Sellwood Street

I'm just curious. It seems that I've extinguished at least one fire in every place I've ever worked, and once in a place I lived. Is this normal, or do I just have some sort of weird calling? This evening was the company picnic that I skipped, I don't think there was booze and if there was I'd have to get my ass home from Oaks Park, so I decided to pass. So, I was the last one out of the...

Feist counts to four with a bunch of muppets. It almost makes the song palatable again after six months of it being drilled into my brain on the iPod ads. Take a look at the original video while you're at it. I was a little obsessed with it the first few times I saw it. Here's previous discussion about it....

Fireworks that are legal in Oregon, those ones that you buy in the Fred Meyer parking lot, they're lame. "Those which produce only smoke, sparks or fire and which do not explode, eject balls of fire, fly into the air, or travel more than 6’ horizontally and/or 12’ vertically from the point of ignition. (See Oregon Revised Statute 480.127)" No roman candles, no bottle rockets, no neat...

I see them dancing, I hear the music, but my brain can't manage to match the two up. Go-go dancers where they don't belong. Points for the use of props though, that plastic cow and fake road sign really drive the message home....

A clip from Penn and Teller's show "Bullshit" about the insanity of bottled water. Its long-ish, about 13 minutes, so go get yourself a beer or a snack or something and pretend you're watching television....

"Bound for Glory" is an exhibition of color images taken during the Great Depression by photogs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. Lots of great pictures from a period of history that I find fascinating. When I saw the first image in the set, "Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett" I immediately remembered a picture I took back in February when we went...

I'm playing around with Google Street View tonight and noticed that it now goes all the way out into the rural fringes of the metro area. Here's my favorite bridge combo ever, for its history and its practicality. The big one was once the Burnside Bridge, hauled out here to Dodge Park in the 20's when it was replaced by the current Burnside Bridge. My very favorite bridge ever is that little one...