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…and then there are real a**holes…
Burglars likely looking for money broke into and ransacked the Bend home of Tyler Eklund on Sunday as the father of the 14-year-old paralyzed snowboarder was heading back to his paralyzed son and wife at a Reno, Nev., hospital, a family friend who is housesitting confirmed Sunday night.
If you’ve been in a hole and don’t know who Eklund is, read up.
Update on 4/16 at nearly midnight: They arrested two teenagers and charged them with breaking into the house.
Not a switch-hitter, but a switch-pitcher. If this guy is as good as they say he is, I can foresee him making big bucks in the Major Leagues.
(And on a totally unrelated note, has anybody else noticed the annoying pop-ups on NYT and WashPost every time you double-click on ANY word in their stories? It opens up an Answers.com-powered definition window. The problem is that if you use a touchpad on a laptop, you might know that double-tapping is also a scroll-lock of sorts, giving you the ability to just move your finger up and down to scroll the page. That stupid little thing causes a pop up and the feature to not work unless I’m very careful to not click on a single word on the page. Annoying? Indeed.)
While this totally screams of anti-trust, Microsoft could easily kill Google if they were to pull this off (be sure to read the follow up).
This is always handy for folks who are adverse to change, but should really be running Firefox because they seem to get themselves in trouble with MSIE.
I swear, the fast food industry must be watching what my wife has eaten over the years at fast food resturants. They wait until she really likes something and then they proceed to remove it from their menu forever. Observe…
There have been others over the years, but I just can’t think of them right at the moment (if I remember, I’ll post ’em here — there was something at Taco Bell and at Dairy Queen, but I can’t remember what it was).
So I apologize if anybody out there has liked any of these things over the years and have come to find them disappear — it’s my wife’s fault.
When news hit the wire that Drew Bledsoe, back-up quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, was planning on retiring, the news kept showing up in my Google search alerts for local news. Why? This quote right here:
“This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while,” Bledsoe said last night from his home in Bend, Ore.
So he has a home in Bend? News to me, but apparently he not only has one huge 4600+ sq. ft., million dollar house in Broken Top (Google Map view here), but he also owns a nice piece of land in the new Highlands at Broken Top (Google Map view).
If you want more detailed (and propertly more up-to-date) imagery of any of these properties, the City of Bend has a great GIS Internet Browser (MSIE only, unfortunately) that Jon has some great directions on how to use it.
Simple concept — just bounce the indestructable tank into planes, collect the points. But it sure is fun.
As an experiment, the Washington Post setup a world-class vionlist to act as a street performer. He played some of the violin’s most difficult arrangements perfectly, but did anybody care any more? Sadly, no (the story has a telling video). Be sure to read the full back story as well.
Update on 4/12: Michelle points us to an interesting take from a NYC subway musician, and why Joshua Bell didn’t get much money. Good points.
Fighting in sports has worked its way down to the junior hockey level (of course set to music). Video after the jump…
Before announcing the tournament winner’s last week, I made it clear that if the first place guy couldn’t claim a prize or declined a prize, it would go onto second place, and if they declined, it’d go to third place, etc… . Scott, the winner of the mess, declined the Jake’s Diner certificate as well as the basic will preparation because he lived in Indiana (everything else is on the way to him right now). The certificate then went to Chris, who got second, but since he is a lawyer already, he declined the will preparation, so it’s going to third place goldenglove7624. I’ve e-mailed your Yahoo account, goldenglove, but have no idea if you actually check that (I check mine about once a month). If you’re reading this, please comment here, reply to my e-mail, or post your public e-mail address on the tournament page so we can get this squared away (and next year, we’ll be a bit better organized on this kind of thing if folks want to be eligible for prizes).