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100 Billion Pennies
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Lost
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Or, roughly 1 Billion dollars in lost pennies throughout the USA. Of course, the 1 billion dollars is face value only, rarer pennies will be more valuable, and so probably that figure is closer to a couple of billion dollars.
Source: The MegaPenny Project
Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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A Japanese woman who lives in Tokyo and takes pictures of herself levitating. Well, not exactly, but the intent is to capture that moment in the jump where she looks perfectly poised and as if she is truly levitating or flying. In some she's quite successful...
The Wedding
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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On Saturday half the restaurant is booked for a wedding.
The owner, he's optimistic that they'll be done early, "7:30" he tells us. I don't know, but I'm skeptical, most weddings I've seen go a lot later than that.
They've planned to arrive early and so the staff shows up early to set up the party. Then we eat, and the party begins to arrive in drips and drabs.
G, the Nephew and I are serving the dining room open to the general public, we've let the girls handle the wedding.
At 7:30 they still haven't been served their main courses. And by 12:00 midnight they're still there, drinking at the bar with the drunken staff members. There's the bridesmaid (being set up by the Owner with G, she's newly single - 25, and the owner confides "She wanted me...., but I'm married", and one is a little too discreet to observe that she's had enough to drink that she'd take pretty much anyone), from the tone of her remarks one gathers that she's looking hard for some revenge sex. G isn't fussed, he'll take what he can get....
And there's the bride's mother, also single and drunk and fondling G's ass, telling him how single she is and asking when he'll drive her home. G tries to look disinterested, he's not really but there's the feelings of the bridesmaid (a better deal all round) to consider...
12:30 and I'm done, it's been an extra-long day and G and the manager can close, the wedding guests, bridesmaids and mothers are still there waiting for G, for anyone really to get off work and give them a ride home. And while I should stay and help lock up, given the general level of sobriety this isn't a party that will end happy or anytime soon and so I bid them all goodnight and leave.
2 Great Tales of "Out of the Box Thinking"
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Not exactly what you'd expect to find in the "Treasure" category, 2 tales of master criminals and their "successful" operations. The Antwerp Diamond Heist and a local boy from Winnipeg, both done very well. Inspiring, if only as a reminder that not everyone lives in the same box that I do. And - regarding the bank thief Gerald Blanchard - the difference between bank robbers and bank officials is only one of hours and clothing. The official does less, on a better schedule and in a suit - than does the thief.
Courtesy of Wired.com:
Link: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
Link: Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
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