My dad clued me in to this: Fireball sighted over Pacific Northwest. A fireball streaked through the night sky across the western half of the Pacific Northwest on Saturday, startling people all the way from southern Oregon to the Seattle area. Scientists said the fireball was probably a meteor, and that it likely disintegrated just… Continue reading Fireball
Month: March 2005
Bandage Man
A bit of Oregon esoterica for everyone this Friday morning, and it’s a ghost story to boot: The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach. The Bandage Man is a phantom of a man completely wrapped in bandages that haunts this small community. The bloody figure, who smells of rotting flesh, jumps into vehicles passing on a… Continue reading Bandage Man
Jake’s Diner is moving
I heard this on the radio this morning, and then caught this article in the Bend Bulletin: Jake’s Diner is moving to the eastside. The spot? The Royal Thai Cafe building, behind Bedmart and Scrap-a-Doodle… which, if anyone keeps track, seems to be a death knell for restaurants. I can remember Sully’s (Italian) was there,… Continue reading Jake’s Diner is moving
The Dukes of Hazzard… movie!
Yep, there’s going to be a Dukes of Hazzard movie this year, it even has its own IMDB entry already. I’d heard of this awhile back, rumors of it anyway, and it sure seems especially apropos with my Boss Hogg entry a week or so back. Get a load of the cast: Seann William Scott… Continue reading The Dukes of Hazzard… movie!
Comments were down, now back up
Jake clued me in to the fact that anyone trying to add comments here was getting big, ugly PHP error message. D’oh! I figure it’s been down for three days, when I was last futzing around with blocking comment spam. Go figure. But on the bright side, I haven’t gotten any comment spam for three… Continue reading Comments were down, now back up
New Bend.com
I’ve noticed over the past few days that Bend.com finally has that new design Barney was talking about back around the end of the year. Overall, I think it looks 1000% better than before, albeit not quite perfect (the RSS feed appears to be broken, no user comments at the bottom of the articles…). However.… Continue reading New Bend.com
30,000
And he said “God, make it a dream!” as he rode his last ride down. And he said “God, make it a dream!” as he rode his last ride down. And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars, clipped off thirteen telephone poles, hit two houses, bruised eight trees, and Blue-Crossed seven people. It was then… Continue reading 30,000
3 newish Bend restaurants
Two weekends ago, the in-laws were in town from Chicago, and as always happens, we went out to dinner (and lunch) every day they were here. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be much to write about, but while they were here ate out at three of the newer restaurants here in Bend: Zydeco, Mercury Diner and Anthony’s… Continue reading 3 newish Bend restaurants
Now under a Creative Commons License
As promised, I’ve changed this site’s copyright to a Creative Commons license; specifically, an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. What this means is, anyone is free to make derivative works of my stuff, or to copy, distribute, display, and perform it, so long as they give me credit, distribute the resulting work only under a license identical… Continue reading Now under a Creative Commons License
Sklar on Google Toolbar
David Sklar, a PHP programmer/author I respect, has a post on his blog on the Google Toolbar controversy. Sklar joins the voices of reason on this, few and far between though we may be. It’s a good post, worth the read, but I think his opening and closing sentences are the kickers: Why do folks… Continue reading Sklar on Google Toolbar