If you watch one death metal video today, make it this one.
My knitting blog is now located at the Needle Exchange!
LaVena Johnson
The tragic story of LaVena Johnson.
In July 2005, 19-year-old Johnson became the first female soldier from Missouri to die in Iraq. She was found with a broken nose, black eye and loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals, presumably to eliminate DNA evidence of rape, a trail of blood leading away from her tent and a bullet hole in her head. Unbelievably, that’s not the most horrifying part of the story. Here’s what is: Army investigators ruled her death a suicide.
How is no one reporting this? Whenever I read a story like this I get more and more frustrated, and this takes the cake. I’m just so blown away by this, and the fact that it’s been three years and still there’s been no investigation. I thought that rape and murder were both considered war crimes now?
Puppies ‘n Water
Found some good clips of dogs playing with various types of water. This first one looks like it is resigned to its fate of being washed and then put into hats for the rest of its life.
PANDAS!!!!
The CBC just debuted a set of red panda twins! They are so adorable. Just in case you missed them, here are BY FAR the best red panda clips on the Internet.
Based in Skokie, Ill.
Eve: Google thinks there are three abbreviations of PCA that are more important than Principal Components Analysis
Eve: The Presbyterian Church of America
Eve: The Porsche Club of America
jtl: heretics
Eve: and the Portland Cement Association.
Eve: (based in Skokie, Ill.)
Eve: The Portland Cement Association
Eve: Based in Skokie Illinois
jtl: ok, ok, we get it
Eve: just to be clear
Eve: is Skokie in Portland? Am I missing something?
jtl: i thought portland was in both oregon and maine
Eve: I am so confused
jtl: so was eddie murphy when he picked up that hooker once
Eve: SNAP
A note to aspiring computer geeks
Never become a computer geek. Because if you do, you end up thinking things like “of course! I can analyze all my data using LSA and develop a new method of scoring tests. All I have to do is find an SVD program and then automate it with a few lines of my own code.” And then you end up spending a whole day reading things like this:
We outline a procedure where one separates the construction of the interface from the external codes with the introduction of an intermediate “wrapper” class. This intermediate class serves to isolate user interface details from the details of calling external routines. This intermediate class also facilitates the incorporation of external routines into Java based systems for distributed computing and/or visual programming.
… And then you kill yourself.
