As I get settled into my new digs, I thought I’d put a couple of pictures up of the view from out of my window.
Here’s one facing east, down Columbia Street:
And here’s another one looking almost straight out (my apartment faces north):
Squeezed between that blue building and the one that’s sort of green around the top is Vernon’s apartment window. You’re just going to have to trust me on this.
Inspired by my rad friend Sibyl, I started my own photostream at Flickr. I did this largely because Flickr is now a free service of Yahoo!, and hence required almost no effort on my part to do.
There’s only a few up right now. Look for it to be updated randomly and infrequently…uh, not unlike this site, I guess.
Actually, this is already three posts for today, so I guess I’m not doing so bad, right? Right?
Well, whatever.
I don’t know how else to describe this site, other than by saying this dude is really into squid. That’s not a slangy reference to anything, by the way. Described as the “blog for all things squid,” this is literally just a blog about…squid.
I remember I had on on-going nerd joke with one of my friends from Calc I about taking the potato-powered clock idea to its logical extreme and powering the city of Boise from all the electricity produced by the outlying potato fields in Idaho.
Just today, I found out about a dude here in Portland who had a similar idea, although instead of powering an entire city with spuds, he went for the somewhat more practical idea of powering a stereo with taters. From his website:
I built a potato battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. It powered a small sound system. With the help of the Red 76 crew I installed the battery and sound system in the back of a U-Haul truck and drove it around town inviting people to enter the truck and take a listen.
Now, tell me that isn’t the coolest science project ever.
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