might sit it here. i might light it at the bottom. as you see, it s like a fire. you hold your can over it. and you cook. there are, your water gets hot. flush it down. you grab a damp towel. because you don t want it to be on the toilet. you don t want to burn your toilet up. i get my bowl, crack my soup open and do my eating. over the years, we ve also seen another trick of the inmate trade in the majority of prisons we visited. it s called fishing. they rip up their sheets into little pieces, tie them together to make a long rope as such. and then they usually use a real long deodorant bottle or something heavy they tie on the end of it to throw it from one cell, over the top range to the bottom range. a lot of times you ll see mail bags, envelopes tied to them
today s best new thing in the world is completely, fundamentally counterintuitive. dogs, we are brought up to understand, hate mailmen, and mailmen feel the same way right back. it s so bad that an online magazine for postal workers has a page with the headline, when dogs attack, that has a lot of necessary, but quite scary information about dog bites. now, my dog, pebbles, won t bite, but she s been known to bark at a postal worker or two. and the best new thing in the world today is that a dog, not a breed of dog or a hollywood dog like lassie, but a specific real-life dog is now being honored by essentially mailmen, with his own postage stamp. we learned today that this stamp, with honoring owny the postal dog will be released tomorrow. a forever stamp, no less. owny wandered into the albany, new york, post office, one day in 1888 and just made himself right at home. owney soon began to follow mail bags, across the state and then