I suppose most everyone has heard by now, but Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he’ll run for governor of California. What a great day for American politics.
Hey, I’m serious; I drank a beer in honor of Jesse Ventura’s election to governor of Minnesota. Colorful personalities like this certainly revive interest in politics, whatever people may think.
A quick note to correct a misconception I propagated in my entry on blogs the other day. I said that a blogroll was a “Fancy name for a list of links to other blog sites” and I was only partially right. While a blogroll is a list of links to other blog sites, it is a list that is managed remotely (by BlogRolling, and there may be others) that you can dynamically insert into your site by including a snippet JavaScript or PHP code.
The neat thing is, they’ve put together a neat little JavaScript trick that allows you to sort of drag-and-drop a blog site to your blogroll list. They also do a few other neat things, including reporting on who’s linking to your own site on their blogrolls. So, a blogroll is definitely more than just a list of links.
It pays to know the right people, I’m realizing.
Today we (my wife and I) got invited to The Beach Boys concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater on August 17. But not just to the general admission—that would be too easy. No, we got invited to join some friends in one of the private VIP tents.
Let me just emphasize the words private and VIP here.
Plus, it’s catered by Outback Steakhouse.
Plus, it’s already paid for.
Pardon me while I gloat a bit. I don’t get to do this very often.
Where did July go? For that matter, where did the first half of the year go? I’m not sure I like this concept of time passing more quickly the older you get, which is what my grandmother always said and that I take to be a general truism. When you’re a child, time seems to pass so slowly, like when you’re in school or you’re waiting for Christmas… but then the older you get, the more quickly Christmas seems to come each year. And before you know it, you turn around and you’re 30 and you have 2 kids.
And before you can react to that, 31 is just around the corner…
Having grown up and spent a significant part of my life here in Bend, I still tend to thing of it as a small town, even though it’s growing by leaps and bounds. A such, I’m always amused at people’s reactions (my own included) when big-name music comes to town—it’s hard to imagine why bands would go out of their way to play our little logging town. Then I realize, not so little anymore.
Here’s a list of some of the groups that have played here recently or will be soon:
You get the idea. They may not be the biggest names in the industry, but they’re sure a hell of a lot bigger than John Grant and the Rednecks.
(Yes, that’s a real band. Or it used to be. I grew up next door to that guy.)
