This Place Is a Stranger

I've always wanted to go to comic con, and last year I had a chance to go with the Suicide Girls but I had to go to camp instead. At any rate something hilarious/horrible there happened yesterday right before Seth Rogen went on to speak about a new movie or something: someone got theys ass stabbed.

You read it here second, folks:

The attacker was later seen being led away in handcuffs. He had on a blue "Harry Potter" t-shirt.

Need I write more?

Scope it, courtesy of CNN.

Since 2005 the only pair of shoes I have bought were non slip shoes for work. A couple of days ago I decided to break down and spend some money on them and I got these:

They are really comfortable, and I like the color. Plus all the other shit about buying Toms shoes; they give a pair of shoes to a poor kid every time you buy one.

I can't believe I paid almost 60 dollars for them, but I guess it is worth it.

At any rate I am leaving for camp this evening, and I won't be posting as much, not that I do that much.

This is a picture that came back to me during a google image search for "osama bin laden."

I looked it up because of this article; detailing the vigilante Gary Faulkner's search in earnest for public enemy number one: Osama Bin Laden.

This article reeks of the stuff Tom Clancy might write. At any rate, I made some mousse tonight, and it was good.

Today in San Francisco I watched some gangsters in a Camero do burnout doughnuts in the middle of one of the city's busiest streets, during the busiest traffic the city gets, any day of the year (because of a non burnout related city holiday).

Because YouTube will pull it soon:



read about it.

We all know about Child's Play and the happiness that those two nerds bring to thousands of sick kids.

Today though CNN ran a video about some nerds being nice that is a little bit more personal. Apparently this one guy who isn't blind spent two years scripting out action by action one of the N64 Zelda titles so that another dude who is blind could play through it and beat it.

Video after the jump.
More.

i will rape faces.

The problem is that Chicago's building code requires commercial buildings to use copper pipes in indoor plumbing. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specifically states that drainpipes for waterless urinals "cannot be made of copper pipe, which corrodes."

Ironically, the urinals were a "gift," and are now being replaced at an embarrassing undisclosed cost. And now a pun: City Hall pisses away our tax dollars as usual.

(CNN, VICE News) Colombian tailor Miguel Caballero specializes in making garments that enable the wearer to get shot at point-blank range with nary an injury besides, maybe, a bruised ego. At-high-risk-of-catching-a-bullet demographics, such as rappers and politicians all over the world, rely on Miguel's handiwork. And, lucky me, when I was recently in Bogota for VBS.TV covering a few stories, I had the chance to visit Miguel's shop, learn about his protective clothing, and get shot in the gut by him. Seriously.

Full Article.

- Reblogged from CNN, who got it from Vice Magazine's news service. Click the full article link and watch the video

At 3:32 in this video, Obama mentions the town I live in.

I didn't keep up all too well without the late night bullshit, but I am sad to see Conan go I reckon. I haven't really watched his show since I was in college. But this is great:

Rutherford County Sheriff's Detective Steve Kohler testified that items found at the scene at the Story family's farmhouse included an official document from the state with Damon's name on it.

Ronald Damon is one of the three guys that beat up, tied up, and robbed war veteran Cecil Story and his wife Edna in their own home. Instead of going and looking for the guy, the detective made Damon come to him by getting his parole officer to force a drug test on him, which he failed. To get the drug thing dropped, he gave the detective information about the robbery (which he knew he was a suspect in).

Quote is from here, but more coverage of these morons is out there.

Nobody in the article seems to agree on anything, but some people say that vandals don't mess with murals. So somebody in the SF government wants to pay people to put up murals, so that vandals won't paint on them. I don't think a guy running a grocery store wants a mural on the side of his building, but it's better than the Matt Lovejoy Task Force that Murfreesboro combats vandalism with.

One of the guys also says he wants a wall that's free game for vandals, which I think is a good idea but it probably won't do anything by itself.

Meanwhile, my tablet doesn't recognize pressure on windows 7.

Dog slobber that passes for an article over at SF Chronicle.

It has been too long since I have written anything here of substance. Posts have been too far apart and too few in number, but I hereby promise to be there for you more often. No longer will I miss your baseball games and dance recitals, and I promise to stop hitting your mother. Part of the problem is that I play way too much Super Nintendo. Tetris Attack; thou art mine nemesis. After the jump, I shall explain my absence henceforth.
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Started a new job today. More food service industry. Prep cook job, 6am to 1:30pm.

Anyways here's this: Global Warming Is A Sham

Card companies no longer can offer gifts or merchandise on college campuses, and schools cannot give personal information to credit companies.

The relationship between universities and credit card companies has been strong evidence of what they really are for a long time. I've wondered how many suicides resulted from overwhelming debt that began with a preapproved credit card in college. I hope this law is passed nationwide.

Officials in Rock Island believe the death of a 61-year-old Galesburg man was due to natural causes, despite the fact he was found in the cab of a burnt-out semi-trailer at the USF Holland terminal

It seems that everywhere I go, dead bodies are burning.
From the Register Mail.

Because facebook won't shut up about it.

I am really confused about the details of how effective and necessary all this was. Either way, they don't want those asian fish moving into the great lakes and taking all the white fish's jobs. I mean that literally. Except they aren't whitefish, they're salmon and things like that.

Jamie Cap has been paralyzed for thirty years, and recently won a two and half year battle against an unnamed enemy, allowing him to shoot at deer from his robot death chair. I don't think he's actually killed one yet.

This pile of closets house is selling for about $900,000 in Britain. Besides being charming, it's also "only seven minutes walk from the tube."