Today when I put Danika down for a nap she of course didn't want to sleep so when I heard her complaining I just ignored it. When I went to wake her up two hours later I looked under the door and saw her pants and a diaper on the floor. I wondered how she got a diaper in the first place and then opened the door. She had pooped and taken off the diaper and then gotten into bed with a nudey bottom like nothing had happened. So incase you are down here is a laugh for you. I know I laughed inside anyway so that I wouldn't wake her up on acciedent.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Why there is no J street in Washington DC
So as I was watching NCIS on the computer the other day they posed a great question and since I watched it all of the way through they told the answer at the end. But for those of you who don't watch I wanted to look up the answer myself and make sure it was really true. So this is what I found from Yahoo! searches. I am a volunteer national tour guide in Washington DC. There is no J street in Washington DC, for the simple reason that during the time period in which Pierre L'enfant was planning Washington DC, the letters I and J looked almost the same typed, and when written were indistinguishable from each other. It would just be too confusing to have two street names that looked the same, right next to each other would be too confusing. For this same reason, the army has no J company. Some tour guides will tell you that Pierre L'enfant hated John Jay and deliberately left out J street in order to slight him, however there is no historical evidence to support this. In fact, in 1994 the Washington Post printed a story which completely dispelled the John Jay myth. I found some online sources that can reinforce these facts: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jstreet.asp http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2005/10/17/Life/Whats.The.Deal.With.No.J.Street.In.D.c-1022571.shtml
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Teen killed mother in Halo 3 row
So I just read about this on the news since I don't have television I read about it.. Totally crazy and uncalled for that is for sure. Petric's lawyers argued he was not guilty of murder on insanity grounds A US teenager killed his mother and wounded his father in revenge after they took away his violent computer game, a judge has ruled. The defence team for Daniel Petric, 17, had argued his addiction to the Halo 3 game, in which players shoot invading aliens, had made him insane. But the judge rejected this, saying he had planned revenge for weeks. Petric, of Ohio, was tried as an adult and faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole. On the night of the shooting in October 2007, Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun and the game, the court heard. His father Mark, who was shot in the head and survived, testified that his son came into the room and asked: "Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you." He said he expected a pleasant surprise. Then his head went numb from the gunshot. The Associated Press news agency reports that Microsoft, which owns the intellectual property for the game, declined to comment beyond a statement saying: "We are aware of the situation and it is a tragic case."
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