Ghost Town

#1 and #3 remind me of Ladd's Addition. #9 kind of looks like the South Waterfront. Dear World: All your Utopias are belong to us. Love, Portland. http://io9.com/10-failed-utopian-cities-that-influenced-the-future-1511695279/@mattnovak

They're not on rails and they don't operate themselves, but the "car-like pods" have arrived. Whenever I open the Car2Go app from now on I'm going to say "I summon a car-like pod."  http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/people-movers-the-great-transportation-promise-of-the-1510958909

Amanda Fritz's letter to the Merc is the funniest thing since-- well, since Steve Novick took on the Oregonian . The Portland City Council should make every January "Make Fun of the Media" Month. http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/letters-to-the-editor/Content?oid=11615779

Clyde also loves laundry day.   #clydethebeagle  #sleepy

Clyde also loves laundry day. #clydethebeagle  #sleepy

Austin loves laundry day. #austinthebeagle

Austin loves laundry day. #austinthebeagle

Another shot from Reed Lake

Reed Lake

This is no way to run a capitalism! http://bikeportland.org/2014/01/13/instead-of-competing-local-shops-spread-the-love-by-promoting-each-other-99798?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BikePortland+(BikePortland.org)

Random erasers found in coat pocket #Iamateacher

If we stand together we can beat the cold.

Austin, lemon beagle, takes a break.

#austinthebeagle

Does anyone know where/how to recycle/repurpose a recliner that's perfectly good, except for the covering? We need to get rid of it for space reasons, so we don't want to have it re-upholstered ourselves. But we don't want to just throw it out either... I've tried to give it away on Craigslist. Not having much luck.

I am sure it is totally a coincidence that my wife had to work late on a night when Grimm is filming on campus.

Does running a block and a half to catch one train and a block to catch another while carrying my end-of-semester grading in my messenger bag count as my cardio for today?

One of those people who takes down the holiday decorations with a perverted, twisted, cackling glee I am not.

Yes, please. http://www.opb.org/news/article/multnomah-county-library-adds-streaming-service/?google_editors_picks=true

We've lived in Portland for a year-and-a-half now. Here's a short retrospective: Q: So the rain never gets to you? A:: Not so far. That question , on the other hand,  might be getting a bit tiresome.

#clydethebeagle  and #austinthebeagle  on the way to "camp". They went to camp while we were out of town for the holidays. Last time I took them, I had to carry them out of the car, and they were very nervous. This time, they hopped down as soon as we opened the hatchback and ran in without even saying goodbye to Mom and Dad.

Sokol Blosser winery.

Vista Hills vineyard

Montana: How are the pilots going to see out of our plane??!

Flight home from ABQ to PDX delayed. (Sigh) At least we're not trying to fly east.

Chef Shawn's Eatery in Ruidoso, NM. The owners are from Portland and used to work at Andina!

Rio Ruidoso

Rio Ruidoso

New walking path in Ruidoso, NM

2013 wasn't so bad.

I kind of thought the TSA might confiscate my New Year's fireworks, even though they were just the little plastic champagne bottles with confetti in them. I didn't, however, expect them to also open the holiday present I also had in my bag. The gift was the catalog from the samurai armor exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. TSA foiled my nefarious plot to bring down the airplane with confetti while protected by my samurai armor.

You no longer have to take your shoes off in airport security if you're under 12 or born before 1937. Twelve years in, TSA has winnowed the field of shoe bomb suspects down to Americans between the ages of 12 and 75.