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Weekly Rant: “If you want to stay on my friend list, comment on this post!”

In response to several friends who are posting the now popular “I’m cleaning out my friend list, so if you want me to keep you comment on this post!”

Um. Stop. If you think I’m going to comment on your page just so you don’t unfriend me in your “FB Cleaning” spree, I’m not that desperate. I do not beg, plead, or give “please keep me” comments. I have more self-respect than that. If I have taken the time to friend you or accept your request, it means I am interested in your life ~ I don’t “unfollow” or “hide” any one. But frankly, I deserve (and want) a better friend than someone who would consider unfriending me. So if you are skimming through your list, and you have to consider whether or not to keep my name there, just push the unfriend button. We obviously aren’t that close.

Tags: facebook, fb, PEt Peeve, rant

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Categories Computer Issues, Facebook, Life

Neat Webcam of Lions

9 Jun

Stumbled across this neat webcam of a Lion habitat at the Milwaukee Zoo. Neat!

Click the link to go to the webcam.

Tags: animal, lion, zoo

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Categories Interesting, Life

Rose Petals Shower the Statue of Liberty

8 Jun

In honor of D-Day and the veterans who could not make it to France for the memorial events, France was gracious enough to send helicopters over a memorial at the US Statue of Liberty. The helicopters poured out one million rose petals. What an amazing gesture!

Tags: D-day, event, france, History, Memorial, Roses, wwii

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Categories Events, History, WWII

WOAH! $35 Million Gold Heist in Hong Kong

7 Jun

“All that glitters: Businessman ‘Who Bought HK$270m of Gold’ Ends Up with Metal Bars”

by Clifford Lo and Andrea Chin via “South China Morning Post“

“Police were last night making arrangements with a mainland businessman to check whether HK$270 million of gold bullion he bought in Africa was genuine after part of the consignment was swapped with metal bars.

On Wednesday, Zhao Jingjun, 43, opened part of his shipment in front of his buyer in Hong Kong and discovered the gold had been switched for worthless metal.

A senior officer said it would be the city’s biggest heist in a decade if it was confirmed that all the gold had been stolen.

An initial inquiry showed Zhao purchased 998kg of gold bars from a company in Ghana in mid-April, police said.

The consignment, in 14 cases, was escorted by his staff and delivered from Ghana on a chartered flight late last month.

“Officers were told that his employee confirmed the cases contained the gold before it was loaded onto the chartered flight in Ghana,” a police source said.

The source said the employee left Hong Kong after the consignment was handed to the staff of a logistics company at Chek Lap Kok airport. It was then couriered to a Tsuen Wan warehouse.

The businessman arrived from Hebei province on Monday and checked into the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. On Wednesday, he had five of the cases couriered to his buyer’s Hung Hom office. Continue reading →