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In the future, make sure that if you decide to work with super glue at the office that you bring something to work that will remove super glue from your fingers because, despite working with a bunch of women, nobody has any nail-polish remover out here.
It’s really hard to type with super glue on three of your finger tips. Go figure.
That is all.
Thanks to a single e-mail, Star Wars fan boys (and mainstream media outlets around the world) were convinced of that certain actors were going to be in Star Wars Episode III. Full Story.
Remember that frosted over freezer I mentioned earlier this week? Apparently the owner of the home doesn’t want it back, so it’s free to anybody who wants to haul it away. It works great, after it defrosted and was cleaned out, so it’s free to a good home. E-mail me if you want to come down to Sunriver to get it, and I’ll mark your claim on it. First come, first serve!
The Cascade Winds Concert Band (of which my dad and I are a part of) is playing two FREE concerts this weekend. Tickets are not needed, just head on up to COCC and enjoy the show!
The concerts are:
– Sunday, March 13th at 3:00PM at the Pickney Center for the Arts, COCC Campus
– Monday, March 14th at 7:30PM at the Pickney Center for the Arts, COCC Campus
For those of you who don’t know your way around the COCC Campus, there’s a PDF map here.
The music is high-energy and high intensity concert band music (read the extended entry for full information on the pieces we’ll be playing). We’re also featuring the percussion section in a rendition of “Sabre Dance.” You might not recognize the name, but listen to this sample of the song here and you’ll recognize the tune, I’m sure. There’s also going to be a rocking trombone solo piece that is one of the most impressive things I’ve heard in a long time. This, along with a pile of other great music, and one of the most entertaining-to-watch conductors (super high energy), I can guarantee you’ll have a good time.
And besides, it’s free, so who cares if you don’t?
Contact me if you have any questions, or read on below for full information on the concert. If you do end up coming, please do introduce yourself.
I’m not either, but in case you are, here you go.
They truly have a topical blog for everything. Like this one dedicated to catching pictures of celebrities mid-blink.
If any of you can solve any of the puzzles on this page, I’ll be truly impressed. Back in the day when I did a lot more math work (I challenged out of my math classes in college), I might have been able to at least make a stab at some of these, but I doubt I could really ever truly solve any of them.
Two Brits have researched America’s dumbest laws (and there are a lot of them) and they’re going to be travelling state-to-state, violating as many of them as they can. Full Story.
Been meaning to post a link here about this, but will get around to it now, especially since Jon beat me to it (he points out a great headline on their site: “League Of Women Voters against Toxic Discharge“). Bend.com has debuted a new site design that looks about 1000 times better than it did before. The site design is still in its infancy with their home-grown CMS as it still has some issues like some oddball SQL and link bugs I found around the site. I’m sure are being worked out, however (they’ve already squashed one bug I ran into yesterday with story links not working).
But a good design is useless without good content. Since Barney’s departure, the content there — other than the professionally-written press releases that were mostly written by large PR firms — has been less than stellar.
Observe…
When you first see the tall, lithe figure stride into the Sunrise Lodge at Mt. Bachelor; long blonde hair flowing and dark glasses on her high sculptured cheekbones, you might think there just may be a model shoot or maybe even a movie being shot up at the mountain.
Boy, does that read like a teeny-bopper magazine to anybody else?
How about this one — a nice hard news story about a meth bust:
There had been evidence that he was selling methamphetamine fast and furiously.
This is from (yes, a bad headline) “Another one bites the meth dust.” I’m sure “fast and furiously” wasn’t on the official press release from the police department. That’s the kind of story you just stick to the facts, and don’t sugar coat it.
I’m sure the content will only get better as these kinds of things are said, but Barney, let me be one to say that we miss you! Hurry up and get the Z21 site up and running.