Another Parent Of The Year Nominee

And this time, he’s from Bend.

(VIRGINIA CITY, Nev.) – A Bend man is in custody for leaving his two-year old girl alone in an automobile at a Nevada brothel for more than two hours. Deputies investigating the case at the Mustang Ranch say the outside temperature was 95 degrees.

So now we’re nationally infamous for deadbeat dads, obscene real estate prices, being a top place to go to die, and having a ton of people in huge amounts of debt, among other things.

Five Years Later, It’s Good To Be Back

Five years ago I finished my last competitive race, the 2002 Hood-To-Coast relay. It was the third time I had participated in the relay, after running nearly 200 competitive races since I started running competitively back in high school (all my high school results can be found here). Little did I know that when I handed off the bracelet/baton of my last relay leg, it would be the last time I’d run until today.

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The Most Obnoxious Thing You’ll Hear All Day

Here are crapload of people at a Keizer baseball game playing “Taking Me Out To The Ball Game” on their kazoos, in an attempt to break a world record:

Google Earth Has A Hidden Flight Simulator

If you’re a Google Earth junkie, this will kill off quite a bit of your day.

What If “Office Space” Was A Drama

Its trailer might look something like this:

Stuff For Sale

If you have kids, or need a good desk for a geek, I have a couple of Craigslist ads here and here.

Isn’t Her 15 Minutes Up Yet?

We’ve all seen the Miss S.C. Teen USA and her bumbling of the geography question on the show (if you haven’t, watch this). She’s since been making the talk show circuit, and now has a geography pop quiz video on People.com. On the bright side, at least she’s laughing about her flub. But her 15 minutes are up now.

Not News: Man Gets Busted For Driving Drunk

News: He has no legs.

Why it’s here? There was another guy on the floor controlling the pedals, who was also drunk, and both were busted. The man without leg’s defense? He wasn’t actually operating the truck because he couldn’t push the gas pedal, so he couldn’t have been “driving drunk.”

Microsoft Forces Shutdown Of Autopatcher

If you haven’t used Autopatcher, you’ve really missed out on a great way to keep multiple computer up-to-date (especially if you’re like me and work on brand-new computers on a regular basis that need patching). Like right now, I’m setting up a new Windows XP machine for the office, and was trying to get Autopatcher installed as my copy is a few months old. But I couldn’t, as Microsoft has sent a cease-and-desist notice to the Autopatcher folks, so you’ll no longer find downloads or updates to the pack on their site.

Truly a sad day, indeed. Google cache still has the download page, but many of the links don’t work as they go to NeoWin’s forums, where the project originally lived. You can find it here, and torrents here, but probably not for long.

I’m sure this is a ploy by Microsoft to convince people to start using their clunky services more or to try to move people in the corporate world to their Update Services systems. Thanks, Microsoft, but if I’m going to get an automated patch solution, I’ll use Net-Chk Protect.

Want To Lower Your Tax Bill?

Just find a way to pay yourself rent. That’s how Wal-Mart did it.