Author Archives: Ryan Olson

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Ryan is living every week like it's Shark Week.

Everything’s back to “Normal”

Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 by Ryan Olson

Things are hopping downtown. The fences are down on the new Transit Center (which will apparently open after some tests and evaluations). Crews recently also corrected the signs on Normal Avenue. As I detailed earlier, in a NorCal Blogs exclusive … Continue reading →

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Super Bowl ad yanked

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Ryan Olson

Just a quick follow-up to my last post, which touched on a questionable Super Bowl ad featuring cartoon pandas speaking in dubious Asian accents. According the New York Times, the ad has been withdrawn with an apology from Vinod Gupta, … Continue reading →

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College football is like a bad simile

Posted on Monday, January 7, 2008 by Ryan Olson

Louisiana State University and Ohio State University are duking it out tonight for the national college football championship in New Orleans. This season showed more than ever that the Bowl Championship Series is a flawed system. Some gripe that two … Continue reading →

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Ouch

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 by Ryan Olson

This post really doesn’t have to do with pop culture except I picture the surveillance camera footage appearing on an episode of “Wackiest Supermarket Goofs” on FOX. Perhaps it will be in between clips of the shelves of soda falling … Continue reading →

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On the media

Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 by Ryan Olson

Way back in late October, I was happy to be a part of a panel at the Great Valley Center’s Sacramento Valley Forum. I joined Jeff vonKaenel, from the Sacramento News & Review, and Bryan Byrd, a Comcast director of … Continue reading →

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Crickets ala blog

Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 by Ryan Olson

It’s been quiet here lately. There are lot of things on my mind that will make their way to this page soon. Oh, and I’m slightly tickled to discover what was screwing up my RSS news feed (the way I … Continue reading →

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Diminishing returns, take 2

Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 by Ryan Olson

Over the years, I’ve made some pretty weird trips for an event, but probably not as often or as far as others. I’ve never been compelled to travel hundreds of miles for a music festival (although the New Orleans Jazz … Continue reading →

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Colts at Chargers: What was that?

Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 by Ryan Olson

I’m not going to make it habit of writing about sports on this supposedly entertainment-oriented blog, but I just watched the Chargers eek out a two-point win over the Colts. Although I’m a Chargers fan, I’m flabbergasted how the San … Continue reading →

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Bang for your buck: First edition

Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 by Ryan Olson

I’ve seen a lot of things over the past few weeks that I’ve been meaning to write about, but haven’t got around to. So I want to launch my first-ever “Bang for your buck” round-up where I look at things … Continue reading →

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What are the worst “sexy” costumes?

Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 by Ryan Olson

With Halloween falling on a Wednesday, it seems students and others moved the grown-up partying to this past weekend. Young adults in costumes were definitely out in force in Davis and in Chico this weekend. I know others have pondered … Continue reading →

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