Geek Habitat

In October 1999, 34-year-old Nicholas White took an ordinary cigarette break. As he returned from his smoke break, he boarded the elevator to take him back to his office on the 43rd floor of the McGraw-Hill Building in Rockefeller Center.

And there, in that elevator, he spent the next 41 hours of his life, trapped, alone in the elevator.

And his entire 41-hour ordeal was caught on security cameras. (YouTube)

He’s remarkably calm throughout the entire experience! Amazingly, he doesn’t even light up yet the New Yorker article states he had more cigarettes left but he didn’t want to be caught smoking! Further, he didn’t have a cellphone or watch, so he had no idea how much time was passing.

Clearly, someone doesn’t want a road for vehicle traffic here; just close the damned thing, and be done with it! http://tinyurl.com/36coke

Reposted from my geekgal.vox.com blog

Female Dental Hygienist (speaking to Male Dentist about me, the patient):
“She’s doing much better. She’s been nursing and I think once her hormones stabilize…”

Male Dentist (interrupting, addressing me):
“Doing better. Good. How’s school treating you…good?”

Me (with foamy fluoride in my mouth, and a little thrown by his question as I’m not in school & made no comments as such):
“Things are going well, I…”

Male Dentist (interrupting, addressing me):
“Good. Good. How much longer do you have in?”

Reposted, as usual lately, from my geekgal.vox.com blog –

In Fairness to Californians…Californians have taken a slight beating in my blog recently (though I feel entitled, having been born there unlike the rest of you!)

Well, here you go–
Elderly Texas Woman Pulls Gun on Danish Journalist Near President’s Crawford Ranch

I quote from the article:
[The Danish journalist said] “I was just so occupied dictating my story that I didn’t really see where I went,” Svensson told me later. “I was just walking and talking.”

(Also reposted from my geekgal.vox.com account — hint, hint)

In California, you apparently have a legal right to sunlight.

Thus, a man won a lawsuit against his neighbors that requires them to cut down their redwood trees. Why? The trees are blocking his solar panels.

Oh, the irony…

Reposted from my geekgal.vox.com blog (Dept. of Redundancy Dept.):

I love technology as much as the next geek, but when my potted plants start having the capacity to call me and demand to be watered or provided with better light (more here; don’t miss the newsreel and sample audio from an unhappy moss), I’m going to have to relocate them all to… a quiet porch somewhere.

Found on: Twitter.com (User Pothos, via Botanicalls)