Be sure to have the sound on for this (high res version here):
It’s A Young Girl, Talking About Herself
This pretty much sums up all those video diaries you see on youtube:
The Far Side In Real Life
These recreations of The Far Side comics in real life are hilarious.
(For those of you that don’t know what The Far Side is, read up.)
And Speaking Of Crazy Commenters…
I just talked about BOR’s crazy comments, and it made me think of all the commenters who have been posting over the years here. It’s been over a year since I’ve done this, but here are the 30 most commented on entries for this site from over the years:
709 comments: Have a small penis?
563 comments: We All Hate Work
535 comments: Do Not Call List — Red Hot, Big Loopholes
398 comments: Extreme Dodgeball
364 comments: Do You Have Bright Green Poop?
360 comments: Panties Just For Men
340 comments: Another Great Gmail Hack
295 comments: Only a band geek will appreciate this
255 comments: How to cancel an AOL account in 3 minutes
207 comments: Help pay for a girl’s boob job
196 comments: Yet another reason to hate PETA
146 comments: Are hyphenated Yahoo names that rare?
142 comments: BendBroadband is Giving You More Speed…
118 comments: Sciatic nerve pinches hurt like hell
115 comments: Kurt Kobain a better guitarist than Jeff Beck and Carlos Santana? Not bloody likely!
100 comments: Learn to throw cards like a ninja
100 comments: That’s One Killer Christmas Light Display
98 comments: Smack the Penguin
92 comments: Sick and Politically Incorrect Jokes
90 comments: Michael Jackson has never had plastic surgery
88 comments: What comes after trillion?
86 comments: Dateline to focus on Michael Jackson’s face
83 comments: Another Reason to Hate AOL
68 comments: Man doubts his "World’s Smartest Person" title
65 comments: A 2,200 Acre Mushroom in Eastern Oregon
65 comments: Anybody Actually Using Clearwire?
61 comments: Man gets jail for licking woman’s feet in grocery store
60 comments: Fun "Monkey Kick Off" Flash Game
55 comments: DHTML Lemmings
53 comments: A virtual drum kit
Many of the same entries are there from before, with a few newcomers, but generally higher numbers all around.
Why ESPN Radio 940 (KICE) Is Hard To Hear In The Evening Locally
I work in Sunriver, and on the drive out from Bend, after listening to the news on KBND (which celebrates 75 years tomorrow), I generally will listen to ESPN Radio 940 KICE. I like getting a bit of sports news and commentary before I go to the office. Generally, I can hear it fine all the way to Sunriver.
In the evening when I drive home, however, it’s a totally different story. The station is impossible to understand, getting blown over by a Spanish-language station, even when I get back into Bend. I finally e-mailed the folks at the Bend Radio Group, who manage KICE, as it was driving me nuts. Like many stations, KICE goes into lower power mode at night. In this case, they run 10,000 watts during the day, but only 60-100 watts at night, according to the FCC database. Which would be fine if there wasn’t something else interfering (KPOV runs on just two watts and I can hear them fine nearly all the way to Sunriver — and yes, I know FM and AM signals travel and bounce around differently, so we won’t go into that discussion as it’s all voodoo magic to me anyway).
So I asked them if they knew what the station was that was interfering, and they told me it was some Spanish-language station out of Fresno. After checking into Fresno Radio on Wikipedia, I found that it was KWRU KYNO, which runs Radio Vida Abundanta content (which is apparently Spanish language Christian programming) talk radio at 50,000 watts day and night. So despite Fresno being over 600 miles from Bend, we’re still getting interference from that station because it runs so strongly (I’ve been able to listen to other Northern California AM stations at night before, but only from as far south as Sacramento — never from Fresno).
Personally, I wish KICE would simulcast on an FM frequency that’s less susceptible to the interference (like KBNW does), but 940’s been an AM station here as long as I can remember (along with 1110), so I don’t envision them changing frequencies anytime soon. It’d be nice to hear Beavers Sports without interference.
I also wish they’d get rid of Jim “I’m a heck of a guy” Rome as he (and his fans) drives me nuts. Cowherd‘s far more entertaining and less of an arrogant jerk.
Updated: March, 2011 With some more-up-to-date links/info as some call-letters and station content have changed, but the frequency and wattage is still the same.
Things I’ve Learned In This Nasty Weather
In case you haven’t heard, the weather all over Oregon has been a cold, nasty mess this week, with the temps earlier this week dropping below zero (with high temps in the single digits — Fahrenheit degrees, not Celsius). There are some things I’ve learned throughout this:
- My car battery — which is about the size of a go-cart battery and equally as powerful — doesn’t seem to like the temps below 10°F. I had to jump my car or pop the clutch on both Monday and Tuesday when the temps were in single digits. Get above 10°F, and it starts fine. It struggles, but it starts. I actually had an old, fully functional, basically new car battery in my garage (long story) that I just put in my trunk and kept it in there with my cables in case I couldn’t find somebody to jump me or I didn’t park on a hill so I could pop the clutch (which is a pain in the cold, but still possible).
- People in the Willamette Valley totally freak out when there’s ice and snow. If you read some of the Portland-area blogs or even the newspapers from the area, it’s like the end of the world over there. Granted, I know that Portland is not built for that kind of thing, nor are its residents, but I had a great laugh, watching folks try to drive in it. Portland, Eugene, and Salem are ripe with mass transit options — why people aren’t using them up there when it gets like this is beyond me.
- People become retarded when driving in the crap. I drive to work down Hwy 97 to Sunriver from Bend — one of the ugliest stretches of highway this time of year — and am constantly seeing people a) Driving way too fast for the conditions (it’s a frickin’ skating rink, folks) and b) driving with out their headlights on blizzards (like it was on the highway today). I nearly rear-ended a few people today because I couldn’t see them until I nearly clobbered them. They’re in white cars, in white-out weather, with no lights on. And they think because they’re in a big ol’ SUV or pickup that they can still drive the speed limit (or over it). Frickin’ idiots.
- My headlights need cleaning. They’re pretty heavily oxidized, and when I drive home at night, I need all the help I can get. Any recommendations, other than the various solutions suggested on Google? Anything particular work for anybody?
Wait, what?
Never thought I’d read this headline: “Lesbian Teens More Likely to get Pregnant than Straight Teens.”
Beards Are Awesome
Not only are there a ton of different types, but there are very good reasons to grow a giant beard.