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…whose site has now apparently been hacked after “Sally” went through some rough trouble in her life with her husband “Bob” after having an affair. Now “Sally’s” “druggist” has a blog.
All I know is that some people have far too much time on their hands to create this kind of satire — though it’s all still hilarious.
There are 1286 folks in the line of succession to the British Throne.
This is just one of wordiest Wikipedia entries I’ve seen which, needless to say, puts it on this list of eight needlessly long Wikipedia entries.
I’d hire this lady (quoted here when/if it disappears off Craigslist):
I am a former CPA (I have no license due to a simple misunderstanding and my now ex-husbands lies) but I have good CPA skills. I am not allowed to sell my services for five years, but it doesn’t say I can’t trade them out.
If you want good accounting services. For example taxes, financial statements, bookkeeping or consulting I am your person.
I could use a mechanic for my car (2001 Honda) some contractor help at my house (some repairs like a handyman) or a lawyer services to help get my license back.
They took it away for a total mistake, and now I have five years without license. But I paid back everyone so I don’t no why they won’t let me have it back. Dont worry I cant steal anything else or I’ll go to jail!!!!!!!!
So you can get back to me and let’s see what else we can put together.
Thanks Susie for this.
Watch this little ten-second video: It made me laugh.
Come on: you laughed, too.
Apparently a hacker managed to get ahold of account information and credit card numbers from over a thousand eBay users. Read about the whole mess here and make sure your eBay ID isn’t on this list or this list.
You know, thanks to crazy stuff like this, I feel more normal every day.
The oceans are vast, but they are still full of ships and buoys. Just look at this live tracking map of commercial ship and buoy locations and you’ll see how busy things are.
Some geek/techy links for everybody.
Enjoy!
I have no idea who this woman is or if this blog is totally fake, but it sure it funny. Some quotes:
From here:
There are also stories about poor people, homeless people, etc. No one wants to read that. And please, there are no poor people in Bend! We keep our poor people in Redmond and LaPine. They have their own poor-people communities there and I’m sure they’re very happy. It’s a marvelous system we have in Central Oregon.
And from here:
Recently, Bend (indeed, my little Awbrey Butte neighborhood) made it onto the cover of the Wall Street Journal. It was very exciting. My neighbor Joan Grundeman was even quoted in it. She’s a wonderful woman with an impeccable house. Some part-time nurse had strung up clotheslines to dry her sheets. Can you imagine? Clotheslines on Awbrey Butte? That’s quite below us. We can all afford driers (and believe me–the best driers) on Awbrey Butte.
The blog’s only been up a few days, and I have no idea who Sally Heatherton is (she only appears on google from some local blogs, including my own as she posted a comment here), Can’t find anything on Google, about her and her real estate business, nor is there anything on the Dex white pages nor are there local property records with that last name (that could be her maiden name, however). She’s also not listed with the State as a real estate agent.
Whoever’s writing the blog is hilarious. It’s amazing how silly/stupid/satirical it reads. But it made me laugh. Any theories?
Update: One thing I forgot to check. She posted a comment here on the above clothesline article and she also e-mailed me to add her to bendblogs.com using the submission form on that site. Both submissions were filtered through an anonymous proxy. Well played, “Sally.”
So a crook steals a guy’s Mac laptop. The original owner of the laptop had it setup to upload pictures out of Photobooth onto his account on Flickr, so two good high res photos of the crook (or the laptop’s new owner) were uploaded onto Flickr here and here. The Something Awful folks are trying to track the guy down using the images there along with the video from the security cam (still images here).
I can’t wait to see how this turns out and if anybody has a SA forums user name and can see how they’re doing, let me know — if anybody can track that guy down, the SA forum community can. Link via BB.
Update on 9/27: The guy turned himself in.