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Mentos!

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve experimented with the Mentos and Diet Coke thing a time or two.  Kids freaking LOVE it.  And they think I’m a genius for coming up with it.  Generally I don’t dissuade them of this notion.
Leave it to the Belgians to take the whole concept and turn it up to eleven.  You’d have to be […]

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Tags: Stuff

The third inning

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

An interesting quote from Morgan Stanley.  I don’t know whether it’s that the pundits don’t fully appreciate what’s happened with the housing bubble or they’re just wishing it will all go away.  This isn’t like the dot-com bubble earlier in the decade.  This is something completely different and it’s infiltrated literally every nook and cranny […]

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Tags: Economy

Eavesdropping on my life

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Jerome and me:
HT:  The always awesome Basic Instructions.

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Tags: My American Life

Keeping Portland weird

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Driving by the zoo outside the Candidates Gone Wild show last night, I briefly flirted with a transvestite holding a Sam for Mayor sign.  I didn’t have the heart to tell her I’m from The Couv.  Hopefully my plates said it all.

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Tags: Politics · Regional

Local boy makes good

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Did you know that Eugene Oregon’s own David Vobora was selected as this year’s Mr. Irrelevant in the NFL draft?  The honor goes each year to the last player selected.

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Tags: Sports