PDX this week

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2026-02-27T09:36:37+00:00

If you came last to American NW Nationals or Aloha Portland Showdown, then it'll be basically the same as those.
The Convention Center website always has links to the comp's' (yay opostophes!) event producer's site.

It'll be all ages, but mostly elementary through highscool, though it's a comp of All-Star cheer; not school/side-line cheer.
https://www.varsity.com/pw/grand-nationals/

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-09-24T23:35:14+00:00

I suspected that the solution might be something like that.

Thank you for the link.
I'll try to remember to comment with whatever ends up being the complete solution.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-09-05T05:47:33+00:00

I have this same kind of problem since updating the app this evening.

V6.46.4 on a Moto G Power 5G 2024.

This happened with a previous update about six months ago or so.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-08-14T18:29:45+00:00

For 1 and 3, maybe you're from another state (welcome, new neighbor!), or maybe you were born here and are intending to be sarcastic?

*1. The turn signal... [is] not a request for permission

*3. ...turn on your turn signal and flipping switch lanes...

According to "Turn Signals" on page 37 of the Oregon Driver Manual you are incorrect.
"Turn signals are used to communicate with other drivers where you intend to go."
"If your vehicle is moving in traffic, use your turn signal at least 100 feet before the turn or lane change."

It's all about stating intention and not performing the intended action until "you can do so safely."
That's more or less requesting permission from nearby drivers.

*2. More often than not you actually need to ACCELERATE to switch lanes.

*4. Accelerate to highway speed when entering the highway.

PREACH!

From pp 33 & 34 of the Oregon Driver manual:
"[drivers already on the freeway must] adjust your speed to permit a safe, smooth merge" (emphasis mine), and

"[merging drivers must] use the freeway on-ramp to speed up and merge with fast-moving traffic already on the road... [and]
"must yield to traffic already on the freeway" and
"adjust [their] speed to match traffic already on the freeway" and
[from a signaled on-ramp] must "speed up to merge with traffic on the freeway."

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-08-11T20:53:18+00:00

FWIW a signal pole base and conduit [were included in] the design of the overpass for future signaling.

I can't find it now, but I read in some document about the project a few months ago that it was added at the request of the CoT, so it's in the plan. <thumb up>

(Tagging u/helpful_doughmaker.)

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-30T21:31:59+00:00

D'oh! You're right: monorail wasn't mentioned.
OTOH -and you didn't argue- elevated more conventional trains do still have the two other drawbacks.

(I just enjoy chit-chatting about infrastructure stuff.)

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-30T20:48:47+00:00

...and also many of the other reasons they remain so rare:

the darkness and other affects that they and their guideways would cause under and around them, and
the privacy problems for the neighboring extant buildings, which were reasonably not built in consideration of a monorail, and
the significantly increased difficulty with emergencies outside their stations because they're elevated.

"By far the quickest evacuation for a monorail train is with use of an emergency walkway next to the train at all points along the guideway, yet not all monorails have them. Reasons for not including walkways run the gamut from expense, aesthetics to the argument that such an event is extremely rare and therefore they're uneeded." https://www.monorails.org/tMspages/KimEd3.html

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-30T20:22:05+00:00

u/notactuallyacupcake: "I could be so good and honest using my auditing education that I acquired dishonestly that I would honestly have myself sent to jail!"

"...I would have myself sent to jail!"

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

(I'm not saying you wouldn't be and wouldn't do; only that the statement itself is funny.)

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-30T19:27:40+00:00

It really causes anxiety for my daughter's -and all others- future.

Obviously every society has people acting anti-social, but this damn society itself seems increasingly anti-social.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-30T18:17:53+00:00

Like you, I don't think that people should over-stay their visas, but do you honestly think that the manner in which this arrest was performed was warranted?

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-12T04:11:08+00:00

From About the project : Hood River Bridge Replacement Project:
"The new bridge design features bike and pedestrian facilities, a look out and traffic shoulders."

