The TP from my dorm room would have been a deadly weapon

A North Carolina man faces a felony charge after police say he shot his wife with a wad of toilet paper stuffed into a gun.

Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that 38-year-old Lonnie Irvin Pinnix was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Rockingham County sheriff’s deputies say he shot his wife after she returned to their home after midnight on Tuesday.

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Speaking of TP, does this really matter?

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Bag of Randomness

  • I saw the most interesting three wheeled vehicle at the gas station yesterday.
  • If I haven’t said it before, let me say it now, Sonic commercials beat me down, especially the one where the guys are in a truck and go through a drive thrus of competitors.  My biggest grip is those guys are bothering and I would even say mocking those  innocent hard working people.
  • It’s interesting how we often take a clip or a phrase and use it to support an idea or opinion.  It’s been done with the quotes from our Founding Fathers and with the Bible, all too often without the entire scope of said piece being fully displayed or examined.  The latest example of this played out this week with the Shirley Sherrod firing, formerly of the USDA.
  • Just when I thought Jerry wouldn’t have Dez Bryant signed before camp he proves me wrong.
  • Yesterday I mentioned a story about a Frisco mega church that is building a church that resembles a cathedral with a modern twist.  Here’s the story.  And here’s a video of their women at a thing called Girl Talk where they do a Beyonce routine.
  • Google Images has changed and I don’t think I like it.
  • Every nuclear explosion
  • The Definitive Mad Men Summer Reading List
  • This was all over the Intertubes yesterday – Stuffed Animal Beer Bottles
  • AskMen.com’s The Great Male Survey 2010
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Traded an old cell phone for a Porsche

Most people throw away old cell phones without a second thought. Steven Ortiz is not like most teenagers. This 17-year-old Californian went on Craigslist to turn a used cell phone a friend gave him into a Porsche convertible. Harvard Business School, watch out for this guy.

Ortiz’s story brings to mind the similar accomplishment of Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian who started “Craigslist swapping” with a red paperclip in 2005 and eventually ended up with a two-story farmhouse. Through his blog and the kindness of strangers, MacDonald made 14 swaps over the classifieds website, upgrading one item to a more valuable one until he ended up with a house a year later.

Craigslist isn’t so different from a newspaper’s classified section: People list items they no longer want for whatever reason. But sometimes instead of selling these items for paltry amounts of cash, online users barter with each other.

Unlike MacDonald and his red paperclip website, however, Ortiz didn’t publicize his efforts—he did it quietly on his own. It took him one year longer than MacDonald, but the Glendale, CA, youth managed to turn an outdated phone into a 2000 Porsche Boxster S.

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