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One more reason not to move to Portland
After two trips to Oregon failed to turn up the supposedly "locally common" bird, I finally saw my first Varied Thrush.
On my lunch hour.
In Manhattan.
Portland population didnt grow for 30 years (1950 to 1980) than exploded again...
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1850 821
1860 2,874 250.1%
1870 8,293 188.6%
1880 17,577 111.9%
1890 46,385 163.9%
1900 90,426 94.9%
1910 207,214 129.2%
1920 258,288 24.6%
1930 301,815 16.9%
1940 305,394 1.2%
1950 373,628 22.3%
1960 372,676 −0.3%
1970 382,619 2.7%
1980 366,383 −4.2%
1990 437,319 19.4%
2000 529,121 21.0%
Est. 2009 566,141 7.0%
U.S. Census Bureau
Oregon has the highest state tax in the country:<((
BUT
Air quality index...........................City stats average
(% of days AQI ranked as good) 94.8% 71.9%
Restaurants (within 15 miles) ...... .4,205 2,268
Bars (within 15 miles).......................360 127
how about that moon!!!!
We’ll Always Have McSorley’s
How Joseph Mitchell’s wonderful saloon became a sacred site for a certain literary pilgrim
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((est #2 aint a bad bizz))
bob and phil last nite at garden, nice list
Help on the Way>
Slipknot >
Shakedown Street
Jackrstaw
El Paso
Wharf Rat
Two Djinn
Terrapin Station Suite
Set 2
The Mountain Song >
Dark Star
The Other One
Saint Steven >
The Eleven >
Death Don't Have No Mecry
Franklin's' Tower
Encore:
Saturday Night
fact: the beach boys first name was the pendletones named after the flannel shirts from portland org blanket weavers pendleton woolen mills. there is a discount factory outlet down town portland. ebay has lots of not too expensive used stuff.
A tearful Smith, 63, recalled working decades ago at a Scribner's bookstore and stacking up the National Book Award winners, wondering if she would ever receive such a prize.
home improvement apps
Penn and Teller explain the cups and balls trick.
Zombie Care Bear from here.
How to defend a tree house from immanent danger of death and destruction.
We received a very nice letter from Ms Alice Faye Wheeler in the mail today. She expresses herself eloquently - and certainly has a full grasp of her signature.
NY TImes gives you the news after its over. I saw the post just before, and the bird just after, lunch time on 10/21.
#5 Plastics and Brita Filters Voluntary Take-Back Program #5 plastics and Brita filters
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Preserve, Stonyfield Farm, Organic Valley, and Brita have teamed up to collect and recycle number 5 plastics leaving NYCWasteLess (like some yogurt cups, hummus tubs, and other food containers) and Brita® pitcher filters leaving NYCWasteLess.
These items can be recycled via the Preserve Gimme5 program leaving NYCWasteLess by bringing them to a participating Whole Foods location leaving NYCWasteLess or Green in BKLYN leaving NYCWasteLess. Caps can also be sent to Aveda for recycling through its Recycle Caps Program leaving NYCWasteLess, which are then sent to Preserve.
Voluntary take-back programs such as these enable the recycling of certain rigid plastics that would be uneconomical to recycle through NYC's curbside recycling program.
In 2008, Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan made waves with a mind-boggling proposition: The 3D universe in which we appear to live is no more than a hologram.
Now he is building the most precise clock of all time to directly measure whether our reality is an illusion.
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
Massively multiplayer scabble on a *giant* board. A little slow for me, but the board is incredible. Very cool idea.
stare at the center for 30 seconds
dancers in east oakland via Lisa Ruyter fb
xkcd's updated 2010 map of online communities.