Randomonium
Ruben Casas
Issue date: 6/6/08 Section: Diversions
Jane Clarke, a 12-year employee of Fox News, has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - not because she spent time covering the war in Iraq as a correspondent embedded with a military unit - but rather because she was bitten by bedbugs on three separate occasions between October 2007 and April 2008.
Clarke, who has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the office building she worked in during this time, claims she can no longer work, and is therefore receiving unemployment benefits. Fox News is also paying for her medical bills.
It wasn't clear if Clarke's symptoms include sudden middle-of-the-night awakenings in which she sits up and yells "Look out! Look out! There's a bedbug! It's gonna bite you!" to her not-present officemates, but in the Things That Are True pile we put that she does complain of nightmares, and that she keeps a flashlight by her bed to check for creepy-crawlies.
Your mobile phone might one day be smart enough to receive pictures from an un(wo)manned camera that proves that there's a 58-year-old woman living in your closet - that's something to throw on the Things That Might Be True Pile.
It's at least true for mobile phone users in Japan, whose devices don't only talk, text and browse, but do everything from paying for groceries and gas, to opening garage doors and at least for a 57-year-old man in Fukuoka, Japan, spy on unwanted tenants.
The man first noticed that something was amiss when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, so he set up a camera that transmitted images directly to his mobile while he was away. During one of these outings, his mobile displayed pictures of the alleged intruder. She was later discovered inside an unused closet.
Because we all know that half of what you told your roommate about "what happened with that one cute girl/guy whose name you can't remember, but that sits next to you in physics after you guys left the frat party on Thursday" goes in the Things That Are Not True At All heap, you're nowhere near as cool as the faux-actors that populate IFC.com's new tiny-series, "Young American Bodies."
These American-apparelesque fledglings don't just talk about the sex they are or are not having, they do something about it, or rather, once they've finished ranting, they take their clothes off and "do it."
Hey, come back; I'm not finished. Before you make a mad-dash for your computer, let me clarify: this is a series about young people discussing their relationships - usually the boring parts, engagements or long-awaited homecoming - not porn. They get to "it," sure, but not before having real conversations, you know the awkward ones you didn't tell your roommate about, so that by the time the pants come off and the bra's unstrapped, you feel like you know these people way too well to ... well you know. And that's because these people are you and me, and everyone we know.
Besides, you only have 15 minutes before your next class, and it takes you ten minutes to walk there...
Ruben Casas
diversions@dailybarometer.com
Clarke, who has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the office building she worked in during this time, claims she can no longer work, and is therefore receiving unemployment benefits. Fox News is also paying for her medical bills.
It wasn't clear if Clarke's symptoms include sudden middle-of-the-night awakenings in which she sits up and yells "Look out! Look out! There's a bedbug! It's gonna bite you!" to her not-present officemates, but in the Things That Are True pile we put that she does complain of nightmares, and that she keeps a flashlight by her bed to check for creepy-crawlies.
Your mobile phone might one day be smart enough to receive pictures from an un(wo)manned camera that proves that there's a 58-year-old woman living in your closet - that's something to throw on the Things That Might Be True Pile.
It's at least true for mobile phone users in Japan, whose devices don't only talk, text and browse, but do everything from paying for groceries and gas, to opening garage doors and at least for a 57-year-old man in Fukuoka, Japan, spy on unwanted tenants.
The man first noticed that something was amiss when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, so he set up a camera that transmitted images directly to his mobile while he was away. During one of these outings, his mobile displayed pictures of the alleged intruder. She was later discovered inside an unused closet.
Because we all know that half of what you told your roommate about "what happened with that one cute girl/guy whose name you can't remember, but that sits next to you in physics after you guys left the frat party on Thursday" goes in the Things That Are Not True At All heap, you're nowhere near as cool as the faux-actors that populate IFC.com's new tiny-series, "Young American Bodies."
These American-apparelesque fledglings don't just talk about the sex they are or are not having, they do something about it, or rather, once they've finished ranting, they take their clothes off and "do it."
Hey, come back; I'm not finished. Before you make a mad-dash for your computer, let me clarify: this is a series about young people discussing their relationships - usually the boring parts, engagements or long-awaited homecoming - not porn. They get to "it," sure, but not before having real conversations, you know the awkward ones you didn't tell your roommate about, so that by the time the pants come off and the bra's unstrapped, you feel like you know these people way too well to ... well you know. And that's because these people are you and me, and everyone we know.
Besides, you only have 15 minutes before your next class, and it takes you ten minutes to walk there...
Ruben Casas
diversions@dailybarometer.com
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