2007 February « Drew Bernard

Plastic Jesus - Paul Newman and Jack Johnson

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »

I love Jack Johnson’s cover of Paul Newman’s Plastic Jesus. Here is a video of the original and Jack’s remake… Great stuff

Jack’s Take:

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Getting ready to record the NRCC

Posted in Business Advisory Council Scam, Tools & Techniques on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »

I woke up this morning with the realization that i really should record the whole NRCC scam and share it with the world. So, I have just set my computer up to record Skype calls. It required a couple free Mac apps and away I go…
Thanks to the folks at Rogue Amoeba for the detailed [...]

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Fremont Bridge

Posted in Portland on February 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

St. Helens Bridge
Originally uploaded by drew_bernard.
One of the cool things about where we live is that we really experience Portland’s weather. Our house is only at at about 600ft elevation. It’s amazing how much we experience up here…
This picture was taken last weekend. At one point, the clouds completely swallowed up the crane [...]

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Flock

Posted in Tools & Techniques on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

I have been experiencing some strange issues on the WordPress website when using Firefox. I decided to do a bit of looking around to find out if other browsers may actually be a better fit for blogging. Darrel Knutson was so kind as to put together an incredibly long list of all mac browsers
on his [...]

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The NRCC goes REALLY LOW!

Posted in Business Advisory Council Scam, How 'bout that on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

I received a call today from a campaign financed by the National Republican Congressional Committee. Now, back in the days before the national no call list, I remember getting sleazy calls from time to time, but this may just take the prize for the sleaziest call I have ever received. As it turns out, according [...]

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Ted Stevens is an idiot

Posted in How 'bout that on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

Here’s the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It’s time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries.

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Helping People be Who They Are

Posted in How 'bout that on February 26, 2007 | No Comments »

A friend of mine recently pointed me to the architect who was the generous behind the store Anthropology. Turns out I have had my head in the sand for a while, Ron Pompei has been in the press for years, but finding him has been a breath of fresh air as I think about how [...]

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