After a few years of owning a CRT HDTV I decided to go against what I have always said I would never do, I purchased an LCD TV. After researching for a few months on the differences between LCD, DLP, Plasma, shape, sizes and weight I purchased the 46″ Samsung LN46A650A. Several factors changed my mind about purchasing LCD over DLP being that DLP requires it’s lamp to be replaced every 3,000 hours or so which sounds like a lot of time but over the course of a few years the hours add up and also the fact that LCD is much lighter and slimmer than any other TV which means I can essentially put it anywhere I want without a lot of hassle. The inherent and widely known setbacks with LCD technology has been resolved in this year’s model: Motion blur and washed out black levels, I can safely say that while watching all different types of content it performs beyond my expectations and I am very satisfied with its clarity.

After a few days of putting my new TV to work I am very pleased with its overall performance, I am looking forward to my impending purchase on a Blu-Ray player in the next month or so to really work it out. David and I had a difficult time lifting the mammoth out of my apartment and down what seemed to be a very long flight of stairs. Here’s a photo of the TV.

The Discovery Channel now has a new series airing for the next 5 weeks rightly dubbed, “Planet Earth“. The series which is filmed entirely in High Definition took 3 – 4 years to film and another year to compile. TDC put a lot of effort into advertising the series which got me excited not only because I appreciate God’s creation but I also enjoy Science and the complexity of our ecosystem which only further proves that God created us.

The last episode to air was “Oceans” which studied creatures that live in the depths of the Ocean so far down that man and light cannot reach. The majority of the species that live in the depths are invertebrate that at first glance you would wonder why their existence is even needed, but they are the cleansers of the Ocean. Bacteria, carcasses, etc is what feeds them. One species (I’ll retrieve the name later) looks like a human heart but unfolds into an octagon with luminescent lights at each tip to lure prey in, what an amazing creature.

At first, I was worried that the series would be inundated with evolutionary “facts”, but to my surprise I only heard two references in 3 hours. If you cannot view this series TDC has Planet Earth on DVD and Blu-Ray.

It feels as though summer has arrived. I had to use my air conditioner a few days ago in my car. The weather today is going to get up in the mid-sixties which is good for this time of year. Usually we are recovering from a massive snow storm.

Last Tuesday night I purchased a small table-top grill from Wal-Mart for $30. I decided to go with a smaller one so I can take it with me more easily and also store it in my spare bedroom. Nate came over last night, we cooked hamburgers & hotdogs. They came out pretty good. I really missed tasting food from the grill.

I want to point out that I have published the Christianity FAQs under the Christian section. It is not close to being finished but I am working on it.

I have missed the past month of LOST on ABC due to attending Campus Crusade for Christ, but last Wednesday night I decided to stay home and watch LOST among other reasons. I am going to explain why I enjoy LOST so much.

First of all, this show has two stories tied into one. There’s the story of Oceanic Flight 815 that crashed on a mysterious supposedly unknown island and the characters have to depend on each other for survival. The other part of the show’s story is flashing back to the characters lives in the past and how they became who they are and what led them to Oceanic Flight 815 and how each and everyone of the characters had some sort of direct and or indirect effect on each others lives that potentially led them to that flight.

The mystery of the Island, the hatch and the infamous string on numbers (4,8,15,16,23,42) that are displayed latterly everywhere the survivors past. I’ll give a few examples: Hurley was in an asylum for awhile and one of his friends was some sort of Navy technician that listened for signals across the sea from enemies and hear someone repeating the string of numbers over and over. This drove him mad, hence being in the asylum. He repeated the numbers over and over and they stuck in Hurley’s head. Once Hurly got out, he used the numbers in a lottery and won 114 million dollars. Hurley than buys a box company that Locke works at and the box company’s manager used to be Hurly’s manager (used to because Hurley bought out the fast-food store that he managed) and is now Locke’s. This manager is a jerk and drove Locke to head to Australia- the reason I won’t reveal here.

There are many in-depth connections between the characters, the numbers, etc. Here’s a link to some information on the connections.

Later on in the show we find that there’s a hatch in the ground with the numbers on it and eventually we get inside to discover some sort of bunker that has a computer that counts down from 108 minutes, once it gets to the end you have to enter the string of numbers or “something catastrophic” will happen according to a movie found in the hatch. What is interesting is that the numbers add up to 108 and it takes 108 minutes for a satellite to rotate the Earth. If you follow the show you may see where I’m going with this.

I’ll talk about one more point and than I’ll close. The hatch’s purpose was for scientific studies on the following areas: paranormal, meteorological, zoology, parapsychology and magnetism. This explains some of the strange things on the Island, some of its inhabitants and survivors abilities.

Hopefully, if you are not already interested in this show, I have drawn you in a little bit. It’s best to watch it from the beginning; you can find the DVD for Season 1 at any store that carries movies. LOST airs Wednesday nights at 9PM EST on ABC.

The North East experienced some very heavy rain fall this weekend, especially Maine. It poured all weekend long, in fact, it’s still raining. The last time it rained like this was back in May. I left my moon roof open in my car Friday night, come Saturday morning my car seat was pretty wet… no worries though, it’s leather. I watched a few movies this weekend, I, Robot, which looks amazing on my new TV and The Incredibles.

Today a few new people visited Sunday school, one of them was a girl on the radio station that I listen to, Solution FM, her name is Jolie, she’s a very nice girl… I’m hoping she will come back next Sunday so I can actually talk her. :)

Well, I’m off to bed, my back hurts from sitting up in bed like this.