Outrageous Malfunction

Lots of these pictures should look familiar.

“When my wife was cleaning the blood off, she said ‘I think it’s all his,’.” Kieta said.

Blind homeowner captures intruder

Commando Matthew Croucher threw himself on a grenade, saving his squad mates from injury or death. Price he paid? A bloody nose. He may be awarded a Victoria Cross, which would put him in rare company. One nit to pick with the coverage: I don’t think you “win” the Victoria Cross any more than you “win” the Medal of Honor.

Sometimes, advances in medicine don’t cost millions of dollars and have dangerous clinical trials. In this case, a doctor is using mirrors to treat phantom pain. I wish I could use a mirror to dull the pain of losing my mind; I try every morning, and it doesn’t help. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

Old Bud has passed on. Lots of pictures of him hunting and fishing; one of the notes on a picture says at 99 he was still moving around like a man 40 years younger.

RIP, Old Bud.

John Beatty used his F-350 pickup to block a moving vehicle from crossing the centerline on the Golden Gate bridge. The driver, as it turns out, was incapacitated and later died.

“When you think about all the lawsuits and liability that goes on today, I probably wouldn’t have done it,” Beatty said. “But you don’t think. I saw she was going into oncoming traffic, and it would have been a horrible accident.” Beatty said that afterward, he pulled off into a parking lot to calm down for an hour as his adrenaline raced. “I lead a kind of low-key life. Excitement’s not my bag,” he said.

Well done, Mr Beatty.

Have bit torrent? Help me spread the video of Rebbecca Aguilar harassing James Walton, a man who put down two miscreants. Her employer, KDFW, has been trying to get the video sent to the memory hole. I don’t want that to happen. Download the torrent above and seed it if you think the cause is worthy. If you’re unfamiliar, use your favorite search engine to get up to speed.

So far, KDFW has gotten this video removed everywhere it appears. I implore you assist in keeping this video available. The size is small; 13 megs.

Thanks.

World-class violinist plays for 45 minutes in subway station, is roundly ignored. Lots of theories as to why; I’ll stick with “didn’t recognize it”.

Signal isolation is an interesting problem; deriving and applying filters can be fun as any game. Although the eventual payout from his lawsuit against PNL may be a financial bonanza, Joe’s filtering of the data is almost certainly a larger prize. An ε chance of payout does not dissuade people from spending a lifetime looking for signal (think π) when there may be no signal at all; I suspect the difficulty for this voyage of discovery will be isolating only the strongest signals from the background of steady signals. I know Joe wants mounts for his walls; mere trophies to warm the heart with memories of the hunt. Here’s to the glory of the stalk and the thrill of the kill.

[2012-06-20 12:32:15] (teferi) cheap storage is only cheap if your data has no value
[2012-06-20 12:32:30] (ibanix) teferi: you sound like RyJones (that’s not a compliment)
[2012-06-20 12:32:47] (teferi) ibanix: ’s true a lot of the time
[2012-06-20 12:33:28] (@PetrDoubt) If “sounds like Ry” means “correct,” it is a compliment.
[2012-06-20 12:33:58] * Nugget changes topic to ‘(PetrDoubt) If “sounds like Ry” means “correct,” it is a compliment.’