Items of recent awesomeness
Some of these links aren’t as shiny-new as they were when I started this post, but even so: The CDC’s zombie apocalypse preparedness plan: Yes, the CDC is all over the possibility of a zombie...
View ArticleCascadia, State of Jefferson and other secessionist movements
Being in Portland several times over the past several weeks for beer happenings got me thinking about the (mostly inconsequential) debate about “Cascadian Dark Ales” (versus the other names of “Black...
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WTH?
Zoom in on the Google Map of Corvallis, Oregon, near downtown and this is what you’ll see: Er, what? How on earth did “Illinois” and “Nebraska” get in there?
View ArticleBlack metal humor
I ran across this last night, and it’s the funniest thing, hands down, than I’ve read in awhile: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time. Picked it up via Boing Boing, and it’s totally,...
View ArticleMouse fire!
Okay, this is kind of an awful story… No, scratch that. It’s a story that seems like it should be awful, but I just can’t take it seriously. It just makes me laugh. I can’t help it: Mouse takes down...
View ArticleFirst a mouse, now a puppy…
So first a mouse set a man’s house on fire, now a puppy has done the same thing here in Bend: A frisky puppy left in a laundry room apparently sparked a northeast Bend house fire that almost claimed...
View ArticleLinks
Just a collection of links to things I like and/or found amusing recently. dive into mark: Spaceships “Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the...
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Oregon Lottery Space Invaders!
I find it rather surreal that the Oregon Lottery is now offering Space Invaders lottery tickets. Seriously. It’s part of their “Travel back” line of Scratch-Its. They look rather complicated though,...
View ArticlePsycho!
The other day Dave posted a story riddle with a creepy punchline: the people who answer it “correctly”—i.e. a certain way—think like psychopaths. (Sorry to spoil the surprise.) It’s meant to illustrate...
View ArticleThere’s a Steampunk Festival in Weed, CA
Chalk this one up under “events I did not expect”: Weed, California has an annual Steampunk Festival, and it returns this year on May 21-22. Yep, the same town that hosts an annual 420 Festival (on...
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