BAD SEGEBERG, Germany - Police investigating reports of a corpse on a German train near the town of Bad Segeberg said the reported body was actually a drunken man dressed as a zombie. The Halloween reveler had fallen into a drunken sleep on the train ride home from a party in Hamburg, and his gore-covered zombie costume was mistaken by fellow passengers for a bloody corpse, Sky News reported Tuesday. Police were called when passengers couldn't get a response from the man but a first aid team quickly determined that the man wasn't dead, merely sleeping. The police told him to remove his apparently realistic makeup and he was allowed to continue his train ride home. "Bad Segeberg is in a rural area and Halloween isn't very well known there," police spokeswoman Sikle Tobies told Sky News. "So people weren't expecting anyone to be dressed up in the train."
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
lyrics
natasha bedingfield - soulmate
incompatible, it don't matter though
cause someone's bound to hear my cry
speak out if you do
you're not easy to find
is it possible mr. loveable
is already in my life?
right in front of me
or maybe you're in disguise
who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone
here we are again, circles never end
how do i find the perfect fit
there's enough for everyone
but i'm still waiting in line
who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone
if there's a soulmate for everyone
most relationships seem so transitory
they're all good but not the permanent one
who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone
who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone
if there's a soulmate for everyone
bizarre buildings
+------------------- Bizarre Buildings --------------------+
The Ice Hotel at Jukkasjarvi, Swedish Lapland, offers the ultimate in cold comfort - a building constructed out of ice where the average room temperature is minus four degrees centigrade. The beds are made from packed snow topped with spruce boughs and reindeer skins. The hotel melts every April and has to be rebuilt the following winter.
The six-story Elephant Hotel at Margate, New Jersey, is in the shape of a huge elephant, complete with trunk and tusks. It was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty as a realestate promotion. The 65ft-high concrete elephant, named Lucy, was used as a tavern before being converted into a hotel. The reception area is in her hind legs and a staircase in each leg leads up to the main rooms.
The Pineapple Lodge stands in Dunmore Park, Central Scotland. The lower part of the building is an ordinary octagonal tower but from the tops of the columns sprout stone, spiky leaves, transforming it into a 53ft-high pineapple. It was built in 1761 at the request of the Fourth Earl of Dunmore for reasons known only to himself.
Sir Thomas Tresham was obsessed with the power of numbers and in 1597 ordered the building of a triangular lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire, in which everything relates to the number three - a homage to the Trinity. It has three sides, each of which measures 33ft, three gables on each side, three stories and triangular or hexagonal rooms decorated with trefoils or triangles in groups of three. All of the Latin inscriptions have 33 letters.
The Crocodile Hotel near Ayers Rock in the heart of the Australian outback is a building complex in the shape of a crocodile. The 'eyes' protrude from the reception area, the rooms run along the 'body' to the 'tail' and the hotel swimming pool is located in the creature's 'alimentary canal.'
The Ice Hotel at Jukkasjarvi, Swedish Lapland, offers the ultimate in cold comfort - a building constructed out of ice where the average room temperature is minus four degrees centigrade. The beds are made from packed snow topped with spruce boughs and reindeer skins. The hotel melts every April and has to be rebuilt the following winter.
The six-story Elephant Hotel at Margate, New Jersey, is in the shape of a huge elephant, complete with trunk and tusks. It was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty as a realestate promotion. The 65ft-high concrete elephant, named Lucy, was used as a tavern before being converted into a hotel. The reception area is in her hind legs and a staircase in each leg leads up to the main rooms.
The Pineapple Lodge stands in Dunmore Park, Central Scotland. The lower part of the building is an ordinary octagonal tower but from the tops of the columns sprout stone, spiky leaves, transforming it into a 53ft-high pineapple. It was built in 1761 at the request of the Fourth Earl of Dunmore for reasons known only to himself.
Sir Thomas Tresham was obsessed with the power of numbers and in 1597 ordered the building of a triangular lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire, in which everything relates to the number three - a homage to the Trinity. It has three sides, each of which measures 33ft, three gables on each side, three stories and triangular or hexagonal rooms decorated with trefoils or triangles in groups of three. All of the Latin inscriptions have 33 letters.
The Crocodile Hotel near Ayers Rock in the heart of the Australian outback is a building complex in the shape of a crocodile. The 'eyes' protrude from the reception area, the rooms run along the 'body' to the 'tail' and the hotel swimming pool is located in the creature's 'alimentary canal.'
audrey kawasaki
audrey kawasaki. she paints the most beautiful art on wood and lets the lines show thru. recalls art nouveau (which i've recently fallen in love wit). beautiful
Sunday, October 21, 2007
wave
pictures of turbulence, which i found while looking for a desktop of katsushika hokusai's the great wave off kanagawa (which is the third picture down). but really, be sure to check out section 2. the pictures of the clouds and smoke are amazing!
and as an aside to "the great wave off kanagawa" check out "the great monkey wave". i think i've seen a version wit bunnies before too...
and as an aside to "the great wave off kanagawa" check out "the great monkey wave". i think i've seen a version wit bunnies before too...
minesweeper
how to unlock a hidden minesweeper mode. not sure if it works, but if it does, let me kno.
Friday, October 19, 2007
feminism
why do otherwise normal females refuse to go dutch? maybe because they're male chauvinists? cause guess wat, feminists make better lovers!
