Makes you feel small and realize that some things are more important than the big car, big house, flat screen, latest model computer, laptop, iphone, dvd,......beer monkey wrote:cookie wrote:incredible pictures:
"the sky from above" from NASA
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/0 ... above.html
Fantastic photos on that link, thanks.
ok what one was you cookie..the kid being towed on the skate board by any chance.?cookie wrote:a nice compilation of failures.
Sit down and smile
I added some clips of me when I was 11 years old ......
people can be incredible stupid.
Most of the accidents you can see them come from miles away...
http://pleeboy.punt.nl/?id=400708&r=1&tbl_archief=&
seems that the architect is a fraud:cookie wrote:the "Dynamic Tower" from Dubai,
incredible.....
They want to call it the Da Vinci Tower
http://www.snotr.com/video/1370
Architect Behind Dubai's Rotating Skyscraper A Fraud?
Hilary Lewis | Jun 26, 2008 8:40 PM
dubaibuildinginmotion.jpgItalian "architect" Dr. David Fisher is planning to build an 80-story building in Dubai with rotating floors that would give it an ever-changing shape. He also wants to build similar towers in Russia and New York. The building does look cool (if structurally dubious), but Fisher's credentials and experience leave something to be desired:
WCBStv.com: Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practiced architecture regularly in decades. But he insisted his lack of experience wouldn't stop him from completing the project, which has attracted top design talent, including Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer for the World Trade Center and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
"I did not design skyscrapers, but I feel ready to do so," Fisher said.
That's a relief. And next comes the possibility that Fisher may be a fraud:
In a biography he had been distributing for months, he said...he received an honorary doctorate from "The Prodeo Institute at Columbia University in New York." No such institution exists, however, and Columbia said it had never awarded Fisher an honorary degree.
Asked to explain the discrepancy, Fisher said, through his New York publicists, that he had been awarded the degree by the Catholic University of Rome during a ceremony in 1994 held at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, which is near Columbia's campus.
Asked again to clarify the name of the school that conferred the degree, Fisher's publicists said in an e-mail that "Dr. Fisher did receive an honorary doctorate in Economics from Pre Deo University, but it has been removed from his bio because he wants to be entirely accurate and cannot be with this information."
Come again?
Footage of the tower in motion and Fisher discussing his grand vision:
Mother, daughter use beer to escape attacker
Convicted sex offender breaks into Cypress home in the middle of the night.
From KTLA
A quick-thinking mother and daughter say beer was their weapon of choice when a convicted sex offender broke into their home in the middle of the night.
Linda Dodson, 45, was asleep when a burly man entered her room about 3:37 a.m. Monday and attacked her.
"He had his big hands ... on my throat, my mouth and my nose and I'm flopping and I'm thinking oh my God, I'm being murdered right now and I don't know why," Dodson said.
Dodson's 71-year-old mother was asleep in another room of the home in the 8800 block of LaSalle Street.
When the intruder got his hands near her mouth, Dodson said she bit him as hard as she could. "When he released his hand for a second, I just let out this blood-scorching scream," she said.
Linda's mother heard the scream and went to her room. When she saw her daughter in trouble, she acted fast.
"I jumped on his back; I figured that was going to be enough," she said. But Dodson said the man threw her mother against the wall and grabbed her face so hard that both lenses of her glasses popped out.
At that point, Dodson's mother says she smelled alcohol on the man's breath and came up with an unconventional idea. "I just looked at him because I could tell he had been drinking and I said, I don't know about you, but I could use a beer, how about you?" she said. "And he said yes."
They all went into the living room and cracked open some beers, which seemed to calm the suspect.
One at a time, the mother and daughter asked to use the bathroom. But on one of those bathroom trips, Dodson got to her bedroom phone, dialed 911, and placed the receiver under her pillow.
When nothing was heard in the background, officers were immediately dispatched to the home.
Louie Herrera, a convicted child molester from Norwalk, was arrested. The women were not badly hurt.
Investigators say Herrera entered the home by removing a screen and sliding open Dodson's bedroom window.
Herrera was booked for residential burglary, false imprisonment, and resisting arrest.
He was held at the Cypress City Jail on $50,000 bail before being transferred to the Orange County Jail.
He's expected to be arraigned today.
