Yes, Twitter is only a few years old . . . but Historical Tweets provides “evidence” that people have been updating their Twitter accounts for a very long time. Below are some examples, and I’ve spent wayyyy too much time on this site hitting the Random button.
Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.
“We don’t know what happened to Adam Herrman past ’99, when he was last seen,” Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.
“Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can’t answer because we don’t know,” he added.
Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit of a “concern” regarding Adam, Murphy said.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — An Army Special Forces sergeant based in North Carolina died in Colorado ski town after a bar fight triggered by an argument over a Jimmy Buffet song playing on a jukebox.
The military identified the soldier as Sgt. First Class Richard Lopez, 37, of the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Police said Lopez and two of his friends played the song at the Tap House bar and two other people started arguing with them over it. Lopez’s family told The Denver Post the song was “Margaritaville.â€
I bet only a handful of my readers get the title of this post.
Elevator company launches new lift which arrives quicker the more you press the button
The Otis Elevator Company have announced the introduction of radical new technology in their latest range of lifts which actually increases the response time of the lift the more you press the call button. Following extensive consumer research, the company identified a niche in the market as elevators across the world were reported to be completely ignoring repetitive hole pressing.
The new technology, called Pronto, uses a patented ‘impatience accelerator engine’ to increase the speed of the lift depending on how hard and how often the call button is pushed. It also has a built in voice recognition facility which responds to the phrases ‘Come on, come on!’ and ‘For God’s sake!’