Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

I think you’d have trouble getting that past an IRB today.

[Mik]

I agree.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

Link to video

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Like_Mondays

According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report[8] at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer.

[jon-nyc]

According to Wiki she said “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day”.

Where now?

She remains imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino. Her next opportunity for a parole hearing will be in 2025.

[jon-nyc]

Imagine being 62 and having been in jail since you were 16.

[Mik]

[jon-nyc]

[Copper]

Where is New Zealand on that map?

[jon-nyc]

Good question. And although Australia is on the map, it has no number next to it.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

Meet the Ulas! Thye family that walks on all fours.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/family-that-walk-on-all-fours-have-undone-the-last-three-million-years-of-evolution/ar-AA1q1G3c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=3b1ae552ddfb48b1b9a29fe6f5bd22f6&ei=17

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik That was interesting. I think it is brain damage. I cannot imagine that is more comfortable for them. From the documentatry, it does not seem like there is a physical problem with their back which forces them to do that.

[mark]

Godzilla-Shaped Harp
Bratislava, Slovakia

[mark]

[jon-nyc]

A farmhouse in 1889.

Today it’s 84th and Broadway, Manhattan.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

I had no idea. And I’ve even been there.