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Author: Jon

  • The Skittles beard commercial

    Okay, just a little while ago I saw the creepiest, randomest commercial for Skittles ever… I won’t even pretend to try to understand it…

    Anyone else seen it? Basically, a guy with a weird, long (like, three-feet-plus long) beard is at a job interview, and the beard is moving like an elephant’s trunk, feeding the guy skittles from the desk. The woman conducting the interview is trying to turn him down, and—

    Yeah, freakshow—

    —and the beard feeds the woman a Skittle and strokes the side of her face, while he just chuckles in a creepy way.

    And that’s it.

    I can pretty much guarantee I’ll never buy another pack of Skittles again.

    …You didn’t think I wouldn’t give you a link, did you? Here’s the video on YouTube.

  • Crazy skull

    I admit, when I first saw this skull, I would not have guessed what animal it ultimately came from. I mean, that is some crazy wicked toothwork…

    Wicked crazy skull!

    So, who can identify it without cheating?

  • Lost book: Judy Blume

    It’s like my regular Lost Book Watch feature or something. Anyway, right there on the screen in your face, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. I don’t know that it has anything to do with the overall theme or plot of the show; since Sawyer was reading it, I rather suspect the producers are just having fun with us.

    “Us” being those people like myself who have nothing better to do than blog about the books that show up on Lost…

  • The Paperback Exchange is closing

    Heads-up, Bendites: The Paperback Exchange, which is one of the oldest used bookstores in Bend (if not the oldest), is closing! Right now they’re having a huge 75% off sale on everything. I stopped over there after lunch and bought four books (for only $4.50, which would have been regularly priced at $18) and talked with the owner a bit.

    They have to be out by April 30th, but will probably close a week or so before that to empty out the store. So, you’ve got about a month left to get there and get some great deals.

    It’s located at 184 NE Greenwood, on the corner of 2nd and Greenwood. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Vote for Pedro – and other shirts

    Vote for Pedro t-shirtOver browsing at JCPenney this evening, and I saw that they had “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts for only $9.99. Some other good ones, too.

    Just a heads-up to y’all. :)

  • Jack Bauer Facts

    If you enjoyed the Chuck Norris Facts site, and like the TV show 24, well then, this is the perfect mashup for you: Random Jack Bauer Facts. Same exact premise (some are even lifted from the Chuck Norris Facts!), and some are really funny:

    The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.

    If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.

    Jack Bauer’s calender goes from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Jack Bauer.

    Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

    Funny mashup goodness! Now, I need to set about creating a similar ripoff mashup site with some other larger-than-life character…

  • Pi Day

    For the mathematically-inclined, today is Pi Day. Because today is 3-14. Get it? Even better, the celebration begins at 1:59 p.m.

    Curiously enough, today is also Albert Einstein‘s birthday. Odd coincidence, considering.

  • That’s a lot of realtors

    My mom mentioned this yesterday, though I didn’t see it online and I’m too lazy to do a deep search: there is now apparently one realtor for every 200 people in Bend, according to The Bulletin. Wow.

    I figure this should be good fodder for the newish Bend, Oregon Housing Bubble blog.

  • Earthquake off the Oregon Coast

    There was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake off of Oregon’s coast this morning. Interesting. Not a huge one—not enough to strike up a tsunami—but a good reminder that a big one could hit at any time.

    Satellite Google map of the magnitude 4.5 earthquake off of the Oregon Coast, 3-9-2006

  • Poll redux

    I never did get any comments on my poll the other day…

    Is this thing on? :)