Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I see that Lawnchair Larry later shot himself at the ripe old age of 44. I thinking his genes are out there in someone. Jeffery On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > Remember Darwin Award winner Lawnchair Larry from 1982? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters > > Well, certifiably insane station manager Ken Freedman of WFMU in > Jersey City, NJ has procured weather balloons and many large tanks of > helium, preparing to heed that "Hey, Bubba, watch this!" from across > the decades. It's a fundraising thing for his listener-supported > freeform radio station, the number of balloons to be filled to depend > on the money raised. But he's done a lot of research, and enough cash > to meet the station's fundraising goal should loft him high over New > Jersey. > > I'll be live(ish) photo-blogging the event, starting around 9AM > US-Eastern (as live as I can be using a real camera and ducking inside > periodically to pull pictures off and upload - I'm just not down with > the phone thing like the cool kids). > > Pictures should show up here: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157625428225585/ > > so check back periodically, or just follow the twitterbrations of > @WFMU as things proceed. > > Do consider yourselves invited to toss a few dollars in the helium > fund to make this happen: > > http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/ > > It's for a good cause, the world's almost-certainly-coolest radio > station. > > http://www.wfmu.org/ > > Yrs, > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information