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Running away to the circus... for a few minutes
I surprised Gina tonight with a trip to see Cirque du Soleil’s “Kooza,” which just opened in Portland. She didn’t figure it out until she saw the tent, so that’s nice: I kept throwing her off with false answers to her questions: Her: “Is this an event where I’ll have to introduce myself?” Me: “Oh, yes, everyone will.”
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Open Source Bridge: Exciting the attentions of the Ingenious
I’m reading “The Invention of Air” by Steven Johnson, which talks a lot about Joseph Priestly’s experiments with electricity, discovery of oxygen, etc, and also about the scientific community of the time: Priestly had many interactions with (and got much encouragement from) Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson is also involved in the story, but I’m not to that spot in the tale yet.
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My "Day On"
Today on Martin Luther King Day, I participated in Day On, yet another great Portland tech community event: local geeks gathered at CubeSpace to volunteer to help non-profits with technical issues.
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Finished with PIFF '08
The Portland International Film Festival is finally over, and though I’m exhausted from the arduous schedule I kept (I saw every film I could - 70 features and 4 collections of shorts), I had a great time — even better than last year, largely because of the wonderful collection of people I met during the festival.
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Ignite Portland 2 was great!
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Paradise: now, with chocolate!
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Photos!
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Repeating on me?
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The great white north
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Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!
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Out to the ballgame