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Stuck

April 24th, 2008

Try to imagine being stuck in an elevator for almost two days. Just imagine.
Stuck in Elevator
 
var FO_1166 = {movie:”http://clipaday.com/flvplayer.swf”,width:”425″,height:”350″,majorversion:”7″,build:”0″,bgcolor:”#FFFFFF”,allowfullscreen:”true”,flashvars:”file=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/upload_1208876773.flv.flv&image=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_videos/thumbs/upload_1208876773.jpg&lightcolor=0xF6C230&backcolor=0×000000&frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&logo=http://clipaday.com/images/playerlogo.png&link=http://clipaday.com” };UFO.create(FO_1166,”stuck-in-elevator-41-hours”);
Edit: I did a quick search and came up with a bit more information about the aftermath of Nicholas White’s experience. Here are two vastly different perspectives on the same event.
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Ordered

April 23rd, 2008

Dell XPS 630
– Intel® Core蒂2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB)
– 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz -4 DIMMs
– Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
– nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
– 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
– Dell Premium Optical USB Mouse
– Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
– Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
– Microsoft [...]

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Silent Hill - movie review

April 22nd, 2008

Back a few weeks ago when life was too busy for blogging, the horror movie Silent Hill came to the top of my Netflix queue. Until recently, it had been our habit to let Tadpole 2 fall asleep in my lap after bath time. This was guaranteed quiet TV time, as she usually fell asleep [...]

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Determination

April 18th, 2008

Okay, here’s the setup: China to Use Weather Control at Olympics
and the money-quote:
If rain clouds are expected the Weather Modification Office can call on 1,500 staff with 30 aircraft to drop chemicals into the clouds to force them to drop their water early.
A further 37,000 part-time staff can fire additional materials into the clouds using 7,113 [...]

Popularity: 5% [?]

1692

April 18th, 2008

Among other notable historic events, the year 1692 was the year of the Salem Witch trials. Now you can read an account of the trials in blog form. From the site:
This is a blog about synchronicity. It is an account of several notable events that took place in the Western Hemisphere during the year 1692, [...]

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Flametoad is the personal website for Preston DuBose, a full-time e-commerce and credit card security professional for the higher-education market, a part-time RPG publisher, and a full-time husband and father.

I ignore conventional blogging wisdom and refuse to focus on a single topic. This website covers gaming, family life, marketing, security, literature, music, and just about anything else shiny that catches my eye.

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