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According to the Census Bureau, Portland is the 31st biggest city in the US with 537,081 people. Kind of interesting.
Via Metroblogging Portland
Technorati tags: Portland, Oregon, PDX, OR, Census, Census Bureau

Walking through the park today I snapped a picture
 

Now, take a look at this screenshot from Oblivion (the video game)

 
Obviously the lighting is different, but yeah, I think Oregon might be part of the video game :)
Technorati tags: Oregon, Portland, Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls, Video Games, Washington Park

Took a walk through Washington Park today and took some snaps.

http://flickr.com/photos/scaleovenstove/sets/72157600454435349/
 There is the International Rose Test Garden, and the Japanese Rose Garden (I didn’t go into it, 8 bucks??). Nice day for a walk, a lot of people out there though…
Technorati tags: Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, International Rose Test Garden, Roses, Rose Garden, OR

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 [...]

I have really never been to a Starbucks before, aka “I hate coffee”. Well, there are tons of them around my apt, and since I have T-Mobile hotspot on my phone plan, I might as well use it. Today I ventured out to a nearby Starbucks, laptop in hand.
Since I don’t really like coffee, [...]

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 [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I met up with some guys that I met through Craigslist on the musicians forums, and we jammed on Wednesday night.
We met up at Audio Cinema, in the an area full of warehouses on the SE side of Portland. At first I couldn’t find the place, it was [...]

Yesterday me and Emily went for a drive after work out to Mount Hood, Oregon just to see the sights. I always hear “Mount Hood this, and Mount Hood that” from everyone around here because you can see it from the city, but up until yesterday I could never see it because it wasn’t [...]

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 designing the [...]

Last night, we headed to the Cheerful Pit Stop in Beaverton, Oregon for some food and it was open mic night. The backup band was 24/7.
I had my guitar, but no strap, but I sang a few songs. “What I Got” by Sublime, “Hound Dog” by Elvis, and “Red House” by Jimi Hendrix.
It was a fun time, [...]