Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
I’ve been wondering this for months, but just haven’t had a chance to ask here: Why are the area birch trees dying? We have a bunch of once-glorious trees in my neighborhood that now look like crap.
H. Bruce Miller looked into it, and, naturally, it’s a stupid little beetle.
Why, you ask? Because apparently at tonight’s City Council meeting, there’s going to be a vote on a resolution to recommend impeaching Bush & Cheney (City of Bend meeting schedule is here with full resolution here). The guy spearheading this effort used to have a blog here, but it’s long since vanished.
Will this actually pass the city council? I seriously doubt it. And even if it did, whoopty frickin’ do. It’s not like the action of a city council in a small town thousands of miles from the White House will have any affect. The guy will be out of office soon enough and while I agree that he’s been, for the most part, a worthless President, our Congressional leaders really have far better things to worry about (at least I hope) then trying to get Bush kicked out of office.
And that will be probably the last time for months that I will talk politics as I hate talking it, but everybody else is welcome to debate below.
I know a lot of people locally (and I used to be one of them) that are Unicel customers. They are now all Verizon customers (another story here and press release here).
I used them until my employer started paying for my cell phone, which meant moving to US Cellular. But they were one of the first companies to provide cellular service in this area, and I’m not surprised to see this happen as this area is growing quite fast and US Cellular has quite a few towers in the area. And according to Matt, T-Mobile is currently using Unicel towers, so I wonder how this will affect that relationship. Any local cell gurus who can answer that?
But this certainly now makes Verizon a good choice for rural customers while it wasn’t so before, as Unicel has good coverage in hard-to-reach areas of central Oregon.
The tourists that come here like to try to break odd ball world records — like the nearly 4,800 folks who all sat on a whoopee-cushion at the same time, far short of the 5,983 needed to break the record.
They have a video of it, too, but I’d recommend you watch it from the front page of the site as the video link on the article page tries to use Windows Media, which sucks and doesn’t work in Firefox at all, while the front-page Flash version (which I can’t link to) works fine.
All these folks were all here for The Rally, which is a gigantic annual RV Rally in Redmond. I sure you could think of a hundred old farts in RVs jokes that would be appropriate here, but I’ll leave that to you.
And he’s offering a $500 reward if you find his lawn chair.
A local is looking for a roommate, and she sounds like a dream (and I’m quoting it here in case it ever disappears from the interweb):
I’m looking to score a room for rent with people that are not going to bitch and complain that I drink cheap beer on Tuesdays (not much of a partier, but am an alcoholic-ish), leave coffee cups in the sink every morning and will wash the dishes when there are enough to make it worth getting my hands wet, kick my shoes off by the door and eat meat at least once a week. I smoke- outside. I graduated from the DARE program, abide by most state and federal laws (well, the one’s I agree with anyway) and am certified in First Aid and CPR.
I’m 27 (today actually), am female, and I have a very stable, professional career that allows me the freedom to sit at my desk at post Craigslist ads. It’s probably best if you’re not one of those people that require a credit check, cause I won’t pass- but I do pay my rent and utilities on time, and really- you shouldn’t fucking care if I don’t pay the rest of my bills- cause it nacho business anyway.
I don’t mind animals unless they shit in my shoes. I don’t want to live with kids…if I did I would have some. I say fuck a lot- and this shouldn’t bother you. Sometimes when I go to the bar, I bring random strangers home- but make sure that they’re drunk enough so they can’t remember how to get back. Oh, I’d rather not live with girls. So if you’re a girl- I probably won’t be interested unless you’re just really cool and can make me popular.
$$$: Do not expect me to pay a buttload for a dinky little room. Unless you plan of feeding me- be fair!
Anything else you’d like to know is just a question away- so shoot.
Thanks to that Baker city chick for the link.
MySpace’s dead RSS feeds caused me to remove the MySpace blogs from the front page on BendBlogs.com. A few small sites picked up the news of the dead RSS feeds, and MySpace must have gotten wind of it and fixed the feeds. So I’ve spent the last few hours going through all the old deprecated blogs I had in there, all the old MySpace blogs that were sitting in there, and everything else that I had in there, deleted or deprecated ones that haven’t been updated in a long time, have gone dead, or folks who have moved, and put back up everything else. There are now 200 fees listed there, and they’re not total crap. Enjoy.
Update the next day: Fixed “Enjoy” to actually go to bendblogs.com and not enjoy.com. I should know better than to blog late at night.
…I removed all the MySpace blogs from Bend Blogs since apparently their RSS feeds are dead. The archives of what I have indexed are still visible, but I will not be checking for updates to their feeds nor listing them on the front page of the site.
On the bright side, the signal to noise ratio has significantly gone down over there, and we won’t be seeing crap like this on the front page.
I scored 85%. How Oregon Are You?
And after you’re all done feeling smart, take this gigantic version here, much of which is Portland-related, but still a fun trip down memory lane.
Leave it to a crazy local to fly in a lawn chair from Bend over 200 miles to the Northeast.