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Anybody Know Who This Is? (Updated)

Editor’s Note: I’ve removed all the links to information about this girl and most of my original post, and will be closing off my BendForum’s thread about this. The father has called my house because apparently people are calling him and harrassing him and his family. That was not something I would ever encourage, folks.

The girl is OK. This was basically a cry for attention from the girl. The dad had commented below saying this was a cry for attention. I’d recommend the folks who have looked up her phone information quit calling her — you’ll just be feeding her drive for attention, and from what the Dad says, it’s not going to help anyway. Hopefully the girl will get help and actually take advantage of the help offered instead of just brushing it off. But harrassing her and her family isn’t going to help matters. So cool it.

My original reason for posting this entry was to make sure that a life wasn’t taken. For better or for worse, there is somebody in some deep pain, and I never like to see people suffer. But if a life can be saved, then all the better.

Comments are now closed and removed on this entry. If you want to continue the discussion on parenting, you’re welcome to go over to Bend Forums and discuss things there, but I will remove comments that refer to this mess.

July 20, 2006

I Love FixYourOwnPrinter.com

If you’ve never been over to FixYourOwnPrinter.com, you’ve missed out. On more than one occasion, I’ve had an issue with one of the laser printers here at the office that was beyond a simple clean up or paper jam fix. But a quick trip to their forums has almost always netted me a solution, and their repair kits (which I’ve bought this and this before) were tremendously helpful.

So why bother doing all this myself? Because I work in Sunriver where the nearest printer repair places are in Bend and on-site service to Sunriver usually costs a minimum of $75 plus labor for repair. The couple times I’ve had printer guys come out to Sunriver, they’ve usually been stumped and had to go order parts. So why not just order the parts from them ahead of time and do it myself for a ton cheaper? Yeah, their parts are a bit expensive and the instructional videos are a bit cheesy, but they work. I just spent a couple hours and $30 (for parts) dismantling a Xerox Phaser 860DP to replace the internal heat lamps for the thing that I would’ve probably have cost me $200+ to have somebody come and do it (plus parts) . It was a stupidly complicated printer to take apart, but it got done (probably would’ve got done quicker had I not tried to take apart the wrong clutch, but that was my fault), and the stuff from FixYourOwnPrinter.com only took two days to get here.

July 19, 2006

Bend Forums Beta Is Live

OK, so I’ve owned the domains bendforums.com and bendforum.com for a long while, and I’ve finally decided to do something with them. I’ve thrown up an installation of Vanilla over at Bend Forums. It’s still very much in beta form, but the only want to make it work the best it can is to have folks use it.

I’m still going to probably tweak/change the template, add/change categories (I like to keep it simple as I hate trying to figure out which category to post in when there are dozens listed), and add some more features. It could go up, it could go down, but my loyal readers here (and fellow Bend-ites) are welcome to register and start breaking it for me, making suggestions (I have a category for that), etc… .

So go ahead and register, create a topic, and have at it. I do have some basic ground rules that I reserve the right to edit at any time, so please try to stick to those.

July 18, 2006