So we all know at this point that the balloon boy was a hoax and charges will probably be filed, but now we know the guy that helped the dad plan this whole thing.
There’s a name for these kind of people.
Time Killer For The Evening
Obechi is a simple game — capture the dots — but gets really hard in later levels. I got to level 15 before I got too mad at it that I was about to scream.
Random Stuff Cleanout
Going through some of my old notes and links here…
- Got this email from the Bulletin a few weeks back, and the archive is the interesting bit, to me:
We’d like to introduce you to two great new features on our web site.
Our historical archive dating back to 1907 is now available online. More than 600,000 pages are available today and another 1.5 million will be available in the coming months. To view this great resource go to www.bendbulletin.com and in the search bar at the top of the page type in a keyword search term, then select the “Newsprint Archive” button just below the keyword box.
Just for fun, play our pro football contest game and you could win a Super Bowl party for 8 in a private room at Scanlon’s Restaurant, as well as great weekly prizes. You can even create a “private contest” and compete against your friends. Just go to www.bendbulletin.com/pigskinpayoff to enter. Be sure to enter before Sunday’s games to be eligible to be a winner this week.
They’re missing some time in the mid-late ’90s until a few years back as I was in the paper dozens of times for high school-related stuff and they’re not there.
- You thought you’ve seen everything,Then there’s animals with lightsabers.
- Everything’s bigger in Texas, including Windows errors.
- Nothing like a mushroom shaped like a boob (thanks Jen).
More later. Time to watch Monk and Psyche.
Scared Google Is Tracking You?
Learn more about their opt-out feature:
Time Killer For The Night
You might not make it to bed tonight if you try to complete all the levels of Pyro II.
Six-year-old Flying Over Colorado in Homemade Balloon — UPDATE: Or not…
At first I thought this was an Onion story, but it’s not. A six-year-old boy is floating over Northern Colorado in a large helium-powered aircraft. It looks like a large tin-foil UFO, but it has a kid inside and is floating around 8000 feet. The kid’s parents were building the experimental aircraft, and the curious kid climbed inside and somehow got the tether loose, sending him skyward. The military, FAA, and all sorts of folks are trying to figure out how to safely get him down. The kid’s probably scared to death, the poor thing.
Live video is here or here if 9News.com feed doesn’t work (the MSNBC feed is more stable, and both show the same video). I’ve also embedded the live feed after the jump.
Update: The balloon landed safely just a few miles from Denver International airport (the airport owns a ton of land around there that’s completely barren, but has a lot of power lines, so they got lucky). It got low enough where somebody grabbed the tether lines. They did not find the child. There was nobody in the thing. The child was not at the home, either, so there’s a kid missing somewhere.
Update again later: The kid never left the house, was hiding up in the attic the entire time, probably freaking out that he’d get it trouble. Can’t say I blame him, but good to know he’s fine.
Videos For The Day
A few videos sitting here in my box. Check them after the jump. Have more, but need to get away from my ‘puter for a bit.
Lindsay Lohan Has Really Let Herself Go
I mean, she’s 23 years old and the woman looks like she’s been ran over by a truck.
Screenshot below in case it gets fixed.
Google Expands Central Oregon’s Street View Coverage
I mentioned nearly a year ago how Central Oregon had a limited bit of coverage. Their coverage was primarily to major highways 97 and 20 through Central Oregon, but it appears that coverage has expanded quite a bit. I don’t know when this exactly changed, but it was sometime within the last few weeks as I use Google maps frequently and had not noticed this.
Central Oregon’s coverage has gotten quite a bit larger than before:
And Bend’s in general has as well:
Now the real fun begins: Can anybody find themselves on there? Or something fun? Or even a rough idea on the date these were done? It does appear that the images this time around not as much snow like the last Street View images, so they must have been taken during a warmer time of the year. I have a feeling they combined images from a couple different times as there’s still snow around Mt. Bachelor but not around Elk Lake. I’m sure there’s a dividing point along there if you “drive” along the highway for a while, as there wouldn’t be snow at Mt. Bachelor without there being snow at Elk Lake.