Way Too Frickin' Cool

A few months ago, in Scott Adams Dilbert blog he wrote a post titled Too Frickin' Cool, in which he asked people to comment on technology that is so futuristic that they can't believe they are using it.

Well Scott (who, mostly likely, is NOT reading this)

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I first saw this, I double checked to make sure it wasn't an urban legend. It actually has about all the earmarks of an urban legend, a young child, verge of death (think Craig Shergold).

NOPE -- NOT an urban legend. Just plain too frickin' cool!!!!

GPS helps find boy needing transplant
Associated Press
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Police found a 10-year-old boy awaiting a heart transplant by finding his mother's cell phone with global-positioning technology, a technique usually used to find criminals.
John Paul May, of Harrisville, had the successful surgery at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on Saturday night, but came dangerously close to being passed over for the donor heart until police tracked down him and his mother at a university jazz festival.

The hospital called state police Saturday afternoon because officials couldn't reach May's parents to let them know a donor heart had been found. When police couldn't find the boy or reach him by phone, they contacted Sprint to get the coordinates of his mother's cell phone.

"The only time you can use it is life or death, or to track someone wanted in a homicide," state police Cpl. James Green said. Otherwise, police must get a warrant from a judge.

Using the coordinates, state police tracked the phone to a Slippery Rock University building. Police stopped the jazz concert and announced they were looking for May and his mother, Sue.

The crowd of about 500 gave the boy a standing ovation as he left, said Steve Hawk, a music professor who conducted the concert.

"I've been in the entertainment business for 30 years and never had such an emotional, shocking event happen at something live," Hawk said.

May was listed in critical but stable condition yesterday, according to a hospital spokesman.


Find this article at:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20070509_GPS_helps_find_boy_in_nick_of_time.html

And I will consider this post one of the few that's actually WORTH the cyberspace it takes up if just ONE person runs out today and registers to be an organ donor. You can find out how to be an organ donor in your state by clicking on this link.

(Personal note to Crem -- if I know you've filled this out -- you don't need to worry about Donna Natalie Rothschild).

Taiwanese Legislature Brawl

Yeah -- it may look like inappropriate behavior for elected officials -- but my hunch is there are people sitting around at C-Span going "how can we get OUR guys to do that"

yeah -- it's big, but at least it's ugly

Chicago will soon become home to the country's largest building. Plans are going ahead to put up this building ...



2,000 feet tall.

As a comparison, the Empire state building is about 1400 feet. The Freedom Tower will be 1,776 feet tall. The Sears Tower is also about 1400 feet.

Looking at this photo, left is south, and north is right. My friend works in the tall white squarish building to the south of the spire.

When I first saw a photo of the spire I called Crem and said something to the effect of "aren't you just glad that you don't have to look at a 2,000 foot ph _ _ _ ic symbol all day every day"

I thought she was a sweetie

Regular readers may recall Licorice from this post about a happy tail.

She really is a sweetie.

But this weekend I saw a movie, and today I saw a picture of Licorice I hadn't seen before.



NO I don't think she's a bad guy -- but when I looked at the picture -- well you know the teeth just reminded me.

But how do you coordinate 18,000 people with just a megaphone??

Highlights only -- if you're interested in the entire article, you can find it here on Reuters

Thousands strip for photo shoot
Mon May 7, 2007 8:57AM EDT
By Tomas Sarmiento

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A record 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for U.S. photographic artist Spencer Tunick Sunday in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire.

Tunick, who has raised eyebrows by staging mass nude photo shoots in cities from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Caracas, smashed his previous record of 7,000 volunteers set in 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Directing with a megaphone, Tunick shot a series of pictures with his Mexican models simultaneously raising their arms, then lying on their backs in the square as well as another scene on a side street with volunteers arranged in the shape of an arrow.

...

"They're losing dignity as men and women," said 63-year-old Armando Pineda, leaning against the cathedral and watching the now-dressed models leave the plaza. "It's an offense against the church."

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Quick question .......

How is this an offense against the church. I just checked my Genesis and according to that, God created the following ...

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, then light, firmament, waters, grass, seed, fruit tree, whales, living creatures, winged fowl, beast, cattle, man.

NOWHERE does it say that God created The Gap (or L.L. Bean, or J. Crew, or The Limited, or even Wal Mart).

OHHHHHHH -- the quote was that the posing was an offense to the church. Maybe the CHURCH created Levi's??