Author: Jon

We enjoyed a pleasant visit to the Oregon Coast (Lincoln City again) for the Memorial Day weekend, even with occasionally drizzly weather. Sunday we drove up to Pacific City for the afternoon and had a great time on the beach before lunch at the Pelican Pub and discovering one of the greatest wine tasting rooms,… Continue reading May Finis

I suppose this idea would benefit any news program and not just our local NewsChannel 21 broadcast, but I think the cutaway to every new story should be accompanied by the Law & Order "chung chung" sound. And the end of the show should cut to the yellow digital "24" clock.

Yes, I’ve been a bad blogger this month here. I’m this close to switching this site over to WordPress though, and I think that will help my creative output. I just moved Hack Bend to WordPress and that went alright (so far). There’s not much to report for April, actually, it’s just been a busy… Continue reading April update

Recently I wondered aloud if it would make a viable murder plot for someone to tamper with a Toyota to use the "sudden acceleration" problem as a cover for a killing. Almost immediately after that I wondered instead when just such a plot would show up on either one of the Law & Order or… Continue reading Sudden acceleration

I know that you’ve looked at "2012" in the headline and are assuming that I’m talking about creating a beer to drink at the end of the world, or some sort of similar nonsense. And in a way I guess you’re sort of right: 2012 is the year I’ll be celebrating one of those "grand"… Continue reading Creating a 2012 beer

Like many blogs out there, I have spam-checking service Akismet set up to filter out the comment spam. It’s built-in on my Brew Site WordPress blog, but on chuggnutt and Hack Bend it’s using a PHP class that I coded myself. Up until a few days ago, it’s been working beautifully on my two non-WordPress… Continue reading Akismet changed their return values

So the first trailer for this year’s A-Team movie hit the net yesterday, and if you follow me on Twitter you know that the first link to it I posted was taken down ("infringing"). But of course you can just search YouTube and find it again if you want to watch it. …I’ve watched it… Continue reading The A-Team movie trailer

Two totally random things today that I found on the internets: The Oatmeal ASCII art: I have no other commentary other than go to that site and view the HTML source. Well, I have some commentary. It makes me want to drop ASCII art in the web pages I work on… Nic Cage as Everyone:… Continue reading Two random things

The new year is upon us, and we finished off our old year and started up this new one in San Diego. We left a week ago, on Sunday, two days after Christmas, with a mad plan to get up really early and make the drive in one day. For background, last June when we… Continue reading 2010