As it’s a real pain in the butt with the trackpad on my laptop. I got a whole two points, which I’m sure most people here will beat.
Month: October 2005
Just Don’t Eat The Parsley
Anybody locally might want to avoid McGrath’s for obvious reasons, but it turns out that the E.Coli outbreak maybe wasn’t their fault, as they got some bad parsley from Washington state.
Yoda’s Bustin’ a Move #2
I mentioned yesterday a well-done video of Yoda chilling with his homies, but I think Yoda doing a cover of Britney Spears’ “Opps I Did It Again” was even more entertaining (I really need to quit dinking around Google Video).
Yoda’s Bustin’ a Move
I remember thinking it was pretty sweet to see Yoda fight in the Star Wars prequels, but this is far more entertaining.
Where Can I Buy One?
This thing is so cool:
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment.
There are many paint/drawing programs on the market today that are designed especially for kids. These let kids do neat things, but kids usually end up playing only with the “preprogrammed” digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the kids build their own ink.
Be sure to watch the videos to see this thing really work.
Ladies, Help Me Out With This One
Would you rather wear a tampon, pad, or a cup? Personally, the cup looks a little frightening to me, but ladies, what do you think?
My Thoughts on the DeWolf News
If you haven’t heard already, Tom DeWolf resigned from the Deschutes County commissioner’s office. You can read the Bulletin stories, while they last before you have to buck up and pay, here and here with Bend.com’s “story” (basically just the Lane County Press release) here. Local bloggers have been talking about it with Jon and Chris posting a few good comments and thoughts.
My thoughts? Tom and I go a long way back. Heck, he might even read this site. I’ve known him and his family for many years, talked to them a lot when they owned a local video store, was good friends with two of his daughters growing up, one of them actually being the best “man” at my wedding (she was like a sister to me and always has been — it was only appropriate considering all we had gone through together).
Tom’s a good guy. I haven’t talked to him since these allegations came about, nor have I really read through them in fine detail, but knowing him, it was probably something he did when he just had a few too many to drink (and I know many of you reading this have done things they’ve regretted when they’ve had a few too many). Unfortunately, he’s in a public position, so his screw-ups are going to be put under a microscope, even if all parties involved appeared to be OK with things after the incidents happen. It’s unfortunate, really, as I’m not really fond of the actions of some of the other commissioners, and always thought that, for the most part, Tom was the most level-headed of the bunch (now understand, I don’t follow politics extremely well, so this is obviously a slightly biased opinion).
While he hasn’t really went public beyond a simple released statement, he’s probably sorry as heck, if not to the community but to his family for putting them through this. It’s probably hasn’t been fun for them, either.
Should he have resigned? Yes. Are we better off because he did? I’m not sure yet — we’ll just have to see.
Like I said before, I am slightly biased, so I’m going to leave my comments at that, and leave the forum below for people to discuss.
A Little Treat For Those Obnoxious Teenage Trick Or Treaters
Many of you may remember how I spent last Halloween. Long story short, I gave an obnoxious, too-old-to-be-trick-or-treating teenager a can of canned veggies instead of candy because he was far too old to be tricking or treating. While I haven’t quite made plans for this Halloween quite yet (other than some entertaining of my kids as well as my nieces and nephew), I am ready for those morons again if we decide to distribute candy this year (we haven’t quite decided yet).
I have some old cans of veggies and other random items from the pantry (like some pickled asparagus — why I have that, I have no idea) that I have collected and will be sticking these labels on them. That link links to a PDF file I created in about five minutes during my lunch break so edits/changes are appreciated (comment here). The sheet is formated to print on Avery Template 5160 (the 1″ x 2.625″ 30 labels to a sheet mailing label — can be bought very cheap as a generic at OfficeMax). So print them up, stick ’em on, and enjoy (and if anybody has a different design idea and wants to throw one together, e-mail it my direction and I’ll post it here).
Update: Thanks to Barn, I fixed a typo.
Flash Time Killer For The Day
A nice simple (but fun) maze game.
Just Doing My Part
An Ad Age report says that U.S. workers will waste the equivalent of 551,000 “work years” reading blogs (reg. required). Quote: “Currently, the time employees spend reading non-work blogs is the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs.”
I’ve been told many times before how many hours of people’s lives this site has wasted, mostly during work hours, so let me say I’m glad to be doing my part. Now excuse me while I get back to work.
Link via Morph.