she initially was supposed to be an alternate. not sure if they decided to send another team or if someone dropped out. naturally no one will sleep tonight.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
In some kind of creepy coincidence, I was hired at my part time job one year ago today. I say it's a coincidence since I'm celebrating that anniversary by being promoted to full-time Supervisor. Yay me! A real full time job! :P (Time to update the resume.)
It really wouldn't be a creepy coincidence unless it was based on some anniversary like one Mars-year or something. THAT would be creepy. (Plus it would take longer!) If you had to wait one Neptune year (~165 Earth-years) for a performance review, that would really suck.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
holy shit... why would a dog murdering intruder take a shower in your apartment?
- Christina Pikas
She did try, but I didn't hear my cell phone ring. Then when she heard the shower start she'd already called the cops and they wanted to be very sure. She did the right thing. It was just all very weird.
- lris
That's one way to get a date. Bazinga! *waggles eyebrows* I bet that was the cops' best call all day.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
oh, gosh, i would've had a heart attack. *hugs lris*
- Marianne
Yikes! So after you told them it was you, what happened next? Did they patiently wait for you to get dressed or did you have to talk to them through the closed bathroom door?
- Stephen le Francoeur
I think you have good neighbors. Good intentioned at least.
- SteVe C
Better check if one of the detectives has a FriendFeed account. I'm sure this pic http://ff.im/1fnnvE gave them ample reason to hang around.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
holy cow. I have no idea how I'd react to that, but I imagine not so well. good on ya!
- t-ra: not givin up
The drama continues. Apparently when they came to check on me, the police saw something suspicious next door. Half the police department has been camped out there all day.
- lris
WOW! My neighbor is arrested, suspected of being the dog murderer! All the people are over there just waiting for a search warrant to go through the house. At least that's what it looks like from this. http://www.southernminn.com/northfi...
- lris
The one who let them in your house?????? *aniticipatory whoa*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
That sounds incredibly scary. I'm glad your neighbor is observant though I'd probably crawl out of my skin at shower/door knocking. Glad they knocked before coming in? Also crazy re: your neighbor arrested.
- Hedgehog
Luckily for me, my upstairs neighbor has to come through my apartment to use the laundry, which she normally does on Fridays. So I assumed she'd come through to do that and seen something, like maybe a fire? (I always worry about fire), and needed to tell me about it. I didn't realize there were actual burly policemen in my house with her.
- lris
Well, after all that excitement I'll bet you need a cold shower. Yikes. I would have freaked.
- Spidra Webster
Back up. Neighbor has to go into your apartment every time she wants to do laundry? What if you're out of town? What if you don't like the neighbor or the neighbor is creepy?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
It's up to me whether I want to offer access to the laundry or not. The building used to be a single family home, so there's a stairway with a door at the bottom that separates our two apartments. My upstairs neighbor and I are good friends, so we just leave that unlocked and have agreed that she will do her laundry on Fridays during the day unless she lets me know otherwise.
- lris
It's official. They released his name and address, and it's my next door neighbor.
- lris
"It turns out that not every single paper submitted to scientific journals gets thoroughly proofed before it's approved for publication. Shocking, right? The creators of an online tool called Mathgen that automatically generates research papers full of mathematical nonsense wanted to test just how believable the random creations were. So they submitted a paper entitled "Independent, Negative, Canonically Turing Arrows of Equations and Problems in Applied Formal PDE" written by the non-existant Professor Marcie Rathke of the non-existant University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople to the Advances in Pure Mathematics journal."
- Stéphane Miroux
from Bookmarklet
"Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy wordsmith’s fiercest foes. The critics. Renowned author Dan Brown hated the critics. Ever since he had become one of the world’s top renowned authors they had made fun of him. They had mocked bestselling book The Da Vinci Code, successful novel Digital Fortress, popular tome Deception Point, money-spinning volume Angels & Demons and chart-topping work of narrative fiction The Lost Symbol. The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something...
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- Son of Groucho
from Bookmarklet
To me, it represents the fickleness of being an artist. In music, Dream Theater is the best bunch of musicians you've never heard of...while Creed continues to sell albums of total crap (critically speaking). There's no explaining why people flock to one artist while another starves.
