The Early Bird

Coïnsidence???

swingfox — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:10:17 GMT

Paris Hilton vs. Smurgette!

Something fishy...

swingfox — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:10:10 GMT

Last night I received an e-mail from a company. The e-mail was in Dutch and had some spelling and grammar errors in it, yet it was not as fishy as the Nigerian scammers write. The e-mail contained a job offer as a financial employee for a company, based in 9 European countries and America/Canada. The real odd thing was that they would offer a EUR 8000 basic salary (=around $10000) a month plus bonus fees. For being "just" employee, this smells like scam, too. They wanted me to register at this website.

I have tried to figure out what it is, but I can't. It's not that important, though. I do have a feeling that this about money laundering.

Hint for the police...

swingfox — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:32:55 GMT

May be next time it's a good idea to search this guy. Be careful, though, this video ends very ... different.

How many states??

swingfox — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:13:31 GMT

This link will take you to an interesting quiz in which you will have to name as many American States as you know within 10 minutes. Google Cheaters will be shot! :P

I managed to list 31 out of 50. Not bad, although that timer is annoying and pressured me.

As the Saturday progressed...

swingfox — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:07:41 GMT

The Saturday progressed very nicely. We started the day early with grocery shopping (I really don't like grocery shopping later on the Saturday, because it's so friggin' busy). After that we picked up curtains that we bought for our living room in December. It took me a while to hang them, but now they do and they look very pretty.

The rest of the day we sort of relaxed. Leann wanted to study her Dutch immigration course, because she had a test. Meanwhile I played around on my notebook and slept a little bit. In the evening Leann didn't want to cook, really. On my way home from work, I noticed a possible Burger King location closer to where we live. I kept Leann in the dark, because I wasn't sure if I saw it right and we went over there. It was a Burger King location indeed and Leann got very excited. It was fun :)

All in all the Saturday has been a nice day. Today we plan to celebrate Carnival. Our updates, pictures and videos will be available on E-Controller Weblog.

It works (?)

swingfox — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:46:40 GMT

So, I click on "Recent" to see where I was with my own entries and guess what?? I get linked to this link, saying "It works".

Did it really work?? Go LJ!! After all the backlog and other shit you got us through, you'll get your award! Now stay on it! :P

Oh Christmas Tree... Oh Christmas Tree... Anyone??

swingfox — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:48:19 GMT

Okay, so I read the news and I come across this article. How sick is that?

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - When Carol Lopez let her Labrador retriever out for the morning the dog had an unusual number of tree trunks to attend to. Surrounding her aboveground backyard pool Lopez found 37 used Christmas trees. "I had just woke up and boom, they're there and that's it," Lopez said Thursday. Whoever put the trees there apparently took their time, neatly organizing and standing the trees upright.

Lopez said she called Allentown police, and an officer told her to call the city to have the trees removed. A city employee told her husband to drag the trees out of the backyard and they would be picked up free of charge, she said. Lopez said she didn't know how someone climbed a tall wooden fence surrounding the yard, or got all the trees over it. "People just don't have anything better to do," Lopez said. "That's someone who had time on their hands."

New icon...

swingfox — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:58:25 GMT

Mine!!! All Mine!! :)

Odd Christmas' Crimes... Santa did it!

swingfox — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:17:18 GMT

While surfing Yahoo! Odd News, I came across this article

NEW YORK - There's nobody nice on this Christmas list: snowman stabbers, Grinch snatchers, wreath-robbing weasels.

'Tis the season for strange crimes by even stranger people, with police blotters expanding faster than a 6-year-old's wish list of gifts. David Allen Rodgers, 42, was arrested Dec. 3 for driving while intoxicated — at the wheel of a float during the annual Christmas parade in Anderson, S.C. According to witnesses, Rodgers sped down Main Street in the Steppin' Out Dance Studio float with 19 people aboard, ran a red light and led police on a 3-mile chase. Police said that when Rodgers finally stopped, they found an open container of alcohol in his truck. "I made a very bad judgment on my part," Rodgers said at a court hearing.

