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A bunch from CJ

2009-09-21 15:06:38.097132+00 by Dan Lyke 8 comments

I'm still recovering from the weekend. Luckily, I got deluged by links from CJ, so while I'm recuperating and working here's stuff for you to read.

Honolulu considers a fine on stinky bus riders.
A $500 home in Hawaii. I'm still engineering out my proposed shop to replace that open awning-ish thing in our back yard, hoping for some alternative to stick-built to pop out and become feasible, so construction stuff like this excites me.
child porn charges filed, man blamed cat, about which CJ says: "I have known of a man to get in trouble over pussy before.....but this is a bit of a stretch". Rimshot.
And the really cool one: thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s.

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-21 16:34:14.655265+00 by: ebradway

That $500 home definitely would not pass the design review in my HOA.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-21 22:19:11.539427+00 by: Larry Burton

Nor mine, Eric, but I'd be proud to have a structure like that in my neighborhood.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 05:47:28.873316+00 by: spc476

There didn't seem to be any windows (maybe screen though), so I have to wonder what happens to the insides during a hurricane.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 14:20:14.144642+00 by: meuon

Things blow around.. and you put them back when if's over if you can find them. In a small storm, your house is still standing as the wind blows right through it.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 16:09:33.314307+00 by: JT

10 initial charges for child porn, 90 secondary charges. I'd like to know how a cat can download 100 pictures instantly by jumping on a keyboard... and why you wouldn't delete them immediately. My only thought is that Captain Dipshit is going to file an insanity plea later.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 18:01:19.545237+00 by: Dan Lyke

JT, that cat's definitely got to be a touch-typist, which is impressive, because mine just has trouble holding down the shift key to get the ':' when typing in URLs.

The one jury I've served on, the defense attorney really harped on "beyond a reasonable doubt". In our case the law also specifically said "knowingly", which made that phrase even vaguer, but I can see a defense attorney throwing up all sorts of "don't really expect this to fly but hoping that it'll be a part of the background when I pull out the 'reasonable doubt' bits" smokescreen.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 18:03:32.095519+00 by: Larry Burton

Well, JT, I suppose a script could be written and things arranged so that when the cat did what it normally did around the computer those images would be downloaded. When I was a kid I use to set my brother up to do things I wanted done but he would be the one taking the fall for it.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-09-22 21:27:27.128622+00 by: petronius

The $500 house looks fine for Hawaii. Its like my brother's house in Costa Mesa CA; one Chicago winter would leave it a stack of kindling and the inhabitants would freeze in their beds, but in a forgiving climate all you need is to keep the rain off. I also wonder what a local building inspector would say about using a propane grill for the stove without proper venting. And when you live much if your life out of doors or on a veranda, the size isn't claustrophobic. Hmmm, maybe I can retire to a place like this...