I enjoyed this feature last month, and there have been a few more things floating around my browser that I thought would be fun to share with you…

Back to The Future Hoverboard up for sale

If you’ve been trolling around ebay for 80s movie memobrialia lately, you might have noticed that for a $30,000 starting bid, you could attempt to purchase one of the hoverboard props from BTTF 2&3.  I’ve never wanted obsene amounts of money more than I do right now… Even though its just a prop, I’m sure that I could get it to really “hover”.

Jeff Dye into Last Comic Finals

During the last “links of our lives” post I mentioned acquaintance Jeff Dye making onto “Last Comic Standing”.  Jeff has now made it into the final five, and has proven to be really, really funny.  If you get a change, vote for this KentWood & Kent area Young Life Alum.

Iditarod 2008 to be featured in Discovery Channel Series

The same guys who produced “Deadliest Catch” and “Iceroad Truckers” spent this last March in Alaska collecting footage for their next big project, telling the story of the Iditarod.  They outfitted a handful of mushers throughout the race with cameras during last years’ race… this production company has done a great job in the past and I’m excited to see what they do with this great event.

Breakthroughs in HIV & Alzheimer’s could be on the way

On the same day, I read articles about potential breakthroughs in the medical field that could lead to a HIV vaccine and another discovery that could lead towards a drug that could reverse the signs of Alzheimer’s.  Its a very encouraging thing to read that we are on our way to fighting some of these very discouraging diseases.

97.3 KBSG to flip formats next month – listen for a KIRO AM simulcast.

In radio nerd news…. 97.3 KBSG has been putting bad commercials on northwest TV for years, and has been putting Beach Boys songs on Seattle radio Airwaves for even longer as the local oldies station… that run is coming to and end about a year after the station was bought, and re-imaged to “B97″.  Another Seattle legacy station off the air.

Its been almost 6 months now since I was introduced to “new” frozen yogurt while on a recruiting trip for work in southern California.  This is the most unbelievably delicious treat you could ever imagine, usually its “tart” soft-serve style frozen yogurt (tastes similar to plain yogurt, but slightly sweeter) topped with fresh fruit, or other fun toppings.  Sometimes there will be a green tea, or a rasberry flavored yogurt, but generally its just plain, so your variety comes from what you top it with.

Its not hard at all in southern California to find one of these trendy yogurt shops either in a storefront of its own, or at a kiosk/booth at almost every local mall (larger chains like pinkberry, ce fiore, and red mango make it pretty easy) ….. in western washington or other places however, its a lot harder to find a yogurt “taste oasis” that it should be.

I found a shop in the Ballard area called “Moo Berry” its a small locally owned yogurt place that tasted very good on a hot day.  Secondly, “Bliss” in the Federal Way mall is another local retailer that hadn’t been open very long when Lydia and I stumbled upon it during our first trip to that mall in many years.  I asked how long they had been open and the cashier said “ohhh…. two days? yeah, yesterday was our first day, we gave out samples before that”. I haven’t been there yet, but is sounds like even the stupidmall, SuperMall has an independent tart-yogurt stand.

It seems like right now the mega chains from SoCal are slow to show up, and this new fad is being introduced by small independant shops.  When we were on our road trip a few months back we sought after these types of shops and didn’t have any problem finding them in the bay area, or Portland.

More yogurt is coming though, Red Mango, which many attribute to starting the craze down in LA (bringing the idea from Korea) has already opened stores at Pacific Place in downtown Seattle, Kirkland, and in just a few weeks will open a store in the new Southcenter Mall expansion, along with LA competitor Cie Fiore.  Pinkberry, perhaps the most popular SoCal yogurt shop received $27.5m from Howard Shultz’s venture investment firm to take the store’s concept nationwide.

With only a handful of calaries, and 0% fat…. this is one fad that I hope catches on soon….. and comes to Olympia as soon as possible!