The Hit-and-Run Story Gets Even Weirder

Remember the California father and son who were arrested in that nasty hit-and-run a month ago (solicited lots of comments on this site)? Well, the story gets weirder: The father, George Goodson, who allegedly helped his son and buddies dispose of the car that was involved in the incident, was found dead in a Bend hotel room. Unfortunately, there’s no story on KTVZ.com yet that I can see (correct me if I’m wrong, Barney), and the Bulletin’s story isn’t a freebie, so I can’t really point you anywhere to read this. (If somebody at the Bulletin’s reading this, which I know you are, can you get that story unlocked?) The Bend Weekly has a story here.

Just the same the brief story basically says that the death is still under investigation — not calling it a suicide or a homicide, so this just puts another twist in this already oddball story.

May 15, 2007

Ah The Joys Of Geekdom…

I’m sure every geek has had moments like this.

I went to one of our remote offices to move some equipment around as they were going to be doing some remodeling. Computer moved fine, but when I picked up the printer, I noticed something really wet on the bottom of it. It was blank ink — the cartridge inside at sprung a leak. It was now all over my hands, and had sprayed black ink all over the desk and all inside the printer. I tried to open the printer cover, and it was stuck a bit, so I gave it a firm yank, and the thing flew open, throwing ink all over the place — including on my face. Knowing that this stuff is a pain to wash off when it dries, I sprinted to the bathroom and scrubbed my face as hard as I could to get it all off. I did, but now my face is red from the scrubbing (better than black from the ink, however).

That printers going to the garbage, as there’s no way it can be cleaned out easily. It’s an old crappy HP Deskjet and was past it’s prime anyway.

Now to get to all these RSS feeds I’ve been missing over the last few days…(and yes, the concerts went fine, I’m just really exhausted after three nights of concerts on a stupidly hot stage).

May 15, 2007

Offline Until Through Monday

Just an FYI: I’m going to be mostly offline the next few days, as I was today, as I have concerts all weekend. If anybody reading this plans on making it to the concerts, feel free to find me during intermission and say “Hello.”

Update On Monday: OK, so I originally said “until” today, but I was slammed at work today after taking yesterday off, so will get back to blogging tomorrow as I have another symphony concert tonight. Hopefully I will see some of you, and don’t be shy like Barney — yell at me, assuming we’re not playing.

May 11, 2007

Business Card Design Input Needed

I’m in the process of trying to think up some creative personal business card ideas for myself, and came across these cool ideas. Obviously, many of those are far too expensive and the printer I use (who’s doing the printing for free as I send them a ton of jobs) can’t do some of those oddball materials.

They’re going to be full color printing, double sided. I’m thinking I’m basically going to design a simple postcard with my name, email, phone, and three words (or pairs of words) that describe me (I like simplicity on business cards). I was thinking about following the lead from my LinkedIn profile where I sell myself with a title of “Geek, Blogger, Crazy Person.”

So this is where you come in, dear readers (and obviously if you don’t know me, you might not be able to help much): I want you to fill in the blank (as crazy person isn’t quite right, but still casual, which is what I want):

Geek, Blogger, _________

Or think of three other words for me. Nutjob, a**hole, Local, Hater-of-tourists, etc…. are all fair game. Just help me find the right word.

Ideas?

May 9, 2007

Man Threatens To Bomb Newspaper

Why is this news? Because he was angry he didn’t get his Sunday coupons.

May 9, 2007

Monica Lewinsky’s Back In Oregon

And I think Jack has pinned down why she’s here.

May 9, 2007

Some People Have Some Oddball Hobbies

Like this woman, who dresses up roadkill in pet and baby clothes.

Link via Obscure Store.

May 9, 2007

Family Guy Is A Great Show

What other show out there will bust out in a random five-minute fight with a guy in a chicken costume (and this is the third time it’s happened — the third is below, the first two are here):

That being said, while it’s a funny show, you’ll notice a lot of scenes in Family Guy that are eerily similar to old Simpsons episodes:

May 8, 2007

Somebody Needs To Practice What They Preach

A 32-year police vet who recently received an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been charged with drunken driving. Whoops.

May 7, 2007

I Could See This Happening On Bend’s West Side

Sad: Bay-Area couple pays a “bargain” $525,000 for a fixer-upper home in an area where the homes run an average of $755.000.

Bad: The home was 870 square feet.

Crap: It totally collapsed during renovations.

May 7, 2007