In Lewiston, Idaho, a surveillance camera caught video of a man stealing a woman’s wallet from a convenience store counter. The man could not be identified, and a news story was published on the front page of the Lewiston Tribune, complete with a frame from the security camera footage. On the same page of the same issue, the newspaper ran a photo of a man decorating a store window.
Unfortunately for the unidentified man in the surveillance footage, he was wearing the same clothes as the man decorating the store window. The newspaper accidentally identified the thief!
For a while now Grant, Brad and I have been talking about going to India House in Schaumburg. I think we should go soon. According to this article from IndiaPost.com, India House is under new management and has been redone recently. I’d like to try the lunch buffet so that I can get at least a little taste of everything. That will hopefully make it easier to decide on an entree when visiting for dinner. If anyone is interested in going to the lunch buffet, name a day in the comments of give me a call.
It’s that time of year again: buying lots of stuff, eating lots of holiday goodies, and dealing with lots of stupid people.
There once was a time that I looked forward to Christmas shopping. The pleasure I got out of weaving in and out of holiday traffic (both on the road and in the mall) has long since been replaced by the feeling of dread about the holiday traffic. I was reminded of this the other day as we ventured into Woodfield. The floors were crowded with kiosks where kids were hocking the wares of shady vendors. People stopped in the middle of the walkways to talk on their cellphones, despite the foot traffic obviously inconvenienced by their social exercise. I did find it humorous that Woodfield has replaced their normally ginormous lighted tree with a much smaller one and an inflated snow globe advertising Fred Clause. Last year, the mall had a little problem when some decorations caught fire near the tree.
On Penny Arcade today was this comic about Gabe’s stolen deer. This is more of what I was expecting to see happen to the six teenagers who were caught after vandalizing a Hoffman Estates man’s Christmas decorations. They didn’t just steal his lights, they caused about $1,000 in damages and dragged the man from their car. Instead of death by holiday spirit, the man chose to not press charges against the teens.
Motor Trend has an article and a photo gallery with the first shots of the 2009 Corvette ZR-1. The ZR-1 was not initially part of the plan for the C6. However, that all changed at an early program review:
[T]he Z06’s proposed aluminum frame, carbon-fiber parts, and LS7 engine so impressed CEO Rick Wagoner that he reportedly wondered aloud, "Geez, if that’s what you can do with $60,000, I wonder what a $100,000 Corvette would look like?" With no more formal authorization than that, Juechter’s posse launched a skunkworks effort dubbed "Blue Devil" — a nod to the boss’s Duke alma mater.
And a devil it is, suspected of pushing 620 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque! After having had a chance to see the C6 up close this summer at Bloomington Gold, I am excited to see how the ZR-1 turns out at final production. I won’t have the $100k to drop on one of these in 2009, but it never hurts to dream, does it?
I don’t know what possessed me to do it, but I did. I finally joined yet another mass of people and joined Facebook. It’s just past midnight, which only partly explains this. Ugh, I guess you can look me up on there now. For the two of you who have already confirmed me as a friend, Thanks! I’m going to bed.
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