I was thinking last night (during our blogger thing at McMenamins) that if McMenamins really wants to capture the feel of a school, they should fill the soap dispensers in the bathrooms with that pink powdered soap I remember using in grade school.
Category: Blogging
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Bloggers at McMenamins
Looks like this Thursday the 18th will be the next Bend/Central Oregon Bloggers get-together, at the new McMenamins Grand Opening at the Old St. Francis School. We (my wife will be joining us this time) should be there sometime between six and seven o’clock, but I don’t know where we’ll be meeting anybody, as it might be kind of crazy.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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First snow of the season
Just looked out the window here at work and saw that it’s snowing. As far as I know, this marks the first snow of the season for Bend.
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No, I’m not dead
I guess I’d better blog something before people think I’m dead. Well, not totally: I’ve been posting to The Brew Site, so it’s not a total wash.
So let’s see, what to blog about… this looks interesting: National Novel Writing Month. Write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I’ve almost half toyed with the idea of doing this. Almost.
Quick post over! Nothing more to see here. Move on about your business…
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Private Solar System?
I saw this headline from Reuters in Bloglines today: “FedEx to Build 2nd-Largest U.S. Private Solar System” and of course I immediately wondered if they were building a model of the Solar System and why that would matter to FedEx (and why would it be private?), before realizing what was meant was Solar Powerered System. Very odd alleys the mind wanders into some days.
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Flesh Jacket
Okay, this article on a living tissue jacket is just disturbing and yet darkly funny. Basically, some guys are literally growing a jacket from living tissue…
Grown using a combination of mouse and human cells, the jacket is currently quite tiny (about 2 inches high and 1.4 inches wide) and would just fit a mouse….
“One of the most common and somewhat surprising comments we heard was that people were disturbed by our ethics of using living cells to grow living fabric,” said Zurr, “while the use of leather obtained from animals seems to be accepted without any concern for the well-being of the animals from which the skin has been removed.”
Hey, I’ll concede they have somewhat noble reasons for doing this, but hello? We’re talking about wearing jackets made from living human flesh. Um… Hannibal Lecter? Skinsuits? This guy? Ringing any bells?
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The Brew Site
I’m launching a new blog. Okay, well, a new blog on an old site—a site I’ve been “working on” for, like, four years now: The Brew Site.
My original goal for The Brew Site, when I “launched” back in 2000, was a comprehensive, be-all end-all directory/portal/guide to beer and brewing-related stuff online. Kind of like Yahoo for beer. However, I never really had the time to do this, so I’d work on it a little bit, then real life would intrude. So up to now it’s been my spectacularly unfinished site. Kind of embarrassing, really.
So I figured I’d better do something with it, and since I’ve been thinking more about writing lately, and making money blogging, the natural conclusion was to turn it into a blog. And I’ll try to make money on it with AdSense. So, it’s my first real foray into blogging for money (aside from the AdSense I’m running here, which is simply a nice bonus).
Actually, the other motivation I had was that I emailed the guys at Weblogs, Inc. seeing if they were interested in a beer blog, and I figured, why wait? If they want me to write a blog for them, I’m there, and I’ll offer them The Brew Site. If not, no worries, I’ll just use this as the start of my own nanopublishing empire.
;)So in the meantime start reading! Subscribe to the RSS too!
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Bloggers this evening
We had a blogger get-together at the Cascade Lakes Brewery again this evening, it was a lot of fun and more of us showed up. I’m tired so there’ll be a more detailed post later, but here’s a short version: Simone brought Swiss chocolate. Dane wants a video game based on smashing Coke cans with a sledgehammer. Kasey can’t read blogs at work. Jesse never played Donkey Kong before tonight.
Actually, there was a lot more going on. More later.
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Magazine quote
I got an email today from someone from the online magazine Preservation Online wanting to get a quote from me about the Crane Shed demolition, since I wrote a bunch about it. Cool. I wrote back letting them know I’d be happy to give a quote, or they could just quote my blog. Since I haven’t heard back from them, I assume they’ll quote my blog.