Author: Jon

We spent the weekend on the Coast, and while I don’t feel like writing a 2000+ word recap like I did for our Ashland trip last year, I wanted to highlight some of it—the (shall we say) less obvious things. So I thought I’d present it more travel guide style. (Inspired largely by the Fodor’s… Continue reading Oregon Coast travelogue

The headline refers to the movie, of course, which I took the kids to see today. It was great. No, I mean it—it was great. (No spoilers.) Several things contributed to it’s greatness. First, not knowing (until the credits roll) who any of actors doing the voices are, except of course for Jack Black. I… Continue reading Kung Fu Panda

Just offloading some things and ideas that have been rattling around. CNN ran a story last week entitled, "Nine cool jobs that pay well." (Paying "well" is relative in their article, I guess.) Top of the list? Brewmaster ($42,430). And good news if you want to take advantage of how cool it would be to… Continue reading Braindump

First summer blockbuster of the year: we went and saw "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" this past weekend. I rather liked it, as I knew I would, though for me it’s not as good as "Last Crusade", although that’s forgivable (for me) because it’s only been nearly two decades since the… Continue reading Indy

Boing Boing Gadgets asks the rhetorical question: Who’d like a portable text game console? With some neat mocked up possibilities, too. I’m raising my hand, by the way. The intent behind such a device would be, in their words, to "open up the possibilities to the world’s vast back catalog of ASCII-style titles." In other… Continue reading A portable text game console. Yes, please.

Yeah, I’m aware that this is the first blog post I’ve made here this month, and it happens to be an American Idol post. I suck, now let’s move on. Basically, after watching all this season and tonight’s finale, my pick for the winner is David Cook. I thought both finalists did really well, but… Continue reading So, American Idol…

This is cross-posted from Hack Bend (I was there in a "Hack Bend" capacity) because it’s cool and I’m just narcissistic enough to post multiple times: Last month I had been invited to be on media panel at the Deschutes County offices, as the resident blogging expert representing how blogging and "new media" are becoming… Continue reading I was on a media panel today

I cross-posted this over on Hack Bend, as well: that blogger bash I wrote about? Yeah, it’s on for sure. This Wednesday, April 30th, at The Summit Saloon and Stage in downtown Bend at 125 NW Oregon Avenue. Starts about 5:30ish and goes til whenever. Here’s the "official" description: The first blogger meetup was a… Continue reading Blogger bash Wednesday

Today I’ve been officially blogging for six years. Ironically, yesterday marked Chris’ five-year blogiversary. It’s going around! Not much more to it than noting the date, except to bring up the imminent next blogger meetup. Which will be this month, on the 30th—next Wednesday. Shannon, Jen, BOR, and I are in talks to figure out… Continue reading Six years! And a blogger bash (?)

Since I’m celebrating six years of blogging this month, I thought it’d be interesting to go back through the past six Aprils and link to some highlights. April 2002 – Really not much to see here… I was just starting blogging, playing with the software I was developing, and it’s really just mundane stuff. I… Continue reading The past 6 Aprils