Dopey United. I arrived early and they wanted to charge me $75 to get on an earlier flight that had space. So I read the paper for 45 minutes instead. Now they are offering me $400 not get onto my overbooked flight. Not very good at math, are they?
Category: odd
Naughty Words in Google Maps – Brunswick, Maine
Naughty words in Google Maps here.
Which is funny, especially since is is my understanding that the satellite images are 6+ years old…
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Follow-up:
…so I did a little more digging, and it turns out that the Google Maps are indeed old.
The Town of Brunswick has a GIS site (for tax maps, I believe).
It shows the property (23 Hillside Rd.) to have the graffiti on the roof in their Aerial Photo from April 2001.
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The graffiti on the roof is gone in the Aerial Photo of April 21, 2006 (or has been digitally removed).
Crying, while eating
Teenager’s iPod goes boom
Teenager’s iPod goes boom
Don’t put your iPod through the washing machine. And if for some reason you do, don’t try to fix it with a screwdriver.
That’s the advice of fire investigators probing a small explosion that burned a hole in the bed of a Melbourne teenager who tried to perform emergency surgery on his ailing mp3 player.