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Portland

Pioneer Courthouse, 1875

July 21, 2010

There is a local blog I fol­low, Vin­tage Port­land, that digs through the city archives and posts vin­tage pho­tos of Port­land every few days.  Last month, they posted a photo of Pio­neer Cour­t­house from 1875, with a school in the back­ground that is now PDX’s liv­ing room, a.k.a. Pio­neer Cour­t­house Square.  I really enjoyed the […]

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30 Hour Day on the iPhone

July 1, 2010

A lit­tle over a month ago, I had this crazy idea.  It wasn’t quite as crazy as no sleep for char­ity, but it was a lit­tle out there.  You see, I have played with iPhone devel­op­ment, tech­ni­cally, since before there was an offi­cial SDK but for most prac­ti­cal pur­poses, for a lit­tle under a year. […]

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The Crazy Neighbor

February 4, 2010

A cou­ple of months ago, @geekygirldawn started up a web­site called The Crazy Neigh­bor.  I guess she has a few crazy neigh­bors.  The for­mat of the site is like many oth­ers out there — I Can Has Cheezburger, Pic­ture Is Unre­lated, Graph­Jam, and so on.  Users sub­mit pho­tos and those pic­tures get posted. While I […]

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How to locate historic photos of Portland

January 31, 2010

A few years ago I made a blog post, The Neigh­bor­hood Then and Now com­par­ing his­toric images of Port­land street scenes with sim­i­lar modern-day images.  In that post, I linked to my source, Efiles.  Efiles is a City of Port­land web­site with a data­base of his­toric records — pho­tos, doc­u­ments, record­ings, maps, and other things […]

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In which I try not to feel creechy while looking at girls in their underwear

January 30, 2010

Long-time read­ers of this jour­nal may know that my wife is a fash­ion designer.  She has fash­ion designer friends and as such, we occa­sion­ally get invited to fash­ion shows.  Last night was one such event.  Although I often feel a lit­tle out of my ele­ment at fash­ion shows, I take it in stride and always […]

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& Foster Burger">Friends & Foster Burger

January 10, 2010

I had a great din­ner with great friends at Fos­ter Burger tonight.  Liam ordered a deep-fried avo­cado that we all split.  The nat­ural fat­ti­ness of the avo­cado plus the deep-frying made a con­coc­tion that was hard to eat just one slice of.  There were not many main courses to choose from, but I believe our […]

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My Foursquare heat map

December 20, 2009

My Foursquare heat map, as gen­er­ated by Where Do You Go: (via Gizmodo)

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A night of debauchery at Ron Jeremy’s sex club

October 2, 2009

How’s that for a catchy title?  You’ll note that I said “a night” and not “my night” up there.  That’s one of those tricks sen­sa­tion­al­ist writ­ers use, much like the mis­lead­ing or false head­line end­ing in a ques­tion mark (“Obama is an ille­gal space alien?”).  You’ll also note that “debauch­ery” is a nice vague word […]

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Holmes on homes

September 24, 2009

There is a really excel­lent Sher­lock Holmes quote that, for the life of me, I can­not seem to find ref­er­ence to1.  Although the quo­ta­tion itself is not as famous as some of the other Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quo­ta­tions, it is quite prac­ti­cal and I find I use it with great fre­quency.  The gen­eral gist […]

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DASH puzzle hunt">Last weekend’s DASH puzzle hunt

September 18, 2009

Some­thing that I men­tioned to a num­ber of peo­ple in real life, but I do not think I blogged or tweeted about much was the DASH puz­zle hunt that I attended last week­end.  DASH stands for “Dif­fer­ent Area, Same Hunt.”  As the name some­what implies, a num­ber of dif­fer­ent cities around the coun­try par­tic­i­pated in […]

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Portland’s Robotic Goths

August 24, 2009

Here are two “Port­land excels at…” links I have run across in the past week. I lurk on the Port­land Indus­trial Gothic (PIG) mail­ing list.  Actu­ally, “lurk” is an under­state­ment.  I sub­scribe, the mes­sages come into my inbox, and the vast major­ity of them get moved, unread, to an archive folder.  One sub­ject line recently caught […]

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ARGfest-o-con 2009

August 9, 2009

ARGfest was a few week­ends ago.  For those not in the know, this is a con­ven­tion for peo­ple who design (both pro­fes­sion­ally and as a hobby) and play Alter­nate Real­ity Games (ARGs).  The most notable ARGs are mar­ket­ing cam­paigns for video games, movies, and TV shows and are played out over medi­ums like web­sites, telephones, […]

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