Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Shopping at the local grocery store this evening, I noticed these items in a little pile on the shelf of the dog food aisle:
I really don’t want to know.
Apparently the group behind the Keep Santa Fat campaign were at the Bend Christmas Parade handing out candy canes, but since I didn’t want to go down there and freeze my a** off to watch the parade, I missed it. Anyway…
The Keep Santa Fat campaign is an effort dedicated to “keeping St. Nick thick.” It’s actually a pretty entertaining campaign with funny videos and news stories, and it is for a good cause — though I do find it ironic that they’re trying to keep Santa fat by running a food drive for the needy.
DVA Advertising is always one for these kinds of oddball campaigns — remember their controversial (but hilarious) where-the-hell-are-we.com Bend promotional campaign? They also did some downtown marketing for BendFilm and Cascade Festival of Music that got them in trouble, too, but, really, I think they do good work — as all publicity is good publicity in this type of business.
I plug these concerts pretty much every time we have one, but I have no idea if I’m actually getting anybody to come to the concerts. But you still have to hear the plug. I won’t bore you with details, but if you’re interested in listening to some great concert band music, come join us this Sunday or Monday for some free concerts.
And on a semi-related note, if you have a some cash, the band is always looking for donations as we all have to pay tuition to play in the band and have other expenses as well. Come enjoy the concert, and you’ll see it’s worth.
…when you’ve got yourself a panty thief like we do — just yet another thing I’m proud to tell friends about Bend.
Last night at about 9:30 my phone rang, and it was an automated message saying that my Bank of The Cascades account had been compromised and I needed to call some toll-free number I didn’t recognize to re-activate it. Since I don’t have a Bank of The Cascades account, I just assumed it was a scam and hung up. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got the phone call, as my in-laws called me and said they got it, along with a bunch of other folks, some who did and some who did not have BOTC accounts.
BOTC, like every bank, is now the victim of phishing scams, and even has a Web page for this type of thing, but I know the toll-free number I heard was an not the “877” that they advertise on that page (I can’t remember the number, but I’m pretty sure it was an 866 number).
Did anybody else get that phone call? Anybody know what’s going on?
Update at 3:30: Apparently I’m not the only one — it’ll be on KOHD tonight, and it’s on the Bulletin’s site right now (thanks for that, Jen).
Jen interviewed me for the COWPU site. So if you’ve wanted to know if I was a decent bowler, there’s your answer.
And if anybody else has some random questions like that for me, bring it on. I always like to do what I can to encourage the stalkers lurkers readers out there to contribute.
In case you hadn’t heard, a little over a month ago, a local woman made an international stink when she tried to line-dry her clothes in a yuppie neighborhood in Bend and her neighbors and neighborhood association told her she couldn’t. The story still goes on because Brooks Resources, who manages the association, has decided to “clarify it’s pro-laundry drying stance” by adding a paragraph addressing clotheslines to their design guidelines. The problem? It doesn’t solve a thing.
A couple local teens broke into a Prineville convenience store and stole $5000 worth of cigarettes, beer, and porn.
Apparently, though it has long been decommissioned. Some morons tried to steal a bunch of copper wire from there, but their truck couldn’t handle it.
KOHD, Bend’s fairly new ABC affiliate, debuted their new Web site. I like the clean look of it, but the content is still lacking compared to KTVZ’s. I also really hate the auto-play on the front-page video, as if I’m at work, I don’t want a random site to start playing sounds without me telling it to.
Full disclaimer: I haven’t actually watched KOHD’s newscast as I just am not home in time because of my commute (and I don’t want to get home and immediately ignore my kids and go straight to watching the news anyway), and by 11 I’m frickin’ exhausted. If I’m watching any evening news, it’s usually the KTVZ-produced 10 o’clock news on KFXO (and even then, not to often).
In other words, if you want me to read/link to your content, it’d better be online and easy to link and read as I’m not watching the newscasts.
Anyway, discuss your thoughts on the Bend TV Wars™ below.