(i usually try to pay reep back some money. but sometimes when we go out to nice dinner one of us will treat the other, depending on the occasion. i think for first dates tho, whoever does the asking should to the paying. and in the future, whoever makes more money should also pay more, if only because they can afford to do so [as long as their partner doesn't try to take advantage].)
(and that feminists make better lovers is pretty damn obvious to me. to stereotype: they're usually willing to put in more work, as less work themselves, and have more realistic standards of men.)
(i usually try to pay reep back some money. but sometimes when we go out to nice dinner one of us will treat the other, depending on the occasion. i think for first dates tho, whoever does the asking should to the paying. and in the future, whoever makes more money should also pay more, if only because they can afford to do so [as long as their partner doesn't try to take advantage].)
(and that feminists make better lovers is pretty damn obvious to me. to stereotype: they're usually willing to put in more work, as less work themselves, and have more realistic standards of men.)
Thursday, October 18, 2007
fashionable?
"Thought you might like to do a little public
service announcement for all those "cool people" who wear
the saggin' pants. I figure they might not want to wear
their trousers like that if they knew why prisoners wore
their pants so low. This straight from several friends
who work for Corrections in California. In order to
show that one was afraid of prison and other inmates and
one wanted protection and/or affection, sagging pants
announced one was willing to be someone's wife (aka butt
buddy) in exchange for same. I guess the jokes on them."
service announcement for all those "cool people" who wear
the saggin' pants. I figure they might not want to wear
their trousers like that if they knew why prisoners wore
their pants so low. This straight from several friends
who work for Corrections in California. In order to
show that one was afraid of prison and other inmates and
one wanted protection and/or affection, sagging pants
announced one was willing to be someone's wife (aka butt
buddy) in exchange for same. I guess the jokes on them."
Monday, October 15, 2007
leftie, rightie
a test to see if you're left or right brained (or both!)
(thanks to ting for the link)
the english patient
made from only the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Marta Sebestyen songs' titles of 'the english patient' soundtrack. capitals usually denote start if new title.
The English Patient
Rupert Bear, Read me to sleep
Hana's Curse?
Black Nights; A Retreat; Ask your saint who he's killed!
-Why, Picton?
Lullaby for Katharine?
Let me tell you about winds As far as Florence
I'll be back, I'll Always go back, to that church, Convento di Santa Anna
-Am I K in your book?
What else do you love?
Herodotus, Kip's lights, The cave of swimmers...
Let me come in, Swoon, I'll catch you
Szerelem, Szerelem, Rupert Bear, Szerelem, Szerelem
leftie, rightie
a test to see if you're left or right brained (or both!)
(thanks to ting for the link)
Sunday, October 14, 2007
jags
i've been a bit depressed lately. some time late september marked the start of reep's and my eigth year together. incredible, isn't it? but wit all the weddings, proposals, and happy couples going around, i started to (again) wonder just wat it is we're doing together (as in, wat's the purpose?). last week i posted up some pictures of us on my flickr. even as i writing the captions, i thought they were a bit... reminiscent (the captions, that is)... as if i was looking back on something i no longer had. tonight i went thru and took down quite a few pictures of us or him. [i actually have something to say about that, but i've never said anything to him.] i guess... silly me, i keep expecting him to change somehow. but not so much me changing him. as i just wish he would change on his own. of course, hopefully those changes would be to my liking. but... eight years is a long time to wait, no?
a couple months ago we were talking and he said that he thinks we're "good/normal" for people who've been together for as long as we have. i told my mom tonight that lately i haven't been too happy wit reep. she said that that's wat happens to a lot of couples who've been together for so long. i asked her "wat about marriage then?" she replied "well, divorces are such a hassle, and the kids..." wat?! she quickly said that no, she wasn't talking about her own marriage (and yes, i do believe her).
we had a bit of a fight today. but from even a couple days ago things were a little strained. something from our past has come up again. and i just feel like... why are we still covering the same bases? i haven't really said anything. he knows that i feel uncomfortable wit the whole situation. but he, as he is usually does, refuses to really and fully assure me that things will be okay. i kno that i should probably say something but i feel like... it was such a long time ago. i do need to get over this by myself [and that's also me, always thinking that i need to do things myself. and knowing that since i can't change others, if anyone is to change, it'll have to be. ...i do feel like sometimes i get taken advantage of, because the way i am]. and of course, i'm scared that he'll say something horribly inappropriate again. a friend of mine said that they thought i was justified in feeling the way i do, and also for not making a deal of this, but that still, they hoped he would be on his best behavior. i have my worries tho, that he won't. and wat will i do then?
friends are a great comfort. but they, naturally, have their own lives. i think that's why so many people want to be in a relationship. your partner is supposed to, in some ways, anyway, value you more than they value themselves. i may never get married, but that does not mean i want to spend my life alone. i cycle thru periods of depression. they're not serious. i'm in one right now. i get restless and lonely (i normally cherish my time alone). i think i might go to the beach tomorrow.
my baby's hot!
from psychology today: "A study of children with two types of brain cancer showed that their dads were more than twice as likely to have used a hot tub, sauna, or electric blanket less than three months before conception. Want to add to the gene pool? Stay in the kiddie pool."
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
armani phone
i wasn't expecting to be very impressed wit this giorgio armani cell phone, but damn, it's actually quite beautiful...
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