The Random Thoughts Review

Dick Van Dyke Appliance World Problems

kvandivo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:17:37 +0000

Ever heard of Dick Van Dyke Appliance World? If you live in east central Illinois, you have. They have this catchy little jingle that they litter the airwaves with.. If you buy from us, you get the whole store! And, it’s the home of the $25 service call! kva ndivo Last Thursday evening, the refrigerator [...]

Bad texts from the Illini alert system

Administrator — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:53:21 +0000

So yesterday we had a fire in campus town (see my blog post for some pics). kva ndivo The first illini text alert sent out about it just said that a fire was at ’631 E. Green’. Didn’t give the city, nor did it give an intersection near there. If you didn’t already know where [...]

Fire on Green Street in Campustown

kvandivo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:56:08 +0000

We had a fire today here in little ole Champaign, Illinois. A 3-alarm fire. It is spring break right now, so that helped, but it was still right next to campus. kva ndivo – More pictures follow - This morning when Mariya (Champaign Realtor extraordinaire) and myself were at Hardees we saw a fire engine [...]

Bored snowplow guys

kvandivo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:40:50 +0000

kva ndivo Ok. I know this isn’t a good picture, but I hope you get the idea. I was driving into work this morning and, at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Florida Avenue, in Urbana, this site presented itself on the southeast corner of the intersection. This snow plow was, literally, plowing the snow [...]

test post

kvandivo — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:11:32 +0000

It’s currently 2:04:15. I’m going to see how much of a pain it is to put up a post with a pic in it. kva ndivo the flash uploader didn’t work well. That was from the browser uploader. I told it to ‘insert into post’ and had medium selected. It’s now 2:07:51. If I want [...]

License Plate Surround

kvandivo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:00:54 +0000

I just saw this on a license plate surround as I was walking back from lunch: kva ndivo If it’s not a baby, then you’re not pregnant

Did you know your taxes are about to go up? (redux)

kvandivo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:24:47 +0000

Hello, those who call Champaign County home. kva ndivo Did you know your taxes are about to go up? I got another “Informational Bulletin” from the Illinois Department of Revenue today, and it talks about the sales tax changes that are going to take place on January 1, 2010. For those of us in Champaign [...]

Imagining a world with Google Go

kvandivo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:47 +0000

Google with Chrome and Go, are creating the perfect storm to take over the desktop.

01022010

kvandivo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:13 +0000

kva ndivo OK…. They aren’t just rotating numbers. The meaning is much deeper and more significant than that.

Run, Mama! Run!

Administrator — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:01:24 +0000

That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, [...]