I’ve Heard Of Pot Brownies…

…but I hadn’t heard of Meth Bread.

A search of the 1998 Honda Civic yielded a large quantity of meth hidden in a loaf of bread that was in the back seat, Porter said. Ramirez-Avila was taken into custody without incident, and his car was seized, along with $130 in cash, he said.

The 1.25 pounds of meth seized during the investigation had a street level resale value of more than $57,000, Porter said. It would have been enough to provide a single dose of the drug to more than 2,300 meth users in Central Oregon, he said.

Glad to hear it’s off the streets.

On a related note, I still wish I could buy Sudafed without working my ass off to do it, as it works (at least for my wife and I) far better during allergy season than the Sudafed PE-variants too. But thanks to the Meth-addicts, I’m going to have to order the crap online as by the time I get to a store to buy some (as only a few pharmacies locally still sell it), the pharmacy’s closed. So thanks to the habits of a bunch of local druggies (who are getting their Sudafed and drugs from other states/countries anyway), those of us who use the drug legitimately get screwed.

And remember: If you’re going to gripe about not being able to buy your decongestant, don’t joke about having a meth-habit and you’re just trying to get your fix. Rent-a-cops don’t like that.

How Does Bill Gates Work?

He’s got a pretty nice digital setup, and is entirely paperless. Interesting read on how he keeps himself organized.

I Would’ve Flunked College…

…if swimming was a requirement, as it is at many prestigious schools like MIT, Notre Dame, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Thanks Al for the link

200 Local Blogs Now Indexed At BendBlogs.com

Yeah, it’s no ORBlogs with its (as of this writing) 1057 blogs, but we now have 200 blogs listed at BendBlogs.com with the 200th being written by a Bend-La Pine school board member.

I’ve now automated the process of searching for new blogs (and I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before) using Google Alerts and the searches I used before.

Some of the feeds don’t get updated that often, but the are some interesting new blogs that I’ve found recently including a local chess club, Harold’s blog, a Central Oregon endurance racing blog, great commentary by Talapus Pete, a Prineville Healthblogger, Simone’s latest venture, Jon’s latest venture, as well as a bunch of LiveJournal and MySpace blogs.

Be sure to check out all these newly found local blogs, and if there is anything I’m missing, something that needs to be removed, etc…, please let me know or submit it here.

I Thought My Fish Were Harmless

Hollywood’s Out Of Ideas

Coming in 2007, Homey the Clown, the movie. I feel like taking a sack full of nickels, smacking the jackass who thought this was a good idea, and saying “Homey Don’t Play Dat.”

Flash Game Fix For The Day

This isn’t one game, but several small games, each that take four seconds to finish.

Looking For A Mother’s Day Gift Idea?

sh.orty: Now With Shorter URLs

Based on the feedback I’ve received from yesterday’s post about my URL shortening service, I implemented a few things:

  • Actually shows you that you need “http://” as part of the URL.
  • Shortened the link by one character, using a bit of mod_rewrite magic. So now instead of http://sh.orty.com/?RTEJGFXY it’s now http://sh.orty.com/RTEJGFXY (no question mark).
  • I also got rid of characters that would look similar to each other if copied/pasted into a printed document. So I, 1, O, and 0 will not be used when constructing URLs.

I need to fix a couple minor bugs I’ve come across, and Aaron has sent me a couple of great ideas for use of this service that he’s going to help me implement, so look forward to simple but cool changes.

Is Your MySpace Ugly?

This man describes everything I hate about 99.9% of the MySpace pages out there.