Some interesting reading for people with depression and suicidal thoughts. Hmm. Good writing but at the end it notes that it is an exerpt from his book ergo marketing but still good info.
Category: Of Interest
Those miscellaneous things that just must be published.
Lost Review
I thought this was an incredible episode of Lost. They did a fine job of playing each of the characters. The backstory was excellent and surprising. I find the cooperation and tension between Jack and Locke very interesting yet frustrating. I find it amusing how the "leaders" get to live in the palace. The writers are making choices with Jack that I would not have expected. With his initial desire to not be the group’s natural leader you would think he would be open and revealing about everything to everyone but instead he has become more secretive as he has become more accepting of his role in power. The Others are obviously a very intellectual group with their captive seeming to catch on quickly to people’s weaknesses and fiddle playing with them. Are the doors really thin, or do The Others have enhanced abilities? Increased hearing capacity? Mind reading?
Spoilers ahead! Continue reading Lost Review
March Means More Prizes
Here’s a repeat post but Blingo is sooo worth it! And no spam. No negatives. Make sure you sign up through a referral. I participate so does my wife, Barry, Busy Mom, Single Dad, and many other! From Blingo Buzz:
DIY Abortion – Janes Clinics
This is not a topic I usually comment on but Continue reading DIY Abortion – Janes Clinics
Free USB Key From Microsoft
Gizmodo turns us onto a Microsoft promotion giving away free USB key. Just log in with your .NET passport and answer 4 questions (the answers are on the above link). The key should arrive in 6-8 weeks.
Google Search With Prizes!
From Blingo Buzz:
Pay attention. The Blingo Frenzy is coming.
February 27, 2006 • Blingo FrenzyStarting on March 1st we’re adding more prizes to Blingo and launching a new feature we call the Blingo Frenzy, a short period of time where Blingo gives away prizes like crazy. We might suddenly give away a bunch of iPod Nanos in one hour, or we might give away movie tickets or iTunes every few minutes! You never know what and you never know when.
So, pay attention or you might miss the Frenzy. Oh, and you might want to make sure your Friends are paying attention too.
We have sent Sarah to the movies 4 times for free because of Blingo! No spam. No fine print. Blingo simply returns the exact same search results you would get from Google but they put 3 paid links at the top and 2 at the bottom. They are making all their money from Adsense. If you prefer, sign up with my wife:
Xanga has an rss feed
Want to follow your child’s Xanga in a news reader but can’t find the rss feed? Fear not! Xanga has an rss feed.
If you wanted to look at my Xanga, http://www.xanga.com/djuggler (yes, Xanga is for school kids. I set this up when comparing blogging software), in rss you first need to know that http://www.xanga.com/djuggler gets translated to http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=djuggler. Now change home to rss for the feed url to look like http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=djuggler
Today’s Useful Information for Women and Men
For the ladies, information about a better sports bra. For the guys, simply a cheap thrill. Not safe for work. Guys may find their afternoon bouncing away.
And since we are on the subject of time wasters in the name of a good smile, here’s a safe for work (with sound) video of a European award winning commercial you might not see in the United States.
Previous Post Retracted
Seeking more info. Bearden High School does not appear to be in lock down.
The shooting occurred at The Cove in West Knoxville. Looks as if a woman is a hostage of two hispanic males and an officer was shot. The officer’s name rings a familiar bell.
1:35 p.m. Authorities have closed the gates at Bearden High School while the suspects are still at large. The school has not been officially locked down.
See WBIR for more info.
Free Pancake Day Has Begun
Remember, today is Free Pancake Day at IHOP from 7am-2pm.
More thoughts on the marijuana cave
So, when building a 47 meter tunnel to a cave from your garage, do you:
- buy a house that happens to sit on a cave, discover the cave, construct the tunnel, then sell pot
- Ask a real estate agent for a house that sits on a cave with a tunnel already built from the garage to the cave, then sell pot
- Find a cave, pay off local contractors/inspectors, build house on cave, sell pot
- Grow up playing in cave, smoking pot in cave as a teenager, have a marijuana induced vision of a house ontop of the cave to make smoking pot more convenient, fulfill dream but take it too far
- Wish that you had purchased your property in Denver
And do you think, just perhaps, the ususual amount of electricity that this house used might have helped investigators figure out something wasn’t right? It still amazes me that one, people go to this much trouble to take such great risk, and two, that with so much thought put into this that they ever get found out. I suppose they bragged to the wrong person. "Duuuude! I am the Potman! Wanna see my cave?" It’s not a secret if you tell anyone.
Updated (4/4/07): Pictures are circulating the Internet again.
Are your neighbors hiding something?
So in Nashville, this guy had a secret passage from his garage that was hydrolically sealed to a cave under his house complete with a Hogan’s Heroes style escape hatch that came up under a rock.. You know, I wouldn’t want to get busted for the plants but I’d love the hidden access to a cave! How do these people get busted anyway? I guess maybe they were doing surveillance on the house and the guy gophered out his backyard.
This is how they grow it in Tennessee . This grow was underneath a
house in a cave. The entrance was through a secret hydraulic door in the
garage that led to a concrete ramp that went about 50 yards into the
ground. Inside the cave was living quarters and a secret escape hatch that
led you through a tunnel that exited via another hydraulic door that
opened up a rock on the outside. It was very elaborate. The set up
allowed them to harvest every 60 days which resulted in multi-million
dollar sales. One of the guys busted was living in a house on the water
in FL and had a nice yacht.
One of the agents here in Nashville worked on this for 5 years
before the warrant was finally served in December.
Thanks to BoingBoing for this link and that link! (um, and the borrowed picture)
Update (4/4/07): Pictures are circulating the Internet again.
Update(5/7/07): How they got busted.
Update(10/9/07): Busted! High tech massive underground marijuana farm video
Bearden Middle School Bomb Threat – Update
Since the school was given the all clear, normal classes began at 11am. Any student checked out received an unexcused absence. Words exchanged amongst parents in the office were:
"the school declared this a drill and a normal day,"
"originally they were claiming it would be an excused absence,"
"all parents should call downtown to the administrative offices and complain to get this switched to an excused absence."
Overheard of the students:
"half my team is gone,"
"we aren’t going to do anything but sit around,"
"half the school checked out at the church."
I reiterate: All parents of Bearden Middle School (BMS) students should call downtown, not the school, to protest this day as an unexcused absence. All checkouts should be excused.
Central office information: 865-594-1900
Middle School Coordinator 865-594-1619
Bearden Middle School Bomb Threat – Update
Bomb threat was a false alarm. Parents can now go pick their children up at the Church the school.
Bearden Middle School Bomb Threat – Update
The students have been moved to Middlebrook Pike United Methodist Church. (Google Maps marks this wrong. The church is at the intersection of Vanosdale and Middlebrook. My earlier post misquoted the students as being moved across Vanosdale when they were really moved across Francis.
