don't think it's clear how far back Ben will "forget". Maybe only being carried into the temple? I hope that's the case, because it's much cooler if he knew he got shot by Sayid and goaded him into doing it in the future.

Scoop- Uh, weren't the Simpsons stamps mentioned by Matt Groening in his interview from last week? Scooped!

About time
Great, I've been waiting for this. Now is there anything you guys can do about restoring the Onion Newspaper box that was outside of the Silver Spring post office? It seemed to disappear last week, and it was a convenient location for me since it was on the way to my gym. Thanks, -Loyal Reader

No, it's reliable if we're talking about the subjective time of the characters. For instance, from Sawyer's perspective he spend 100 days on the island before the Donkey wheel got turned, then a few days of trippyness and now 3 years with Dharma. What remains to be seen is if say Kate and Sawyer have experienced the…