Fans of local poet Terri Kirby Erickson can hear her read from her latest collection at the Lewisville branch of the Forsyth County Library tomorrow evening (August 30, 2011) at 7:00.
If you haven't seen Mike Rowe get covered in poo on Dirty Jobs you've probably been living in a cave for the last 10 years. This reporter for the DC Fox affiliate had his own Rowement when he was covered with a "mystery foam was raw sewage pouring into the sea and being whipped into a froth by the hurricane's winds." I sure hope our own Fox affiliate photog Lenslinger was able to stay to the leeside of any flying crap as he covered Irene.
Reporter Gives Update Covered In Sea Foam: MyFoxNY.com
Came across the video below that's all about a bike company deciding to sponsor 30 average, every day bike riders. This would be like Nike sponsoring 30 schlubs like me who play pickup basketball a couple of times a week and I think it's genius. The company gets a pretty cool viral marketing campaign and 30 of their customers get to feel like superstars.
On a related note I've often wondered why people pay extra money for clothes with some designer's name splashed all over it. If we had an ounce of sense we'd demand that they at least discount the items that have the logos splashed all over them since we're essentially walking billboards for the brand. Yeah I know it's all about showing that you're cool enough to be in the cool-kid shirt club, or that you have enough scratch to afford to buy the cool-kid shirt club shirt, but I still think it's absurd.
In the past if you said someone was wearing their food you'd almost certainly be implying that they were sloppy eaters. These days that's far from a certainty. Why? Well, it seems that wearing your food is the thing to do in 2011. If you don't believe me just check out the following:
And of course Lady Gaga's meat dress.
Sometimes a news story will truly have you scratching your head. This story about a man in Burlington who disappeared in early May but was just discovered in his shed this week is one of those:
The death of the 57-year-old man is being investigated, but police say it appears to be a suicide. He was found in the shed, where he apparently hanged himself. The shed is located in the middle of a dog lot, said Burlington Police Assistant Chief Chris Verdeck…
The man's wife reported her husband missing to police May 4. She last saw him around 1:45 p.m. on April 29 at their home.
"He had a history of being gone for weeks on end. I guess she figured he was gone and was going to come back," said Verdeck, explaining the wife's delay in reporting her husband missing.
A patrol officer who took the initial report searched the house, including the basement, but he didn't search the shed in the back yard. The detective who followed up also didn't search the shed. A detective went back to the home Tuesday after the wife went to the police department to talk about the case. During the conversation, she mentioned that she didn't think anyone had looked in the storage shed, said Burlington police Capt. Steve Smith.
Police went back out to the property and found the man's body in the shed. It appears he had been dead for awhile. The medical examiner was contacted and the man's body was taken to the state Medical Examiner's office in Chapel Hill for an autopsy, Verdeck said.
Later in the story we learn that the shed is part of a dog lot and that the police had to call animal control to handle the dog so they could search the shed. Apparently the wife fed the dog all this time, but otherwise didn't deal with it and thus didn't go into the shed herself to look for her husband.
One of my recurring bad dreams is that I am injured/stranded in some way and no one notices. The idea that my wife wouldn't find a way to search all of our property for me, even before calling the police, just gives me the creeps.
In this post Lex shares these thoughts from Barry Ritholtz on what might happen if too-big-to-fail banks are actually allowed to fail. My favorite line from Ritholtz is this: "Real Capitalists know failure is part of the process. I suspect we may have another chance at a banking reorg. Let’s hope we do it correctly this time."
When the headline reads:
Drunk, Naked Man Spends Night In Stranger's Vehicle
And the first paragraph reads:
Police in Wilkesboro said a man who got drunk at the Sagebrush restaurant on Thursday evening caused $600 in damage to a vehicle that he spent the night in at the Red Carpet Inn.
Do you really want to know the rest of the story?
Read more: http://www.wxii12.com/news/28961547/detail.html#ixzz1VxsUwWnP
This is a description of Steve Jobs that I can almost guarantee is unique:
So, who is this man? He's the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He's a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music stars of the 60s. And he believes in science, in things that science can demonstrate like climate change and Pi having a value more specific than "3", and in extending responsible benefits to his employees while encouraging his company to lead by being environmentally responsible.
The description comes from Anil Dash who also writes:
Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at business than Jobs. They're unqualified to assert that liberal values are bad for business, when the demonstrable, factual, obvious evidence contradicts those assertions.
Agree or disagree he makes an interesting point.
Gotta get your Friday Jon Stewart fix:
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