This Guy Wrote A Computer Program To Do His Job For Him

Wouldn't it be cool to stop working and still get paid? It turns out that it's not only possible, but it's been done.

We reached out to a source who created a computer program to do his job for him.

He was working at a collection agency, spending loads of time poring over people's information by hand to determine if they owned money. This was a time-consuming process but he saw a way to simplify it.

"I wrote a simple batch file that used the already existing data fields in the software to produce 'the kill list,'" our source says.

Happy Easter!

Just about sums it up.

Catholic High School Allows Male Couple to Attend Dance

Two gay teens who attend McQuaid Jesuit High School are being welcomed to attend their Junior Ball as a couple.

McQuaid Jesuit High School is an all-boys Catholic school in Brighton, N.Y. According to Rochesterhomepage.net, a petition in support of the out students was quickly placed online after the boys asked permission to attend McQuaid’s Junior Ball as a couple.

Shortly thereafter, school president, Father Edward Salmon, sent a detailed note to parents on March 27, saying, “If our two brothers who have asked to attend the Junior Ball wish to do so, they will be welcomed.”

The Barkley Marathons: The Longest, Toughest, Strangest Race You've Never Heard Of

On Friday night, in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Tennessee, 28 men and 7 women will lie in tents half asleep in anticipation of hearing a conch shell being blown at Big Cove Campground in Frozen Head State Park. When they hear the call, which will arrive sometime between 11 p.m. that night and 11 a.m. Saturday, they will know they are 60 minutes from the start of an ordeal once referred to as a “satanic running adventure.”

It is a 100-mile footrace that some say is actually 130 miles or more, through unmarked trails that have names like Meth Lab Hill, Bad Thing and Leonard’s Buttslide and that are choked with prickly saw briers. Temperatures often range from freezing to blistering on the same day, and there is a cumulative elevation gain of more than 60,000 feet, or the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest twice from sea level.

A 60-hour time limit forces competitors to run, climb and bushwhack for three days with little or no sleep. They endure taunts from the race director, who deliberately keeps the competition’s entry procedure a mystery. It is a race in which there are no comfort stations, and runners cannot use a GPS device or a cellphone.

Less than 2 percent of the nearly 800 ultrarunners who have subjected themselves to this punishment — 12 men, the same number as have walked on the moon — have finished the race in its current iteration. The only prize is that after 100 miles, they get to stop.

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Man's car lands on neighbor's roof in strange accident

A Southern California man's car ended up on his neighbor's roof in an unusual accident over the weekend.

Glendale police Sgt. Sean Riley told City News Service that the driver lost control Saturday afternoon on a driveway in an area where homes are arrayed on a steep hillside.

The Cadillac ended up on the roof of the next house down the hill.

Riley said the driver reported he had a mechanical failure.

New Hampshire House Votes To Prohibit Private Prisons

Source: ThinkProgress

The New Hampshire House voted today to prohibit private prisons in the Granite State, countering progress the industry has made elsewhere around the country.

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The move is an abrupt shift in New Hampshire, where just last year the legislature had considered a bill to send its entire male prison population to private prisons.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/22/1756901/new-hampshire-private-prisons/?mobile=nc

From LBN: Pope to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass in youth jail

Pope Francis will hold a major ceremony next week in the chapel of a youth prison instead of in the Vatican or a Rome basilica where it has been held before, the Vatican said on Thursday.

Francis will conduct the Holy Thursday afternoon service at the Casal del Marmo jail for minors on Rome's outskirts.

During the service, the pope washes and kisses the feet of 12 people to commemorate Jesus's gesture of humility towards his apostles on the night before he died.

All previous popes in living memory held the service either in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican or in the Basilica of St. John in Lateran, which is the pope's cathedral church in his capacity as bishop of Rome.

Pope Francis on protecting the environment

“Let us,” he urged, “protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, protect creation.” It means he explained in his simple way, It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us. It means respecting each of God's creatures and respecting the environment in which we live.”

Pope Francis continued to lay out a Christian ethic of care. “It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about. It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents. It means building sincere friendships in which we protect one another in trust, respect, and goodness. In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God's gifts!”

He made a special plea to world leaders to join him in this ethic. “Please, I would like to ask all those with positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: Let us be protectors of God’s creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”

While he warned against “’Herods’ who plot death, wreak havoc and mar” humanity’s “countenance,” his message was a positive one, calling for goodness and tenderness in the treatment of the others and the world. Addressing the hard-heartedness many presume to be necessary for survival in this world, he declared, “We must not be afraid of goodness, nor even of tenderness!”