2 – Have sex with vegetables, tear the wall of your innards and have oxygen flow through your arteries and into your heart

3 – Getting killed by a Vending Machine; (damn I’m lucky to be alive) – Fighting with a vending machine has caused several deaths. The machines weigh between 600-1000 lbs., are TOP HEAVY and you only need to tilt it 20% to make it fall over.

4 – Hyponatremia – Drinking an excessive amount of water can cause your sodium levels to drop to fatal amount resulting in an excruciating death

5 – Falling into a meat grinder and getting your legs stuck, slowly bleeding and grinding to death over a weeks time while flies lay maggots into your skin.

6 – Scaphism, also known as the boats, was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. The name comes from the Greek word skaphe, meaning “scooped (or hollowed) out”.

The naked person was firmly fastened within a back-to-back pair of narrow rowing boats (or a hollowed-out tree trunk), with the head, hands, and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing severe diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on his body in order to attract insects to the exposed appendages. He or she would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenseless individual’s feces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed within his or her exposed and increasingly gangrenous flesh. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that dehydration or starvation did not provide him or her with the release of death. Death, when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock. Delirium would typically set in after a few days.

7 – The Brazen Bull, The brazen bull, bronze bull, or the Sicilian bull is a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. Perillos of Athens, a brass-founder, proposed to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, the invention of a new means for executing criminals.

Accordingly, he cast a bull, made entirely of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned were shut in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became yellow hot and causing the person inside to roast to death.

8 – Getting Stabbed in the Face by a Blue Marlin:
You’re in Florida, it’s sunny and 90º, and you just hooked a huge blue marlin on your fishing trip. You fight the fish for an hour, it’s gigantic, you have it right next to the boat and you’re about to catch it. You’re gonna stuff the son of a bitch and put it above your fireplace, your life is pretty sweet. Bam!!! The fish launches out of the water with a ferocious leap and stabs you right in the dome! You die.

9 – Death by Chocolate or.. Falling into a vat of hot chocolate – Vincent Smith II, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting when he fell in from a nine-foot high platform. He suffered a fatal blow to the head from the vat’s agitator, a paddle-like mechanism used for stirring the chocolate.

10 – Death from eating Nails .. a condition called pica, an eating disorder defined as the “persistent eating of non-nutritive substances”

Obviously the ingestion of nails can cause internal organs to rupture and cause internal bleeding and infection. This has been a reported problem for people with mental problems and mineral deficiencies including pregnancy.

So far I’ve been able to find the following sites and resources.

Before you even get started, if you have a pet you can forget about a condo in Raleigh. 

Nonetheless, here is what I found before that was a known issue:

Condo Townhomes Downtown Raleigh
http://www.anncabell.com/

Use the legend below to select homes within the grid for more information.
http://www.anncabell.com/tour/condos.html

Search available condos by criteria
http://www.anncabell.com/homesearch/index.php

Generic Condo Agency Sites that do not show availability for leasing, only sales
http://downtownlivingraleigh.com/
http://westatnorth.com/
http://hueraleigh.com/

Another condo map
http://www.glenwoodagency.com/resources/tga_condo_map_web.pdf

Historic area listings, including Mordecai, Oakwood & Boylan Heights

Includes photos of the property but not the actual listing details.

http://greathistoricapartments.com/map.shtml

http://greathistoricapartments.com/properties.shtml

Downtown semi-ghetto location condos – Carlton Place
http://www.dhic.org/apartment_communities/wake_co/carlton_place.html

A neat downtown over store apartment complex – The Prairie Building
http://www.dhic.org/apartment_communities/wake_co/prairie_building.html

Cameron Court Apartments
http://www.cameroncourtapts.com/

And then if you’re willing to go a bit lower in pricing & quality there are always the following

The Raleigh Apartments with links to its sister sites or apartments
http://www.raleigh-apts.com/

University Condos
http://www.universitycondos.com/

Still looking? Try searching google for ‘property management raleigh NC’ without quotes.
That usually turns up a lot of property management companies and they usually have listings within their site(s) of available or soon-to-be available properties.

*Note: Most of these places do NOT allow pets. F’n Nazis!

Also, beware of Barker Realty, Inc. They are HORRIBLE, they will bully you around in any and everyway they can.  In example, make you show the property you are renting from them 4 months prior to your moving out as MANY times as they can. They threatened me several times wanting to show the property upto 5 times a week. 

A good management company I’ve dealt with is Rhyne Management Co. They’re very nice and have pleasant attitudes and they do not threaten you or your privacy.

