Saturday, April 19, 2025

disappearing famous people

 recently i found an online article about thirteen famous people who had disappeared, or at least some of them became famous due to disappearing. two of them i had heard of before, Glenn Miller, and Amelia Earhart. but not the others. i spent some time looking up more information about the others. all about who makes the history books, who is writing those history books anyway. i liked collecting world's fair postcards. one of them, Richard Halliburton, was trying to reach a world's fair. i had heard of Henry Hudson, the explorer who had a river in New York City named for him, but not that he had disappeared. it was due to a mutiny, being cast adrift. another was Mike Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. the most compelling to me was Judge Joseph Force Crater, because of how it ended up in the comedy world. Wikipedia said 'judge crater, call your office' was a gag for nightclub comedians for a while. i just realized some of this is the 'New York media bias' in terms of who was making this article. at work, it was nice that the overnight volume was low, just under twenty. being good friday might have made a difference, as two files were not sent to me. those are now done by people in poland. despite the two fargo files being late, the volume was low enough that i still found the time to get them run through the machine. in some ways it was dumb luck, due to the aforementioned files that 'took a day off'. i was asked to pull another check from the oshkosh file, but it wasn't a tax check this time. in the evening i went to hy-vee in eagan for groceries, and i got a 'cat in the hat' greeting card for an upcoming event. during my walks i found 65 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when penny was disappointed that her scene was cut. it was followed by the one where penny gets a rival in the building and howard prevents leonard from breaking up the 'cat fight'. i capped the lenten season by getting a filet-o-fish sandwich and fries at mcdonald's for the evening meal. 

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