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06/11/2014

Antique Restoration Hardware for Home Renovators. Supply Yourself With Quality Restoration...

Yet another design-related manufacturer on our little neighborhood. 800 NE Davis.

We got it good here, kids.

And yes, the dumpsters are AWESOME.

http://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/

House of Antique Hardware provides high quality antique hardware and reproductions at an excellent value, and with expert help. We offer accurate period hardware reproductions for restored vintage homes.

03/13/2014

From Seattle artist Lynn Rosskamp
"Wilhelm and I coined a term tonight to describe the creature one becomes when one cannot help but drop in a sane, rational opinion in the middle of a giant poo-flinging internet flame war and then bow out and look no more upon it: the seagull of reason.

It usually doesn't bust up the jerk party like a gr***de would, rather it coats the shrieking monkeys in a dusting of sanity that, hopefully, is visible to the silent majority of people just watching the argument happen. It's for the quiet fence sitters that I must sometimes spread my wings and let go with a big plop of reasonable, well-researched opinion."

10/26/2013

Lego Landscape Building How-Tos

Another antidote to seriousness and urgency.

http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/articles/landscapehowto.html

A landscape without differences in height looks kind of dull. It’s easy to grab a baseplate and place some flowers on top of it, but that does not really make it a realistic and interesting looking landscape. This landscape for example:

10/15/2013

Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings

Because things are getting too serious and because monsters.

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/04/adding-monsters-to-thrift-store-paintings/

Have you ever been to a thrift store (think Goodwill or Salvation Army) and noticed that they usually carry a small selection of landscape paintings? Artists Chris McMahon and Thryza Segal d...

10/14/2013

UnitedStates

It's interesting to see the combination of good intentions, *semi*-functional platforms, and shovelware content that so typifies the open source world. There are some quite useful images here. But the whole thing ends up being such a cob job that most of the potential utility is lost.

Frankly, it's just such things as this that explain why we DON'T have any willingness to become a non-profit. I haven't sacrificed ten years of my life to see the results of my work squandered as it almost always is when this kind of organizational model is in place.

http://obts.wikia.com/wiki/UnitedStates

OpenBVE Train Sim (OBTS) Addon Libraries For This Country; click here to contribute: http...

10/12/2013

Rest In Peace, International Herald Tribune. May you find a place in the heavens beside the pre-Murdoch New York Post, the pre-AOL Time, Inc, and every journalist and field researcher who has ever been reachable only through a succession of Poste Restantes.

May your Telex never jam, may your expense vouchers always get approved, and may your sources always come to you first.

10/09/2013

Check Out the 1,500-Bottle Multnomah Whiskey Library

Now and again even we find Portland a little offputting.

http://pdx.eater.com/archives/2013/10/07/check-out-multnomah-whiskey-library-open-now.php

With more than 1,500 individual bottles of liquor — and no, not just whiskey — the Multnomah Whiskey Library is set to...

10/08/2013

As the digital revolution kills jobs, social unrest will rise

I might be more impressed by this if I hadn't gone further down this road than they're ready to think about yet by 2007.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243038/As_the_digital_revolution_kills_jobs_social_unrest_will_rise

Gartner expects major changes in technology, especially in areas like 3D printing, machine learning and voice recognition -- powerful trends that will reduce the need for workers and bring on social unrest.

09/24/2013

Discounts on Used Theatrical Drapery, Theatrical Drapery, Used Theater Drapes, Used Stage...

Go to Burning Man? The Pennsic War? Just plain camping? We know that most folks cover their tents in silly things like rip stop vinyl. Have you ever considered using this?

http://www.usedtheatricaldrapes.com/

We offer discontinued, used theatrical drapery at fantastic prices. You can also find out more about new stage curtains and theatrical drapery.

09/23/2013

Hi. Many of you know us already. But we decided that it was time that we created one umbrella name for all that we do. Hopefully, over the coming months, this new coherence will help all of us.