Archive for May, 2009

Random things about Loveland

Interesting article in the local paper about my hometown, Loveland Colorado.

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Become a Coverville Citizen

If you don’t listen to Coverville, you should start. If you do listen you should become a Coverville Citizen. $40 a year, bonus tracks, T-shirts and DVD archives. What a deal!

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World’s longest yard sale

So how is it no one told me about this? This weekend, May 27-31, there is going to be a 824 mile yard sale along US 40. The sale runs from Baltimore, Maryland to St. Louis, Missouri. These type of highway sales have been running for years, but I’m just finding out about it now. [...]

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Chuck is Saved!

So it looks like NBC’s quirky Action/Comedy show about a geek turned secret agent will be back for season 3, with some concessions. Sidreel.com is reporting that Chuck has been renewed, but with some concessions from Warner Brothers. NBC only wants 9 episodes, and production costs must decrease. Hopefully the quality of the show won’t [...]

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Music Pick of the Week – Flashdance on Grey’s Anatomy

I don’t watch Grey’s Anatomy, but some of the buzz this morning on the season finale is about a cover of “What a Feeling” from the movie Flashdance. This cover was performed by Hollywood, Mon Amour, the new project from Nouvelle Vague producer, Marc Collins. Visit the Hollywood, Mon Amour Myspace page to listen to [...]

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Removing smartquotes from text in Linux

When converting documents from customer word format to html it seems inevitable that there will be extra characters provided by Microsoft. Unfortunately this expanded character set is not supported by many web browsers and email clients, so we have to go through and clean all of this out of our html files. I normally use [...]

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Music Pick of the Week – Manchester Orchestra

This week I’m sharing the new track from Manchester Orchestra, I’ve Got Friends. Manchester Orchestra is a band out of Athens Georgia, and this song is from their second LP “Mean Everything to Nothing”

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Dr. Pepper Recipe – FOUND

While poking around in an Oklahoma Antique store, a man named Bill Waters found a journal that may contain the Original Dr. Pepper recipe from 1885. The writing on the journal is hard to decipher, so Mr. Waters hasn’t tried the recipe, but the book is from the original Waco TX drugstore that ‘invented’ Dr. [...]

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Hajnal Ban admits to getting taller

In the bizzarre news story of the week, Austrailian politician Hajnal Ban admits to having leg lengthing sugery. The 31 year old woman just went public with an admission that she had a surgical procedure to lengthen her legs and increase her height from 5’1″ to 5’4″. The procedure took nine months where Russian doctors [...]

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