Monthly ArchiveApril 2005
politics rob on 25 Apr 2005
The Political Death of Tom DeLay or “Ethics? What Ethics?”
I don’t think I could watch another day of the developing demise of House Majority Whip Tom Delay without comment. Last week The Economist published a stinging article on Why Tom DeLay should go which seemed to only pre-date the intensified interest in DeLay’s alleged ethics violations by a few days.
music rob on 22 Apr 2005
Missing The Killers
I hunted around on Craigslist all day to get my ticket to see The Killers at the Roseland in downtown Portland. I emailed and I called and I finally found one for $25, which was basically face value. I met up with some corny yuppie in The Pearl and was pumped up for the show.
politics rob on 21 Apr 2005
Arctic Drilling
My pal Logan Mitchell reminded me of the ongoing effort underway to oppose the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. The ANWR drilling proposal has been making progress in the house, so it will come to the Senate for final approval.
The devout environmentalists are asking Oregonians who oppose the desecration of this protected area to call Republican Senator Gordan Smith’s office and request that he continue to vote against the drilling.
It really is easy to call a senator, I just did. Here’s the advice I followed:
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fashion & marketing rob on 21 Apr 2005
Soir Noir - Diesel 2005 Spring/Summer Collection
Yesterday, I received an unexpected stuffed envelope from Diesel Clothing. The return address was my local store in Portland, and it appeared someone had affixed the postage stamps by hand.
Inside was a nice box with a leather luggage tag and a series of postcards. The bag containing the postcards had a silver sticker designating the package as number 41 of 500 limited “copies.”
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technology rob on 12 Apr 2005
Copying Your Movies Onto the Sony PSP
I did a quick summary of the steps necessary to copy a movie onto a PSP for my hair dresser. Here they are:
Here’s a link to the tutorial on how to copy videos onto a PSP.
1. Download this program called “3GPP.”(website in Japanese)
2. Run 3GPP’s setup program and choose English, and to output to PSP Direct Video format
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travel rob on 12 Apr 2005
Blog Set Up - Frisky’s Story
This is a picture "Frisky." Frisky belongs a rastafarian named Herman who lives in Treasure Beach Jamaica. I met Herman while backpacking / vacationing across the southwest coast of the island. He would come by the guest house I shared with some germans and hung out after dinner.