This mother from PA is accused of changing her daughter's grades at the same school she works at as a secretary. According to the article, she used many of her co-worker's passwords to access the grading system of the school in order to change her daughter's grades to increase her standing in the school she was attending. I see a few problems with this...

• The woman not only changed her daughter's grades, but she also had to lower the grades of other students in order for her daughter to have a better standing in the school.
• Who in their right mind thinks anything good can come from this for the child? Seriously. Right before graduation, her daughter thinks she's barely getting by and then they announce her name in the ceremony with high honors or something? Who cares?
• What kind of example does this show her daughter? I thought kids were the ones that were supposed to sneak into the system and change their own grades. Now parents are doing it?
• The mom also decided to take it on herself to change the her daughter's SAT scores. There's a bright idea...no one will catch that...(that's how she got caught)
• Is she really that bored? She really careed about her daughter's grades that much that she would risk going to jail for life just to boost them up a little? Gee mom, I love you and all, but I would really prefer a few better grades instead of having a mom.

I really can't believe how stupid people can be. It always surprises me. /facepalm

This is one of the biggest /facepalms I've seen in a while. It turns out that some demolition company was given GPS coords to go demo a house in Carroll County, GA. According to the article, the crew had been out to that same house a month earlier to prepare for demo.

The man who owned the house said the demo was probably meant for the house accross the street. The demo company was not given an address. Only GPS coords. I can't believe something this insane could actually happen. You'd think that the demo company would try to contact the owner of the house and see if it was okay with him BEFORE actually destroying it.

This is one of those kinds of things that you just can't repay. The owner had a bunch of old family heirlooms in that house and it meant a lot more to him than money could buy. I can totally understand, although a few hundred million dollars would go a long way in helping me forget :)

"... now let me just post it on the Internet where it will be safe from all those prying eyes."

Let's review this story: 

Step 1:  Take family picture.

Step 2:  Put family picture on Christmas cards, a "few" social networking sites, and your mommy blog.

Step 3:  Be surprised when it appears somewhere else.

Step 4:  Profit?

If you don't want something getting out into public knowledge and use, don't post it on the Internet.  In case you haven't guessed, my name isn't Lester.

At least a big, something gross wasn't Photoshopped in it... yet.

Well, not wrong so much as public.  Very, very public.

My soon-to-be wife was never into gaming as I was.  In fact, she never plays any games on the computer at all, including solitaire.  I consider myself fortunate because I know the types of guys that are out there, at least as long as they are on the other end of a Ventrilo connection, not that I would worry so much about her cheating on me.  But the unknown and mysterious has a great allure and wandering minds will wander.  The key is bringing yourself back down to earth in a hurry, or as I like to call it "watching the skirts walk around at lunch and then head back up to the office".  Aside - I love the summer.

I found this nice little advice column with an article concerning the very topic of cyber-cheating.  Seems the wife thinks the husband is spending a little too much time alone with a little hussy but the little hussy won't spend any time in a group with her and the husband is giving her the "quality time" she used to get, or something to that effect.  Of course she never really mentions anything she has done to help the relationship become, and stay, strong and healthy.  Maybe if she went out and bought a swing, some handcuffs, a little leather and latex, she wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.

Epeen points to anyone who can tell me how to say "game over" in Klingon.  Super epeen points if you can tell me how to say any of the famous lines from Duke Nukem including "Vapourware".

According to this news article, an elderly woman who couldn't wait to get her Palm Pre crashed into a Sprint store the day before the release of Palm's new "iPhone killer". I don't think this incident really has anything to do with the Palm Pre. It probably has more to do with an older woman driving a car who shouldn't have a driver's license.

How does something like this happen? Seriously...  /facepalm