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Netninja site changes: Hipster PDA & Code

December 29, 2009

Back­ground
I have talked about my rela­tion­ship with the Hip­ster PDA for years.  It is a sort of love/hate thing.  I find that the basics are invalu­able.  I really love all the beau­ti­ful lit­tle tem­plates and forms that peo­ple have made for the 3″ x 5″ form fac­tor.  Alas, I find that most — if not […]

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Ignite Portland 5 tickets tomorrow

February 4, 2009

Don’t for­get!  Ignite Port­land 5 tick­ets go “on sale” tomorrow.

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Ignite Portland 5 Speakers Announced

January 30, 2009

If you have not already heard, mark your cal­en­dars for Ignite Port­land 5.  It will be on Feb­ru­ary 19th at the Bag­dad and they have just released the list of speakers:

Bram Pitoyo — The Secret His­tory of Fonts You May Not Know Before
Jim Ayala — The Uni­verse Story
Aaron Hock­ley — Read­ing the Fine Print: You Gave […]

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TechShop Portland

October 24, 2008

I went to the open house for TechShop Port­land the other night.  For those that have not heard of TechShop (I hadn’t until just last week­end), it is a sort of co-op machine shop.  They described it some­thing like “start out with a gym, then remove the use­less stuff like exer­cise equip­ment, then bring in […]

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Ignite Portland 4

October 20, 2008

The list of talks for Ignite Port­land 4 has been pub­lished.  Mark your cal­en­dars for Thurs­day November 13!

What is Ignite? — Josh Ban­croft
Five Things Port­land Can Learn From Ken­tucky in Five Min­utes — Jeff Hardi­son
A Short Intro­duc­tion to Cyborg Anthro­pol­ogy — Amber Case
Spir­i­tu­al­ity in Com­mu­nity: It’s not just for reli­gion any­more — David Komin­sky
How to Bluff Your […]

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SE Portland Streetcar Survey

September 1, 2008

Anyone in Port­land who would like to have a say in the future routes of the street­car in the South­east should go to the Dis­trict Work­ing Group page and click the link to take the sur­vey.  Alter­nately, show up to any of the meet­ings, also listed on that page.

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It’s a trap!

August 29, 2008

Okay, so I knew Port­land can be a lit­tle nerdy.  We have things like the largest inde­pen­dent book­store in town, which causes some­thing like the high­est per­cent­age of leisure read­ers in the coun­try.  We have things like Free Geek.  There’s the Geek Prom.  I could go on and on.  Heck, I even know some­one who […]

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Recap of the past month

August 24, 2008

Dear blo­gos­phere: I have not been read­ing your blogs much in the past few weeks.
Dear twit­ter­verse: I have not been keep­ing up with your tweets much, if at all, in the past few weeks.
Work has been pretty busy the past few weeks.  We have an end-of-the-month dead­line that, for­tu­nately, is not one of those impossible-even-when-working-80-hour-weeks dead­lines, but […]

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$500K south of the volcano

June 15, 2008

Every once in a while, it occurs to me that I live about a mile south of a vol­cano.  Or, as a neigh­bor says, at least half-a-million-dollars south of the vol­cano.  Hous­ing prices up there can get crazy because Mt. Tabor is a rather nice park.  For­tu­nately for hous­ing prices and my own per­sonal safety, […]

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The geometry of butter

June 12, 2008

Bria­nEnigma: Ore­gon has crappy but­ter geom­e­try.
I tweeted that ear­lier tonight and expect some amount of con­fu­sion.  Sticks of but­ter across the coun­try all have the same vol­ume.  You go to the store, you buy 16oz of but­ter, and you get four sticks of 4oz.  In the rest of the coun­try, the sticks are long and […]

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Ignite Portland 3

June 9, 2008

I can’t believe that I for­got to blog about Ignite Port­land 3.  It is being held on June 18th at the Bag­dad The­ater again.  The lineup looks some­thing like this:
5:30 Doors Open
6:00 Reg­is­tra­tion & Net­work­ing
7:00 Pre­sen­ta­tions Wave 1
* What is Ignite?
* How to buy a car for under $1,000 — Kevin Fox
* Mak­ing Sense of Car­bon Offsets — […]

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Beaker & Flask and “the miracle fruit”

May 29, 2008

I have seen sev­eral ref­er­ence to sev­eral arti­cles on those berries that do hal­lu­cino­genic things to your taste­buds, but this New York Times arti­cle, pointed to by Ava­trix makes men­tion of an upcom­ing restau­rant in Port­land.  I am absolutely going to have to check this place out for two rea­sons.  First, they are devel­op­ing drinks […]

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