My birthday is coming up on November 23rd. It got me thinking of all the birthdays in the past, and mainly how these birthdays have affected my own life.
FATHER
Growing up, I used to skip school on my father’s birthday and my grandmother would to take me to visit him at the Zoo, which [...]
(via oregonlive)
The Oregon Humane Society has run out of room for cats and is hoping that the public will raise a paw to help.
“We’ve run out of room at the inn when it comes to cats,” said OHS Executive Director Sharon Harmon. “We’re asking the public to adopt 100 cats by Thanksgiving so we can [...]
Sen. Harry Reid: “A joke would be This easy to make about this picture.”
I have blogged in the past about a way to end the war. It didn’t work. Now I got a new one. Some congressional committee today published a report suggesting the war could end up costing $1.3 [...]
So that live-blogging the Blackout thing didn’t really pan out in the end, because my laptop battery ran out exactly 10 minutes after the first post. Now the power is back on.
It was a moment of poignancy, though, when that last little sliver of power dropped out of the battery indicator and I shut [...]
Above: live picture of the blackout
1:34 pm Well, the power just went out here at beautiful Reed College. And, chaos: The college’s president is scrambling around the quad distributing night-vision goggles to his favorite students. “You’ll need these when the wolves come,” he said. Three were killed when students [...]
TOO CREEPY?
THIS JUST IN: You probably all know Google announced yesterday its open-source “android” mobile phone platform, which will provide a bunch of features like maps and the ability to accidentally stumble upon a bunch of gross porn via Google Image Search on the bus. Contrary to a lot of speculation, though, Google is [...]
POLL: Did that last joke cross kind some kind of line?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Doesn’t matter because it wasn’t funny.
D) This is your Mom; I’m very disappointed in you.
When I grow up I might have a son. Raising a son is like coding a little computer program with the right logic to turn it into a functional, upstanding citizen: Broccoli = Yes; Crack = No. But I think it would be funny to code one little thing wrong in the [...]
A while ago I blogged about how much good advertising does in the world. I thought I would give it a shot and try to connect people with the goods and services they so desperately need:
The 400 Year-old Clam was discovered/killed on Tuesday
ICELAND - The 400 Year-Old Clam died Tuesday morning of complications related to being discovered. It was 400 years old. Millions mourned the 400 Year-Old Clam, whose untimely death cut tragically short a life of incredible promise. I’m pretty sure the clam was gearing [...]
