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Baby Jessica, 20 years later
Baby Jessica, aka Jessica McClure, is now 21 years old and raising her son with husband Daniel Morales in Midland.
From the DMN:
There was no fanfare here Tuesday to mark the day in 1987 when 18-month-old Jessica McClure was lifted to safety after falling into the open backyard well.
The young wife and mother is living quietly in this West Texas oil patch city.
“Jessica’s just been a wonderful, wonderful mother,” said her father, Chip McClure. “That’s always been Jessica’s dream, to be a stay-at-home mom.”
In 3 1/2 years, however, her quiet existence might change when all the tributes that were sent to her while the nation waited anxiously for her rescue matures into a payment of $1 million or more.
Many of the sympathetic strangers worldwide who remained glued to television coverage until Jessica was freed from 22 feet below the ground showered the family with teddy bears, homemade gifts, cards and cash.
The cash sits in a trust fund waiting for the 21-year-old to turn 25.
20 years doesn’t seem like that long of a time – but it does make me feel old.
FREE: Moby mix
Moby re-did a mix of his song Porcelain for a gig he had over the weekend and (for a limited time I’m sure) you can download the new mix on his myspace page. Just don’t tell the suits. They might get a little angry.
From Moby’s blog:
oh, before ‘degenerates’ on thursday i realized that i didn’t have any remixes of ‘porcelain’ that i wanted to play(although the extant remixes of ‘porcelain’ are good, they’re just not energetic enough for a big room set), so i quickly made a remix of ‘porcelain’ that worked well at ‘degenerates’.
i’ve posted it on myspace if you want to download it and play it when you dj.
hopefully the man won’t get upset with me for giving away music, but it’s
just a simple little remix.
In related news, I’ve been working on a new show/podcast for OrangeNoiseRadio. I’d love to have a mix of all sorts of stuff but it will probably start out with a mix of house/drum&bass/ambient music. The only downside is that for it to be a legal podcast, the music needs to be copywrite free or under a creative commons license. So it’s taking a little longer to find the music.
If you’ve got any great creative commons music you want to suggest – feel free to drop me a note or a link.
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Lost and Found
If you haven’t subscribed to the SoundCorps podcast you’re really missing out.
The stories are so personal and touching and I’m sure they probably mean even more to the family members who get to do the interviews and hear the stories.
This week’s podcast is another great one:
During World War II, the U-S military ran prisoner-of-war camps across the country. Jean Thackeray grew up near one of these camps. She came to StoryCorps to tell her daughter-in-law, Susan, about a POW who came to work on her father’s farm.
Free 411 service
Still paying your phone company for operator assistance.
Stop giving them extra money and use Goog-411.
Call 1-800-Goog-411 and get information and be connected for free through Google.
I’ve been using a similar service through text messaging for several years now. Love it.
But now I can call and use voice prompts instead.
Very nice.
Update from CWF
Just got an e-mail from Philip “The Bishop” Barron about the CWF trip in Nigeria:
Not much time but all is going well. Mike has become ill with dehydration but we have seen over 300 people get saved. We still have another week!! All the children at TH were asking for you. Many people on the team have been asking about you as well. Will love to show you pics and go over my journal with you when I get back. Hows marriage treating you? HOLLA HOLLA!!! I miss you and will see you soon. We get back on friday oct 19 around 1:30pm. Talk to you soon.