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D.B. Cooper inspired by comic books?

I always found D.B. Cooper fascinating, probably since The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper was on pretty continuous rotation on HBO when I was a kid.

Now there's a comic book connection. Maybe.

FBI: Comic book holds clue in D.B. Cooper case | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional:

"One of the Northwest's most notorious unsolved crimes may have a comic book connection...

In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly called D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.

At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state line.

...Larry Carr, the FBI agent currently overseeing the case, now believes the hijacker may have taken his name from a French comic book. The Dan Cooper comic book was popular in France in the 1960s and early 1970s and one issue published around the time of the hijacking shows the character parachuting.

Carr said this is an important clue in the case because the comic books were never translated into English, which supports his theory that the hijacker had been in the Air Force and probably spent time in Europe, where he likely came across the Dan Cooper comic books..."

Flying into North Carolina.

Ah, where I was born and raised...

Overheard Everywhere | And We Hope Our Passengers in First Class Enjoy the Foxy Boxing:

"Flight attendant: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard flight 1751 to Raleigh-Durham. My name is John and I am your head flight attendant today. I will be assisted by my lovely fiancee Sarah and my ex-wife Jill. It may be a little awkward but we hope you have a pleasant flight.

Runway
Atlanta, Georgia"

One of them might possibly be his sister as well. I'm just saying...

Sometimes, they make it hard not to believe in the big conspiracies...

The Agitator » Blog Archive » Morning Links:

"# Were U.S. Army soldiers patrolling an Alabama town after last week’s shooting spree?

If you're confused, that's totally fucking illegal.

And also, they make it hard to not believe in their abject, damn stupidity. Same link as the first:

# I briefly mentioned this troubling police shooting in Louisiana a couple of weeks ago. It’s now starting to attract national attention. And get a load of this quote, from the town’s (white) police chief:

“If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names. I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested.”"

There's got to be an obvious civil rights lawsuit in that one...

American education has changed since I was in school.

Overheard in the Office | Why Mr. Benson Got Fired: Explained:

"Middle aged TA, muttering to computer: Oh, look! It's an anal party!

Middle School
Iowa

Overheard by: former NYer"

Double KO.

Crazy.

Via Knockout Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

Adventures in Japanese teaching.

Chalk it up to the end of the year, less than a week to the end of the academic calendar...

Teaching new vocabulary - early - and the teacher proceeds off in a digression in Japanese about how a good way to remember this is by remembering Early Times whiskey, and talking about a time when he was in a foreign bar and having to practice his pronunciation very carefully, so he could definitely get the whiskey he wanted.

Reminder - we teach Jr high school students.

More new vocab - sit - as the teacher explains to make sure to pronounce sit and not shit [Japan doesn't really have an s sound, but they have shi, sha, shu, sho, etc...] All well and good till he makes sure to tell them in Japanese - "Yes, eveyone later ask Rob what shit means and why you don't say it." Nothing like having to fend off children looking to learn curse words. Thanks dude.

5 classes yesterday, 5 classes today... only 2 tomorrow and then the 3 day weekend. 24 more little hours till total weekend collapse/vegetation. For a 4 day work week, this week has been kinda brutal.

Consider yourself lucky...

...all my dreams about college involve having to repeat plebe summer/year.

On the other hand, here's police work I can support...

Swedish cops 'baked cake' in the nude - The Local:

"The nine Swedish cops in western Sweden that posed naked with a weapon at a party, posed nude on several more occasions, it has emerged."

"Cops and soldiers have decidedly different missions, and it’s dangerous to conflate them."

Everything wrong with modern day policing. Much more at the link.

The Agitator » Blog Archive » Do America’s Inner Cities Need a “Surge?”:

"...The problems accompanying the fact that there are entire communities who no longer trust the police charged with protecting them aren’t going to go away once we put more cops in the neighborhood. That will likely only make things worse. We first need a major overhaul in the way police interact with the communities they serve. Policing has become too reactionary, too aggressive, too us-versus-them. Bad cops are in the minority, but good cops cover for them. And far too many officers subscribe to a soldier’s mentality, and take too literally the idea that theyr’e fighting a “war” on drugs or crime. It’s a toxic state of mind that older officers will tell you (and have told me) is more and more common, even as violent crime and the number of officers killed in the line of duty have plummeted.