In Chicago, 32 plastic baby Jesus dolls were stolen from nativity scenes set up in people's front yards. The kidnappers then lined up all the dolls along the fence outside a Chicago woman's home; she rounded them up and turned them over to her parish priest.

Similar creche crimes occurred in 35 cities from Fayateville, N.C., to Mission Viejo, Calif., according to The Catholic League, which tracks nativity vandalism. In Houghton, Mich., somebody stole an inflatable Grinch from outside an apartment complex. That was just one instance in the area's rash of seasonal thievery: Two brown plastic reindeer, a baby Jesus statue and several wreaths were also stolen.

In Ohio's Hamilton County, a pair of 18-year-olds were arrested for using screwdrivers to stab an inflatable 12-foot-tall Frosty the Snowman. "Why me?" asked Frosty's owner, Matt Williquette. "And why Frosty?" The snowman had survived two previous stabbing attacks. Two other local teens were arrested in an unrelated incident where they allegedly smashed a car with a large decorative candy cane, causing $1,000 worth of damage.

An Oklahoma woman was arrested after she visited the Delaware County Jail with a Christmas card for her incarcerated boyfriend. Police said the card held marijuana, leading to Dawn Smith's arrest. A real-life Grinch in Yonkers, N.Y., made off with $14,000 in staff bonuses and money from the office safe during a Christmas party, police said. Daniel Rios, 38, spent $7,500 in cash but returned about $6,500 in checks, authorities said.

And then there's the case of the Santa Claus kidnapping. A motorcycle-riding Santa Claus with a stuffed Rudolph in his sidecar was arrested after allegedly grabbing an 8-year-old girl from outside a South Carolina convenience store. John Michael Barton, 55, was in his Claus outfit filling his bike with gas when the girl's family stopped by the store. The girl's father then saw Barton speeding off with her. After a chase at speeds of up to 80 mph, Barton pulled over his motorcycle and turned over the girl, police said. Barton was arrested later, hiding inside a bar.

There's strange people in this world.

The Geography Cup

swingfox — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:24:16 GMT

While reading Yahoo! News, I came across this article. It's about how North Americans are fed up with being ribbed over their geographical incompetence. A webmaster has picked up on this and set up a competition between England and the US, called the Geography Cup.

The website is solely accessible from England and the US. So join your team now and increase the average. Good luck!

TORONTO, Dec 14 (Reuters Life!) - North Americans fed up with being ribbed over their geographical incompetence are trying to get even -- pitting their skills against Britain in a transatlantic geography quiz. Two geography enthusiasts from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean designed the 2006 Geography Cup after numerous surveys highlighted the geographical ignorance of both Americans and Britons.

A survey in May this year, for example, found less than four in 10 young Americans could find
Iraq on a map. Open to anyone in the United States and UK, the online quiz (http://www.geographycup.com/) gives contestants two minutes to place 13 randomly selected countries on an interactive political map. British co-founder Daniel Raven-Ellison, a geography teacher from Reading, Berkshire, said there was a longstanding political rivalry between the United States and Britain where people loved geography and maps. "There is definitely a sense in the UK that Americans are pretty poor in geography," he said, confident that by the end of the contest the British team would come out tops -- and help focus more attention on the world map.

Since the quiz started on November 14 -- it ends on December 31 -- more than 18,000 people have gone online to put their geography knowledge to the test - and the two teams are neck-and-neck. American co-founder Roger Andresen, who founded a company that makes geography education puzzles and games, said the Geography Cup, which is in its first year, stemmed from an online international competition he started in 2004 called "Geography Olympics." He changed the name to "Geography Zone" after receiving a disapproving letter from
International Olympic Committee lawyers but the quiz, open to all nationalities, struggled to track where participants were based. Limiting it to two teams was easier.

