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In Portland, in some places of the city, you can get free wi-fi through MetroFi or Personal Telco. MetroFi has a free and paid service, as you can see from the screenshot, when you are on the free one, you get a nice iframe ad and basically every link you click there is a 5 [...]

Anyone notice a pattern? You could bet there would be rain tomorrow, and it would probably be a pretty good bet. Rain, everyday! Wow, but it isn’t like totally cold out, might even get to the 60′s. Take some of that rain and spread it around the country huh? I don’t mind it at all, [...]

Seriously. Every other place I have been, usually they frown on people writing on the walls, marking up stuff, writing obscenities (“Here I sit broken hearted, tried to…”) In Portland, bathroom graffiti is an art form. Either that or bars and restaurants just stopped caring and figured it looks cool enough, lets just leave it. [...]

No matter what you do around town in Portland, it always seems there is beer involved. I blogged about getting shoes before, where they had beer. Today I went to get a haircut at Bishops Barbershop, they had beer. Of course there is beer everywhere else, microbrews flowing, within 10-15 min walking distance from my [...]

  Minnesota is known for its “unofficial” state bird, the mosquito. One thing nice about Portland. No bugs!! It is so nice to walk around town, the woods, anywhere and not be bothered by mosquitos. People out here don’t even know what bug spray is. Wood ticks and deer ticks aren’t as much of an [...]

One thing that I find totally different than Minnesota, is that in Portland, you can get Tater Tots on basically any menu at any bar or restaurant. These things remind me of like 3rd grade lunch hour, they are salty as hell, not good for you in the slightest, yet really good, with ketchup or [...]

One of my favorite things about Portland, is that the street names around where I live are named after Simpson’s characters! Matt Groening grew up in Portland, which is really cool to boot, but how cool is it to live on “Burnside” street, for Montgomery C. Burns :) People probably think I am getting on [...]

In Minnesota, you go to Target, or Walmart, or Shopko, or something else. In Portland, you go to Fred Meyer (wikipedia). Fred Meyer is a grocery store type Walmart but nicer type store. It usually has a Starbucks, electronics area, organic section, etc. There is one a few blocks from my apartment, and there are stores [...]

Since I moved into my apartment here in Portland, there is one thing I noticed. They make it really easy to recycle. All the places I lived at in Minnesota, none of them offered recycling. Here, when I moved in, I was given instructions on how to do it, etc. One small difference, but really [...]

Around where I live in Portland, the Northwest District off Burnside Street, between 21st and 23rd avenue, it is filled with shops and restaurants and bars. This is great for walking around, and even better when the block sizes are half-size city blocks (200 feet vs. the standard 400-foot). My only guess is that when [...]