Monday, April 30, 2007

...And to think, brainstorming has become just another empty term used by empty people.

There were two trials. At the first, the jury was deadlocked: at the second, pleading insanity, Evelyn testified. Thaw's mother told Evelyn that if she would testify that Stanford White abused her and that Harry only tried to protect her, she'd receive a divorce from Harry Thaw and one million dollars in compensation. She did just that, and performed in court wonderfully: he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Evelyn got the divorce, but not the money. One of the defense lawyers coined an expression that has passed into the language when he said that Thaw had a "brainstorm."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Thaw

There is a rare sort of purity found in a person odd and unpleasant enough

Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884January 17, 1967) was an artists' model and chorus girl, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, by her first husband, Harry K. Thaw.

Stanford White and John Barrymore were subsequently supplanted in Evelyn's life by Harry Kendall Thaw (1871-1947) of Pittsburgh, the son of a coal and railroad baron. Thaw was extremely possessive of Nesbit (he reportedly carried a pistol), and obsessive about the details of her relationship with White (whom he referred to as "The Beast"). Thaw was a cocaine addict and sexual sadist who subjected women—including Nesbit—to severe whippings. However, following a trip to Europe, Evelyn finally accepted Thaw's repeated marriage proposal. They were wed on April 4, 1905, when Nesbit was twenty.

On June 25, 1906, Evelyn and Harry saw White at the restaurant Cafè Martin and ran into him again later that night in the audience of the Madison Square Garden's roof theatre at a performance of Mamzelle Champagne, written by Edgar Allan Woolf. During the song, "I Could Love A Million Girls", Thaw fired three shots at close range into White's face, killing him instantly and reportedly exclaiming, "You will never see that woman again!"
-http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=29420835

..Good song choice.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Under no circumstances should you fight your way to the top in an octagon or a triangle!

Robo Pit is a robot fighting game released in 1996 for PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game was developed by Kokopeli Digital Studios and published by Altron. A sequel, Robo Pit 2, was released in Japan on PlayStation in 1997 and 2003 in Europe and North America.

The rules are simple, build a robot and then try to fight your way to the top in arenas that are square in shape.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboPit

Monday, April 09, 2007

Uh...

In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[14]
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant

He won out over david hume and a bowl of haggis.