If crab fishing in the Bering Sea wasn’t dangerous enough, and you like to be suspended high in the air with 500,000 volts of electricity flowing over your body, here’s the greatest job in the world. There’s a lot of jobs that many people have probably never heard of, and high voltage power line maintenance is one of them.
Sure you’re wearing a suit that creates a Faraday cage around your body so you don’t get vaporized, but the fact that vaporization is a risk should be a red flag. Keep reading →
A Texas man was arrested after he was found sleeping in a closet with a corpse. Just a little creepy...
We have heard the same slogan for years, “Say no to drugs,” but it appears that some people still refuse to listen to the simple knowledge that we have had since elementary school. It amazes me that still people do not understand that hard drugs are horrible for you, can mess you up, and in some cases lead to death.
Cody Jean Plant, a 21 year old man from Houston, learned the hard way when he was found asleep next to a dead body in a vacant building. Why was he there and how did he not know that he was sleeping next to a dead guy?! What I really want to know is, how did they end up in a closet? I know they were high, but it still amazes me that of all places to end up in it would be the closet of a vacant building. Keep reading →
Liu Bolin is a human chameleon. Spending “up to 10 hours at a time,” he literally paints himself and stands in the scene (avert eyes to front “Right” tire) of his photographs. There is no trick photography or photo shopping here, just one man’s uncanny eye for detail. I bet he does some decent face painting at parties. Keep reading →
Ya know those albums that change your life? The ones that you look back on years later and you know that you would be in a totally different place if not for the discovery of that CD?
These albums are a staple in a music lover’s collection. Maybe you lucked out and have a bunch. Maybe it’s just one or two. Regardless, you have them, and you know the collection wouldn’t be the same without them. For the most part, these albums are few and far between. Once in a while, that CD comes along, and you know that it’s truly amazing.
Some nights, as I sit all cozy in my dorm room, I pretend I’m a killer.
No, really.
I always make sure that I am in front of my television when TruTV’s Forensic Files is on. As I follow the story of how murderers are hunted down, caught, and brought to justice, I imagine how much that must suck to be that killer. Aside from that, it’s so interesting to see how forensic scientists use their fancy equipment and simple footprints, hairs, and paint chips to solve a mystery. Keep reading →
Another week, another post, but I’ve been thinking, it’s time for a change. Since I started writing “So Much Paper,” I’ve covered a new book each week. That was the original goal and all, but maybe that wasn’t the best idea. Should I really be celebrating my literary ADD, the fact that I can never ever get past the 100th page of any book I pick up regardless of how much I like it?
The book
I’m going to go with no. We had a nice run, me and not finishing books, but it’s time we separate for a bit, grow on our own. If we’re meant to be together we’re meant to be together and well find each other again.
Part of the reason for this new way or thinking (though it‘s more sensible than new), is that this week’s book is a good one, but I only really started in on it yesterday. The book? Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectives, a beautiful, poignant and surprisingly funny book about something I have little interest in, poetry. Keep reading →
Glad to see this is a “resolved question.” 
I always make sure that I am in front of my television when TruTV’s Forensic Files is on. As I follow the story of how murderers are hunted down, caught, and brought to justice, I imagine how much that must suck to be that killer. Aside from that, it’s so interesting to see how forensic scientists use their fancy equipment and simple footprints, hairs, and paint chips to solve a mystery. 
