Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Did you hear something in the ceiling?
On Oct. 17, 1941, 73-year-old Philip Peters was found bludgeoned to death in the kitchen of his Denver home. All the doors and windows were locked. His wife, who had been away at the time, returned to the home with a housekeeper, and both heard strange sounds throughout the ensuing weeks. Finally both moved out.
Police were checking on the vacant house the following July when they heard a noise on the second floor. An officer ran upstairs in time to see a man’s legs disappearing through a small trapdoor in the ceiling of a closet.
The trapdoor led to a narrow attic cubbyhole in which 59-year-old Theodore Coneys had been living for 10 months. He had broken into the house the previous September and had been living silently in the attic for a month when Peters discovered him one night at the refrigerator. After the murder he’d returned to the cubbyhole and had remained there ever since.
He confessed to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Not a jayus — untranslatable words
Jayus
Indonesian – “A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh”
Bacheque
Lingala – [ba-check] Although the closest English translation of this African noun would be “con artist,” bacheque has a richer meaning. C.J. Moore describes it like this:
This is the man about Kinshasa who will sell your a car (especially when yours has mysteriously disappeared the day before), organize a night out on town for you or a tour of the local sights. Wearing a loud shirt and the best designer watch, bacheque serve a vital brokering purpose when the formal economy has dramatically broken down. They change currency, establish market prices and give the capital its characteristic feel
Crooks come in all sizes
Ellen Woodman
At the young age of 11, Ellen was ordered to do 7 days hard labour after being convicted of stealing iron when caught with Mary Catherine Docherty, Rosanna Watson and Mary Hinnigan.
Age (on discharge): 11
Height: 4.3
Hair: Red
Eyes: Dark Blue
Place of Birth: Durham
Status: Single
Criminals of 1871-1873
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Open wider wider! Don’t run!
Dentistry got its start in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan. These industrious would-be dentists were master bead makers who used bow drills to cure tooth problems.
Via: The Presurfer
What did your (great-great)grandparents do in the1940’s?
The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
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Many pics
Notley didn’t take the pictures, but it is a great collection
Here’s a PowerPoint show hosted by: Whattayagonnado.files.wordpress.com
“I do not know who Patrick Notley is and from comments on the web finding him might be a bit like finding Keyser Söze (Usual Suspects).”
Distribute yourself on these pillows
Light Green Standard Normal Distribution
Baby Blue t Distribution
Light Yellow Chi-Square Distribution
Light Pink Log Normal Distribution
Lilac Continuous Uniform Distribution
Tan Weibull Distribution
Olive Green Cauchy Distribution
Slate Blue Poisson Distribution
Maroon Gumbel Distribution
Gray Erlang Distribution
via: J-Walkblog.com
Pinky
Staff at the Cats Protection charity were given quite a shock when they tried to wash the four-week-old cats and they couldn't remove the reddish hue from one, earning it the nickname 'Pink Panther'.
TP — too much information
“Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep’s wool—and, later, thanks to the printing press—newspapers, magazines, and pages of books. The ancient Greeks used clay and stone. The Romans, sponges and salt water. But the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one’s bum? That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A. In less than a century, Uncle Sam’s marketing genius turned something disposable into something indispensable.”
In the early 1900s, toilet paper was still being marketed as a medicinal item.
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