The Rise And Fall of the Nigerian Space Program
Before Cheryl sent me this hilarious story about a childhood experiment with gun powder, I had never heard of The LawDog Files. The stories he writes are hilarious and it’s been addded it to my wish-I-had-more-time-to-comb-through collection of RSS feeds.
She Was Probably Just Trying To Use The Carpool Lane
Woman nabbed driving corpse across country.
A 53-year-old German woman who was driving her dead mother across country to save on mortuary transportation costs was fined by police for disturbing a dead person’s peace.
“You’re not allowed to transport dead people in your private car,” said Ralf Schomisch, police spokesman in Koblenz, where the car was found after a tip-off from a mortuary.
“The corpse was on the back seat without a seat belt, which in this case didn’t really matter. But it was covered up with clothing. It is a misdemeanor.”
Does Anybody Need A Crapload of Girl Scout Cookies?
First off, I know that you’re not allowed to sell Girl Scout Cookies over the Internet, but that’s only if you’re actually selling on behalf of the Girl Scouts and you’re associated with them, and I’m neither — I’ll be putting you in touch with the man who is (who will remain nameless, as I don’t want to get the dude in trouble).
But here’s the deal: A buddy of mine here in Bend is getting screwed by the Girl Scouts. The troop he and his wife are involved in took on a bunch of extra cookies for booth sales (an estimated number). Last year they let you return unwanted and extras, but apparently this year (which was a surprise to them and bunch of phone calls hasn’t helped), they wouldn’t take them back. So they’re stuck with over $1000 of Girl Scout cookies.
As it stands right now, he has the following (and each case of cookies is 12 boxes) Update: Total that’s left has been updated as of 5/1:
- Thin Mints (my wife’s favorite and I’ve got a box on order):
14About 4 Cases - Samoas (my personal favorite and I’ve got a box on order):
7<1 Case - Tagalongs:
42 Cases - Allabouts:
1 case2 boxes
They usually sell for $4.00/box, but he’s selling them for $3.50/box or $40 for an entire case ($3.33/box). He’ll deliver anywhere in Bend, or ship if you PayPal him shipping.
If you’re interested, contact me, comment here with a valid e-mail address and I’ll put you in touch. You can also email [email protected] and that redirects to his e-mail account.
He needs to liquidate as much as possible as soon as possible, as the deadline to pay this off is coming up fast.
OLCC chief quits after drunken-driving arrest
Whoopsie. Ironic? Indeed.
Be sure to check out a better mugshot on KGW (though I’m not pointing you there for the story because they require registration, and I frickin’ hate that).
How Do People Find UtterlyBoring.com?
Apparently some folks at a radio station in Portland (who will remain nameless, as I didn’t ask for permission) were bored (which seems to bring a bunch of traffic here) and searched for “bastard gas prices suck“, which has an old post on my site listed as the third result.
It was from 2003 and I was complaining about our $1.94 prices. My have times changed.
KFXO News Has A RSS Feed
It appears that KFXO is trying (not a very good attempt, really) to actually get some news content on their site. Because of the poor coding on the articles pages, the RSS feed URL is shown in just plain text. The feed is pretty minimal — headlines and links to story, but it’s a start.
So here’s the feeds that I know exist for local media outlets:
- KTVZ has several feeds
- Bend.com had one before the owner’s home burned down, taking bend.com with it.
- The Bulletin doesn’t have one officially (as far as I know), but Jon scraped one together a while back that seems to be working fine for just the few stories they make public.
- KBND has one as well so now I can officially stop listening.
- Update on 10/10: The Source’s new site has a feed now.
- And of course the above mentioned KFXO feed.
Now if we could just get feeds from The Source and Cascade Business News (and official support from The Bulletin), then that would make life much easier for those of us too lazy to browse the Web.
Are there any other local feeds that should be added to this list or to BendBlogs? Comment here.
Sorry KBND, But You’ve Lost A Listener
You know, I was OK with the fact that KBND — Bend’s only decent local radio news source — had seven hours of conservative talk radio on during the week days (between Rush, Lars, and Bill) because I generally wasn’t listening to it anyway as I was at work. I was even OK when they replaced the CBS radio news and replaced it with FOX news. I was still OK when they mixed up the content and syndicated bites they had interspersed in their news hours.
However, I quite enjoyed listening to Clark Howard on my drive home from Sunriver. And he’s been taken off the air during the week and replaced by another conservative talk show host, Sean Hannity. So that basically means from 6AM to Midnight (an 18 hour time span), half of that is taken up by conservative talk show hosts, according to their on air schedule.
And unfortunately, my car stereo and its antenna suck, so I can’t get KRDM (whose site is down) out of Redmond, which would at least get me a little balance in political commentary.
Now don’t get me wrong — I’m not a right winger, but I’m certainly not a left-winger, either. I’m a moderate in every sense of the word, and I agree a bit with both sides on different issues, so I’d like to hear from both sides of the issues — you don’t generally get that with those talk show hosts, and I listened to Clark Howard because he avoids politics and shows us how we can save a bunch of money. Now that’s always a good thing, right?
So other than the bit of news I’ll listen to on the drive home at the end of the afternoon news hour, I’ll be turning it back to ESPN 940 or NPR.
Quote Of The Day
Leave it up to former Bendite Dane to come up with this descriptive text: “The Dr Pepper at our local Wendy’s tastes like watered-down Band-Aids.”
Boy does that ever sound rancid.
In Case Any Else Locally Uses Unicom’s T1 Lines
Our office has a T1 line through Unicom and the connection has been iffy and slow all afternoon. After running some traces and such, finally called them, and apparently one of their fat-pipe DS3 circuits went dead, so they’re routing a ton of their traffic through one of their T1 lines. They say the problem will be fixed by 5:00PM and it’s only affecting their T1 customers, and if your on a DSL line, it’s not an issue. What that means that if it’s not fixed by 5:00, I get to switch the office back over to the DSL circuits we have upstairs as a backup, as the front desk has a Web-based reservation and management system, and they need a good connection to use it.