More than meets the eye Say bye-bye to bulky hearing aids and hello to the invisible. For many of the hearing impaired there is a degree of self-consciousness that goes along with having to wear a hearing aid. However a […]
Category: The [Five] Blog
City beautification starts at curb
City beautification starts at home with a clean curbside. That’s the message the Mayor’s Office is preaching to residents. The Director of Constituent Services, Corey Driscoll, said the city is asking residents to follow the Guide to Key City Services: Only place […]
Hydrofracking debate splits even experts
Paul Fitzgerald and Don Seigel are on oppositie sides of the proverbial dike. The disagreement surrounds Hydrofracking. Hydraulic Fracturing, or Hydrofracking, is the collection of natural gas from sequestered rocks in the Marcellus Shale deep underground. Companies drill – usually past 5,000ft […]
Nothing like a short vacation…
Usually I don’t get my vacation from writing until late July and early August. It was a special treat this year when Zack, my editor at The Forest Grove News-Times was nice enough to grant me some “vacation” in mid-May. […]
Child please
A few months ago I posted, in a quick blurb along with a video, that Chad Ochocinco amazes me. He is a skilled wide receiver on the field and gifted in the art of entertaining outside the lines – as […]
Learning to love website comments
(Note: The material in this post came in part from a staff editorial I wrote for the Barometer in November 2009) As managing editor of the Barometer, one of my responsibilities was to moderate comments on our website. Through College […]
KBVR Football Promos
Here are a couple of Oregon State Football Promos from KBVR put together by former studio production manager Tom Boykin. You are about to experience an Ace Ventura moment…
Farm on your own time
Macbooks are adorable, aren’t they? Who wouldn’t want a Macbook? They come in the brightest and most eye-catching of colors; they boast a solid yet sleek, sexy design; and they have, on average, a longer battery life than my (stupid) […]
Let me upgraaade ‘yuh…
Okay, forget Beyonce for a moment. April showers bring the opportunity to stay indoors. Long hours slaving over a room-temperature keyboard staring at a .css stylesheet (while failing to come up with anything original) eventually led to a faster, quicker […]
Survival Story by Flobots
It’s only fitting that in my review of the Flobots new album Survival story, I pick a fight. My beef is with someone named Jason Lymangrover – whom I’ve never met. “Why?” you ask? I’m getting to it, alright? Chill […]