Yes, announcing another exciting Local Blogger Social! Wednesday, August 11th, we’ll all be meeting at Timbers South in Bend, starting at 6pm.
Timbers South is located at 61131 S. Highway 97.
See you there!
Category: Blogging
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Bulletin article is out!
It hit the stands today—the Bend Bulletin article on bloggers that I and others were interviewed for. It’s a pretty good article, and I like the layout. Of course, I’m probably biased because my picture’s in it, and my earlier posts about the interview are the lead to the story…
Anyway, it’s the front page of the Community Life section. In a supreme example of irony, however, you won’t find the actual article about the online world of bloggers online anywhere. So I can’t link to it. Maybe I’ll try to get permission to republish the article online here, so it’ll at least show up somewhere online. (And how many times can I work the word “online” into a paragraph?)
Oh, and a little secret: in the photo they have of me, I’m “working” on an Apple Powerbook. However, honesty compels me to reveal that not only do I not own an Apple… but I don’t even own a laptop! Make of that what you will.
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Street Chicken
So here’s something odd. While driving to work this morning, I noticed a chicken wandering around in someone’s driveway. It was on 8th Street, near the 8th and Revere intersection, and here was this Rhode Island red hen nonchalantly strutting across the driveway, as if this were normal routine.
Can’t say as I’ve ever seen a street chicken in town before (we used to have unintentionally free range chickens growing up, but we lived on five acres out of town). Damn, I wish I had a camera phone.
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Bits and pieces
Odds and end, bits and pieces tonight.
Looks like the Bulletin article won’t be appearing Friday (tomorrow). Nobody knows when for sure. I’ll post here when I find out.
Interestingly, the guy who interviewed us for the story on blogs now has a blog: Drunk with Ink. Cool!
Tonight on a whim I set up my old Sega Genesis game system, and introduced the kids to it. They seem quite taken with Sonic the Hedgehog, although they really can’t work the controls very well.
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Interview photos
Following up on my interview for the Bulletin last week, today I went over to the Bulletin building to have my photo taken for the article. Actually, it was myself, Jake, and Chris from monkeyinabox all there for photos.
Very interesting. The photographer took a bunch of pictures of each of us, then put us together in several ways; I’m very curious to see how they turn out. It was certainly a new experience for me—not that big a deal, really, but still kind of cool.
I’m told this article should be appearing in the Friday edition of the Bulletin. Stay tuned!
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Lightning
We’re currently having an impressive lightning storm here in Bend, one like I haven’t seen around here in a long time. I went out on the porch to watch it for a few minutes; I guess I’m easily impressed when Nature decides to put on a show.
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Weekend off
My wife and I are heading up to Portland for the weekend, and will be back Sunday sometime. Needless to say, I’ll be taking the weekend off from blogging (even though I’ll probably be online Sunday night; we’ll see). Have a good weekend!
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Interview
I was interviewed today by a reporter writing a story on local bloggers for the Bulletin. Very interesting, kind of cool. I’m not sure what will come of it other than myself sitting there yammering on semi-coherently, but the article will apparently be published next Thursday. I’ll have to pick up the paper to see.
And, the guy is interested in talking to as many bloggers as possible. Email me if you’re interested.
In other related news, Jake has an angry letter to the Bulletin on his site. That rant kind of spun out of this local story situation. Worth a read.
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Bloggers and Quarters
Tonight’s local blogger meetup was a lot of fun, but only 3 of us showed up! (To be fair, Jesse did show up around 8:20, just as we were leaving.) Myself, Shannon and Simone made it to the Bend Brewing Company and had a good time. The funniest part, which I forgot until I got online just now, was the Nebraska State Quarter Designs riff. Let’s just say letting the public design the state quarters might not be the best idea…