A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
Woman sues after monkey bites off fingers
According to the complaint, Baker was at the safari on Oct. 9, 2004. She was feeding animals. She was preparing to feed a chimpanzee when the animal reached through the bars of its cage and grabbed Baker’s clothing and pulled her into the cage.
The suit alleges that the chimpanzee grabbed Baker’s left arm and hand, then bit off much of her hand, including two fingers.
Don’t feed the animals, yo.
DJ Format: We Know Something (featuring Chali 2na – if not all of J5)
Other videos by the same guy are also interesting…
(Had to look it up again thanks to a reminder on HaikuFury.)
He said: “I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I’m glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there.”
I love how his first thought after being trapped under a ton of snow was to crack a beer.
The Man in Front of the Curtain — Steve Martin’s letter to Johnny Carson
Your gift - though I’m sure you wouldn’t have called it a gift - was, as I see it, a blend of modesty and confidence. You wanted to do the job and do it well. You allowed the spirit of your idols, Stan Laurel and Jonathan Winters among them, to creep into you, and you found a way to twist their inspiration and make it new. In you I saw simplicity, joy, politeness, sympathy. Your death reminds me of the loss of America’s innocence, the distance we have come from your sly, boyish leers to our flagrant, overstated embarrassments for parents and children.
Very nice.
One very odd word: Kettlebells
The kettlebell is a cast iron weight, which resembles a basketball with a handle. An ancient Russian exercise device, the kettlebell has long been a favorite in that country for those seeking a special edge in strength and endurance.
Leave it to the Russians…
And I don’t know if it’s really sweeping the nation, but there have been fluff pieces in the news about them that seem to claim as much.
Strange thing is, it kind of sounds appealing to me. If they weren’t so pricey I might get a starter kit.
Of course, the fact that one of my favorite boxers, Kostya Tszyu, trains with them is probably influencing my judgement. I’m such a fanboy sometimes.
Chimps’ Sense of Justice Found Similar to Humans’
In the fall of 2003, Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta determined that capuchin monkeys don’t like being subjected to treatment they deem unjust. In the new work, the researchers tested the reactions of pairs of chimpanzees to exchanges of food that varied in quality. The animals received either a grape, which they coveted, or a less appealing cucumber and they could see what their partner obtained. In pairs of chimps that had lived together since birth, the individual given the cucumber was less likely to react negatively to the situation than was the short-changed member of a pair that did not know each other as well. Indeed, chimps in the short-term social groups refused to work after their partner received a better reward for the same job.
So, there ya go. If the Simianistas start kidnapping people and holding puppet trials on the internet, just remember you were warned here first.
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