- Bubba was a rollin stone
An extremely rare white rhino, of which there are only four left in the entire world, in the Kenyan Ol Pejeta reservation, roams about the plains flanked by armed bodyguards - Imgur - http://imgur.com/gallery/trLr6
John's post made me look up some figures about how many are actually left in the world and found this which makes me both sad and happy, but mainly sad that the human race is still so ignorant, i don't mean that in a rude way, but seriously, we are failing to educate people, i know ancient traditions are hard to deal with, but it's 2013 for goodness sakes :'(
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
Also so strange that the Northern White Rhino and the Sourthern White Rhino are not sub-categories of the White Rhino species but that the Northern White Rhino is a species of it's own separated genetically for over a million years. I have had the privilege of being up close and personal with the less at risk Southern White Rhino and they are just amazing and wonderful creatures. It makes me so sad whenever I hear about any poaching of any type of these creatures. :(
- Rachel Lea Fox
Reading the comments on the article/image is awesome. "I would pet the shit out of that beautiful rhino." "He looks so epic and full of wisdom." "fuck humans, that he NEEDS to be guarded."
- Hookuh Tinypants
"Reddit is a great website, where the ability to share and discuss things on the web gives some great little discoveries. Things that would otherwise seem impossibly unlikely, like two people in completely different places getting a photo of the same lightning bolt, suddenly pop up all the time."
- Stéphane Miroux
from Bookmarklet
Squire. Cost of living, friend Uli. Bre'er Eivind. bunneh! Whenever Kirsten skips past I think of Snoopy skipping by and life is good.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
"In fact, it’s far from it. Sundae (순대), pronounced ‘soondeh’, is Korean blood sausage and one of the nation’s favorite meal between meals. Although sundae’s image is generally that of casual street food (see fellow blogger Steve’s post about Korean street food here), there are many different varieties and dishes of sundae to please people of all palates. Sundae is traditionally made by stuffing pig intestines with a mixture of sticky rice, bean sprouts, cabbage or other green vegetables seasoned with garlic, ginger, sesame oil, doenjang or ganjang before being steamed."
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
This is very close to the Middle Eastern stuffed lamb/cow intestines. As a kid, I used to loathe when my mom wanted this because that meant cleaning 5 lbs. of intestines and stuffing them. We didn't steam ours though, we boiled them a bit, then baked them. Sometimes we'd cook them on the grill. With some seasoned abneh or mast o khiar, they were quite tasty.
- Anika
The show I was watching had sundae in carbonara sauce with lots of onions & garlic. At first that seemed weird, but they said it was really good. Like the sundae took the place of noodles.
- Anika
Wife:"Why is it when I hear news about social media, I never hear anything about FriendFeed?" Me:"It's run by The Librarian Mafia. Very cerebral, very hush hush." Wife: <.< ... "then why do they let your short bus butt hang around?"
"This object was in common use in medieval libraries, even though very few survive today. It’s a bookmark - and a smart one for that matter. As with our own bookmarks, it tells you where you are in the book: the rope was attached to the binding and placed between two pages. The reader subsequently pulled down the marker along the rope to the line where he had stopped reading. Since an open medieval book often presented four text columns, the reader then turned the disk to indicate in which column he had left off. In this case we read “4” in medieval Arabic numerals - the column on the far right. So this tiny piece of parchment marks it all: page, column and line. That’s what I call smart. Source unknown, likely 13th or 14th century."
- Amira
from Bookmarklet
"Other kids’ dads had hidden stashes of porn — we giggled and made sure not to get caught looking. My dad was a pornographer. He supplemented his income with freelance camera work, and in addition to shooting head shots for aspiring models, he took pictures of people having sex."
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
"I discovered this sideline a few years ago when I inherited hundreds of negatives that had been in storage since his death in 1977. My dad had spent his life trying to succeed as a photographer. He’d had some early achievements as a filmmaker in Trieste after the war; his short documentary about that city won an award at the Venice Biennale. But after immigrating to the States in 1958,...
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- Maitani
"Did he enjoy photographing cats? Was it aesthetically appealing? As appealing as snapping pictures of pussies? Or did freelance work really just add up to more money at the end of the week? I’ll never know. He died when I was ten; my memories of him are sweet and self-absorbed. Some days he’d bring me with him to his darkroom in the city. At Government Center we’d get take-away donuts...
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- Maitani
"In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd "satellite" interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all."
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
I'm sure they had to keep the shot tight due to all the press and they didn't want audio bleed over when crazy Nancy started her HN show (she's loud if you hadn't heard), but that is kind of funny.
- Eric - seven eleven