Over 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. :)
Category: Blogging
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Vote for Pedro – and other shirts
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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.
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Poll redux
I never did get any comments on my poll the other day…
Is this thing on?
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Poll: site redesign?
Since I’m tired of waiting on Simone for a new site design
:), I thought I’d start playing around with it myself. It’s just high time things got refreshed around here. So, I thought I’d run my early attempts by everyone, and ask a few questions.The big change is converting the site to a stylesheet-driven design rather than a table-based one. I also want the clutter reduced, and to remove unnecessary features.
You can see a bit of what I’m doing on the project page and the archive page. So far the primary changes you’ll see are on the sidebar, I haven’t really re-worked the header much yet (but I will).
So, the questions:
- What do you think of the new design elements?
- Should I keep or drop the calendar at the top of the sidebar?
- I’m thinking of changing the header to some sort of revolving photo background. Thoughts?
- Any features I don’t have that people would like to see?
- General comments/ideas?
Don’t pull any punches, either. I can take it!
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Trivia Bee
Last night we did something different (and fun): we went out to the Tower Theatre and I participated in The Education Foundation‘s Trivia Bee. Sadly, our team didn’t make the best showing; of the 12 questions we had (there were 12 questions per round, and six rounds, with seven different three-person teams per round), we trailed along in last place for the first half-dozen or so questions, then finally pulled it out in the end… to tie last place with a few of the other teams.
:)It was a lot of fun, though, and we weren’t the worst team of the night, so we weren’t totally irredeemable. Although I have to say, some of the rounds seemed to have far easier questions than our round… and at least one was harder, so it could’ve been worse!
Anyone else go last night?
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Anagram map of Downtown Bend
Inspired of late by Boing Boing’s pointers to subway maps that have been remixed to used anagrammed names, I thought it would be fun to do the same with Bend. Only, Bend doesn’t have a subway (or any mass transit, grrr), so I did the next best thing: remixed the map of downtown.
The only constraints I followed were dropping the directional part of the street names (the NW in NW Franklin) and spelling out the type of roadway (“Avenue” vs. “Ave”).
Enjoy! Oh, and the Internet Anagram Server came in amazingly handy for this.
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Population 70,238
That’s the current population of Bend, Oregon. It’s up, what, 40% from the year 2000 census population of 52,029. My question is, have that many people moved into the city (18,209 of them) in that time, or have the powers that be mostly been creative with the city limits (which is what got us to the 50,000 milestone in the first place)?
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The snow started
For anyone keeping track of these things, the snow they keep warning us about (last I heard, the advisory was from 3pm today until something like 5am tomorrow morning) has started in earnest at about 1:30pm, here in Downtown Bend.
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Check out today’s Pearls Before Swine
So, yeah. Go check it out. It’s funny.
