Wow. NYPD has identified Baby Hope. She was a little girl who was found dead, stuffed in a cooler, in 1991, and there had been pretty much no leads. The police tried putting up fliers again this summer, to see if it would jog someone's memory about something, and a woman came forward and said, basically, that she had talked to this other woman several years ago, and the other woman had mentioned that her younger sister had been killed when they were kids, and the story seemed kind of weird at the time, but now that she saw the posters, she realized that some of the details matched up with that little girl. So the police looked into it, and tested DNA, and she was right. They haven't released her name yet -- still questioning her family, and the police are pretty sure that no one will say anything if their name gets released to the press -- but still. I remember seeing that case on the news when I was a kid. [link]
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
She had been premedicated, meara. Benadryl and Zofran.
Thank you for not actually fixing my computer, Apple Support, and for returning it with a screw in the power supply socket, and it unable to run the pre-OS hardware diagnostics. I can't even restore my three week old backup onto the blank hard drive you gave me.
(I did wonder why a bad hard drive cable affected its ability to browse network drives, but it's a computer. Weird things are par for the course.)
I hate the Genius Bar with a fiery passion, and I'm back for the third time in a week this afternoon.
Benadryl and Zofran.
Premedication of the gods!
allergy to medical dye. I hadn't heard of such a thing, but I guess anything's possible since latex allergies are out there.
ita,
can you go to another apple store? that sounds like a bummer.
Oh, Burrell. That's more than scary. I hope they can find a way around that.
Yikes, Burrell! I hope they can figure out another solution soon.
So, I just found out this morning that a friend of mine died a couple of days ago. She went missing over the weekend and was found yesterday at a campsite several towns over from where she was living. Our friends are pretty sure it was suicide. I feel awful; we'd drifted apart in the last few years, but she was a lovely, kind, passionate person, and I always liked her a lot. It's just so awful, a huge shock.
That's awful, Kate! I'm so sorry.