If I lived in California, I would’ve voted for Arnold. What other Governor would put a hidden “F*** You” (intentionally or otherwise) into a message to the state assembly about how poor of a job they’re doing?
Time Killer For The Day
SkyFyre is a great horizontal pixel shooter where you fly around on dragons, shooting down monsters. It’s simple, chaotic, and fun.
Updated Bend Telephone Prefix List
Years ago I posted a Bend local phone prefix list, because it was getting harder and harder to keep track of what was a local call and what wasn’t. I updated that list today with another bunch of prefixes, and also included the cities they’re based out of for folks like Simone who can’t call to Redmond from Lapine on her home phone without calling long distance, but can call Bend (at least when I first posted the list).
Why was I updating this list? Well I was playing with Google Voice, and looking to try to get a better number as my Google Voice number is less-than-memorable. Since we can’t port numbers to Google Voice yet (though as of today, we can use their voicemail services on our existing numbers), if I was going to be using Google Voice at all, I wanted a nifty number, and wanted a number that was local. While they’ll tell you where the number’s based, it’s nice to have another place to confirm it.
So if you’re in the same boat as me, check out the updated list (and this is going to get even more complicated when the new area code comes to town and 10-digit dialing is required).
Symphony Concert Tonight
If you’re wondering why I’ve been offline for the last few days, I’ve been playing and rehearsing with the Central Oregon Symphony. We had concerts the last two days and have one more tonight to finish the weekend. It’d a good show, concert is free, tickets at the door, hope to see you there!
And hope to get back to the blog later this week.
Geeky Proposal
Nothing proves you as a true geek like hacking a Super Mario game to propose to your girlfriend.
At least these folks know how to play video games, unlike this Home Shopping Network guy who dang near destroyed his demo TV playing the Wii.
Making The Leap To Windows 7?
In case you haven’t heard all the hype, Windows 7 was released today. If you’re planning on making the jump, be sure to read Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7 which has a ton of useful tips, tricks, and hints for the new OS.
Is anybody here taking the jump? I played with one of the early betas, but haven’t played since. I’ve heard and read really good things about it, though, and read that its performance is better than Vista. I just don’t know if there are Windows 7 drivers out for everything on this laptop I’m running, and I would need to invest in Windows 7 Professional (most people only need Home Premium) because I’d need XP mode for some applications here at the office that puked in Vista (and they only work in XP with a bit of tweaking — curse you legacy applications). I’d also need domain support, which is only available starting in the Professional version.
Update: If you’re hungry, there’s a Windows 7 Whopper available in Japan.
Time Killers For The Evening
In the middle of a commercial break here on Top Chef, so figured I’d share some simple but fun time killers, all found via the Webgames area of Reddit:
- The Crossing — never have deer falling to their death looked so nice.
- Amoebas, a very simple game that will drive you crazy really fast as you get into higher levels.
- Cover Orange has a simple premise: Protect the Orange(s) from the mean cloud and the rain of spikey balls using a variety of objects. It gets pretty complicated pretty fast.
Enjoy!
Don’t Understand NBA Rules?
I didn’t understand some of the rules, either, but the NBA’s new Video Rule Book clears up quite a bit of stuff.
I Knew That Lamp Was Trouble
What if that dancing lamp in the Pixar intros didn’t just smoosh the “I” in “Pixar”, but actually killed it? This video tells the story.
Best Culinary Invention Ever!
It’s a french-fry coated hot dog on a stick. And I’m sure it’s horrible for you, but tastes oh-so-yummy.