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Link via Geekologie.
This dad’s last act saved his daughter’s life.
With an out-of-control car bearing down, Joseph Richardson grabbed his 4-year-old daughter and held her up out of harm’s way.
It was his last act — and one that apparently saved his daughter’s life.
Even if you wanted a couch made of a coffin, without supplemental furniture to go with it, what’s the point?
Just substitute “Brits” for “Californians” and “Germans” for “Oregonians”, and this could play out here.
Thanks Jennifer for the link.
…but nothing quite like this:
Another angle from a guy’s cell phone:
Why do I have this feeling that this was some sort of viral video? Oh well, it’s still entertaining.
Update on 6/6: Somebody found a funny version of this with…uh… a different audio source:
For the geeks (like me) out there, enjoy! (And even if you’re not a geek, there is something you’ll enjoy here, I’m sure).
I noticed it the new Favicon, too, and I agree with pretty much everybody here: I don’t like it. I thought there was something wrong with my browser when the Google icon on those tabs for various searches and services is now a small “g” (versus the capital “G” before). I can barely see the small letter while the capital letter was easy to spot and we all know it was Google’s icon. What moron in their marketing department thought changing their obvious branded “G” to this was a good idea?
Google’s official word is here (which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, really), but there is a Greasemonkey script to get the old one back.
I just wonder if there are bigger plans in the works — some sort of new interface, perhaps — that they’re trying to start getting the new branding out there. Begin forming your conspiracy theories now…
(If you have no idea what folks would be protesting, read up here)
The folks at FixBBB are planning to protest the BendBroadband bandwidth caps this weekend. Right now, I’m in the boat where while I don’t like the caps (which have been raised) I’m below the 100GB limit and it’d be a hassle to move everything to a new ISP right now. I’m also far enough away from the Qwest downtown office where the speeds would be quite a bit slower than what I have now if I were to move to DSL.
I won’t be able to attend (nor was I really planning to, as I’m not one for protesting publicly — I protest with my wallet, personally), nor do I personally expect it to do a whole lot of good. Not only is the foot traffic in and out of the BendBroadband office probably really low (especially on a Saturday) but drive-by traffic is pretty minimal by their front door (if the protest is behind their offices, facing Empire, that might be more effective).
Speaking of boats (I was — lookup a few lines) it’s free fishing weekend, so that will undoubtedly take some traffic away. Or not. I have no idea, I just wanted to throw a stupid joke in there.
The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band is presenting their final concerts of the 2007-2008 season this afternoon and tomorrow night. Full details are here. The concerts are free, no ticket needed, and are today at 2:00PM and tomorrow at 7:30 at Summit High School.
I’m in the band, and if you want an excuse to see me in a tux (<sarcasm>I mean, really, who doesn’t?</sarcasm>), now’s your chance.
It promises to be a good show, so hope to see some of you there!
…on the accordion:
That dude’s got some fast fingers.