Went out today on a mission to pick up a new pair of kix, headed down 23rd Ave, hit some shops up, found a cool pair of Nike SB’s at Exit Real World Which are cool, but I wanted something else more low key. The guy at the shop was like, “Check out Oddball’s”, ook,…
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Tag Archive: Portland
Mississippi Ave 2nd Thursday, The TeaZone, Kate Elliot
Headed out last night to check out the Mississippi Ave 2nd Thursday gatherings, which is basically shops open up and there is wine tasting, etc, and some bands playing outside. It wasn’t as big as I expected, but still cool, good to see another part of the city for sure. After that, headed out the…
Portland Differences #8 – No Mosquitos!
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…
Mt. Tabor – Portland, OR
Went up to Mt. Tabor Park this afternoon, walked around. I guess it is a dormant volcano, which is cool. Named after the real Mt. Tabor that is like 6 miles east. Pretty nice place. If I had an EVDO card, I probably would take my laptop up there for an afternoon. Anyways, here are…
Portland Blogger Dinner
Tonight I walked on down the block to the Portland Blogger Dinner at Jive Software. Pretty cool. Jive is nice, Wii, 360, beer on tap in the break room… the work on a product called ClearSpace – collaboration software written in Java. It was a good get together, met some cool people. I added some…
Portland Differences #7 – Tater Tots (or is it Tator?)
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…
Beer and Nintendo, at the bar.
Nuff Said. Technorati tags: PBR, Super Nintendo, Ground Kontrol, Portland, PDX, Oregon
Portland Differences #6 – Cool Street Names
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…
31st Biggest City in US – Portland
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
Washington Park, Portland OR
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…