Hilarious! I watched so much Saved By The Bell[wiki] in my lifetime, including some of The College Years[wiki] and The New Class[wiki]. Can’t forget those middle school years with Ms. Bliss either.
28 Days Slater[teamtigerawesome] is freaking funny, I kid you not. They are up to episode three, and I hope they keep going all the way to twenty-eight. Even more creepy is that Rebecca just turned the TV on and Saved By The Bell is on right now. Too weird…
I love the trend of remixing movie trailers to be completely different from what they were originally intended to be. “10 Things I Hate About Commandments”[youtube] is just that.
“Ten Things I Hate About Commandments” is a mash-up trailer for a John Hughes style teen comedy, using footage from the Charlton Heston version of The Ten Commandments. It’s masterfully done, and milk-out-the-nose funny. [boingboing]
Priceless.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has published their list of “50 Smart Places to Live” in the U.S. and listed Iowa City, IA at #10.
…we asked hundreds of you for the criteria you’d use to pick a place to call home. You told us you wanted good value in home prices and a reasonable cost of living — not surprising, considering that choosing a place to live is one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll ever make — combined with a great quality of life. [article]
Iowa City was and still is my choice of places to live when it comes to my home state. The cost of living is getting to be a tad of the nutty side. Rent in the downtown area seems to go up almost every year even with new apartment complexes going up all over the city.
Compared to a lot of larger communities in Iowa, IC has a great arts and music scene for my taste. Rebecca and I were talking about it the other night. I’ll forever cherish my many nights of whiskey and live music at Gabes, but it’s not a place for the faint of heart. Still, there’s a lot more to it than that. I’ve thought to myself quite often that Vancouver is what Iowa City would be like on steroids.
The Vancouver Canucks have asked Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for permission to speak to Mr. Quinn about coming back to the west coast. We’ll just have to wait and see. Some people around the city seem to think, or know, otherwise.
I snapped this shot just today while taking care of some details regarding my status here. Will post more on my flickr later. Right now I’m pretty beat. Lots of sun, warmth, walking, and ice caps from TimHo’s. Must… drink… water…
I can’t even begin to explain it, but tracking the news of natural disasters has been a lifelong obsession. When the (reported) 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck this morning near Tonga, I held my breath as I listened to the ongoing reports coming in about the possible tsunami that might have resulted.
Thankfully, nothing happening. Fiji was in line for a possible wave, so this is doublely good news as Laura has extended family there. I even mentioned this to Rebecca that it’s times like these that I kinda wish we had Fox News on our cable package, simply for the fact that they treat situations like these as if the world was ending. Compare their website to CNN and you kinda get what I’m saying.
The same comparison could be made of other news websites, but I picked the two of the more popular competitors in the U.S.
I actually watched the Eagle Cam for a while today, and the bird just sat there looking left to right. That’s it. And I was totally sucked into it.
Streaming, live video with sound. The eggs should be hatching soon. It’s kinda neat. Check it out.
I caught wind of this blog from Tod Maffin, and for anyone who has worked in public radio(and has a sense of humor, I might add), you have to check this out. Public Radio Slave is everything I should have done during my public radio days back in Iowa.
There is something to be said when you work in broadcasting. Everyone is your friend because they don’t see you as someone who works in radio. You’re their best friend. It breeds some bizarre situations and brings the strangest types out of… well who knows where some of these people come from. It can get pretty strange, and listeners are not all that I’m talking about.
And try being a broadcast engineer. Just because you can hook up your home stereo doesn’t mean you are fully qualified to label yourself as an expert. The phrase “I don’t know but we’ll make it work” was always a favorite response to anyone looking to give us their input.
It’s no secret to people who know me that I have an affinity for the supernatural. There is this magical, magnetic draw that will suck me in things that seem so rediculous to some people that there is part of me that thinks there might be truth in the story somewhere.
Ogopogo is just that. This is a legend that has just recently come to my attention, and I find it to be fairly fascinating. A mythical creature that lives on the bottom of a lake. Dragon or serpent like, the legend has been around for hundreds of years. Now I will admit that I still don’t grasp the reality that I am living in Sasquatch country and the legacy of that myth, but that’s another topic for later.
I had heard Rebecca’s mom mention the name before we left, but I wasn’t sure what they were talking about until we set out on our wine adventure. That’s when I started getting more and more curious. Continue reading “Ogopogo”
We had dinner with Rebecca’s mom tonight and got some gelato on the way back home.
Rebecca started laughing as we walked out of the little shop and told me to take a picture of this. Fran couldn’t stop giggling. I swear this headline has nothing to do with me.
The gelato was pretty good though…
You see some interesting things while wandering around the west end in Vancouver.
That is a fat, old cat. Probably the size of two soccer balls, and cool as can be.
I couldn’t tell if it was guarding the store or just hanging out. Either way, he never looked at us once. Just kept staring out the door.
