5 THINGS: Blood, Government and House

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Monday, June 11, 2012:

There are some playoff games today, don't ya know. In case you missed our other article on the high school playoff games this week, click here.

Ahhhhh blood! Don't be a dandy – give your blood today. There will be at Cardi's Furniture in the South County Commons from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The business of government business. The South Kingstown Town Council tonight. For the agenda, see the attached PDF.

Blogging, events, letters, what more could you want? Many people often ask me, “Hey are you the Patch guy?” And the answer is yes, yes I am. Then, most often they want to know how they can get things on the site. Let me present you with three options:

• The easiest way for me is if you use our blog form. If you have a user account, congrats! You can submit directly to our queue by going here. For more info on blogging, go here.
• If you think your item is more appropriate for the events calendar, that's a simple enough process as well. Go here, and then hit the “Add An Event” button at the bottom of the page. (Note: You might want to search for your event first, since we do have a calendar editor that adds things on her own awesome initiative.)
• Finally, do you need some input before posting? Or do you have a release that is more of a traditional “letter to the editor” thing? Fine then – send it along to me, either at stephen.greenwell@patch.com or narragansett@patch.com.

Ah, what quaint days! On this date in 1998, Compaq bought Digital Equipment Corporation for $9 BILLION. (Cue Dr. Evil.) Then, in 2002, Compaq was bought by HP for $25 BILLION. (mwhahaha!) But in May, HP laid off about 27,000 people, so uh... that sucks.

“Oh my god, we need to operate on his brain, but all we have is a melon scooper, a rubber band and three copies of Vanilla Ice's 'Greatest Hits' CD!” Happy 53^rd birthday to Hugh Laurie, a.k.a. Dr. House.

Want to be e-mailed when there is a new Five Things? Click the “keep me posted” button below!