Month: November 2008

Going To The Duck Game

I’m heading over to Eugene in about an hour to watch the Duck game, and have ended up with an extra reserved ticket (as the folks who were originally going to go with me ended up bailing on me). If anybody wants it for dirt-cheap and will happen to be in Eugene anyway or wanted to head over there, email me using the form at right. I’ll have my Blackberry so I’ll be checking email, and will check my email before I head out of town as well as when I get near Eugene (the game’s at 12:30 today).

Update: Nobody claimed the ticket, and I couldn’t even give it away at the stadium. Why? It was a rainy, nasty mess and nobody was really trying too hard to get into the stadium. Despite wearing a rain coat, I was still soaked, and after the 3rd quarter, started the sloggy hike back to my car as I was totally soaked and could’ve probably have rung out my pants. Thankfully they won, but at least I did get to see some ol’ college buddies while I was there.

November 8, 2008

Need A Car?

This local guy’s pimp mobile might fit the bill:

1989 Cadillac Sedan Deville Pimp mobile for sale. Perfect for the up and coming pimp who isn’t quite ready to step up into an Ex-calade. This fine example of Motor vehicle pimpery comes stock with no hubcaps, because as you know any real baller is just gonna drop dubs on it anyway. The stereo isn’t working, but then again, a real mac like you is going to drop some change to make this bitch rumble. The trunk is extra large in case you have a ho who steps out of line, you can put her in there. A good feature because if you spend enough time with hos, eventually you’re going to have to lock a bitch up.

in case of drive-bys where you need to light up some suckers that have been perpetrating this car has a special window that comes off its tracks so you don’t have to wait for it to slide down. Just roll up on that fool, drop the window, and blast him with that burner. Which comes to my favorite part of the car. The engine is a v8 which means its quick to get away from the Po-po but at the same time still gets 22-24 miles to the gallon on the highway so even with a bitch in the trunk you aren’t destroying the environment. Even Gs need a momma, and her name is Gaia. If you are interested in this whip shout me a holla at (503)383-2310 and ask for Joseph, or as my Hos call me “Yeast” because I raise the dough.

Thanks Kristy for the link.

November 6, 2008

FCC Opens Investigation Into Pricing at Cable Companies — Including BendBroadband

This was in the Bulletin’s business section, but I couldn’t find it on their web site (I think it was a wire story — don’t have the paper in front of me), so you’re getting the CBSNews link:

The Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into the pricing policies of major cable operators and Verizon Communications Inc.

The agency wants to ensure the companies’ customers are getting treated fairly, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in an interview with The Associated Press.

“I’m certainly concerned with the increasing cable prices that consumers are facing,” Martin said. “They are getting less and being charged the same or more.”

The FCC wrote on Oct. 30 to cable operators including Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp., Bright House Networks, Suddenlink Communications, Bend Cable Communications, GCI Company, Harron Entertainment and RCN Corp.

Naturally, it’s a pretty one-sided story as there’s not a single comment from the cable operators in the story, just quotes from Martin of the FCC and from the Consumer’s Union. The FCC also is basically looking at the cable companies that cover the bulk majority of the US, so it’s not like they’re picking on individual companies here.

So I’d like to hear what the cable operators have to say. I know BendBroadband (aka Bend Cable) folks read this site: Care to comment?

On a related note, AT&T is going to start capping bandwidth, much like BBB already does.

November 5, 2008

Post Election Wrap Up

You can read the local results here, but basically, quite are few groups aren’t getting any money from bond measures. La Pine supported their own with the Park and Rec and RFPD bonds, but Bend, Redmond and County voters all turned down any bill that would even remotely cost them money. The Bend Area Transit and COCC bonds failed, the transient room tax failed, Mike Daly got the axe, many of the Sizemore measures failed (can’t remember exactly which ones were his), Smith/Merkely is still too close to call (Jack thinks Merkely’s going to pull it out), and we don’t have a white guy for President for the first time ever. I don’t pay attention to politics a ton, so feel free to share opinions/reactions below.

November 5, 2008

The Snow Is Falling

There is a good chunk of snow on the highway and around my office. I’ll be getting my snow tires on my car tomorrow so I can hopefully have a bit of help when the out-of-town crazy drivers try to run me off the road in their four-wheel-drive.

In the meanwhile, here’s a fun and simple little winter-themed game. I got 53970 after a few attempts — how’d you do?

November 4, 2008

What Happens If There’s A 269-269 Tie?

If the electoral college were to tie, things start to get confusing.

Electoral-Vote.com has things as a pretty good landslide for Obama today, anything can, and usually does happen. Like four years ago, Kerry looked like he might win the day before the election, so take it all with a grain of salt.

Just get out and vote. Ballot drop sites are here. And laugh at this little image that Yoleen sent my direction:

November 4, 2008

Why the Electoral College Is Flawed

This is sad to me…

In the unlikely event that all 213 million eligible voters cast ballots, either John McCain or Barack Obama could win enough states to capture the White House with only 47.8 million strategically located votes. The presidency could be won with just 22 percent of the electorate’s support, only 16 percent of the entire population’s.

Just tell me when it’s all over.

November 3, 2008

How Strong Is Your Password?

I like to use strong passwords for obvious reasons, and according to this site, using a brute force attack (as a dictionary attack would be useless), the password I use to edit this site would take 6,758,137,437,016,672,809,517,056 hours or 281,589,059,875,694,666,842,112 days to crack. My root server password? Quite a bit longer.

November 3, 2008

How I Plan To Vote Next Time

I’ve already turned in my ballot (or at least filled it out — will drop it off tomorrow), but I’m thinking I’m going to change my voting thought process during the next election. Next time around, I’m going to keep a tally on which ballot measures or political offices put the most crap in my inbox, my mailbox, or on my doorstep, and the group or candidate that badgers me the least will get my vote. I came home on Saturday after being gone most of the day to find my mailbox filled and door hangers all over my porch and front yard. I can only imagine the countless trees that were killed during this election cycle trying to convince me that a certain measure or candidate is good or evil.

I don’t know about you, but whatever the outcome, I’ll just be happy when this election is over.

November 2, 2008

More Time Killers

Since co-workers are getting annoyed that they have nothing to do and that I’m not posting enough games, here are a few more (feel free to share more in the comments):

  • Splitter, a fun, but frustrating little physics puzzle game (there’s a walk-through here, should you need it).
  • Shift 3, a sequel to a platformer I posted a while back (thanks Peter for the link).
  • rLax, a fast-paced click-fest.
  • The Eyeballing Game — how close can you get to making true shapes?
  • Commando, for you folks who feel like spending your morning defending the Allies from the scourge of Europe.
  • Boombot 2, because dropping bombs to shoot a little robot around the screen is fun (walkthru).

November 2, 2008