Warning: Sherlock Spoilers

It has been months since I have blogged but I finally something worth while to write about. Recently I finished the second series of Sherlock and I needed to figure out how he faked his own death (no way I could wait for series 3). The creators of the show claimed that there were clues in the show on how he did it. After re-watching the final episode, I think that I finally figured it out.

1. He asks for Molly's help
   Sherlock comes to Molly saying he needs her help because he thinks he is going to die. It helps fake our own death outside of a hospital whose coroner is in love with you.
2. Rubber ball to stop a pulse
   As Sherlock waits for John inside of hospital, he bounces a rubber ball against the cabinet. If you place a ball in the armpit, it can stop blood flow to the arm and no pulse can be felt at the wrist. As John approaches Sherlock's seeming dead body and reaches for the out stretched arm to feel a pulse. When John feels no pulse he is convinced that Sherlock is dead.
3. A well choreographed fall
   As Sherlock talks to John from the rooftop, he makes sure John is standing behind a building so he cannot see the road. John sees Sherlock jump from the building but does not see him land.
   When you see Sherlock on the ground, a truck full of bags can be see parked right beside the body. The fall from the truck bed to the ground is at most 3 feet. He landed on the bed of the truck and then rolled on the the ground.
   
   
   
   As John runs towards the hospital, a biker runs into him and knocks him to the ground. John does not see the truck pulling away. Sherlock has a network of homeless people and could easily have paid someone to knock John over.
   
   
   
   By the time that John gets to Sherlock, the truck is gone
   
   

Easy peasy.

Cleverness Found

Eights years ago, I lead a professional development workshop at another high school. I took less time than expected to prepare so I started thumbing through magazines left on the teacher's desk. I found on a scrap piece of paper stuck stuck between the pages. It read:

Politics is the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a close resemblance to the first.

Take a lesson from the weather: it pays no attention to criticism

Health nuts will feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. :)

#1 Thing I Have Learned: Never take life seriously, nobody comes out alive anyways!

My New Years Resolution

I'm not really one to make New Years resolutions. If there is something in your life you think you need to change, you should do it when it comes to mind instead of waiting.

My only New Years resolution is to find/make this t-shirt because it is so fitting:

Best Batman Costume Ever

Source: Mason & Remy Blog, 93.7 The Bull

Brontë Sisters Power Dolls

Now comes With barrier-breaking feminist vision!

Andy Hallett Tribute Comic - The Afterword

For those of you have never saw Angel, this is not going to make any sense. Andy Hallett (who played Lorne) died from congestive heart disease a year ago. His good friend Mark Lutz (who played The Groosalugg) wrote the afterword in the new Angel comic "Lorne". An excerpt:

The rapport was instant, easy going, and warm. We spent the next hour talking about everything under the sun EXCEPT for the fact that we were both different colors and in these outrageous outfits on the ....Paramount.... back lot. Executives in suits would occasionally pass by us, everyone of them giving us some manner of ‘look’ that involved a combination of curiosity, mild-amusement and disbelief. Andy seized on every opportunity he could to make them laugh.

“Humans,” he said loudly in feigned disgust, “don’t they know it’s not polite to stare?”, to a gaggle of “suits” across the street.

“Who raised you, anyway Ma’am? Have you no respect for visible minorities?”, he inquired of who I instantly recognized as former head of Paramount Pictures, Sherry Lansing - but he, obviously, did not. She laughed heartedly and nodded in the direction of both the blue and green humanoids that had just verbally accosted her …an absurdity that I’m sure only could take place in ....Hollywood.....

Handsome Men's Club

Mom & Dad, don't bother watching, it won't make sense to you anyway.

Sometimes it is best to not know the context

Overheard at the university: "The Incredible Hulk and Morgan Freeman? That's just too much awesome for one conversation."

Insurance in America

I was reminded that there is one thing that health insurance companies absolutely hate - sick people.

Sick people have the audacity to require treatment, which not only eats into profits, but upsets the accountants' balance sheets. Too much of that and you could completely spoil their day.

- David Willis, The US health system 'headache', BBC News Online, 12:55 GMT, Saturday, 7 November 2009

Joss Whedon on Getting the Idea for Firefly

Joss Whedon, Future History: the Story of the Earth that Was (Serenity bonus material)

On season 2 of Buffy, I get my two week vacation and the second book I read is The Killer Angels which is about the Battle of Gettysburg and right after that I sort of become obsessed with life on the frontier and this, of course, makes me think of the Millennium Falcon because most things do.

I am so wise

As I repost from angelfire, I cam across this gem:

"Laziness is the true tie that binds."
- December 2, 2004

I hear ya Horace

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic. - Horace Lamb

Concrete Lightbulb Wall Hook

A pretty Clever idea

Welcome to Janntopia

I decided that my bedroom is officially part of Saskatchewan. It is nice to be home.

Funniest Things Said to me Today:

"You don't look like you have a prostate."

Good Grief

For a paltry $24 US you can purchase a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

Save your money people. If you want to cleverly replicate the tree for the movie buff in your life, spend less than $5 and do it yourself.

Little Prince Musical

From Grown-Ups, a 'Little Prince' for Children - NY Times Online