Entries from June 2007

The McMenamins Backstage Bar

Date June 30, 2007


Geekery and beer

Date June 30, 2007

I can’t decide whether the fact that I want an iPhone means I’m a burgeoning Apple fanboy or just a general high technology whore.  Either way, I wasn’t standing in line Friday afternoon to pick up an 8 GB iPhone.  I just bought a new phone about six months ago, for one thing, and secondly [...]

We few, we idiotic few

Date June 20, 2007

Some of the nice things about running on what I call the Bridge Loop downtown (Hawthorne to Steel Bridge and back) is that it’s scenic, there are plenty of people to look at, and it’s relatively short as far as runs go (2.5 miles from start to finish).  The bad thing is that once you’re [...]

A short summary

Date June 6, 2007

When you wait a long time between posts, there’s a lot of things you forget to write about.
So let’s start with the things currently on my mind. My car’s currently unavailable thanks to a transmission refusing to shift out of park. Fortunately the car itself is parked in a nice neighborhood, albeit on [...]