"Friday, June 20
In somewhat lighter news, today brings The Case of the Missing Woman Who Was Not Missed, courtesy of the UK's Daily Record. At the center of the story: Hedviga Golik, the Croatian woman who was born in 1924, and who was found this week after sitting dead in front of her television for 42 years. As the Daily Record reports, Golik was last seen by neighbors in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old, and next seen in 2008, when her skeleton was found by authorities hoping to establish who owned the woman's "empty" flat. "The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in," said a police spokesman. "Nothing had been disturbed for decades." As usual, neighbors were shocked. "I still remember her," said Jadranka Markic, who was 9 when Golik "vanished." "She was a quiet woman who kept to herself but was polite. We all thought that she had just moved out and gone to live with relatives." Here's hoping The Bones of a Woman Who Sat Dead in Front of Her Television for 42 Years gets the international gallery tour it deserves."
`stolen from Seattles's The Stranger, Last Days
30 June 2008
29 June 2008
a bottle of wine gone
and today the talking stops (for me anyway because I don't have a bluetooth deal that I can get to work).
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...a quote from The Stranger; universal truth, this one:
"Monday, June 16
This week of fatal steamrollings, sympathetic sex offenders, and the unfortunate collision of low self-esteem and high fertility kicks off with a social experiment on the streets of Washington State. The experiment's thesis question: Is using a cell phone while driving dangerous? For an answer, the Washington State Patrol tested five drivers, who were monitored as they drove while talking on cell phones and sending and receiving text messages. As KIRO reports, the results were crushingly obvious, with phone-chatting drivers regularly veering into oncoming lanes and texting drivers spending "about a third of their time watching their screens." KIRO also specified that a car going 60 miles per hour travels nearly 100 feet in the one second a person's eyes are on a cell-phone screen. "Basically, you have no idea where you just traveled for 100 feet," said Tyler Fryberger of the WSP. "It's just like driving with your eyes closed." But starting July 1, the state gains a new tool against the deadly threat of Driving While Under the Influence of Hand-Held Technology, when "driving while using a hand-held cell phone" joins "driving while texting" on the list of poor choices officially forbidden by law. Once July hits, drivers caught using cell phones without the aid of a speakerphone or other hands-free device will be hit with a $124 fine. Considering how many cell-phone-using drivers we see on a daily basis, Last Days predicts revenues from the new law could rehabilitate Washington's public schools, fix every pothole in the state, and perhaps cure cancer."
I'm typing this post on June 29, 2008. One more day to text and phone people like maniacs while driving before having to text in super sly-mode.
Thanks to brother, who never lets me down when it comes to bringing me a copy of The Stranger. Brewer kids forever.
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...a quote from The Stranger; universal truth, this one:
"Monday, June 16
This week of fatal steamrollings, sympathetic sex offenders, and the unfortunate collision of low self-esteem and high fertility kicks off with a social experiment on the streets of Washington State. The experiment's thesis question: Is using a cell phone while driving dangerous? For an answer, the Washington State Patrol tested five drivers, who were monitored as they drove while talking on cell phones and sending and receiving text messages. As KIRO reports, the results were crushingly obvious, with phone-chatting drivers regularly veering into oncoming lanes and texting drivers spending "about a third of their time watching their screens." KIRO also specified that a car going 60 miles per hour travels nearly 100 feet in the one second a person's eyes are on a cell-phone screen. "Basically, you have no idea where you just traveled for 100 feet," said Tyler Fryberger of the WSP. "It's just like driving with your eyes closed." But starting July 1, the state gains a new tool against the deadly threat of Driving While Under the Influence of Hand-Held Technology, when "driving while using a hand-held cell phone" joins "driving while texting" on the list of poor choices officially forbidden by law. Once July hits, drivers caught using cell phones without the aid of a speakerphone or other hands-free device will be hit with a $124 fine. Considering how many cell-phone-using drivers we see on a daily basis, Last Days predicts revenues from the new law could rehabilitate Washington's public schools, fix every pothole in the state, and perhaps cure cancer."
I'm typing this post on June 29, 2008. One more day to text and phone people like maniacs while driving before having to text in super sly-mode.
