Does anyone remember Pong?
I spent about an hour this afternoon trying to play Super Mario Brothers 64 on my son’s DS light. I say “trying” because you really couldn’t call what I was doing “playing.”
His Nintendo DS light (a Christmas present) seemed pretty straight forward in theory. It’s virtually the same as a Gameboy but […]
Innocent woman?
Well, I did the research. as it turns out I found some substantiating evidence that Martha could have been innocent! On this site is a whole lot of information on Diphtheria but most importantly, the sentence that follows:
“If the tongue and mouth become dry and brown, give hydrochloric acid ten to twenty drops, simple […]
Execution of a Step-mother
For those that noticed that there is a female name on the below list of hanged prisoners at Fremantle Prison, I did a little research out of my own curiosity. I wanted to know why a woman was hanged and what form of murder she committed. (Why this is more interesting than what the men […]
I sit, corrected.
My friend Stephen had brought to my attention that his “morbid” curiosity led him to search the last hanging at Freo Prison. You were correct, Stephen! Here’s what I found….
“The last person to be hanged at the gallows in Fremantle Prison was Eric Edgar Cooke, in 1964. Cooke was a serial killer, and […]
Prison life…um, No thanks!
Yesterday, Mum, Brian, Jamie and I decided to go to Fremantle for the afternoon. First we spent a little time watching this guy on the street.
He was doing some kind of Vaudeville type show and had the crowd laughing and clapping. In this photo, he is actually standing on a couple of old suitcases […]