Some news - a little poll....
So, I ran across some of the following news, and wondered what you think. Read the news, and then answer the poll....
Stories are work safe, pictures may not be....
On the surface, it appeared that Michael Sargent, an unhappy, 29-year veteran postal worker in Anchorage, Alaska, had managed to work out his anger fairly passively by, according to prosecutors, merely accepting bulk mailings into the postal system without bothering to charge the mailers (cheating the Postal Service out of at least $106,000 in revenue and perhaps as much as $436,000). However, a search of Sargent's home turned up a federal gun-dealer permit in his name, along with 66 firearms, including silencers and a machine gun. Said the prosecutor, "He is a disgruntled public employee. Access to weapons is of concern." [Anchorage Daily News, 12-10-05] Read the story here
" Three long-time qigong practitioners pull a truck with their penises during a performance in Taipei yesterday. According to Chinese kung fu legends, martial arts practitioners must train in this skill to develop resistance to injuries."Picture here.
Practitioner pulls truck in parking lot in Oakland.... Story and video here.
Obsessed executives have always taken business home at night, but increasingly they take it into the bathroom, with laptop computers, high-speed connections, flat-panel televisions and speaker phones, according to a February Wall Street Journal report. (Said one, "I'm beside myself when I can't get my e-mails.") However, there are problems, e.g., "sound-chamber" sound (the hollow voice created by typical bathroom acoustics usually gives away one's location) and the "BlackBerry dunk" (with one Houston repair shop saying it gets a half-dozen jobs a day of portable devices accidentally dropped into the sink or tub, "or worse"). Story here [Wall Street Journal, 2-3-06]
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Stories are work safe, pictures may not be....
On the surface, it appeared that Michael Sargent, an unhappy, 29-year veteran postal worker in Anchorage, Alaska, had managed to work out his anger fairly passively by, according to prosecutors, merely accepting bulk mailings into the postal system without bothering to charge the mailers (cheating the Postal Service out of at least $106,000 in revenue and perhaps as much as $436,000). However, a search of Sargent's home turned up a federal gun-dealer permit in his name, along with 66 firearms, including silencers and a machine gun. Said the prosecutor, "He is a disgruntled public employee. Access to weapons is of concern." [Anchorage Daily News, 12-10-05] Read the story here
" Three long-time qigong practitioners pull a truck with their penises during a performance in Taipei yesterday. According to Chinese kung fu legends, martial arts practitioners must train in this skill to develop resistance to injuries."Picture here.
Practitioner pulls truck in parking lot in Oakland.... Story and video here.
Obsessed executives have always taken business home at night, but increasingly they take it into the bathroom, with laptop computers, high-speed connections, flat-panel televisions and speaker phones, according to a February Wall Street Journal report. (Said one, "I'm beside myself when I can't get my e-mails.") However, there are problems, e.g., "sound-chamber" sound (the hollow voice created by typical bathroom acoustics usually gives away one's location) and the "BlackBerry dunk" (with one Houston repair shop saying it gets a half-dozen jobs a day of portable devices accidentally dropped into the sink or tub, "or worse"). Story here [Wall Street Journal, 2-3-06]
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