December 2007
13 posts
Snowflakes fell today in Portland, the first snow to fall on Christmas in 18 years, only the fifth time in 63 years. It didn’t stick below a few hundred feet and I live downtown, so I took the MAX a couple stops to the zoo which is 700 feet higher and enjoyed the winter wonderlandy atmosphere.
As I’ve only seen snow a few times, and never before a few years ago this would...
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"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in... →
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Haha, I rock.
Abnormalities include verbosity; abrupt transitions; literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance; use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker; auditory perception deficits; unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech; and oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation, prosody, and rhythm. Three aspects of communication patterns are of clinical interest: poor prosody, tangential and...
I decided to seriously compete at a local strip club’s Mustache & Bad Sweater competition.
Here’s an initial trial with the classic handlebars…
That’s right bitches, those are sequins. You can smell the manliness.
I ended up going with this…
Unfortunately, I only placed 5th. Which is ok I guess; I was not aware there was a talent portion (we had to work...
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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Health Insurance for All Portland Public School... →
Two SW Portland doctors filed a city petition today, seeking to provide health insurance “to all children attending the Portland public schools.” Drs. Gregg and Marcia Coodley filed the petition, and must gather 27,255 signatures from Portland voters by July 3, 2008, to qualify for the ballot. If the initiative passes, the city would fund the first two years of the program, with school districts...
"Dinosaur Mummy" Found; Has Intact Skin,... →