| Sunday, August 24, 2008 | Volume 1, Issue 10 |
 Stationzer0's family is growing! New membership is way up... thanks to several awesome factors. Although there have been one or two robots that have tried to infiltrate our ranks, the flood of new registered users has been welcome and wonderful. The Introductions forum is a great place to let everyone know who you are—we'll let you know who WE are, too. Here's a list of the new dudes that have joined the Stationzer0 team since the middle of July....ljt_lost, an other, dotto, Apopheniac79, lockefan, DonutWheel, izikavazo, RockGod, chkympgi, NatDK, nandhini, jahilia, lost1010, MerryPace, ostia2006, clueless1der, Jumbuck313, Monday Lad, Rax, and leparisien. Welcome, friends!  Battle for the Island VII is over. The bodies have been piled high and torched, all the banut juice has been swilled down and the sand crabs have resumed their rightful place in the food chain. All four of the moderators were Stationzer0 regulars... great minds and great pals. Once again, please give a big-time round of applause to AVREY97 as the Island Queen, Kolic as the Island Avenger, Bladerunna as the Island Prince and The Mad as the Mad Narrator!  The Octagon Global Recruiting ARG (Alternate Reality Game) saw some activity this week. The folks at the Dharma Initiative have released the first in a supposed series of tests towards finding suitable recruits.The crack team of Stationzer0-ers wasted little time in achieving perfect or near-perfect results, as an interesting "hack" was uncovered within just hours of the launch of the testing. Whether this "cheat" is a deliberate insertion into the Dharma test or not is a topic of minor debate. Special thanks and appreciation goes out to Pumbaa7287 and technoprep for not only uncovering this "feature," but sharing it with their friends at Stationzer0. Check out, catch up and grab on to all the ARG action in the Dharmawantsyou.com thread.  Stationzer0 is filled with the wise and the witty, and many, many times each week, our users post interesting, insightful, and hilarious rants and raves in one of our many Off-Topic threads. This week, we feature a post from long-time contributor trace.  "Our preggo bonding just came to a screeching halt, my noogs. gross. olives are almost as bad as anise...now, if you were to talk about dr. pepper...i LIKE dr. pepper. i think i'm going to name my daughter dr. pepper. i like will and wicked keeping things entertaining around here too." Blade and Jim's Spoiler Thread: SEASON FIVE is filled to the brim and spilling on the floor with what seems like endless spoiler info—as well as the latest non-spoiler info being leaked by ABC and the LOST producers. This week was bountiful with great news and views.  With so much to choose from, I picked my favorite to tease the Sunday Independent readers with. Remember, all spoilers at Stationzer0 are either in the LOST Spoilers forum or marked with a special spoiler font.The LOST production staff is on the lookout for a pair of old-school sailing vessels to rent for production. Perhaps Season 5 will visit the secrets of the Black Rock. The second ship might prove to be just as interesting....   Two occurrences come immediately to mind when it comes to new and cool. Our good buddy hlyons has changed her username (and avatar) to CharKate. Second, using her new CharKate personality, she started a thread called Back to school in the Off-Topic area. This thread is comedy gold if you're going back to school, your kids are going, or if you've ever been kicked out of school. I watched an incredibly bad movie a few days ago—JAWS III. I knew it was going to be horrible when I saw the title screen appear. Lately, I've found an odd craving for watching disgustingly crappy movies—for no reason other than to make myself feel better about who I am and where my life has taken me. As bad, as tough, as downright gritty as my little world gets, at least I can say, "Hey, at least I had nothing to do with JAWS III." I know it's a small thing, but it's something.  It also looks like the Battle for the Island website is still kicking, waiting for its next game. There's a game being played there right now, Guess Who Said. There have also been awards posted, and there are still a couple of players who haven't revealed who they were! Get over there and do that!  |
Posted by jimpbblmk on 24 Aug 2008 at 00:00 | Newsletter
