P.S. I imagine if this works, JLH will be next in line. Start stating your cases now for what celebrity you should have a date with. And after we hook everyone up, then we'll work on world peace.
There was actually a couple of Weird Ohio stories floating around today, but this one is the most disturbing. Not-at-peace officer David Devore took objection to the audacity of a citizen who took a picture of his crusier being towed after he made it inoperable by attempting a (speculating illegal, at least ill-advised) U-turn on a PUBLIC snow covered road near Akron. The officer radioed another car to detain the photographer without cause, threatened to make his life a living hell if he didn't turn over his camera, and then proceeded to delete all his pictures.
Here is a couple of links to the story:
Chillicothe Gazette
WKYC
While I sorely oppose the current system of punitive damages, this is definitely a case where the police station should be compelled to teach their officers that their duty is to enforce the law and not to be above it.
Another news excerpt at the extended link.
A blurb from WCHS TV I could not link to:
According to a dashboard camera, Devore said he would make it hard on Bell if he didn't give up his digital camera and the pictures he took of the stuck cruiser.Bell previously attempted to reach a settlement with the city of Akron, according to the lawsuit. He asked for 500-thousand dollars and new police department procedures, including psychological testing of officers. The city offered him 1-thousand dollars.
Bonus: The Cleveland Plain Dealer link - which brings up the interesting question - if a police officer stopping you for no reason and depriving you of your property is not a violation of your civil rights, as stated by Jody Roberts, what is it?
Yes, I still have not written my great expose on my hilarious and terrifying customer experience with Kronheim's furniture. Honestly, time and busyness have dulled my anger. While I am lucky to be out zero dollars (not counting my theoretical loss of $400 and the weeks of my life), my retribution against one person in particular has soften from the desire of throwing a uppercut to his face to a jab to his gut. However, my initial thoughts to create a Kronheim sucks site would have proven to be redundant since one could call both the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland BBB Kronheim sucks sites. In fact, here are a few links to recent stories about the shenanigans of Kronheim and the equally evil Deere Park Associates.
BBB Files 'Unsatisfactory' Report against Kronheim's - The only Kronheim Furniture page ahead of us on Google
Note: following links will probably become inaccessible in a few days.
How Kronheims' closing went sour
Kronheims, its liquidator sued over chain's final sale
Complaints pile up from Kronheims liquidation
P.S. My complaint has been filed with the BBB and the Ohio Attorney General's office has been in contact with me - as they have been with plenty of others by the looks of these stories.
P.P.S. One more thing, after reading these articles don't get the impression that the employees are angels and all problems are due to the big bad Cleveland outsider. The employees lied, were disingenuous, and overall just incompetent. I cannot believe they were told to do such things and they should be ashamed for not leaving if they felt compelled to commit such acts.
Wow, not only does this slashdot article about the potential shortage of IT workers mention both Duke and IBM, but one of my old professors is quoted in the blurb of the article. Duke has made the front page of /. plenty of times, but I believe this is the first time one of my old professors has. I do not disagree with the sentiment of the article, but I do have to say that I always considered the purpose of computer science programs to teach students about the science of computers and not train them to be IT professionals.
A couple of quick entertainment hits. I don't read Pitchfork, but I do read blogs that read Pitchfork. However, I do enjoy the work of David Cross and his send up of the pretensioness of Pitchfork (on Pitchfork) hits some high notes - and I would like to listen to that Tishara Quailfeather album.
Also some news about the woman that women love to hate, JLH. Since I was one of the few who stomached her last series, Time of Your Life (which helped spring Jennifer Garner on the world), I'll probably put the time in for Ghost Whispers, no matter what they call it.
I was thinking I should keep this bit of information to myself since all of you rushing over to TheForce.net to find out what digital theaters are near you (since SW III, like its predecessor, was shot all in digital) will only make it harder for me to find a seat. Amazingly Cleveland and South Carolina have digital theaters, while North Carolina does not (come on, Cubes!). Another amazing tidbit is that for all it's greatness, the Arena Grand in Columbus (which is running Star Wars 24 hrs. tomorrow) does not have digital projectors apparently.
Amazingly, the things I write never get any pub on this whole world wide web wasabi - KissaBoo in general tends to only appear in trackbacks on other sites due to mentioning what they are writing about. That's all right, that's ok, we'll write something interesting one day (and update the L&F (look and feel) - there is a logo in my head). However, in a brief traipse around the Internet, I discovered that KissaBoo is listed on this page at tinytechjobs. I don't know how we got listed there or why. If you came here from there, please tell us what kind of job you want to do and why we should hire you? Then tell us how we can make money to pay you.
Btw, if we did somehow become teeny tiny tech's link partner, I hope the above satisfies - and they better direct more traffic our way or ELSE!
Any list of the top voices in Hollywood history that totally leaves off Ashley Judd smells a little suspect, but this film critic article (via boing boing) on the Top 100 Voices in movie history still does a decent job - though there could be some quibbling on order and lack of females.