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I’m sure the lead singing lady of this group was probably thinking this would really be great for her career. But I don’t know about you — while she’s certainly easy to look at, I can’t keep my eyes off her spastic percussionist:
Can you imagine this guy with one of these percussionist tables?
I work for a company that rents vacation homes. More and more of these homes have big-screen TVs, and people are realizing that and bringing their Wii with them to play with during their vacation (only a couple of our homes actually have a Wii in the home already). There are already a couple sites dedicated to what those little controllers can do to household objects if you’re not strapped in when you’re flinging them around. We’ve already had one window destroyed in one of our homes thanks to an errant Wii controller (don’t have pictures of that one), and now, the latest victim — a three-day-old 48″ LCD TV:
The folks renting the house knew they’d put a pretty substantial crack in the screen, and we knew that the next renters coming in (the same day of their departure — ’tis Spring Break after all) had already been told about the new big-screen in the home and were looking forward to it. So we had to get a new TV out there. The guest agreed to just buy the new TV (which the local BestBuy had in stock) to put in the home. The renter took the broken one home to see if they could get it fixed themselves and at-least get an expensive LCD out of the whole thing.
We’re thinking about investing in (or creating?) some of these, just to have at the office, for our expensive TV homes (and certainly for the homes that have a Wii already in them).
And it’s making for an interesting final weekend in the pick ’em. As it stands right now, Rusty In Portland is leading, but after crunching the numbers, there are six folks who are still in the running (full scores are here), depending on how the Final Four plays out next weekend.
Fighting Yoopers has already locked in the dummy prize because he/she is currently in last, and didn’t pick a single one of the Final Four teams (The Dren had the prize nearly wrapped up until one of his teams actually won today and made it to the Final Four). So if you’re reading this, Yoopers, contact me via the group tournament page, either by messaging the commisioner or by posting your e-mail address in a public message there so we can send your prize. If you don’t claim it by tournament’s end, it’ll go to the next person on the list.
The day 1, round 4 games ended earlier, but Yahoo! didn’t updated the scoring yet in the pick ’em. I’ll check again tomorrow morning and update the spreadsheet then.
…and Rusty In Portland is holding on to the lead in the pick ’em. There is no chance for me to win at all right now, but this tournament certainly isn’t Rusty’s yet. If there are some upsets tomorrow and Memphis manages to win this weekend, it could move some other folks up to the top. We’ll just have to see how it goes (and remember this weekends games are worth five points), but here’s the scoring in the meanwhile.
We have a new leader in the pick ’em: Rusty in Portland. He’s been at the top or close the top the entire time, but there are a couple folks still very close behind.
The round-by-round scores are here.
The Dren is still dragging up the rear and looks like a lock for the t-shirt.
One man’s diary of cross-country travel, fixing typos along the way. The full NPR story is here.
And I’m hoping to see some crazy antics like Speedo Man (I’m amazed the guy even hit the rim on the free throw).
[Edit: Animation removed as it killed the bandwidth at photobucket, but you can see it after the jump]
If you look left side of the screen in this YouTube video you can see him:
Update: The bandwidth for that animated GIF image has already died with photobucket. So I’ve put it after the jump, linked from this server (just didn’t want it on the front page so it didn’t bulldoze my bandwidth).
If I ever find out that I have a morbidly obese relative, don’t let them near my kids.
In the nearly 30 years I’ve lived in Bend, I’ve slowly watched this area go into the crapper. Here is a good collection of the latest reasons things suck (a good summation) and five things that can be done now to help fix things from the two local economy blogs. Some I agree with, some I disagree with, but the moral of the story is that something really needs to be done.