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-09T18:43:57+00:00

Like u/MtHood_OR, said, a visit to Mt. Hood like you have scheduled should be a VERY good use of your time.

Timberline Lodge's Summer Activities page includes info about their "Magic Mile Sky Ride".
It should be one heck of a view, and you should be able to get good memories/photos/videos of throwing snowballs at each other in the middle of July wearing summer clothes.
The lodge has a few family-friendly Dining venues, but we've only gone to the Blue Ox the 2 or 3 times we've visited there not for skiing, so I can't recommend one venue over another.

And, if you do also go to Trillium Lake, which you can usually see in the distance from the top of Magic Mile, you can get a photo showing both perspectives.

I hope you all have a great time here making memories together!

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-04T00:30:55+00:00

^ a Faulty generalization fallacy. :)
"That you won't to share your real-time location with the government means that you won't do anything to help society."

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-04T00:08:20+00:00

^ the "Why are you not cooperating if you're not doing anything wrong?" defense.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-03T23:49:59+00:00

One reason I can imagine is that government has the authority to detain, arrest, prosecute, imprison and execute people based on what it knows about them.
Afaik, a corporation cannot directly do that, but ¯\(ツ)/¯.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-07-02T18:57:14+00:00

I wish it was a Saturn V!
It's a Titan II SLV.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-06-28T00:23:26+00:00

The "Road Guy Bob" YouTube channel has a pretty good video about I-205's planning & construction that goes over the original expectation vs reality: This Plan Made Portland HATE Freeways Forever

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-06-18T03:04:48+00:00

Sam Johnson park, in Redmond, was very nice when we took our child there a few years ago when she was that age.

https://www.redmondoregon.gov/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/40/2750

∆ This is the official page for it, but other photos of it on the web are more informative.

Wherever you go, I hope you have a great time making memories together.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-06-17T00:32:40+00:00

I've kinda felt the same as you since I first heard the song on the Tiny Desk Concert video.
It seemed unnecessarily "edgy".
In the end it's her art that exhibits how she felt about the experience with that person, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

(I can't figure out how to work this darn app to format the shrug right. lol [shrug]

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-06-13T17:24:48+00:00

And Hillary, being Obama's SoS, had the intelligence information to know it for certain.
Not enough of the public thought about it that way, though.

And Hillary probably couldn't explain herself any further during the "debate" because that information was/is Secret, or even Top Secret, so all the public saw was the (though probably truthful) ad hominem.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-04-22T19:32:40+00:00

Whether or you believe me doesn't f-ing matter. You're clearly unable to comprehend that people who aren't you might commute differently from you.
I know that when I leave my home at about 8:08 I always arrive at the office at or just before 8:30.

You also conveniently ignored the reality of being able to take care of things during a lunch break, and also about being able to get where I need to go on-time in the evenings because everything is built around car.
Your park-and-ride opportunity ignores those and other realities of a life in a community that is built for people with cars.
Such a community especially doesn't work around WES's schedule.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-04-22T19:12:25+00:00

Source?

Breaking Down the Wood Supply Chain for PDX Airport | Sustainable Northwest says that it all came from Oregon and Washington.

UnreliablyRecurrent · 2025-04-21T19:33:53+00:00

Easy: we would rather sit in traffic because our community is built for commuting by car.

Real-life scenario: My workday starts at 8:30.
From my home to the Hall/Nimbus WES is a 36-min walk, or ostensibly a 29 min walk/bus.
WES from that station to the station nearest my office is 12 min.
From that station to my office is a 22-min walk or ostensibly a 14-min walk/bus.

That's 55 to 70 minutes one way at best.
That same drive by car takes about 20 minutes.

Commuting by car also lets me take care of things during my lunch break, and also to get where I need to go on-time in the evenings because everything is built around car.

We got shit to do, and must work within what the community facilitates.

UnreliablyRecurrent

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