All Posts Tagged With: "unusual"

A woman has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Tulsa District Attorney’s office for assault, libel and slander. Representing herself, she alleges that “the defendants falsely accused the plaintiff of having a damaged mental character pertaining to her child.”

That in and of itself might not be so noteworthy. But what she’s seeking as compensation certainly grabbed my attention:

The plaintiff wants a formal apology published in the Tulsa World newspaper, a seven-night stay at the Hilton, seven outfits from Stein Mart for both her and her daughter and three meals a day, of her choice, for the seven days.

The woman’s name itself is also quite unusual and elicited a snicker when I first read it. But I won’t be sharing her name here because I don’t want to be sued too. Who knows what damages she might seek from me?

Uncommon Goods is selling a “clever timepiece that looks like a modern combination of a kitchen timer and a measuring tape.”

This little round clock has a thin red dial that stays in place while the numbers rotate to display the time in 15-minute increments.

And it’s only $22.00! For $45.00, you can have this cool fridge timer.

Sleek, stylish design helps monitor cooking times without taking up valuable kitchen space. The very modern marriage of rubber and stainless steel make this timer at home in contemporary kitchens - while pulling double duty protecting surfaces and allowing ease of use. With its magnetic personality, the timer can live on refrigerator doors as comfortably as the countertop, and a form reminiscent of a combination lock adds a bit of wit to food prep.

This is insanity… and kind of cool! Those crazy, crazy Brits!

There are many reasons why I never went into photography as a profession, the chief of which is that I’m not good enough to make a good living at it. But the other reason is that good photographers often have to go to extraordinary lengths to get a really good, compelling photograph, like this guy…

or this gal…

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You’ll find more great examples here.

There’s just some things I can’t bring myself to doing out of fear of embarrassment and humiliating situations to just plain laziness, which is why I would never be very successful as a professional photographer.

If you’re into recycling and reusing things, there’s new furniture that’s simply to die for — coffin couches.

Here’s how the sellers explain these morbidly curious couches:

We at Coffincouches.com have the mindset of thinking “Green” and we know it is different but we strongly believe in recycling. Our niche happens to be 18 gauge steel coffins which we collected from local funeral homes primarily in Southern California. It is a health and safety law that funeral homes cannot resell used coffins to the general public. We approached funeral directors with the attitude of recycling. These coffins are not used for burial due to slight cosmetic inconsistencies. They are reconfigured and modified resulting in a finished product - a unique one a kind coffin couch.

These “dead” gorgeous couches can handle some pretty heavy weight (like me), up to 900 lbs. All it will set you back is a “ghastly” $3,500, though shipping is not included. You can start your shopping here.