We’re off to Portland tomorrow, without the kids, for an anniversary dinner cruise on the Portland Spirit. Should be a pretty good trip; I may even get to finally see Star Wars Episode II. Here’s an interesting little piece of news/trivia: Deschutes Brewery is apparently bottling their beers in a new bottle (they were simply… Continue reading Portland Spirit
Month: June 2002
Truth? Or Onion?
This is what passes for news in the Bend Bulletin, our local newspaper. I swear, this reads like it’s straight out of The Onion (excerpts, with my own commentary): Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Prineville man questions how the pyramids were built Alan St. John was reading the December issue of Popular Mechanics when he spotted… Continue reading Truth? Or Onion?
Warning:
Do NOT watch “Bandits.”
More than Meets the Eye
To my great delight, Amazon.com has the entire first season of the Transformers on DVD. This was the perfect television show that embodied the 1980s: a wildly popular cartoon whose sole purpose was to support an insanely popular line of toys, and yet there was such a seamless integration between the two that at times… Continue reading More than Meets the Eye
Friday
Ah, Friday. A fine end to a skewed week. We finally got a decent connection to the Internet at work, after three weeks in the new office in Bend. The DSL connection provided by Oregon Trail Internet just didn’t work out— the connection kept getting dropped, and when it was active, bandwidth would fluctuate wildly.… Continue reading Friday
Wayback to Portland
Went on a business trip to Portland today (for Alpine Internet Solutions, the company I work for) to meet with a new client we recently signed. It’s a big project, potentially high profile… though I probably shouldn’t mention who they are yet. I don’t want to attract the wrong kind of attention too soon… Here’s… Continue reading Wayback to Portland
I’m Batman
So on ReasonablyClever.com there is this Flash-based applet called the Mini-Mizer which allows people to build little custom Lego people out of all sorts of parts. Clearly, I’ve been playing with it. The coolest part about it is some wickedly neat things like Star Wars and comic book superhero parts, and some utterly non-sequitous things… Continue reading I’m Batman
Procrastination; Father’s Day; Summer Reading
Ack. I’ve been letting my mutant ability for procrastination take over on this site, and I haven’t even finished getting the relatively simple stuff done that I had intended— like, making the “Check it Out” area handle more than one item, or putting up more background material. Or perhaps I shouldn’t chalk it all up… Continue reading Procrastination; Father’s Day; Summer Reading
New Office!
We’ve been spending the last week or so at work packing up the old office in Sisters (Oregon) and moving into Bend, so things have been thrown into chaotic disarray while we unpack, build out, and get used to our new office space. My commute has been cut from 25 miles (one way) to 5… Continue reading New Office!