Tag Archives: Link

Get ready for even more snow

You might be noticing the storm forecasts on our website right now. It looks like Jamestown is to get a pair of winter storm over the next two days — just in time for New Year’s Eve. Just be sure … Continue reading

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Somalis make, eat lefse. What’s next? Lutefisk?

We had a story on our front page today about Somali immigrants in Jamestown learning to make the Norwegian potato bread lefse as part of their efforts to learn English. It’s a good story and you should give it a … Continue reading

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North Dakota on Fark today

The great news aggregator Fark.com linked to this Newsweek article today, which informs the rest of the country that we’re doing just fine up here, thank you very much. Here’s the Fark headline: Tech boom in Fargo? Energy industry growing … Continue reading

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Great NYT article on N.D. theaters

The New York Times has a fantastic article today about small-town North Dakota movie theaters making a hard-earned comeback. It’s really well done and does a great job of lightheartedly describing what makes North Dakota special where other writers would just make crude jokes and … Continue reading

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I believe I am justified in saying this

To the rat bastard who keyed my pickup last night: You are a coward. You are a coward today, you will be a coward next week and when you die, you will die a coward’s death. Coward. For further information, … Continue reading

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Welcome, Shane Mercer

If you look on the right-hand side of my blog, you’ll see the "Blogs I Read" section has a new name. "Everything else by Forum Reporter J. Shane Mercer" is now among those blogs. Mercer, you might have guessed, is … Continue reading

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Great timing

A virus took out my computer this week. I think I rescued all my irreplaceable data, but I’m going to spend a good piece of the weekend replacing programs. However, it seems perfect that Friday’s xkcd was this comic.

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Bird’s Eye View over LaMoure

Here’s a link to a Civil Air Patrol photo taken Sunday of the James River in LaMoure, N.D. If you look along the main road (N.D. Highway 13) to the right hand side, you can see the Minuteman Missile. To give … Continue reading

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Too funny not to link

So there’s this Web site that take any Youtube video and plays Yakety Sax (the Benny Hill theme) over it. It adds new hilarity to this old video of me cleaning out the AP satellite dish at work.

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Too cute not to link

Please forgive the dog emphasis as of late, but this story is simply too cute and so I must link to it: Dog, chicken become inseparable friends

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