For the forth, we went down to the waterfront to watch the fireworks. Portland puts on a pretty good show. I forgot to bring a camera – but found that the iPhone takes pretty good firework shots:

Looks like Andre isn’t the only one. Spotted this on the corner of 13th and Nehalem St:

These were taken by Porch (Bryan): (more here)

Well this was exhausting… Getting there Friday night was Troopers bachelor party. After a long night of debauchery – we took Saturday to nap and gather gear. At midnight, we regrouped and headed for the mountain. Up the mountain Around 2am (Sunday) we arrived at timberline, signed a permit and started walking up the slopes. […]

Spore is the highly anticipated, “massively single-player online game” by Will Wright. The full game is slated to be launched this fall, but EA games announced that they would be releasing a creature creator next week. Why wait? Looks like the bit-pirates beat them to it. Creatures You can already see dozens of creatures on […]

This is a bit random, but I love it. I was searching for some information about Edward Tufte and ran across this discussion on his personal web site. Scroll way down to see the image. In addition the page title is “Ask E.T.” which made me chuckle. It’s been a long day…

This weekend was beautiful. The temperatures in the valley peaked Saturday close to 100. This is considered surprisingly hot for the Portland area. It is even more surprising when you consider that less then a moth ago it was still threatening to snow. The long winter and quick warm up has caused the rivers to […]

My friends Jamie and BK just became the proud parents of four baby ducks. These particular ducks will grow up to be Indian Runner Ducks. The breed is characterized by their peculiar stance. They tend to stand straight up on their hind legs – rather then the squat position usually associated with ducks. Anyway, here […]

I spotted this in the bargain bin of a local store and took this fuzzy picture. At first, I thought that it was an unfortunate translation issue (non-native speaker confusing rotten for fresh or ripe) – but then I noticed who the manufacturer was. David and Goliath makes a whole line of halirously named products. […]

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