The Tokyo Panda Killer – Or Death Furry
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“Student Mayumi Ogawa, 19, was stabbed to death by an attacker wearing
a panda’s head costume in Sumida Park.
Hours earlier another young woman escaped from a man wearing the same
disguise after he lunged at her with a knife.”
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20010504p2a00m0dm009001c.html

Michigan Police Raise Gas Prices
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The Marathon service station in Iron Mountain, Mich., flexed its
capitalist muscle Wednesday by lowering gas prices to nearly 20 cents below
its nearest competitor, only to be squelched by local police who
eventually told station officials to raise the price of gas or shut down,
according to the Iron Mountain Daily News.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22680

Genetically Altered Babies Born
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Scientists have confirmed that the first genetically altered humans
have been born and are healthy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1312000/1312708.stm

Man Imprisoned 30 Years for Crime FBI Knew He Didn’t Commit
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Representatives on the House Government Reform Committee showed a rare
display of emotion on Thursday, as they heard the story of a man who
spent 30 years in prison for a crime the FBI knew he did not commit.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,21095,00.html

Some Still Reads The Comic BC
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The largest newspaper in New Jersey will no longer run the “B.C.” comic
strip because of an Easter Sunday strip that depicted a menorah
transforming into a cross, angering Jewish groups.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010504_1357.html

Man Borrows Penis For Drug Test
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A 36-year-old Cleveland man attempting to avoid punishment for dirty
urine modified a sex toy to make it deliver urine that came from a
friend.
http://www.newsnet5.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-75451520010504-060509.html

Yike!

I’m in South Florida!

today is May 5!

How’d I miss Cinco de Mayo?? eeek..thanks christin for reminding me why the traffic will be bad, hear party music and I’ll smell yummy food when out!

Wow…

*shivers happily.

I’m so lucky … *purrs

Hooboy…

Found out how to post messages in the past or the future… without them bubbling to the present…

http://www.livejournal.com/dev/applet/

allows for it by checking the backdate function, so *NO MORE POSTS* from my three month old written journals.

(I was posting them private, then unpravating after about 50 or so of my messages went by, to spare folks ‘flood from the past’.)

from lj-dev

(this has been a very commonly requested feature)

my fun time waster du jour –

http://www.sketchzilla.com/

Sketchzilla is intended as a public interactive graffiti space. The following pages contain unfiltered user contributions. Please feel free to tag the pages yourself at any time. To do so, click on one of the small pellets next to whatever it is you wish to change, and then you’ll see a space to input text, links, or URLs of images on the web… once you’ve done that, click the sketchzilla button and it’s there for all the world to see. Note that html tags are still fully functional on these pages. Have fun and spread the word!

I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I’d rather see than be one!.

-Gelett Burgess

ullage (UL-ij) noun

The amount of liquid by which a container falls short of being full, or The amount of liquid within a container that is lost, as by leakage, during shipment or storage.

[Middle English ulage, from Old French eullage, from eullier, to fill a cask, (from ouil eye, hole, from Latin oculus eye).]

Come and daaaaance with me….

{love permeates my body… }

*gestures to my sleeping sweetheart….

*badeedledeedlededot…

ok.. really going to bed.. 🙂

My most sweet love must’ve hit the sack early… I think I’ll do the same.

See you slothy-lusters tomorrow!

*waves

clue-by-four

[Usenet: portmanteau, clue + two-by-four] The notional stick with which one whacks an aggressively clueless person. This term derives from a western American folk saying about training a mule “First, you got to hit him with a two-by-four. That’s to get his attention.” The clue-by-four is a close relative of the LART. Syn. `clue stick’. This metaphor is commonly elaborated; your editor once heard a hacker say “I smite you with the great sword Cluebringer!”

see also –

pococurante (po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-) adjective

Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant.

noun

A careless or indifferent person.

[From Italian, poco little + curante, present participle of curare, to
care, from Latin, curare, cure, care.]

folks are really lucky I forgot to bring my clue-by-four into work today, and neglected to mercilessly pummel the gathered pococurante population.

http://www.iht.com/articles/17225.html

lamprey eel brain in a robot. Ok… now this is something out of Brainiac or Lex Luthor’s crime file right here.

“They [lampreys] feed by biting their victims, fastening themselves by their sphincter-like mouths. Once attached, the lamprey begins to drain blood…”

do you really want something that used to drive a tooth-filled mouth of death inside of a robot? In the words of seanbaby…“Why not the brain of something less dangerous like a fire-breathing crocodile or Joseph Stalin? Then maybe you could attach a power drill to its face and hire it out to daycare centers!”

I now officially fear the day when robotic flesh-eating cyborgs come to chew off my face. THANKS, SCIENCE!!

Doesn’t *ANYONE* flowchart anymore?

Baba Yaga
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In a number of East European myths, a Baba Yaga (there are more than one) is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. The hut stands on chicken legs and will only lower itself after Baba Yaga said a certain rhyme. A picket fence surrounds the hut and she places the skulls of her victims on it. For transportation Baba Yaga uses a giant mortar which she drives at high speed across the forest floor by steering the pestle with her right hand and sweeping away all traces of her passage with a broom in her left hand. A host of spirits often follows her.
Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga (“bone-legs”), referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil’s own grandmother.

In old Hungarian folklore, Baba (“old woman”) was originally a good fairy but was later degraded to a witch. A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreement.