Another Mom Of The Year Nominee
A Syracuse woman is accused of leaving four young children alone for more than an hour Tuesday at Syracuse’s Inner Harbor while a man shot nude photos of her in the woods, city police said.
A passer-by called police, who said they found the children — a 6-year-old, two 4-year-olds and a 3-year-old — “highly distraught and crying” shortly before 6 p.m. About an hour later, Michelle Rendino, 20, of Beattie Street, and a man in a wheelchair emerged from the woods.
Link via Obscure Store.
An Open Letter To Subway
I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one that gets annoyed by this. I know these guys get paid minimum wage, but there is a right way and a wrong way of laying out cheese on a sandwich:
Need A Roommate?
A local is looking for a roommate, and she sounds like a dream (and I’m quoting it here in case it ever disappears from the interweb):
I’m looking to score a room for rent with people that are not going to bitch and complain that I drink cheap beer on Tuesdays (not much of a partier, but am an alcoholic-ish), leave coffee cups in the sink every morning and will wash the dishes when there are enough to make it worth getting my hands wet, kick my shoes off by the door and eat meat at least once a week. I smoke- outside. I graduated from the DARE program, abide by most state and federal laws (well, the one’s I agree with anyway) and am certified in First Aid and CPR.
I’m 27 (today actually), am female, and I have a very stable, professional career that allows me the freedom to sit at my desk at post Craigslist ads. It’s probably best if you’re not one of those people that require a credit check, cause I won’t pass- but I do pay my rent and utilities on time, and really- you shouldn’t fucking care if I don’t pay the rest of my bills- cause it nacho business anyway.
I don’t mind animals unless they shit in my shoes. I don’t want to live with kids…if I did I would have some. I say fuck a lot- and this shouldn’t bother you. Sometimes when I go to the bar, I bring random strangers home- but make sure that they’re drunk enough so they can’t remember how to get back. Oh, I’d rather not live with girls. So if you’re a girl- I probably won’t be interested unless you’re just really cool and can make me popular.
$$$: Do not expect me to pay a buttload for a dinky little room. Unless you plan of feeding me- be fair!
Anything else you’d like to know is just a question away- so shoot.
Thanks to that Baker city chick for the link.
The 500 Mile E-Mail Limit
You have to really be a geek to appreciate this story.
Major BendBlogs.com Cleanup
MySpace’s dead RSS feeds caused me to remove the MySpace blogs from the front page on BendBlogs.com. A few small sites picked up the news of the dead RSS feeds, and MySpace must have gotten wind of it and fixed the feeds. So I’ve spent the last few hours going through all the old deprecated blogs I had in there, all the old MySpace blogs that were sitting in there, and everything else that I had in there, deleted or deprecated ones that haven’t been updated in a long time, have gone dead, or folks who have moved, and put back up everything else. There are now 200 fees listed there, and they’re not total crap. Enjoy.
Update the next day: Fixed “Enjoy” to actually go to bendblogs.com and not enjoy.com. I should know better than to blog late at night.
What Causes Me To Use Profanity?
I have a feeling that when I played MarioKart a bunch when I was in college (four players all crammed in a small little dorm room around a Nintendo 64), I was pretty much like this:
Yes, I Am Here
I am back from the coast. We had a terrific time, the place we stayed at was terrific (and I’m not going to share with you where until I can make sure I get it reserved for next year), weather was great (first time I’ve been to the coast and seen the sun for three straight days), and it was really hard coming back and seeing that I had 950 unread messages between all the e-mail accounts I have to check (not counting the well over 1200 unread RSS feed items that are also in my RSS reader). I finally made my way through most of it and can finally think straight again.
And the best part about the trip? There was no cell phone reception at the place I was staying (was a few miles south of Newport, off the beaten path). So I could honestly completely ignore my cell phone, keep the computer in the bag, and relax. I need more weekends like that.
Hiatus
Assuming the world doesn’t come to an end at the office today (already had to replace a network card in a firewall as well as a fan in a server), I’m planning on going on a much-needed vacation tomorrow to Newport for a few days. I really need this break to clear my head again as work, personal projects and life in general have pretty much sucked all the life out of me lately. I haven’t been able to spend the time to really do the things I enjoy, and it’s been a stressful, chaotic, even on occassion depressing last couple months.
I have no idea if I’ll have ‘net access at the place I’ll be staying, but I’ll be bringing my laptop anyway. Will I be bloggin? I might, as that’s one of the things that relieves stress for me. Anybody who has read this site for more than a year or so has probably noticed that my post-count-per-day has gone done quite a bit in the last year or so, which is sad because I enjoy sharing my finds and commentary with everybody out there. Now if I could just find a way to make blogging my full-time job …
I’ll be back in town Sunday (will have some folks staying at my house while I’m gone), and hopefully the new van will survive (we have a warranty, but I’d rather not have to use it). Meanwhile, check out some other local blogs (which will now be easier to read thanks to yesterday’s clean up).
That’s A Seriously Strong Blender
I didn’t know a thing about these blenders until I saw it totally destroy an iPhone:
Thanks Andrei for the link.