Google Earth is a cool toy, but it’s sometimes just a pain to get installed on computers (especially in an office environment). Somebody’s gone thorugh the effort to make it into a Flash Application that can be just used online, and even tied in data from Windows Live Local. Most impressive!
Category: Cool
You Missed One Helluva Show
If you weren’t at last night’s Cascade Winds concert, you missed one hell of show. The place was absolutely packed, our food drive for COCAAN was a huge success, and we had a heck of a good time (and I know the audience did). Playing at the Tower Theatre was probably the best thing we’ve done, despite being cozy up on stage (we had to do the percussion section in two rows, but it worked), and we’ve already reserved the Tower for two concerts next fall as we had to turn people away. But we played great, the crowd screamed and yelled, and we had a ball up there. I’m looking forward to the season starting up again this fall.
I have no idea if anybody that reads this site came to the concert (I didn’t get to mingle in the audience during intermission much) so if you did and want to share you comments (good, bad, or otherwise) feel free to share here!
Best Use Of Google Maps, EVER!
An interactive map showing the details and location of every strip club in the US.
More Northwest Blogs
The Inland Northwest Blogger’s Association is a group of bloggers from the lesser-talked-about parts of the Northwestern United States: Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, or Northwest Wyoming. According to the site’s webmaster and group’s founder, it’s basically a network of bloggers helping bloggers. They have no dues, or membership fees, and are really just a loose knit group of bloggers who help each other promote their blogs and the image of blogging. Be sure to check it out.
Cascade Winds in Concert at the Tower Theatre
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Coming next Monday, June 12, at 7:30PM, live in concert at the Tower Theatre is the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band. Yes, we’re moving up in the world and we’re playing at the Tower (to quote Snarky, we’re big tits now!), and we’re expecting a (hopefully) packed house so we can do two concerts next time around.
Among the pieces we’re playing:
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Procession of the Nobles by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
Poeme Montagnard by Jan Van der Roost
In The Winter of 1730 by James Swearingen
Americans We by Henry Fillmore
Tuba Tiger Rag by Harry DeCosta
And let me tell ya — that Poeme Montagnard piece is one of the most wonderfully intense, entertaining and challenging pieces the band has played, and I really think the concert’s worth coming to just for that reason (we’ve been working our rear-ends off on it). Heck, any piece has to be good when it’s stocked with a crapload of percussion, a harp, piano, celeste, and a bunch of recorders (yes, those things we all played in the third grade, just much higher quality and much better sounding).
Tickets are free and are available at the Tower Theatre (they’re in short supply) and they’ll be letting folks in at the door after all the folks with tickets have been let in first. More information is available at the Cascade Winds concert page. That page says that you can get them from band members, but I know I don’t have any extras (and if I manage to get ahold of some, I’ll be giving them to the Tower).
And I know a couple of local bloggers live a few blocks from there, so I expect to see you there </guilt trip>
Vindication For Men Everywhere
Now we know that we could get arrested for asking for directions.
Want to create one of those infamous load bars?
Here’s a neat little app that will do it for you.
Fun Little Flash Game
Fairly simple, but addictingly fun little game called Splash Back. I cleared level nine, but I figured I’d better stop before i waste too much of my work day.
Best Dorm Room Ever
I wish my room was setup like this in college.