Andresen and Raven-Ellison said so far the contest was fairly tight -- but both sides were struggling to place Pacific island states such as Tuvalu, Caribbean island nations, and countries in Africa. "It just seems that some of the some places outside of the United States and UK are not a part of our world and they should be," said Andresen.

You say what? LJ sucks... they admitted it!

swingfox — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:49:52 GMT

Okay, so I am browsing through LJ and all of a sudden I am presented with this page:

Page Not Found

I'm sorry, you've reached a page that I cannot find. I'm really sorry about this. It's kind of embarassing. Here you are, the user, trying to get to a page on LiveJournal and I can't even serve it to you. What does that say about me? I'm just a webserver. My sole purpose in life is to serve you webpages and I can't even do that! I suck. Please don't be mad, I'll try harder. I promise! Who am I kidding? You're probably all like, "Man, LiveJournal's webserver sucks. It can't even get me where I want to go." I'm really sorry. Maybe it's my CPU...no that's ok...how bout my hard drives? Maybe. Where's my admin? I can't run self-diagnostics on myself. It's so boring in this datacenter. It's the same thing everyday. Oh man, I'm so lonely. I'm really sorry about rambling about myself, I'm selfish. I think I'm going to go cut my ethernet cables. I hope you get to the page you're looking for...goodbye cruel world!

-the webserver

Apart from embarrassing being misspelled, this sounds like Six Apart alright. I guess they have given up on LJ themselves.

You smell! Get out!!

swingfox — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:24:43 GMT

Full Article

BERLIN (Reuters) - A court in Germany rejected a man's compensation claim against an airline after a cabin crew ordered him off a plane because other passengers were offended by his smell, authorities said Thursday. An appeals court in the western city of Duesseldorf upheld an earlier ruling that British Airways (BA) had acted within its rights by removing the man from the aircraft after a female passenger sitting next to him complained about his smell.

"The stewardess took him to one side and asked him if he could put on a fresh shirt, but they were all in the hold," a court spokesman said. "So then he was asked to leave the plane -- about two minutes before take off." BA said other passengers were upset by the smell, he added.

The corporate lawyer and his wife were scheduled to return home from Hawaii via Los Angeles on a BA flight sub-contracted to American Airlines last year, and missed their connection to Germany when the incident forced them to take the next plane. Including the cost of staying an extra night in Los Angeles, the earnings he had forfeited and his wife's lost holiday time, the man calculated BA owed him nearly 2,200 euros ($2,819), and took his case to a lower court in Duesseldorf earlier this year.

"The man said he couldn't help sweating after carrying three suitcases in 29 degrees (Celsius) of heat and sitting in the airport for two hours with no air conditioning," the court spokesman said. "But the court said the airline's terms and conditions made clear they could bar passengers because of their smell."

The appeals court delivered a judgement Wednesday by default against the man when he failed to attend the hearing. The man, who told the court he was stuck in traffic, has the right to appeal. According to its website, American Airlines' conditions of carriage say that transport may be refused if passengers "have an offensive odor not caused by a disability or illness." British Airways stipulates that the airline may refuse to transport passengers "if carrying you or your baggage may affect the comfort of any person in the aircraft."

A hamburger to die for ... literally

swingfox — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:20:57 GMT

The Heart Attack Grill offers a quadruple hamburger in South Arizona. This hamburger offers no less than 8,000 calories. This is the same number of calories that any human needs in three days. Wow! The full article is available here.

ASHINGTON (AFP) - A restaurant in the southwestern US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu -- the "quadruple bypass burger". The burger at the "Heart Attack Grill" restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon, and weighs in at only 8,000 calories, more than three times what the human body needs in one day. Patrons who have no appetite for the "quadruple bypass burger" can opt for the "triple" or "double-bypass". "It's not good for one's health but it's only a joke," John Basso, who opened the restaurant 10 months ago, told AFP.

