Man Wants Ex-Wife's Breast Implants Declared "Assets"

Justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court appear to see family law going down a slippery slope if they accept a man's novel theory that his former wife's breast implants should be counted against her in their divorce.

Courts may consider anything classified as a “marital asset” in dividing property between a divorcing couple. Erik Isaacson of Mandan, N.D., has ventured into uncharted waters by requesting that his ex-wife Traci's breast implants be declared a marital asset.

A Morton County District Court judge vehemently rejected the request, saying he couldn't “imagine people would actually waste time thinking that breast implants are marital assets. It just defies common sense.”

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12 Places To Go If The World Goes To Hell

No nuclear fallout in Tierra Del Fuego.

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When in doubt, bury someone alive.

From http://www.writingclasses.com/

Poe did not set down the following advice for bettering a story:

1. Employ an unreliable narrator, preferably one who doesn’t know he is insane and has no recollection of such events as digging into a grave to rip out the teeth of his recently departed lover.
   
   
2. Include a beautiful woman with raven locks and porcelain skin, preferably quite young, and let her die tragically of some unknown ailment.
   
   
3. Use grandiloquent words, such as heretofore, forthwith, and nevermore. A little Latin will also enhance the text.
   
   
   
4. Do not shy away from such grotesqueries as inebriation, imprisonment, insanity, and men costumed as orangutans being burned to death.
   
   
5. When in doubt, bury someone alive.
   

Lake Louise

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Are we comfy?

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Walker Evans

WWII

Evans

Vonnegut tips

From http://www.writingclasses.com/ :

Vonnegut put forth 8 basics of what he calls Creative Writing 101: *

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Wilder's screenwriting tips

From http://www.writingclasses.com/ :

Wilder's screenwriting tips:

1. The audience is fickle.
2. Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.
3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
4. Know where you’re going.
5. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
6. If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
7. A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.
8. In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they’re seeing.
9. The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.
10. The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that’s it. Don’t hang around.

Work Clock

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Diehard

True North

Overconfidence

From
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My professor asked us some off the wall question like how much does the earth weigh. After we wrestled with the question and wrote down our answers, he then asked us to put a 95% confidence interval around the answer. He said give me a range of numbers that you believe the earth’s weight is 95% certain to be in. We mulled this over and answered. Result? Our 95% confidence interval was wrong something like 40% of the time within the class. Why?

Basically, by asking us the first question: how much does the earth weigh and giving us a chance to think about it, our professor was secretly giving our little pea brains a chance to become overconfident. By the time he asked us the second question, we had become anchored to the first answer. Essentially, he asked us to think outside the box and the mix of our overconfidence and anchoring caused us to make catastrophically wrong answers.

That’s how humans work. And this was a 10-minute exercise. Just think if you spend your life looking at economic events and making predictions. The likelihood of your being anchored to a specific prediction is that much greater. Eventually, you become so overconfident about this prediction that you are willing to bet the farm on the outcome.

Aurora

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Panorama from the science book store

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Anodised table

Anodised table by Max Lamb for Deadgood
by Harry / September 15, 2009
The nature of this process means that each product is slightly different, with varying streaks, marks, or patches of tonal difference incorporated in a blend of colour that runs across the surfaces of the product.

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"My parents named Zbigniew because they were drunk."

How about never?

Son, you're all grown up now. You owe me two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars.

Why don't we make it simple this year and just give everyone the finger?

The entire axis of boring is in there.

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knave or a fool

The abolitionists had a stock phrase that a man was either a knave or a fool who did not act as they (abolitionists) knew to be right.  So Calvin thought of the Catholics and the Catholics of Calvin.  ........When you know that you know persecution comes easy.

O.W. Holmes