After a great conversation with sgtsnarky early this morning, I think at some point in my life I'd like to travel maybe by foot or by bike up through the pacific northwest. Culminating with me living with sgtsnarky of course as we forge for food and such but thats not important right now. Considering I want to live up there I figure it would be cool to travel around there. Am I alone in thinking the idea of almost making a nomadic trek up that part of the world or any part of the world for that matter. It would be really cool to just pick up and walk the land
===================
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF MY FIRST BUDDIES ON THIS SITE,THE BEAUTIFUL GREENAPPLEMARY!!
I love this girl, she's good people. One of the prettiest non-hopeful & non-SG's ever. Although when I finally met her she did help my friend and wexsingxsin bust my balls for how much I'm on the site but I'm over it. She's got a good guy on her side, nicest guy I've ever met and a college degree too
How can you not love her!
=================
1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
* Margaret Whitman, killed in her apartment
* Kathy Whitman, killed while she slept
* Edna Townsley, receptionist
* Marguerite Lamport, killed by shotgun on stairs
* Mark Gabour, killed by shotgun on stairs
* Thomas Eckman, shoulder wound, kneeling over Claire Wilson, died in hospital
* Robert Boyer, back wound, visiting physics professor
* Thomas Ashton, chest wound, Peace Corps trainee
* Thomas Karr, spine wound
* Billy Speed, police officer, shoulder/chest wound
* Harry Walchuk, doctoral student and father of six
* Paul Sonntag, shot through the mouth, age 18, hiding behind construction
* Claudia Rutt, age 18, killed helping fianc Sonntag
* Roy Schmidt, electrician shot outside his truck
* Karen Griffith, chest wound, age 17, died after week in hospital
* Unborn Child, fatally injured when Claire Wilson was shot in her abdomen
* David Gunby, survived the initial shooting but required life-long dialysis as a result of his injuries. More than 30 years after the shooting, he announced he was quitting dialysis and died within a week.
Wounded
* Allen, John Scott
* Bedford, Billy
* Ehlke, Roland
* Evgenides, Ellen
* Esparza, Avelino
* Foster, F. L.
* Frede, Robert
* Gabour, Mary Frances
* Gabour, Michael
* Garcia, Irma
* Harvey, Nancy
* Heard, Robert
* Hernandez, Alex
* Hohmann, Morris
* Huffman, Devereau
* Kelley, Homar J.
* Khashab, Abdul
* Littlefield, Brenda Gail
* Littlefield, Adrian
* Martinez, Dello
* Martinez, Marina
* Mattson, David
* Ortega, Delores
* Paulos, Janet
* Phillips, Lana
* Rovela, Oscar
* Snowden, Billy
* Stewart, C. A.
* Wilson, Claire (First person shot on campus)
* Wilson, Sandra
* Wheeler, Carla Sue
The event dominated the national news that day.
Together with the Watts riots of the early 1960s, Charles Whitman's shootings were considered the impetus for establishing SWAT teams and other task forces to deal with situations beyond normal police procedures. It also led President Lyndon B. Johnson to call for stricter gun control policies.
After the shooting, the Tower's observation deck was closed for two years, reopening in 1968. However, after several suicides, it was closed again in 1974 and remained closed until September 15, 1999. Access to the tower is now tightly controlled through guided tours that are scheduled by appointment only, during which metal detectors and other security measures are in place. Repaired scars from bullets are still visible on the limestone walls.
Houston McCoy was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 1998 by Dr. Mink of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Waco, Texas, who attributed the condition to the tower shooting three decades earlier. As of 2007, he is living in western Texas.[19] Ramiro Martinez became a narcotics investigator, a Texas Ranger, and a Justice of the Peace in New Braunfels, Texas. In 2003, Martinez published his memoirs, entitled, They Call Me Ranger Ray: From the UT Tower Sniper to Corruption in South Texas.
On November 12, 2001, David Gunby died of long-term kidney complications from a wound he received while on the South Mall. He had been born with only one functioning kidney, and it was nearly destroyed by Whitman's shot. Facing the prospect of losing his eyesight in 2001, he refused further treatment and died shortly thereafter. The Tarrant County Coroner's report listed the cause of death as "homicide."
There is still ongoing controversy and speculation that not all the relevant facts about Whitman have been revealed. His surviving victims and witnesses to the shooting continue to write about their recollections of that day and their ongoing physical and psychological trauma
==============
1981 - MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by original COO John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history. At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs.
By the second half of the 1990s, MTV's programming consisted primarily of non-music shows. In 1997, MTV was being heavily criticized for not playing as many music videos as it had in the past. In response, MTV created four shows that centered around music videos: MTV Live, Total Request, Say What?, and 12 Angry Viewers. Also at this time, MTV introduced its new studios in Times Square.
A year later, in 1998, MTV merged Total Request and MTV Live into a live daily top ten countdown show, Total Request Live, which would become the channel's unofficial flagship program. In 1999, MTV shifted its focus to prank/comedic shows such as The Tom Green Show, Jackass, and Punk'd; and soap operas such as Undressed.
Today, MTV's main source of music video programming is still Total Request Live, airing four times per week, still receiving heavy criticism for regularly showing very short clips of the actual videos in favor of heavily featuring VJs and daily guests. A hip-hop music video show, Sucker Free, also airs regularly. On most days, music video rotation continues in the early morning hours. Throughout the day, MTV shows excerpts from music videos, usually the hook, in split screen format during the closing credits, along with the web address of the MTV web site to encourage the viewer to view the complete video online. In the last half of 2007, MTV has scaled back rotation of full-length music videos usually to 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays but still shows the "condensed" videos during closing credits, as done for all non-music programs on MTV. After that time, MTV stopped showing full music videos on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
=================
Nekrofelia: Blue world
Dusti: POlaroid
Nicolai: The Art of Happiness
Sinnah: Cozy
Morrigan: Sweedish Summer
Abbiss: Summer without Water
Calliope: Fandango Hott Mama
Addison: Bare Essentials
Dice: Roll The
Fraiya: Blue Hawaii
Franpire: Psychodelic Summer
Jayney: CSI
Heroine: Rock of Love
Sassie: Classy
Frost: Sharky
Some Hopeful Member Review sets!
Most of these sets are friends or just in my opinion really gorgeous girls that I hope to see become SG's
Wow that is way too many pretty girls for one post!
You should travel to Kentucky