Tell us something we don’t know.

[dstig1]

I use SkEye (free app).

I'll "align" my phone by finding Polaris/Venus/Jupiter/Saturn/Mars whatever's obvious and visible at the moment, get a feel for "phone thinks it's pointed this way" and then keep that when I then go find what I'm actually looking for. It's typically just a few degrees off, but sometimes I feel like I'm holding the phone in front of my quite crookedly to have it "pointed" at the reference.

Yeah that is basically what i was describing too. Use some reference to align the phone with reality.

 

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Don't that beat all?

I never met a girl that didn't like to play with Legos.
I think the problem was getting the parents who only buy pink **** for girls to buy Legos for their girls.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Samuel Little, Considered America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, Dead at 80​

Little confessed to 93 murders, authorities have confirmed nearly 60 victims






December 30, 2020

Samuel Little, considered America's most prolific serial killer, has died at age 80. Mark Rogers/Odessa American/AP



Samuel Little — who authorities say was the most prolific killer in U.S. history with nearly 60 confirmed victims — has died, the Associated Press reports. He was 80.
Little died at a California hospital on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been announced and will be determined by a coroner, but Little had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments. He was serving a life sentence for multiple counts of murder.
Little was first sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for three murders in Southern California between 1986 and 1989. However, a few years later, he began confessing to scores more crimes — nearly one hundred murders across a dozen states between 1970 and 2005. He was able to evade detection because many of his victims’ deaths were ruled overdoses or accidental, according to the FBI — some bodies have yet to be found. Little also preyed on the homeless, drug users, and sex workers. Most of Little’s victims were women and he strangled most of his victims.
A career criminal throughout his life, when he wasn’t in jail, he was a transient traveling throughout the country. In 2018, he was questioned by Texas Ranger James Holland about a killing that Little was not involved in, but they developed a rapport that no other authority was able to garner previously with Little. They had about 700 hours of conversations, which led to Little sharing details on a slew of other murders that only the killer would know. He also provided Holland with several paintings and drawings he made of his victims and other key information. By the time of Little’s death, he had confessed to killing 93 people.








In early 2019, the FBI released a collection of 16 of those drawings. “We are hoping that someone — family member, former neighbor, friend — might recognize the victim and provide that crucial clue in helping authorities make an identification,” FBI spokeswoman Shayne Buchwald said in a statement at the time. “We want to give these women their names back and their family some long-awaited answers. It’s the least we can do.” Later that year, the FBI shared several videos of Little providing detail on more victims in an effort to “seek justice for each victim — to close every case possible.”
Authorities, who continue to investigate Little’s claims, have confirmed nearly 60 victims.
Little said his first killing was in Miami on New Year’s Eve in 1970. “It was like drugs,” he told Holland. “I came to like it.” Little said his last killing took place in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2005. Though he was eventually forthcoming about his killings, he revealed few details of his personal life.
Last year, Little told 60 Minutes that he confessed in hopes that others would not be convicted for his crimes. “I say if I can help get somebody out of jail, you know, then God might smile a little bit more on me,” he said.
“I don’t think there was another person who did what I liked to do,” he told 60 Minutes. “I think I’m the only one in the world. And that’s not an honor, that is a curse.”

 

[WinterDeere]

Samuel Little, Considered America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, Dead at 80​

Little confessed to 93 murders, authorities have confirmed nearly 60 victims






December 30, 2020

Samuel Little, considered America's most prolific serial killer, has died at age 80. Mark Rogers/Odessa American/AP



Samuel Little — who authorities say was the most prolific killer in U.S. history with nearly 60 confirmed victims — has died, the Associated Press reports. He was 80.
Little died at a California hospital on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been announced and will be determined by a coroner, but Little had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments. He was serving a life sentence for multiple counts of murder.
Little was first sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for three murders in Southern California between 1986 and 1989. However, a few years later, he began confessing to scores more crimes — nearly one hundred murders across a dozen states between 1970 and 2005. He was able to evade detection because many of his victims’ deaths were ruled overdoses or accidental, according to the FBI — some bodies have yet to be found. Little also preyed on the homeless, drug users, and sex workers. Most of Little’s victims were women and he strangled most of his victims.
A career criminal throughout his life, when he wasn’t in jail, he was a transient traveling throughout the country. In 2018, he was questioned by Texas Ranger James Holland about a killing that Little was not involved in, but they developed a rapport that no other authority was able to garner previously with Little. They had about 700 hours of conversations, which led to Little sharing details on a slew of other murders that only the killer would know. He also provided Holland with several paintings and drawings he made of his victims and other key information. By the time of Little’s death, he had confessed to killing 93 people.








In early 2019, the FBI released a collection of 16 of those drawings. “We are hoping that someone — family member, former neighbor, friend — might recognize the victim and provide that crucial clue in helping authorities make an identification,” FBI spokeswoman Shayne Buchwald said in a statement at the time. “We want to give these women their names back and their family some long-awaited answers. It’s the least we can do.” Later that year, the FBI shared several videos of Little providing detail on more victims in an effort to “seek justice for each victim — to close every case possible.”
Authorities, who continue to investigate Little’s claims, have confirmed nearly 60 victims.
Little said his first killing was in Miami on New Year’s Eve in 1970. “It was like drugs,” he told Holland. “I came to like it.” Little said his last killing took place in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2005. Though he was eventually forthcoming about his killings, he revealed few details of his personal life.
Last year, Little told 60 Minutes that he confessed in hopes that others would not be convicted for his crimes. “I say if I can help get somebody out of jail, you know, then God might smile a little bit more on me,” he said.
“I don’t think there was another person who did what I liked to do,” he told 60 Minutes. “I think I’m the only one in the world. And that’s not an honor, that is a curse.”

If you just look at the numbers, he served 9 years for 90 claimed killings, so roughly a 1-month sentence for each. He lived almost his entire life, 71 of his 80 years, as a free man. His first murder was claimed to be 1970, yet he was not sentenced until 2014, 44 years later.

 

[Jstpssng]

Little had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments.

I will question if he even had one.

 

[CalG]

I never met a girl that didn't like to play with Legos.
I think the problem was getting the parents who only buy pink **** for girls to buy Legos for their girls.

LEGOS don't really have a "Super Hero" identity.

 

[BravoXray]

Ever wonder why Oklahoma has that piece sicking out of it's northwest corner?
Here is an article about how Oklahoma came to have the pan handle.

Why Is Oklahoma Shaped Like A Cooking Pot With A Panhandle?

 

[bigtiller]

The farmers daughter was taught about reproduction using the corn stalk as an example.

The boy part (tassel) seeds the girl part (silk)..

Teenage boys should know that the farmers daughter also knows how to de-tassel.

 

[JethroB]

I did a spreadsheet, just because it's too wet to work outside and I'm procrastinating doing dishes.
On the 27th day you would have $671,055.64. On the 28th day it would be twice that, or $1,342,177.20
.

Sounds like something I would have done in Excel on a slow day at work. Just to prove it, and kill time.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Ever wonder why Oklahoma has that piece sicking out of it's northwest corner?
Here is an article about how Oklahoma came to have the pan handle.

Why Is Oklahoma Shaped Like A Cooking Pot With A Panhandle?

I didn't know about that until recently. I always wondered about it, but didn't really question it until a few years ago.