Category: Quick hits

Well, kids, put on your happy faces and get on the bus, for today is the first school day of 2008! Here’s a fun fact to start off your day: North Carolina is the sixth

Anyone have a resolution they’d like to share? Mine is to stop being lazy and post articles on the site every day.

As I sit anxiously awaiting the New England-New York final score, I know that I am truly blessed in that I have nothing better to worry about at the moment. As the New Year approaches, what are your blessings? Let us know on the weekend open line.

It’s hard to believe that another Christmas is almost come and gone and we’re still blogging away. Still being present on the Web is the best gift we could have asked for. We’re going to appeal to Hendersonians and Vancers one more time for some posts that reflect the holiday spirit. With that, we give you the open line.

We’re sure by now Hendersonians are travelling, getting ready for out-of-town family and friends, clearing up last minute errands, or perhaps some combination of the three. As you rush about your holiday tasks, tell us about your best and worst experiences of the season on our open line.

In my Star Trek-inspired vision of the future, I suppose I always knew this day would come: the end of the incandescent light bulb. Question: What will appear behind cartoon characters’ heads when then have ideas in future animations?

Thought ethanol was the solution to our fuel problems? Well, everything has a price tag, it seems. Discuss and fuss on today’s open line.

So, you thought Home in Henderson was the death knell of American civilization? Here’s a little something we heard about on NPR on the way home from school that makes our operation look like a Hallmark card: www.mydeathspace.com. This site notes the deaths of www.myspace.com users. If this is the virtual tombstone, we prefer to be remembered with a few choice limericks.

Help homeowners with tax relief? What a wacky idea…or is it? Give us your two cents on today’s open line.

Always wanted to own waterfront property, but can’t afford to buy at Kerr Lake or the shore? Don’t worry. Within our lifetimes the shore may come to us. Enjoy this bizarrely warm December day.

From the sublime to the inane: kangaroo flatulence may help in the struggle against global warming. Science is nothing if not imaginative.

Apparently people in Wake County are stunned by their revaluations as well as we here in Vance. I have a feeling, though, that there’s a difference. Would someone (besides us) care to articulate it?