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Day Tripper - Bend, OR Day Trip

Cruised down to Bend, OR for the day, not much hiking or anything, but more driving around looking at the scenery, and checking out downtown Bend.
Here are some pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157601254839632/
Technorati tags: Bend, Oregon, OR, Cascade Lakes

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IT Disaster Recovery, what the I-35W Bridge Collapse shows us

Now, I am from Minnesota originally. I drove over that bridge 3 days before it collapsed. It sucks, its a bad thing for the state, for the people involved, and for everyone who passed or is injured. It is a very sad situation that no one should have to go through.
What does the bridge collapsing [...]

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Mt. Tabor - Portland, OR

Went up to Mt. Tabor Park this afternoon, walked around. I guess it is a dormant volcano, which is cool. Named after the real Mt. Tabor that is like 6 miles east. Pretty nice place. If I had an EVDO card, I probably would take my laptop up there for an afternoon.
Anyways, here are some [...]

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The Half Steps @ The Veranda - That’s Amore

Last week, Heidi and I went to The Veranda Lounge at the Pioneer Place Theatre in St. Cloud. The Half Steps were singing. I pulled out the digital camera and recorded them singing “That’s Amore” (think: Dean Martin).

 
Technorati tags: That’s Amore, Dean Martin, The Half Steps, A capella, Pioneer Place, St. Cloud, Minnesota, The [...]

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Pictures from the Trip

Tons of pictures from the trip to Minnesota, but as always, wish I had more. I do have some videos to upload as well…

Nickelback Concert - 07/23/2007 - http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157601100277248/
 
 
Out with Heidi - 07/24/2007 - http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157601099079366/
 
 
Out with Brittian and Friends - 07/27/2007 - http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157601099545214/
 
 
Pontoon Ride and Bimbo’s Wings - 07/28/2007 - http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157601099900974/
Technorati tags: Flickr, Pictures

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Travel, Trips, and Family: How Technology Plays A Major Role

After traveling this week, it has become really more apparent that technology plays a major role in the whole traveling process, as well as family interaction. Now I know there are the old schooler’s out there that will be like, phhh, you don’t need technology to do anything. I am not saying that, I am [...]

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Still Here, just in Minnesota

I have been in Minnesota since Saturday night. Like being back, but for some reason I miss PDX. Many stories though already and it is only Tuesday. Will blog more later. I need to go do the Dance of the Manatee…
Many changes happening. Some good, some great, some just, changes. Who moved my cheese? :)
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RealPlayer, SongBird, Flying, and Cameron Diaz

Wow, so anyway’s, I have been trying out the new RealPlayer (http://www.real.com) and it is pretty sweet. I don’t use it to play anything, but what it does add is a little thing in your browser to download YouTube videos, and other flash videos, directly to your computer. Awesome!
Also installed SongBird - by Mozilla. It [...]

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Portland Blogger Dinner

Tonight I walked on down the block to the Portland Blogger Dinner at Jive Software. Pretty cool. Jive is nice, Wii, 360, beer on tap in the break room… the work on a product called ClearSpace - collaboration software written in Java.
It was a good get together, met some cool people. I added some [...]

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The Simpson’s Rock - Relationships…

Read this quote today and it is so funny yet true..
“We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but we ended up in tragedy.”
If you don’t get it, then, well, you don’t get it. :)
Technorati tags: Simpsons, The Simpsons, Relationships, Quotes

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