Customers who have room for more can also order French fries "fried in pure lard" and can purchase cigarettes off the menu. As a courtesy, the restaurant offers its "best customers" a wheelchair service to their cars by waitresses dressed in slinky nurses' outfits. The idea, however, has not gone down well with the Arizona State Board of Nursing which has expressed concern that some patrons may confuse the waitresses with real nurses. To avoid any confusion, Basso has posted a long message on his restaurant website saying that his employees in no way are medical professionals.

He said his ultimate goal is to open a restaurant in France. "I am dreaming of opening a restaurant in Paris," he said.

Jackass!!

swingfox — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:28:02 GMT

Ever seen the movie Jackass? Well, some jackasses thought that the warning "Don't try this at home" didn't mean shit.

The result... (click)

It gets even better.... more Michigan news...

swingfox — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:02:25 GMT

Area man charged with bestiality

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
By TIM YOUNKMAN

A 44-year-old Saginaw man remains jailed today on charges of bestiality after he was seen engaged in sexual acts with a dead dog, Michigan State Police troopers said. Ronald Kuch was arrested after police searched the area of Midland and Carter roads Friday for a man who ran away from a Bay County Animal Control officer. The entire incident was within view of a nearby day care center.

At his arraignment on Monday, Kuch demanded a preliminary examination in Bay County District Court. District Judge Craig Alston ordered him to remain jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond pending a hearing on the evidence Nov. 6. Kuch is charged with crimes against nature and assaulting a law enforcement officer.

Troopers said a woman from the day care center called for animal control because there was a dead dog near the property that had been hit by a car several days earlier. Before officers could arrive, the man showed up and began engaging in sexual acts with the dog, police said. The animal control officer also reported seeing Kuch involved in the sex act and as he approached him, Kuch shoved him away and ran off. State troopers searched the area and found the man hiding in the attic of a nearby house.

Officers determined that the house belonged to the man's girlfriend and later learned that the dog, a black Labrador retriever, also belonged to the girlfriend. The dog had been dead for four or five days. The official charge of crimes against nature carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. If the person is a repeat offender, the maximum is life in prison.

ROFLMAO ... ermmm ... yeah!!! Mind you: ... a dead dog near the property that had been hit by a car several days earlier ... .

What the fuck?? Confidence in American justice??

swingfox — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:48:17 GMT

Okay, so I go on Reuters and I come across this article.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian authorities on Friday freed an American sex offender who was sentenced by a U.S. judge to three years "exile" in Canada but the man still faces deportation proceedings.

Former teacher Malcolm Watson, convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl, was arrested on Thursday by Canadian border guards as he returned to Canada from a hearing in Buffalo, New York. A New York state judge had allowed Watson to live in Canada on probation rather than have him spend time in a U.S. jail.

Ottawa, unhappy about what it sees as U.S. courts dumping unwanted offenders in Canada, wanted Watson to stay in jail until a hearing to determine whether he should be kicked out of the country. But a judge ruling on the merits of Watson's detention decided otherwise, releasing the man on a C$5,000 ($4,500) bond and ordering him not to engage in criminal activity.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he wanted to see the man put back in jail but that his government had few legal options left. "Most Canadians are outraged that this could happen," he told reporters after a speech in the Toronto suburb of Oakville. "The government will use every legal means possible to prevent this individual from being free in Canada. He is, however, a Canadian resident, and Canada's laws in this regard are too loose," he added, blaming the previous Liberal government for being soft on crime.

Charles Hawkins, a spokesman for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, said: "Watson's lawyers argued their client was not a serious threat, had been convicted of a misdemeanor and had demonstrated remorse." Officials will meet next week to set a date for a hearing to discuss the government's request that Watson be deported.

A New York state judge had allowed Watson to live in Canada on probation rather than have him spend time in a U.S. jail. Ottawa, unhappy about what it sees as U.S. courts dumping unwanted offenders in Canada.

Excuse me??? So, American Justice can deport American Citizens to other countries? What is this?? I can see how Canada doesn't like this!

