Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
OK, good, I’m not the only one who noticed this, but as I mentioned before when you go to BugMeNot, it appears the site is toast.
Hopefully it’s a temporary thing.
Update: Apparently their host pulled the plug and they’re currently looking for off-shore hosting.
Actually, it doesn’t sell, but it makes for really popular photos. As it stands right now, 7 of the 20 most forwarded images on Yahoo! are of women’s posteriors. Link via kottke.
Simone lost one of her adorable kittens last night, and the mommy cat now has one less baby to take care of. It is truly sad, and my heart goes out to you, Simone (as I know those cats meant a lot to you). May he rest in peace.
A Bend man has his car stolen, and then the crook abandons the car on some railroad tracks. I’m sure you know the rest of the story. Too bad there aren’t pictures of the wreckage…Barney? Barney got some pictures posted with the story. That truck is seriously messed up.
Only in America can an accordion player get paid $40,000+/year of taxpayer money.
The indispensable Motherboard Monitor is no longer going to be developed. This tool has helped me troubleshoot so many cooling problems in computers that I don’t know what I’m going do without it. Anybody have any solutions?
I just read in today’s Chandler Drive Daily (I’m really never going to get a job there if I make jokes about it like that) that the Pilot Butte Drive-In, arguably the best burger joint in the state of Oregon, isn’t going to be open for dinner anymore. Understand, I’ve loved that place since I was a kid, and still to this day go there at least a couple times a month, generally after I get off of work — and they’ll now be closed during that time frame.
Why are they doing this? Really, I’m not sure. It’s always packed every night, so its can’t be a financial reason. The family owners say it’s a “Family decision” but later say “The good business is causing us to have slow ticket times, (food) not cooked correctly” because they weren’t there in the evening watching over everybody’s soldiers.
So what do they do? Instead of hiring a evening-shift manager that knows what they’re doing and can improve the problems they’re having, they decide to lay off staff and close six hours earlier. Brilliant, folks, absolutely brilliant.
To use an example I’m familiar with, I work for a family-owned and run company. While it’s nice when they’re there, they’ve surrounded themselves with talented employees so that if they were to up and disappear off the face of the earth, the company would still function great and nothing would falter. Why can’t they do that at Pilot Butte?
My guess is the public outcry will get Pilot Butte back to regular shift within the month, but they need to do it with better management, and, in this case, less family involvement.
My bet is he will stage a comeback — I don’t know what kind of comeback, but only something intelligent and insightful, as he always has been — but Jack Bogdanski is calling it quits. There was even a feature in today’s Oregonian about it. Jack mentioned this site as a daily read, for which I am flattered, and if anybody is coming here because of the article, welcome!
Jack, you will be missed. Even if you don’t blog yourself, share your comments on the news on the rest of our sites. I know you don’t comment here much because it’s not a Portland blog (because I don’t mention you or Portland directly or because my content is absolute crap — either way seems reasonable), I do expect to see your name in the comments of the Portland area blogs.
A Singaporean woman has set a world record for mobile-phone texting, keying in the benchmark phrase “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” in 43.24 seconds, without the benefit of any predictive text utilities.
I tried it on my phone, and it took me about 1.5 minutes — to get through the first three words.