March 2010

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Portland, Public Transportation Follies
Get those animals off those horses
03.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

I was at the bus stop on the northeast corner of the Bank of America building during this, but didn’t see this: The protest left some damage in its wake, police said, with windows broken at the Bank of America building on Southwest Fifth Avenue. I was at Fifth and Salmon; maybe the windows were […]
Finance
Overall framework of staying out of prison
03.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

This is amusing: If you read his book, you find that his solution to the problem of economic co-ordination in the absence of a price mechanism is “the allocation of resources [that] is largely the outcome of discussion between producers, consumers and other affected groups, but within the framework of overall decisions about economic priorities made […]
Art, Portland, Sports, Walks with the dogs
Raider Nation
03.28.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

I have always enjoyed taking walks, but it is only because of my wish to keep the dogs’ walks somewhat fresh that we have explored practically every street within a thirty to forty-five minute radius from our house. If it weren’t for the dogs, I certainly would have no need to go walk down the […]
Technology, Writing
Old habits
03.17.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I was reading this article and was immediately bugged by the assertion of “the following grammatical rule: there is only ONE space after a period.” First, it’s nothing to do with grammar; it’s a typographical rule. Second, I’ve been double-spacing after periods since I learned to type, way back in the wooly mammoth days when we […]