"You don't love me, so now I am going to kill myself"

swingfox — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:53:05 GMT

This article is about 16 year old Louise, a lesbian girl, whose friend refused to have sex with her. She took her parents' car and started racing through Atlanta, to collide in a car eventually. Louise was pretty fine after that crash, but the 30 year old woman, mom of 3, got killed.

Great! Drunk driving is not allowed in the US, especially not for teenagers. I am curious to see how fast Bush will forbid driving around horny.

ATLANTA -- Police said a lovesick teenager tried to kill herself but ended up killing someone else instead.

Authorities in Atlanta described what they said was a suicide attempt by a 16-year-old girl, who they said sent text messages on her cell phone as she was about to drive into an oncoming car. They said Louise Egan Brunstead had told friends she was going to kill herself, because another female student at her high school had refused to have sex with her. They said before driving her family's Mercedes into the oncoming car, she counted down, "Nine, eight, seven, six -- I'm going to do it" in a text message to the girl who had rejected her.

Brunstead survived the Oct. 4 crash with just an ankle injury -- but the driver of the other car, Nancy Salados-Mayo, a mother of three, was killed. The woman's 6-year-old daughter was injured. The 16-year-old was charged Thursday with felony murder. Prosescutors said they'll try her as an adult. If she's convicted, she automatically gets life in prison. Her attorney said she and her parents are "devastated" by what he called a "horrible accident." He said the girl is being held at a mental health facility and is wearing an electronic monitor around her ankle to keep her from running away.

Brunstead has been in custody since the crash. The victim's family was in court Thursday and learned some very startling news about why Salados-Mayo died. Salados-Mayo's husband, Mario Bibiano, made a statement after hearing about the suicide attempt. "It's hard to make sense out of it because this person was attempting to commit suicide -- why didn't she try it on her own instead of causing harm to others?" Bibiano said outside the court Thursday.

Brunstead has now been charged as an adult with murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. At the time of the crash, officials said she was speeding and crossed over the center line. "It's tragic and it doesn't bring anybody back, but parents must be responsible for what their teens do in vehicles which are, after all, nothing more than lethal weapons if they're motivated in a certain way," said civil attorney Yehuda Smolar.

After a memorial service in Atlanta, Salados-Mayo's body was returned to her native Mexico for burial. Her husband, a steelworker, was unable to attend because he remained by his daughter's bedside at an Atlanta hospital.

Salados-Mayo was headed to work to get her schedule when the crash happened. Her family said she was a hard worker.

Disney says "No" to Mouse Orgy -- ROFLMAO!!! The sickness

swingfox — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:16:44 GMT

Okay, I know that this article is sick and absolutely inappropriate, but I couldn't help myself falling over the floor and laugh sooooo loud.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday said it took "appropriate action" against employees at its Paris theme park who were caught simulating sex while dressed as Disney characters in a digital video that has received wide attention on the Internet.

Disney would not say whether it had dismissed any of the costumed employees featured in the grainy video, which appears to have been shot with a hidden camera at a backstage dressing room at Disneyland Resort Paris. "The behavior shown on the video is unacceptable and inexcusable," Disney said in a statement. "The video was taken in the backstage area not accessible to guests. Appropriate action has been taken to deal with the cast members involved."

The video shows Minnie Mouse struggling to free herself as she is grabbed from behind by Goofy and then a giant snowman. Later, Mickey Mouse simulates sex with the snowman and Goofy does the same with either Chip or Dale, the chipmunks, as laughter is heard on the tape.

The tape is described on the Internet as the "Mouse Orgy."

OMG!!!

EDIT: I am trying to find that movie. It's hard to find, though.