Thanks to brother, who never lets me down when it comes to bringing me a copy of The Stranger. Brewer kids forever.
social friendmaking sites
Last week I got an email notification from facebook telling me I had a new message from "Jordann." (These past-school-mate-findings always freak me out and make me want to delete my profiles on these sites, but this time I decided to run with it and make the connection.) No way! Jordann was my Mormon best friend (for some reason I always called her my "Mormon best friend," maybe I wanted people to know I don't discriminate?) from first - fifth grade and it sent loss-of-words shock waves through my body. Come fifth grade, I moved to Fresno Christian and she moved to Auberry. The bond was broken.
Here's what I remember about Jordann: sleepovers at her house in Ranchos-- doughboy pool, a dry, parched-looking backyard, two dusty dogs, nintendo with the track-&-field pad, a halloween where I dressed up as a baby, popcorn, a reading from the book of mormon, her brother and sisters (and towards the end of our best-friendship a new baby brother, whom the parents named Will and I questioned why it was only Will and not William), changing Will's diaper and then discovering that Vaseline can also be used as chapstick; getting our ears pierced together on our 13th birthday and going to Malibu Grand Prix after on that hot summer saturday afternoon; giving her a "best friends" necklace-- a gold cracked heart, with the words "BEST" on top of "FRIENDS" which were divided by the crack, but properly spelled when the two halves were put together (Mark made fun of me for that by sarcastically suggesting I give it to Jordann in a "will you marry me?"-like manner by getting on one knee and asking, "will you be my best friend?" thanks brother).
Oh, Jordann. Good memories. And this brought up memories from elementary school, and since this year is my 10-year high school reunion, I put the two together and I think that an elementary school reunion would be incredibly awesome and oh-so-much better than a high school reunion. How much better was elementary school, where we all had total self-confidence and little homework, than high school which encourages self-doubt? Who out there went to Webster?! Go wolverines! Let's do it.
Here's what I remember about Jordann: sleepovers at her house in Ranchos-- doughboy pool, a dry, parched-looking backyard, two dusty dogs, nintendo with the track-&-field pad, a halloween where I dressed up as a baby, popcorn, a reading from the book of mormon, her brother and sisters (and towards the end of our best-friendship a new baby brother, whom the parents named Will and I questioned why it was only Will and not William), changing Will's diaper and then discovering that Vaseline can also be used as chapstick; getting our ears pierced together on our 13th birthday and going to Malibu Grand Prix after on that hot summer saturday afternoon; giving her a "best friends" necklace-- a gold cracked heart, with the words "BEST" on top of "FRIENDS" which were divided by the crack, but properly spelled when the two halves were put together (Mark made fun of me for that by sarcastically suggesting I give it to Jordann in a "will you marry me?"-like manner by getting on one knee and asking, "will you be my best friend?" thanks brother).
Oh, Jordann. Good memories. And this brought up memories from elementary school, and since this year is my 10-year high school reunion, I put the two together and I think that an elementary school reunion would be incredibly awesome and oh-so-much better than a high school reunion. How much better was elementary school, where we all had total self-confidence and little homework, than high school which encourages self-doubt? Who out there went to Webster?! Go wolverines! Let's do it.
27 June 2008
inspirational pictures?
thanks, people. I have to work with kids on this stuff.
america needs to follow this "not our fault, stupids!" notion
when I saw this one, I thought, "this scares the shit out of me"
america needs to follow this "not our fault, stupids!" notion
when I saw this one, I thought, "this scares the shit out of me"
10 June 2008
08 June 2008
waitress
i just watched that movie and it was amazing and i loved it. and then upon returning it to its netflix case i wondered, "hm, who is the director so i can watch more of this person's movies?" and saw "murdered" in the info blurb and read it a couple times to make sure my tired eyes weren't deceiving me. did you guys know this? certainly you do, but man what a sad story. i googled her name, adrienne shelly, and found her wikipedia page and probably you already know this, being superb internets users that you are, but that movie was just so good and this is such craziness-in-the-sad-way that i had to connect with someone out there.
the wiki page.
04 June 2008
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