A bunch of climbers took a portable hot tub up to the top of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, and went for a swim — with tons of crazy pictures.
Asinine Lawsuit For The Day
A one-year old managed to wander and fall into a family pool. He was pulled out by his mom and he was resuscitated by rescue workers. The boy suffered severe brain damage and cannot walk, talk or even swallow. We won’t get into why the parents or grandparents weren’t watching the little boy around the pool, but to make things worse, one of the rescuers is suing alleging that the family “left a puddle of water on the floor that afternoon, causing her to slip and fall.”
How I Feel About Halloween
Everybody knows my feelings about Halloween, and I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one.
Random Notes
Couple random notes:
- Going to Eugene tomorrow to watch the Duck game. It’s homecoming, so I’m going to try to hit up the Journalism/Emerald alumni tent for lunch. Come find me if you’ll be there (I’ll hit the tent at halftime).
- Did anybody go to the Fall Festival here in Bend this last weekend? Did anybody see that kid’s playhouse they were raffling off? That’ll be in our backyard in a month or so. My dad, who never enters to win anything (but always wins when he does) managed to win this, and is giving it to my daughters. Apparently the guy that builds these things usually sells them for about $1500, so I’m totally floored (as is my oldest daughter) that we’re getting the thing (and very grateful)
The problem is that to get this 7×7′ hand-built playhouse into my backyard, I have to move all my firewood out from next to my house (all 4+ cords of it) so this guy can get his trailer back there so we don’t have to roll the thing on pipes or something.
& Ceiling Cat sayz, i can has light? & light wuz.
Some people have far too much time on their hands and are working on translating every verse of the bible into LOLCat’s kitty pidgin. So John 3:16 translates from “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life” to “So liek teh Ceiling Cat lieks teh ppl lots and he sez ‘Oh hai I givez u my only son and ifs u beleevs in him u wont evr diez no moar, k?'”
That’s A Lot Of Concrete
How much landmass do Wal-Mart stores take up? An area larger than Manhattan.
Portland Added to Google Street View
I almost wished I lived in Portland so I could play with Google Maps in Portland and actually use it. They have the obvious driving directions that everybody else has, but they also have Google Transit Trip Planner (Eugene has this now, too, as of a couple weeks ago), live traffic conditions, and now they have the controversial Street View. Here’s the view at Joseph Wood Hill Park (just dropped the little street view dude in a random place).
Any Portlanders find anything fun on there? I don’t live up there so I don’t know where to look.
KOHD’s New Site Is Up
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.
You Won’t See This Burger At The Pilot Butte Drive In
The Luther Burger is a one pound burger with a bunch of bacon and glazed donuts in place of the bun.
Wow. That’s an instant heart attack right there.
Hey Strippers: Looking To Maximize Your Tips?
Psychologist Geoffrey Miller and colleagues tapped the talent at local gentlemen’s clubs and counted tips made on lap dances. Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.