Chad Kennedy, brewmaster of Bend’s upcoming Worthy Brewing, revealed the new brewery’s logo on Twitter (and Facebook) the other day: I like it, it’s a strong, clean design with detail but not too much detail. In addition, there is also a new Facebook page for the brewery here.

As I’d twittered and posted on Facebook over the weekend, this blog (and a bunch of other sites that were on the same server account) had been hacked with some malicious server code that was redirecting referring links away to … Continue

Snow came really late this year. And that's pretty bad for a town whose economy counts on it for tourism. Last week, it snowed over 5 feet at our local resort, shutting it down for a day. We headed up to go sledding. Let's just say, pregnancy and watching your family sled, don't mix. 

I’ve most mostly offline these past few days, because I was recovering and cleaning this site (along with a bunch of others) from some malicious code that got inserted into the blog files due to the server account they reside on being exploited—or, in other words, the blog was hacked. From a technical perspectiv

I am proud to announce that one of my fine art prints, “Broken Top Sunrise” is now on display at Central Oregon’s High Desert Museum.  The High Desert Museum is a phenomenal resource for Bend and the whole High Desert region.  The High Desert Museum elegantly utilizes history, wildlife and natural resour

But this time, things are going to look a bit different see below: This is the completed project from Star Wars Uncut (which I know I've linked to before, but can't seem to find). Star Wars Uncut was a crowd-sourced project where thousands of folks o

Looking at a fixed-indexed annuity presented to a client from another "adviser." Just blown away these things are legal. #caveatemptor— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder)

Player's Bar & Grill on the west side is not the first place that comes to mind when I'm looking for some eats. It ain't one of Bend's more upscale establishments.But I was tooling down Century Drive around lunch time yesterday, entertaining the idea of getting some barbecue ribs from Baldy's when I s

If you have a stick, beat the drum. Not everything’s worthy of that beat, but this one is a pretty good stick (images by Simone Paddock Photography): Full, readable version is here. Thanks to Pamela Armstrong and client PGC Building & Design for making this article happen.

my son will kill me someday for posting this photo After 3.5 years of diapers, we're finally diaper free in our house. I will admit, I should have done this sooner but nothing seemed to motive my son -- that was until he saw Cars 2 and he wanted new cars to play with. Everyone had advice for me ... put him and pull-ups and

Welcome back to the cafe!  I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that you were able to enjoy family, friends, fun traditions and all that such a special time of year has to offer.  Now that the holidays have past I hope you are relaxed and rested.I have been thinking a lot about community latel

Water is a fascinating medium – in and out of the photo studio. Did you know, for example, that water has memory? Meta-physical aspects aside however, the way we see and experience water on a daily basis is mostly pretty one-sided: flat, clear, still. Granted – it has its wild and violent side too, but [...]

Nonprofits raise endowment funds (usually a larger singular amount of money that is raised and then sits over a large amount of time in the organization's bank or other financial institution of its choosing to earn investment capital), in order to have a nest egg sitting in the organization's back pocket because an endowmen

From The Foundation Center...[If you are interested in more information on this grant opportunity, click "Link to Complete RFP" at the end of this post].Deadline: March 30, 2012 Ashoka Changemakers Invites Global Entries for Activating Empathy: Transforming Schools to Teach W

I love getting inspiration from fellow bloggers and people I follow on Twitter. Imitation is the best form of flattery, right? Nanette, who is super cool in real life, made this recipe on Christmas Day for her brother-in-law who is a vegetarian.  Super intrigued, I asked her for the recipe. The recipe was a hit in my hou

This photograph is not free. This photograph is free.Speaking of photos,

I don't expect stores to carry every single weird item I want to buy; It's unrealistic because: 1. I'm a quirky fellow, and (B) a store is probably doing gangbusters if it carries 90% of what customers are looking for.But boy did the stupid big-box stores disappoint this week.Case #1.

I popped open and enjoyed a bottle of Hop Henge from Deschutes Brewery this evening, and rather than write a full review I thought I’d just jot down some thoughts. This is Deschutes’ “Experimental” IPA which masquerades as an Imperial IPA; at 8.5% alcohol by volume and 95 IBUs, this certainly qualifi

The next Session has been announced, and it’s being hosted by Kendall Jones of the Washington Beer Blog: Growlers Galore: These days people take growlers for granted. In my neck of the woods, growlers are a relatively new phenomenon. I don’t recall exactly when they appeared on the local beer scene but it could not

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With this big storm slamming the Pacific West Coast of the US right now, I was inspired to talk a bit about this icicle image I created about 7 years ago: It had been a cold and snowy few days in Central Oregon – when suddenly it started to warm up, and icicles all around [...]

One of the biggest challenges for investors is determining what's valuable to your investment process and what's noise. I would guess that at least 95% of what I read and a huge chunk of the research I do is worthless to mine. Making that determination, however, is not nearly as easy as it seems.

Oregon Beer News for Friday, January 20, 2012. News in beer and brewing from all around Oregon, including events, tastings, festivals, and more. If you have news to share, let me know! Continue reading →

Nothing says Christmas like a nativity scene with a figurine dropping a load. This is tradition in some parts of the world, and folks have even created