Incentives matter. Ideas matter. And all of this war rhetoric and anything-goes policies from elected officials has undoubtedly affected officer psychology, and poisoned the relationships between many police departments and their communities..."

"Jedi Mind Tricks."

Via - Jedi Mind Tricks Demotivator | Demotivator Blog

Training Interruptus - Injury.

You ever hurt yourself and don't even know how you hurt yourself? This past Sunday I noticed my lower back felt a little tweaky, but I chalked it up to sitting on my butt too long messing around on the internets. Didn't feel too bad, figured I'd sleep it off and all would be right with the world come the start of the new week.

But no.

I woke up Monday AM and it felt like somebody had kicked me in the spine. My lower back - and I've never felt older than typing these words - was killing me. Sitting up wasn't a problem, but standing up straight was like jabbing ice picks in my back. Shuffling around like a hunched over geriatric for about 10 minutes until my back loosened itself up. No idea how I did it. Maybe slept on it weird or twisted it in my sleep...

Today, it's not quite as bad, but I chalk that up to liberal applications of Ben Gay [again... old...] a heating pad and a couple hot showers. And aspirin. But still, transitioning from sitting to standing, and vice versa, is a slow going, moving carefully kind of experience.

Needless to say, my PT is on hiatus till this reconciles itself. Hopefully by the end of the week.

I have kept my diet clean though, including this inspired by Mike in the comments here, dish of Buta Bara & Kimchi. Course I swapped out the sesame oil for butter... because, well, butter is awesome. And that's what I cook everything in.

From 2009-03-17

Kimchi works for me, apparently, if it's hot/cooked a bit. Cold, it really didn't do anything for me. But heated up [and bacon flavored?] = WIN.

Mixed emotions...

...is having one of your Junior High School students tell you that you have a nice butt.

Well, at least it wasn't one of the boys.

MY WIFE IS AWESOME!

That is all.

Fookin' Mental - "Bronson: The Movie Official Trailer."

This looks cool. Insane. But cool.



Charles Bronson (prisoner) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Charles Bronson (born 6 December, 1952) is the adopted name of Michael Gordon Peterson, a Welsh criminal who has been referred to in the British press as the 'most violent prisoner in Britain'

...Bronson has been involved in over a dozen hostage incidents, some of which are described below...

* In 1994, whilst holding a guard hostage at Woodhill Prison, Milton Keynes, he demanded an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea as ransom...

* In 1998, Bronson took two Iraqi hijackers and another inmate hostage at Belmarsh prison in London. He insisted his hostages address him as "General" and told negotiators he would eat one of his victims unless his demands were met. At one stage, Bronson demanded one of the Iraqis hit him "very hard" over the head with a metal tray. When the hostage refused, the 18-stone strongman slashed his own shoulder six times with a razor blade. He later told staff: "I'm going to start snapping necks - I'm the number-one hostage taker." He demanded a plane to take him to Cuba, two Uzi sub-machine guns, 5,000 rounds of ammunition and an axe...

* Soon after the trial, Bronson once again escaped from solitary confinement, tied up prison teacher Phil Danielson with a rope and towed him round the jail for 44 hours (the teacher was not physically harmed during the incident.) Armed with two knives, he twice tried to harm himself during the siege, hitting himself over the head with a bottle and tearing a washing machine filled with water from its socket in an attempt to electrocute himself. It is said that this kidnap attempt by Bronson was all done because he wanted "two cheeseburgers with ketchup".

Your musical interlude for the evening.

[Classic]

The Roots - What They Do
by The-Roots

Jem - It's Amazing [via Dedroidify]

High comedy.

Blame the wife and her emails.

Banned Commercials...


My favorite banned commercial.


Perhaps the cutest thing ever.

"One of my firm beliefs... is the idea that some of the things that people would like to keep hidden don't need to be." - Joss Whedon.

"Joss Whedon, creator of Fox's 'Dollhouse' and other cult hits like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' talks about the dark places he goes to bring us his unique characters and tales."

Hi, I'm a Marvel... and I'm Watchmen.

American Sign Language meets rap music.

Now that's funny.