The miracles of modern medicine can make a kid so happy:
Cascade Winds Symphonic Band: Free Family-friendly Concert
Jon already beat me to this, as I’ve been busy/slacking/whatever the last couple weeks, but the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band (of which I’ve been a member for 15+ years) is having their final concert on June 6 (Sunday) at 2:00PM at Summit High School. The concert is free, we’ll have loads of great music (American composers and themes this time after last concert’s Russian theme). We’ll have a few featured soloists (as well as a vocal soloist), munchies during intermission, and it’ll be an enjoyable show for everyone!
For more details, head to the Cascade Winds’ site or head over to Facebook and invite all your friends.
KTVZ Has An iPhone App?
Apparently so, and while it was having issues with content not updating with the change to their new site, it looks like they released a new version today that apparently fixes the problem according to the changelog.
For the rest of us that don’t have (and will probably never have) an iPhone, m.ktvz.com works fine for me. And don’t forget you can get this site and BendBlogs on their respective mobile sites (and those URLs apparently work well on an iPhone — but again, can’t test, so I don’t know).
Time Killer For The Evening
It’s a pretty simple premise — you just need to get the sheep home. The animation and sound add to a fun puzzle game.
Reading Material
- Sad story of the day: Ethan didn’t have to die (or: If I ever saw either of these people on the street, I’d hit them with a baseball bat, no questions asked).
- The work conditions are so bad at the Chinese Foxconn factory that makes iPhone and iPads that a bunch of people have committed suicide.
- What does that hotel really look like? See for yourself, as those nice photos were obviously taken out of context.
- About dang time: the moronic doctor who claimed that vaccines caused autism, causing vaccination rates to plummet, has had his license pulled. Now if we could just get Jenny McCarthy to shut her mouth …
- Because every country is the best at something.
- When Sarah Palin visits the OBGYN, they have to bring in hazmat suits from the center for disease control..
- Google launches encrypted search.
- What if Empire Strikes Back was a 50s 3-D movie?
- Nice way to pimp a VW: Install a built-in beer tap.
- The Sad Reality Behind Ronald McDonald.
- After 100 years, Mark Twain’s autobiography will be released.
- SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe.
- Amazing developer arrogance (and why I won’t be using OpenCart — its developer has made it unmaintainable).
- Lost hackers documentary, Hackers Wanted, shows up Pirate Bay.
- Why the web is awesome: Metafilter helps track down victims of human trafficking.
- Why Zappos is awesome: They had a pricing mistake that cost them nearly $1.6 million, and they took it like men.
Birthday Timekiller
According to a bunch of wall posts on Facebook and a bunch of automated e-mail greetings from the zillions of forums I have accounts on, it’s my birthday today. Apparently I’m 32 today. I’m just in denial of it all, as I’m ever closer to 40 — which is apparently the new 30.
But one cool thing about having a birthday this time of year is I (nearly) share a birthday with Pac Man. Google is celebrating the game’s 30th birthday with a playable home page logo (and you can even play two-player using the WASD buttons). Just insert a couple coins and go!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone!
Boy That’s Big
Seagate is planning by year’s end to be selling 3TB (that’s 3000 gigabyte) hard drives. The problem? They won’t work properly with many operating systems.
Geekdom Reading Material
- I could see this being useful in many places: Can manure power data centers?
- Using distributed computing to power a search engine.
- Display myths debunked: How monitor and HDTV companies cook their specs.
- WordPress 3.0 Ultimate Guide To New Features.
- Steve Jobs offers world “Freedom From Porn“.
- Fanboys: A field guide.
- Just for kicks: webOS booted up on a PC.
- How to replace your iMac’s hard drive.
- The ultimate list of 50 free Mac games.
- Typekit and Google announce open source of the WebFont loader, which works nicely with the newly announcement Google Font API and Google Font Directory.
- Speaking of Google, they’ve announced a project to release the VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. An x264 developer weighs in with technical analysis.
- HTML5 and Flash: Why it’s not a war and why Flash won’t die.
- Happy birthday to todo.txt CLI.
- Newsroom saves money by using iPads in place of paper scripts.
- Elastic, a visual theme editor for WordPress.
- nixCraft FAQ collection available to all.
- Build your own video community with Lighttpd and FlowPlayer.
- A nifty URL shortener that I should’ve used when I ran sh.orty.
Thirty Years Later, and These Images Are Still Haunting
While I was only a couple years old when Mount. St. Helens blew its top 30 years ago today, I’ve heard loads of stories from family members who lived in the Portland-area when it erupted. These pictures bring those stories back into my mind.