You get free beer with your textbook purchases. Gregg, you sure you don’t want to go back to school?
Month: August 2003
Man survives giant drill to the skull
I’ve seen scary x-rays before, but nothing like the one on this story.
Man gets jail for licking woman’s feet in grocery store
It still scares me that people like this exist. Thankfully he got 18 months.
Semi-nude fired fair worker is hit by train while fleeing police
I think what I like best is this quote from the story (from the streaker’s former boss): “It’s unfortunate when bad things happen at the fair.” Generally, it’s unfortunate when bad things happen, period, but I guess it’s even more unfortunate when it happens on his turf.
I haven’t even seen porn collections this big
A buddy of mine found a temp file on his hard drive that, needless to say, was taking up a bit of space — 77.5 gigabytes.
Click on the image below if you don’t believe me.
Anybody know what could create a temp file this large?
Ever “borrowed” a towel from a hotel? Tell your story, and money goes to charity
I know I’ve “borrowed” more than few items from hotels in my day (phone books, towels, coat hangers, pillows, glasses, couch cushions, ashtrays, and I nearly got a mattress once — but I never took the Bible, that’s just wrong), so I’m glad to see that somebody’s taking advantage of it. The Holiday Inn is holding a “Towel Amnesty Day.” To quote the site:
Do you have a Holiday Inn towel? Tell us how you got it and what became of it. Is it proudly displayed as a collector’s item, used in your bathroom or perhaps your favorite beach towel?
For every story shared, Holiday Inn will give $1.00 to Give Kids The World. If your story is one of the twenty-five chosen, you will receive one of our limited edition souvenir Holiday Inn towels.
This is such a great idea, and I’m glad to know I don’t have to give my towel back — though I couldn’t tell you where it is right now for the life of me. But you can bet I’ll be sharing a story or two.
Thanks to Al’s Morning Meeting for the link.
Great…Bend’s going to be over run by old folks
As Barney at Bend.com reported, Bend was (again) named as one of five “best places to retire.”
Man, I need to get out of here before we get more blind-as-a-bat geriatrics behind the wheel. We need mass transit here, and we need it now.
And I thought Oregon’s gas prices were bad (or: Why Oregon is famous for stupid stuff)
While the $1.94 average in Oregon is one of the top in the Nation right now, California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii are all still higher than us — but not by much.
You just have to love Oregon. We’re famous for our high gas prices, our nasty unemployment, Tonya Harding, the City of Half.com, our whale disposal methods, the New Carissa, and Bob Packwood. Hell, Monica Lewinsky even went to college here. Can it get any worse? I guess I could live in Nebraska with Gregg … ‘eh, nevermind. This is God’s country, after all.
Fellow Oregonians: Am I missing anything else here? Are there things that I’m missing that should definitely NEVER get mentioned on Oregon tourism brochures?
The Salary Relocation Calculator
Say you make $100,000 a year, and live in Burns, Oregon. You would need to make $105,620 for the same style of living in Lincoln, Nebraska. Of course, if you make $100,000 in Bend, that’s equivalent to $94,084 in Lincoln. I don’t know how accurate this thing is, but it’s a fun little toy to play with.