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Oregon Highway 26 Drive By

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City of Angels style road rage carnage comes to Oregon. Are we surprised? Not really. Saddened? Most definitely.  

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December 11th, 2007 at 9:00 am

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Iraqnam

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History repeats itself. Sometimes the best and the brightest are neither.

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September 20th, 2007 at 7:30 am

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…INCOMING!

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My buddy EJ had a close call while at work in Sonoma recently. He’s the guy in the red visor on the tower doing a jig. What the hell is formula drift anyway?!

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August 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 am

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comment spam bloatatiousness

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Recently I discovered an inordinate number of pings on 3 comment sections of our nearly 2 year old wedding planning blog. Michelle and will be married 2 years this September. I hadn’t touched or thought much about the blog in as many months. Who bothers with a wedding planning blog once betrothed? The blog was mothballed and only recently did it come under comment spam siege. Seems a gaggle of bots zeroed in on 3 posts and within a 4 month period posted almost 100,000 spam comments. The blog ran on Wordpress 1.5 and comment spam protection was minimal. Akismet had yet to arrive.

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May 9th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

Posted in not cool, web, wordpress

Cobain Satyricon scribble boosted?

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Legend has it Kurt and Courtney first met at a Dharma Bums show at Portland’s Satyricon in 1989. A scribble of his used to be on a wall at the club. I looked for it last night at the Surfrider Foundation pint night fundraiser and think it’s a goner:

Kurt Cobain's signature lifted

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April 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am

Posted in not cool, pdx

MLB Gameday Audio fubar

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At least on a Mac in 2007 it is. I just canceled my subscription as I couldn’t get it to work with 4 different browsers running Max OS X 10.4.9. The customer service rep in Concord, CA was very helpful and said, “We’ve been getting a lot of these calls.”

It’s worked in years past no problem. I long for the golden age of internet baseball radio when you could listen for free to Expos simulcasts in French. Seems that while the price has risen quality has decreased. Funny that.

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April 24th, 2007 at 11:23 am

Posted in not cool, web