Hmmmmm. What was it that I despised so badly about Jerri her first season?

She's getting annoying again, but a far cry from Satanic. I really had no problem referring to her that first season as Satan. This year it's quite a stretch. I remember how intently she used to curdle my blood, I just can't remember quite how.

Hmmmmm. I seem to recall her arrogance and complete lack of self-knowledge to be a part of it. That incident at the council tonight was revealing. She actually listed moralle-builder and spirit of positivity among her key strengths. The funny part was that the jaws were dropping all around her, Ethan was openly turning arround to exchange stunned laughs with the row behind him, and she appeared as oblivous to that as she was to the reactions she had been provoking her entire stay.

I seem to recall that being my chief complaint last time. Not only was she a total dick, she had no idea she was being a dick. She sees the world entirely from her own point of view, never even stops to consider how her behavior may be affecting anyone else. She is her entire universe.

One fresh, and fascinating insight into her came from Shii Ann tonight: Jerri will only work on a task someone has already started. That's pretty interesting. And unusal. I think. I don't recall ever being annoyed by someone doing that, but maybe I just never noticed. What an odd condition, though. And how annoying: someone who never does shit in general, but then the one time they are willing to contribute is only when they can deprive you of something you've already gotten into a rhythum doing, maybe were actually starting to enjoy. And/or she picks a moment when she can jump in and correct you--here's how you're doing it wrong: I'll make a small contribution now, in order to show you what a fuckup you are.

The worst of all possible worlds. Wow, I'm wonderful if there area all sorts of people like that running around. I'll have to start looking for them.

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Just two hours away! Can hardly wait. A little over one for you lucky bastards east of here.

I will blog my way through it. Ah, the joys of addiction. How exciting when two of you deepest addictions meet. And none of the drug hangovers, though I will be sad, sad, sad when it's over tonight. How will we keep meeting after this?

We'll come up with something.

(And the all-stars show starts in a month and a half--February 1, right after the Super Bowl. I'm setting up my Survivor All Stars page in a minute, so you can bookmark it now and head back here then.)

So use this thread for comments for the shows tonight and through the week.

Meanwhile, I promised you lots of predictions for tonight's show, but I still haven't done it and I didn't go to bed till almost noon this morning so I'm just getting up and have not eaten yet and I'm ravenous. (And no drugs! Beyond alcohol. Ridiculous that we call that not taking drugs. Of course I drugged myself last night, I dumped at least twelve shots of vodka into my belly, but nothing illegal. Like that makes a difference.)

No sex either, though I did meet a very interesting boy. Nice chance for friendship. That's better anyway. Lots of boys to have sex with around this town, but so rare I meet anyone really interesting to hang out with.

Final Predictions:

I think that salty little freak Sandra Diaz-Twine is going to take home the million dollars. (And more importantly, to afficionados, the last Survivor title before the all star competition more or less shuts this show down for good. There will be Survivor shows after that, but they won't mean so much. The finale of the all-star show is the night Survivor will finally jump the shark).

Not sure how I defend that, exactly, but I've had a feeling about her for a long time. I think she's the most respected member left standing, for one thing. I've thought for ages should would win a lot of votes if she got there, but I had grave doubts about her ability to make it there.

She was stuck way too close to Rupert, and that boy was going down, down, down, I had no doubt in my mind about that fact. (Not much.) So she seemed doomed. For ages. She kept ending up on the wrong side of each ensuing alliance.

But what a scrappy little survivor. That woman does know how to survive. I guess that's why I'm going with her. Every other season, I've called the final episode based on a blow-by-blow scenario: this person gets the first boot, then that this person wins the final three-way immunity, kicks off this one and these two go to the final vote . . .

This time it is so damn wide open, I'm just betting Sandra will be cunning enough to manuever her way to the finals. And I do believe she can edge out Darrah Johnson if she gets there, wipe the floor with Lill Abner (aka Lillian Morris), and possibly win every single vote against Jon Dalton. Oh no she won't--that big hunky ass Burton Roberts will vote for Satan's little helper. Something's really wrong with that tasty little muscleman. I don't care how hot he is.

And in an unusual twist, the person I'm betting on is also the person I'm rooting for. Not that I've always liked the little bitch. Can't believe she dumped the fish, or started her sabotage, but I do think the little schemer deserves to take it.

So that's my call. But I did promise a blow-by-blow for how she gets there. That's secondary this time--I'll be kinda working backwards from my final answer, but I'll come up with something. I'll post it here within the hour.

For now, I'll say the linguistically challenged Darrah Johnson is my runner up for both my hopes and bets. The only way Lill Abner or Little Satan take it is a ninth-circle-of-hell final up against each other. Good God, I pray that doesn't happen. Worst Survivor final matchup ever. And there have been some horror-show final pairings most of the last several seasons.

Here's the thing though. I don't think Lill Abner has the brains in her head to get to the final two. And if people are really fearing her--is that all a plot by Sandra to make the woman from mars appear a threat? Brilliant if it is--then she can't even ride coattails in.

And Jon Dalton isn't have the schemer he thinks he is. Only way he'll make it to the finals is by three greedy people gunning for the easiest competition. So he may well get there.

But I'm still not decided whether I believe it's going to play out that way. Those women despise the little rat. I still think they may stick together with their all-girl alliance and vote him out first out of spite. And their mutual self-interest to insure they each advance one more step toward the finals.

OK, my final blow by blow:

First off, toughest call: Jon. I could be dead wrong, here, but I think they'll stick together and boot him. Backup prediction: Lill, if they really do fear her sorry ass with the jury. (But then they could also fear Darrah winning the final immunity, since she's on a roll.) Mostly likely to stay: Sandra. Wow, and I didn't even have to work backward to get there. It just worked out that way.

Three-way-face-off: Here's where it really gets interesting. So much depends on who wins immunity, since they pick who to boot. Let's see: If it's Sandra, I guess I'll take her at her word that she fears Lill and will boot her. Maybe they all do. But Darrah might be smart enough to boot Sandra, and she is most likely to win the immunity. Could be the bug in my plans. But I'll go with Lill getting the last boot.

That leaves Sandra and Jon in the final. No contest. No fucking contest.

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From AP:

Yahoo! Inc. is rolling out a souped-up search engine Monday in a bid to supplant its business partner, Google, as the most popular place to find things on the Internet.

It's fascinating to watch two simbiotic organisms going to war. I believe Yahoo is Google's main source of income, and Google's engine is the underlying power keeping Yahoo viable. Either one could be cutting its throat by destroying the other. And yet . . .

(Of course Yahoo probably assumes if it ever did destroy Google, it could easily pick the engine up at a fire sale, and deprive the competition of it in the bargain.) Still, it seems a little risky, waging war on the goose laying the golden eggs. It hasn't gotten ugly yet, but it still might. Unfortunately, the story is quite vague on what the changes entail.

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Speaking of Google, I'm searching for an article someone saw on nitty gritty of how they return search results, and running across other interesting stuff. If you don't know all Google can do (like getting a phone number, plus/minus options, google images, there's a good Boston Globe story.