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- Thu May 02, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
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Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
I’m not ignoring everyone, I’m just not reading/responding to anyone because I’m still on the Left Coast. This time I’m at Phoenix520’s aerie in the way-too-sunny Los Angeles area. Seriously, how do people live in all this sunshine?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
If you are a garden enthusiast, Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens in Southeast Portland has a magnificent collection. It may be a bit early in the season, but it is quite impressive. I’m back next weekend to catch the closing night of the opera (opening night was FABULOUS!!), and I think I’ll hi...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
Having a blast. Yesterday was Art, today is Gardens. Tomorrow is yet to be, but will be meeting strangers-not-strangers. Also, this place is warmer than I thought. 71° today, but everyone is still in jackets, fleece, and sweaters. Plus have I mentioned chatty? We aren’t in New England anymore. :oldl...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
No, I’m looking for cherry blossoms in big numbers if the aren’t gone yet. Like waterfront park?
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:50 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
Landed in Portlandia, chasing the sunset from around the Midwest. The sun won. The pilots must have had a spectacular view.
Where are the cherry blossoms? Specific instructions for the cab driver, please. Look forward to meeting folks!
Where are the cherry blossoms? Specific instructions for the cab driver, please. Look forward to meeting folks!
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
I’m just me. After 43 years married, W2 doesn’t travel with me much. I like to suck the culture out of wherever I go. :towel: Back-to-back museums, galleries, neighborhoods, tours, etc. He likes to rest. And hates the process of getting there. So no scenic sleeper train rides, for example. (Portland...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that
- Topic: Photography
- Replies: 177
- Views: 28050
Photography
More awesome photography.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: What are you watching?
- Replies: 1713
- Views: 225920
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
So, that must mean you're staying in the area. Probably downtown at one of the many hotels. There is plenty of good dining downtown if you want traditional steak and seafood. I'll make a list and post it later. Staying near the Art Museum and PSU. Also looking for suggestions to places that I MUST ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:28 am
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Orenthal James Simpson 1947 - 2024. Was he a murderer?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2220
Orenthal James Simpson 1947 - 2024. Was he a murderer?
W2 and I were on vacation in Germany one day when we turned on the TV to see an odd sight: a single white truck-thing going down a multi lane highway. In German. Couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on. Eventually figured it out. Whenever anyone asks about the trip, I have to Google “white br...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that
- Topic: Photography
- Replies: 177
- Views: 28050
Photography
View of 2.4% moon over Portland ME, April 9. The reflection from Earth lights up the rest of the moon - Earthshine
Gal Steinberg Photography
Gal Steinberg Photography
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 145
- Views: 4274
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
11 hour traffic jam leaving eclipse sites in Maine. Plus, special out-of-state visitors to Houlton.
https://fb.watch/rmlmlTMRiI/?
https://fb.watch/rmlmlTMRiI/?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Funny
- Topic: Weird Headlines
- Replies: 553
- Views: 116682
Weird Headlines
Cicadas Fall Prey to a Psychedelic-Producing Fungus That Makes Their Butts Fall Off This ‘zombie’ fungus isn’t going after the bugs’ brains—it’s after their genitals Cicadas are a sex-crazed species. Males sing the song of summer at the same volume as a lawnmower to attract mates, as residents of t...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Rest In Peace
- Replies: 1535
- Views: 253556
Rest In Peace
Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68774195?utm_source=press.coop He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work showing how the boson helps bind the universe together. A statement from Edinburgh...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Oxford, Michigan, School Shooting
- Replies: 160
- Views: 13807
Oxford, Michigan, School Shooting
Stonekettle Kitchen? Do you mean Stonekettle Station? Or Stonewall Kitchen? Does the plan involve Maple Bacon Onion Jam?W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:23 pm Finally, the Stonekettle Kitchen plan starts to gain traction.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 145
- Views: 4274
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Temperature drop in Rangeley, ME during the eclipse.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 145
- Views: 4274
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
April 8 in Maine has a 78% chance of clouds. But today was glorious. 62 degrees with perfectly cloudless skies. W2 and I went out to the parking lot of our condo building a few minutes before the maximum totality (96.7%). There were about a dozen people with eclipse glasses. I took the obligatory co...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:47 am
- Forum: Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that
- Topic: Photography
- Replies: 177
- Views: 28050
Photography
More pretty pictures.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: Earthlings Behaving
- Topic: Rightwing (and other) Judges Behaving Badly
- Replies: 126
- Views: 11879
Rightwing (and other) Judges Behaving Badly
When we lived in Boston, we had: 1. Boston Police 2. Brookline Police (our condo was across the street from Brookline) 3. Boston School Police (next door to a school) 4. Boston University Police (surrounded by BU, part of the campus was in Brookline) 5. MBTA Transit Police (next to Green Line and Co...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 145
- Views: 4274
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2201
Long-awaited PNW Meetup!!
I'm game. I'm busy on the 27th, but I'm free the previous weekend. Can I ask what brings you to Portland? Sure! My sort-of-godchild is starring in the Portland State University Opera production of The Merry Widow. Plus I have a niece I’ve never met in Olympia. And Phoenix520 in La la Land needs a v...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Earthquakes and/or Volcanoes
- Replies: 472
- Views: 253253
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: The Stupid Thread
- Replies: 714
- Views: 559165
The Stupid Thread
And this is why some Maine State Senator doesn't know what the Nazis did that was bad... stay in school kids. Context matters. This was in Maine, about Neo-Nazis. She was discussing a bill to ban paramilitary activity. Some groups have been seeking to set up camps for pseudomilitia training in thes...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Hijack This Thread
- Replies: 7152
- Views: 934787
Hijack This Thread
More amazing photographs in this thread. “Accidental art”