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• Portland, Velo

  E Oliver, li proz e li gentilz

  02.18.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I got on my bike this morning and as I rode down our street the sun was bright and warm, such that, as they might have said in France a thousand years ago:
  Bels fut li vespres, e li soleilz fut cler
  Then I turned into a street upon which the morning sun had not yet shone and [...]

• Portland

  Drive Dead Slow

  12.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I thought this was more snow than I’d seen in my 20+ years in Stumptown.  Nice to know it’s not observational bias.  Nicer would be if we could get a newspaper delivered.  And here I amagain at work, despite the fact that the company is closed.  At least I didn’t get yelled at by a cop [...]

• Portland

  White Sky

  12.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Portland continues its inability to properly cope with snow.  I’ve read that some schools will be closed all week, thus giving the kids an extra week of Christmas vacation.  Fools in 4-wheel drive vehicles think they don’t need to change their driving habits for the snow.  I have yet to remove the chains from the [...]

• Portland, Technology

  Quality Control

  12.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today as I got off the bus, I noticed that the time & temperature sign of the KeyBank branch was claiming it to be 40 degrees.  Maybe in Cleveland, but not here.

  As I walked along the frigid streets, I said to myself I very much doubted that sign.  The temperature sign on the building where [...]

• Portland

  The Ballad of Hollis Brown

  12.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The weather forecast claims it is going to get as cold as 13 degrees Monday night. Do numbers get that low? Last time I was exposed to such frigid temperatures was a visit to New Jersey a couple of years ago. But then the East Coast has that Olde Worlde weather of [...]

• Music, Portland

  A fan’s notes

  09.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  AC/DC is coming out with a new album next month.  The release date is the day before my birthday, which would seem significant if I really thought the world revolved around me.  However, as proof that it doesn’t, it appears from the concert dates posted online that the band will not be stopping in Portland [...]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  The rain in Portland falls mainly on the dogs

  08.20.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was just in a meeting that began with my observation that the rain outside was falling almost perfectly sideways.  Perhaps that effect was exaggerated by us being on the eleventh floor, but whereas in December horizontal rain is not so welcome and would solicit suicidal groans from my co-workers, after the miserable heat of [...]

• Music, Portland

  I got mine . . .

  08.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  . . . tickets, that is.

• Books, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Otium sine litteris mors est

  07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read:
  We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
  Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab
  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon
   
  Today is muggy and I am logy but I still took the dogs (both the Resident [...]

• Portland

  I Got a Letter from the Government

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I can’t roll up the sidewalk outside my house and take it indoors, and the city considers it part of the street system, and outside of my property.  Yet I am legally responsible for its upkeep and repair.  I suppose it’s a more direct form of taxation for infrastructure maintenance than we normally see, and [...]

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