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Nobody walks in the suburbs of Portland

August 24, 2007

There are prob­lems with liv­ing in an urban cen­ter where many, if not most, peo­ple walk, and work­ing out in a fringe indus­trial area where few peo­ple walk — where most of the peo­ple live out in the sub­urbs and boonies (wait — is there a dif­fer­ence?) where pedes­tri­ans are a rare and novel curiosity.  […]

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If only we could also put it on a stick..

November 22, 2006

As I post this, I’m look­ing at you, Les:
Deep
Fried
Coke
P.S. This might go well with the anti-foodie food con­test at The Mata­dor.  Using ori­en­tal fla­vor Top Ramen and up to $5 worth of gro­ceries, if you make the best meal, you win a 24-pack of Top Ramen.  And $5.
In other food news: Whipped Cream Crash Plugs I-5, No […]

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If it happens a few more times, we might have to call it “trendy.”

October 11, 2006

So I guess yet another plane hit yet another Man­hat­tan high­rise.  They're say­ing it's prob­a­bly not terrorists.

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Explodey!

July 17, 2006

Those sirens you hear?  Yeah, it turns out that a plane crashed into two houses near NE 60th and Cor­nell, clos­ing off a 10 block radius.
P.S. A few grainy cam­er­a­phone pic­tures at Flickr

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Traffic Alert

May 18, 2006

There would appear to be a text­book spill on I-5 south, just south of Port­land.  Hun­dreds of books in pieces.  Cor­rec­tional facil­ity work­ers with trash bags.
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Holy Crap

February 15, 2006

Some­body rolled an SUV on the Mor­ri­son Bridge.
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Shuttle

February 2, 2003

Every­body seems to have a com­ment on the Space Shut­tle.  I do have to feel sad­ness for the astro­nauts and their fam­i­lies.  Even though “you knew the job was dan­ger­ous when you took it” and they are like the new pio­neers (how many peo­ple died while explor­ing The West?), that does not make it any […]

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Crazy Taxi

February 17, 2002

I am very sad today…the really cool crazy taxi that some­how flew into a fence was taken away before I got the chance to go look at it this after­noon.  Only yel­low and black cau­tion tape and hastily patched up bits of fence remain.  Upon inspec­tion of the scene in day­light, it seems that the […]

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We’re in a truck!

February 16, 2002

This evening, I was dri­ving home from work.  A cou­ple of blocks from my home, I noticed a swarm (swarm being three) of police motor­cy­cles by the side of the road.  See­ing as I was dri­ving a cou­ple dozen MPH over the speed limit, I slowed down to see what was going on.  Speed trap?  […]

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