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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
"Prepare to get wet!"This was the phrase that launched tonight's ramble. Our goal? A ride down on the OHSU tram (since the ride down is free.) And, just to spoil it, in contrast to our…...
January 26 2010, 10:58pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
This story starts, for me, back in 1990, when my family got their first PC. (For the record, it was a Compaq Deskpro 286e.) Being the middle-schooler that I was at the time, I used…...
January 25 2010, 1:15am | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
On credit scores and dead cats
I have become convinced that one's credit score is our modern-day Schrödinger's cat. That is, the health of the cat is directly affected by the observation of said cat and, likewise, one's credit score is…...
January 25 2010, 12:58am | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
After reading this article over at NPR's Monkey See blog, I have the following stuck in my brain. I thought I'd share....
January 22 2010, 12:46am | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Tonight's ramble with the Mazamas group was advertised as being a 4.5 (on a difficulty scale of, generally speaking, 1 - 5) and mysteriously listed the destination as "Mt. Adams".The ramble started, as so many…...
January 12 2010, 10:34pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
I just wanted to write a quick post about how much I love flying out of the Portland International Airport. I mean, I'm currently sitting in a Rogue Ale House, enjoying a micro-brew, writing this…...
December 23 2009, 10:35pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Tonight's ramble started with a riddle and a promise. The riddle was, "when, other than counting backwards, does three precede two, four precede three, five precede four, and seven precede six?" The promise was for…...
December 22 2009, 11:54pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Today, my friends, I shall raise a glass (as I often do) to the Twenty-First Amendment. It was 76 years ago today that we, the people (with the exception of you, South Carolina), repealed the…...
December 5 2009, 5:52pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
This morning I ran in the Turkey Trot at the Zoo. It's a 4-mile run that starts at the Oregon Zoo Forestry Center, descends down to the street next to the International Rose Test Garden…...
November 26 2009, 10:29am | Comments