One day Mary was sitting on the sidewalk, waiting for her fins to dry out so she could go to the local bar and get a drink. While she was waiting, a man came up on her and handed her a bottle of rum. He said, “drink this rum and you will be mine until the end of time”. Mary gasped and then cried out “I don’t want to be yours! Get away from me!”, she then grabbed the rum and jumped back into the gutter where the man could not follow. Little did Mary know, this man was really no man but a Djinn in disguise.

The next week, Mary had came back to the same sidewalk to go to the bar again. While she was waiting for her fins to dry, again walked up the Djinn. He approached with his arms crossed over a bottle of rum and his brow was furrowed. “Fish lady” he said, “You drank my  rum and now you are MINE!”. He then proceeded to hand her the new bottle of rum and reached out his hand with the palm up, gesturing for her to reach up and join him.  Mary thought to herself, why not.. I don’t have anything else to do right now. She then proceeded to reach up and grabbed his hand. Upon touching the Djinn’s hand, the skin on his hand began to slowly clam up and became really slimy. “This was definitely not expected, you are a slimy fish lady and you should have stayed in the gutter” the Djinn exclaimed and jerked his hand away.

You righties have NO IDEA! Here’s just a few of the wonderful left-handed people that we all are familiar with.

Albert Einstein, Alexander The Great, Ludwig van Beethoven , Julius Caesar , Robert De Nero, George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman , Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Napoleon , Alessandra Ambrosio , Mozart, MC Escher, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Devinci, Cary Grant; WC Fields; Steve McQueen; Peter Ustinov; Charlie Chaplin and Fred Astaire, Robert Redford; Tom Cruise; Robert De Niro; Sylvester Stalone; Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, Judy Garland; Greta Garbo; Betty Grable; Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts; Nicole Kidman; Emma Thompson and Demi Moore.

From the music industry, famous left handed people are well represented in the shape of: Bob Dylan; Jimi Hendrix; Sir Paul McCartney; Sting; David Bowie; Phil Collins; George Michael; Marshall Mathers – Eminem; Annie Lennox; Celine Dion; Mark Knopfler; Paul Simon and Ringo Starr.

Some more famous left handed people from miscellaneous backgrounds include: Mr Micosoft himself – Bill Gates; J Edgar Hoover – the former Director of the FBI; Mark Twain, HG Wells and Lewis Carroll from the world of literature; and Prince’s Charles and William. First man on the moon: Neil Armstrong and his co-astronaut: Buzz Aldrin; fashion designer: Jean-Paul Gaultier and The Simpsons cartoon creator: Matt Groening are all left handed, as are/were American Presidents: JF Kennedy; Gerald Ford; Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

Just to show that not all famous left handed people are, or were known for the all the right reasons, there have been a few bad apples in the shape of Billy the Kid; Jack the Ripper and The Boston Strangler.

Finally some of the most famous left handed people from yesteryear, are without doubt some of the greatest and influential individuals who have ever lived. The likes of Horatio Nelson; Leonardo Da Vinci; Michelangelo; Pablo Picasso; Julius Caesar; Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart; Ludwig Van Beethoven; Winston Churchill; Napoleon Bonaparte – and Josephine; Queen Victoria; Alexander the Great; Joan of Arc; Marie Curie and last but certainly not least, Albert Einstein. They all had one predominant feature in common with each other – they were all left handed! It is worth noting that Einstein learned to speak late, had problems in almost every subject in school and was frequently labeled as being backwards! So there is certainly no need for any left-hander to have an inferiority complex!

So take that righties, take that!

Hey people – Viva la Revolution!

Here it is, yet another alternative energy source.

RUN YOUR CAR FROM WATER? IT can’t be you say? Nah. Well here IT is, they say. I don’t have the resource to test it.

You let me know how it works out if you do.

Forewarning: The following link is asking you to BUY the schematics on how to create this thing. I’m sure you can probably find this online for free somewhere if you dig deep enough.

Learn how its done here

I’m not sure what this could mean
I don’t think you’re what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I’ll never see just what we’re meant to be

A vagrant in the lies of childhood mental chasms. Freaked out and blinded by the vows and detrimental fairy tales of enchanted lands. The mask crumbles like a dry scab while society picks away. Pulsating time bomb of muscle and fear smashing and pounding like a jackhammer in my head.

A condensed version of the Zeitgeist Movie.

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

You really are a heel.
You’re as cuddly as a cactus,
You’re as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.

You’re a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.

You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You’ve got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.

I wouldn’t touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.

You’re a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.

Given the choice between the two of you
I’d take the seasick crockodile.

You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.

The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: “Stink. Stank. Stunk.”

You’re a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You’re the king of sinful sots.
Your heart’s a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.

Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You’re a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.

You’re a three decker saurkraut and toadstool
sandwich
With arsenic sauce.
Copyright © 1957, Dr. Seuss