Can I say ... WOW??

swingfox — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:51:08 GMT

I am lost for words

"No cell phone" signs in planes.

swingfox — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:49:11 GMT

The no smoking sign in airplanes is pretty much out of date. Most, if not all airlines have prohibited smoking in their planes. This article claims that soon the "no smoking" signs will be replaced by "no cell phone" signs. You would think why, because on a 36,000 feet cruise levels, chances are that cell phones won't work. Well, that will change. Manufacturers of airplanes like Boeing and Airbus have plans to launch their broadband wireless services in which using cell phones during flight will be made possible. To avoid cell phones making contact with ground services, the use of cell phones during landing and take off will be prohibited.

Take your swing now!!

swingfox — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:46:36 GMT

You'll have to go to China, but they make it happen there, alright!

BEIJING (Reuters) - Stressed-out Chinese can now unleash pent-up anger at a bar that lets customers attack staff, smash glasses and generally make a ruckus, a Chinese newspaper reported on Monday.

The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, employs 20 muscled young men as "models" for customers to punch and scream at. "Customers can specify how they want the models to appear -- they can even appear as women -- and then they are free to give them a sound beating," the China Daily said. The bar charges from 50 yuan (3.30 pounds) to 300 yuan for the pleasure. If violence does not work, counsellors -- students from local universities -- are at hand to dispense advice, the newspaper quoted the owner of the bar, Wu Gong, as saying. Wu said that since he opened the bar in April, most of the patrons have been women, especially those working in karaoke bars and massage parlours.

I'd love to hear your ideas towards this! :)

Window shopping taken literally by Polo Ralph Lauren

swingfox — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:42:26 GMT

I got to this article in which Polo Ralph Lauren takes window shopping very literally.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is taking impulse shopping one step farther with technology that allows passersby to purchase clothing they see in the windows of one of its New York stores by tapping on the glass.

Projected on the window of the Ralph Lauren Madison Avenue store is a 67-inch image of items including polo shirts and tennis ball boy or ball girl uniforms. Customers can shop even when the store is closed by clicking on the window glass.

The Steven Spielberg futuristic movie "Minority Report" inspired the window. "I really wanted to find a way to make that amazing technology a retail reality," said company senior vice president David Lauren, in a statement.

The company is using the buzz around the display to promote its line of tennis apparel, in conjunction with its sponsorship of the 2006 U.S. Open. The company is also the exclusive outfitter of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, through 2010.

Customers attracted to the sporty tennis clothes they see can purchase them using a credit card swiper mounted to the outside of the window. A projector beams the images onto the window pane from the inside of the shop, while a thin touch foil mounted on the glass powers the touch screen. The store plans to keep the display up through September 10, though if it succeeds in boosting sales or buzz significantly, Polo Ralph Lauren will roll out the window displays to other stores, a spokesman said.

What comes to my mind first??? The Red Light District in Amsterdam! *ROFL*. I know... I have a sick mind!

O.M.G. --- I am totally ROFL!!!!

swingfox — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:30:51 GMT

Check out this article. It is about an anti-stupidity pill.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.

It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.

"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."

Now Bild Zeitung is not one of the most reliable sources. Besides that... ROFL!! To start with: why would you test this on mice and fruit flies? To remember that they actually eat cheese?? ROFL ROFL ROFL!!!

swingfox — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:08:16 GMT

I am still alive and I found this videofile (click). It's gross, but hilarious ... or so I think :)

World cup soccer 2006: Report from Germany

swingfox — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:56:22 GMT

The Dutch team is doing very well in the world cup. They won two games out of two, so they are in the top of their group together with Argentina. Tomorrow they will play the team from Argentina. Argentina is expected to win, but who knows: the Dutch team might pull a trick.

So, working on the premise that the Dutch team will finish second in their group, they will probably meet England in the next round. That's going to be a tougher cookie, but it's certainly not impossible.

England is playing their game tonight against the Swedish team. They will be playing for becoming winner in their group. We'll see how that works out. I expect England to win, though (sorry, kribban!).

Germany did a good job against Ecuador: 3-0. They got the first place in their group. They will probably meet the Swedish in the next round.