What news has just lifted you off your chair?
Saul Permutter, a student at Germantown Friends School (‘82), just won ⅓ of the Nobel Prize in Physics. I was his college adviser…a pretty easy job given his intellect, apparent even then.
He knew at the time that he wanted to be an astrophysicist. And so he was.
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On Oct. 5, 2011, I received a cellphone call from my aunt of 96 years old. She is in a nursing home and has no phone! That’s right…..she has no phone. Her home phone has been disconnected for almost a year and she does not have my cellphone number. I answered the call, when I was shocked to see her name and phone number on my caller id. There was no answer and no noise on the phone. I called the number back and it stated the phone number I dialed has been disconnected!!!
What gives?????
@john65pennington: Unless there’s a slim chance she’s in Stockholm to collect her Nobel, this bears investigating. Call the nursing home. Maybe someone’s opened an account using her charge card or credit.
@john65pennington – Have you called the nursing home to see if she is still with us? There have been more that a few reports of phone calls from “beyond”.
I know this sounds like something beyond the realm of reality, but it did happen.
Gail, even if they used her credit card at the nursing home, they still do not have my cellphone number.
Ayesha, I agree this is creepy.
I am going to call her nursing home to make sure she is okay and then just go crazy trying to figure this out.
My daughter had an ultra sound yeserday. She knew she was having twins, now the confirmation it is one of each!!!!
My seemingly healthy, physically active cousin of 35 passed away recently.
When he was in higschool and all throughout his childhood his number in every sport he played was 25. His Pass code for all of his accounts was 25–25….25 was his favorite number.
He passed away on the 25th of May.
His wife picked out a burial plot she deemed he would like, and asked the person showing her around the cemetary how she could let the people who do the paper work know what plot she’d pick. The gentleman said: theyre numbered. The plot you picked is 25–25.
Since he had moved out of my home state with his wife the burial plot was picked in their town, and so we had a ceremony both here- and there. After the wake there, we went to get food. We were all seated and some people went to the bar. The bartender turned around to grab something and you heard a few people say HOLYSHIT. She had two tattoos on her triceps, one on the left one on the right…..The tattoos were 25, 25.
Those are just a few with that whole ordeal. still mind blowing to me. ,,
On a totally different topic something else that lifted off my chair was finidng out my best friend had her car keys stolen from the gym almost right in front of her eyes…
I was getting a new desk (I had to move so that it could be put in)
For me, it was the news (not totally unexpected) that Steve Jobs had died. He was so young still and so talented. Not a Nobel Prize winner, but a huge maker of difference in today’s world.
I just read about a on the loose, armed and dangerous disgruntled employee who shot and killed 3 people yesterday in Silicon valley, about 3 hours away from me and then shot another woman attempting to hijack her car. The guy’s still on the loose.
Of course, he was a “model” citizen by everyones account…aren’t they all. lol
Makes me happy that I am safely out of the crazy city scene and the odds of experiencing a violent crime for me are pretty small.
The 49ers are 3 and 1. I simply can’t believe it. Go niners!
I’m hungry. That lifts me off my seat. I’ll need to go to the store later. That should work, too.
That’s news to me.
I’m with @marinelife. When I read yesterday that Steve Jobs had died, my friend and I freaked out for a good 2 or 3 minutes before we were able to actually read the news story.
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Awesome site! Yep, through the wormhole, indeed! lol
Saul Perlmutter actually won one half of the Nobel Prize. The other half was awarded jointly to Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess. Congratulations on your wonderful student!
@gailcalled‘s remodeled loft lifted me out of my chair just now!!!
@john65pennington Did you ever figure anything else out about the creepy phone call?
@Dutchess_III I’ll try to get some more photos if and when the sun ever reappears.
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