Month: February 2010

Bend Gets Another Mention In National Media

While it’s not for the pregnant man, it’s not much better:

In an exclusive interview with In Touch, 25-year-old stripper Stefani Talbott claims that she slept with Lost star Matthew Fox twice in the past year. While Matthew’s rep says “These accusations are false,” Stefani says she first met the 43-year-old last July, soon after she started working at Stars Cabaret in Bend, Oregon. “I was dancing onstage, and I made eye contact with him immediately. I got so excited,” Stefani tells In Touch. Since she was a big Party of Five fan, she recognized him right away — but she soon found out he was much different from the clean-cut characters he plays.

Story in the New York Daily News as well as everywhere else, even making comparisons with Tiger Woods.

Thankfully Bend isn’t the major point of the story here, but you know the local strip club (not safe for work, obviously) is probably getting some phone calls.

Join The UtterlyBoring.com NCAA Tournament Pick ’em (Fifth Annual, 2010 Edition)

Selection Sunday is coming up on March 14 here and then it’s time for offices all over the country to create office pools for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship (and for workplace productivity to grind to a halt). And it’s time for the readers of this site to compete for bragging rights (and some great prizes) in the fifth-annual UtterlyBoring.com Tournament Pick ‘Em. Last years contest info was here with final scoring here. My brother is looking to defend his title.

It’s free to play, so read on for the sign up information, prizes, and more!

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NCAA Pick ’em Contest Coming Fast!

I’m in the process of getting everything setup on Yahoo! and getting my prize list all compiled (it’s going to be a great one this year — best list of prizes we’ve ever had, by far). If you participated last year, you should have already gotten your invite to join the group. If not, I’ll be posting sign up information, official rules, and the full detailed prize list sometime over the weekend. Stay tuned!

I’ve Dealt With Some Hilarious Tech Support Issues…

…but nothing quite like this:

Sysadmin Credo

The World Can Breathe Easier

For a brief time this morning, YouTube removed the orignal “Rickroll” video because of “terms of use violations.” YouTube acknowledged the mistake, and put the video back up. As you can see by the recent comments on the video, Rick was missed.

Time Killer For The Day

Sushi Cat a cute little game where you need to fatten up a cat. While this didn’t happen to me, some folks are saying that on higher levels the cat gets too fat to make it into the baskets, or gets stuck bouncing around, but eventually makes it through (like up to 30 minutes later), so just a heads up about that bug.

More Reading Material

Cleaning out the links that have collected over the last few days before I head to the concert tonight (there are still plenty of tickets available at the door, all free, so I’d encourage you to come!):

Post Concert Reading Material

Recovering from not sleeping last night and then a this weekend’s concerts and rehearsals, so enjoy some evening reading:

That’s enough for now. Will post more later if I get motivated.

Time Killer For The Evening

Two things about Diver 2. One, it requires Silverlight instead of Flash, which I find odd, and two, it’s nearly impossible to play with a trackpad (and even the author recommends using a mouse). I managed to get to level 12 with my trackpad, but I think that’s about as far as I can get. But it is still quite a bit of fun.