Aiming at Nothing

Are you in line yet? Have you queued up? Today is the day that the Apple iPhone goes on sale for the first time after months of relentless hype. Rumor has it that there are yet-to-be-discovered alien intelligences from distant galaxies already on their way here at hyper-luminal velocities to get in line at Apple [...]

Kids on coffee…

I’m reasonably sure I’d still be as short as I am now even if I hadn’t stunted my growth as a youth by drinking coffee. Mmmm…. coffee.
H/T: Urkobold®

I’ll admit it: I’m a Google Reader junkie. Google Reader, if you are not aware, is a program that allows a user to keep track of multiple blogs and other RSS-enabled web sources in one place. As new material is posted to subscribed sites, a user can can quickly scan a list to see if [...]

Allow me to bask in the glow of my youngest brother’s success. Aaron produces the Tom Parker show on KPAM radio in Portland. He’s just one of the members of what has to be the largest crew at the station.
Fun fact: Even though we live more than 300 miles from Portland, I can receive KPAM [...]

Portland, OR to Moscow, ID (by way of Government Camp, OR)

Mappage
I spent most of Father’s Day with — you would never guess it — my dad (and my mom ’cause she’s always where my dad is for some reason). If you’ve never met my dad, just imagine an older version of me. Frightening, isn’t it?

Happy [...]

Portland, OR to Portland, OR (by way of Oregon, City and, uh, Portland, OR)
The Checkpoint.

Today I visited the end of one trail and witnessed the beginning of another. The end of the Oregon Trail (the middle of which I saw back in Baker City) can be found in Oregon City, Oregon. It’s so nice, they [...]

Portland, OR to Portland, OR (by way of Hammond, OR)

Mappage
Today was a veritable grab bag of activities (try to imagine a bag chock full o’ verbs for just a moment… delightful, isn’t it?)
I rode around the various neighborhoods where I once lived in Portland. Everything looks pretty much the same except that, unfortunately, my childhood [...]

Moscow, ID to Portland, OR (by way of Rufus, OR)

Mappage
Several months ago I received word that one of my cousins had, after a very long time of thinking about it, decided to get married. She had even found a guy to marry her which, on reflection, is an important component of any marriage. I was [...]

Paris Hilton, a woman of some importance I’ve been told, has been released from prison to serve out the remainder of her time under house arrest.
The last time I was ordered to serve 23 days of a 45 day jail sentence and was subsequently let out early four days later because I didn’t like it [...]

Baker City, OR to Moscow, ID (by way of Flora, OR)

I’ve been keeping a list of the things I’ve seen on, over, or near the road. Along the way this week I’ve seen: a tennis shoe (left, I believe); a deer (deceased); two deer (alive, crossing just south of Enterprise, OR); a hubcap (gaudy); field [...]