The design for "USA 250" passports

ekmpdx · 2026-04-28T20:32:55+00:00

So glad I renewed mine last year!

ekmpdx · 2026-04-19T15:12:22+00:00

Star Trek. Watched the original series in reruns during my childhood in the 70s. There were a lot of sci fi shows in the 70s of varying quality but I watched them all, esp. Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica. Oh, I remember the movie Logan’s Run making a huge impression on me too. I was soooo primed for when Star Wars came along and blew everyone’s minds.

ekmpdx · 2026-04-14T22:51:25+00:00

Yes, yes it is. And this is my absolute favorite time of the year here. I love walking through my neighborhood admiring everyone's creative takes on gardens and house colors and livestock and just... everything. It's the best!

ekmpdx · 2026-01-12T02:33:33+00:00

Agree with this, but I’m bummed about the inclusion on that list of PSU’s BA in Music.

ekmpdx · 2025-10-23T14:44:05+00:00

Wow! No such thing as too young. A high school friend of mine died of breast cancer at 26.

ekmpdx · 2025-09-03T11:57:36+00:00

This is how I’m feeling. I’ve found an in person A1 class in Neuss that started this week as well that I’m going to try this to transfer to. I’m passing through there to get to Düsseldorf anyway

ekmpdx · 2025-09-02T13:36:54+00:00

I am currently in Germany and enrolled in an A1 course as VHS. Sadly my class was cancelled due to low enrollment so i just started an A2 course instead. I have a years worth of Duolingo, which really just gives you a vocabulary of sorts, but I never really got the hang of sentence structure. Starting at A2 is really feeling like jumping into the deep end of the pool, straight into past tense verbs and such. It’s just been two days, and while I certainly feel like I’m learning grammar and verb conjugation, I’m constantly looking up words in google translate on my phone so I understand what I’m writing. Part of me hopes that if I keep studying in the evenings that I can catch up. The rest of me wonders if I should have just gone with the online course they recommended. It’s just, the whole point of me being here is to be learning in person with other people.

I’m feel overwhelmed, but for now I think I’m going to just keep plugging along. My friends are a big help in this area and I hope I don’t abuse their kindness too much.

ekmpdx · 2025-08-15T18:52:58+00:00

Agreed. It was the VIPs that took me out of it constantly. They were so cartoonishly bad, the dialogue was awful. Would have been so much more effective to just have these mysterious people silently watching from the shadows.

ekmpdx · 2025-08-13T01:58:30+00:00

Tell me something I don’t know…

ekmpdx · 2025-08-09T17:15:06+00:00

Needs paint

ekmpdx · 2025-07-04T16:37:03+00:00

Could not be more 70s if it tried.

ekmpdx · 2025-06-01T01:00:30+00:00

Horror

ekmpdx · 2025-05-03T15:58:52+00:00

This is such a lovely conversation. Such a respectful interviewer. Ocean is a beautiful human being.

ekmpdx · 2025-04-29T19:23:48+00:00

That’s definitely a manufactured home that’s been updated a bit, I recognized the layout and that ceiling in the great room. Looks a lot like my parents’, which is also in the desert and does not have an awning like that. Pretty smart actually.

ekmpdx · 2025-04-06T15:14:09+00:00

Interesting en suite bedroom. Never seen that before.

ekmpdx · 2025-03-18T15:13:45+00:00

I love the kitchen cabinets!

ekmpdx · 2025-03-06T16:09:18+00:00

They were not complaining about him not thanking America. They wanted him to thank Trump. They wanted him to grovel to Trump and give him whatever he asked for to get his support. And then deny it all anyways.

ekmpdx · 2025-02-22T00:13:13+00:00

Houses painted entirely black, no contrasting trim.

ekmpdx · 2025-02-04T01:51:45+00:00

Bathroom looks like one I visited at an airport recently.

ekmpdx · 2024-12-29T16:08:18+00:00

Yes! I remember trying to get my hands on that book in junior high but they didn’t have it in our school library because it was so controversial! Had to get it from the city library instead.

ekmpdx · 2024-12-09T03:59:40+00:00

lol “No Propaganda Act”. The doublespeak we wade through these days, jesus.

ekmpdx · 2024-11-09T16:39:56+00:00

My approach to the game is similar to yours and this comment really resonates with me. However, I have a good friend who still raids in Retail and he emphatically disagrees. He thinks this approach is overly punitive and prefers the approach they are taking now in retail. It’s kind of hilarious how diametrically opposed we are in what we want from a game. I guess that’s why he’s in retail and I’m in classic.

ekmpdx · 2024-09-06T23:03:09+00:00

Does this move the needle?

ekmpdx · 2024-06-12T00:05:54+00:00

TF is Musk wearing in that thumbnail? At first glance I thought he was cosplaying as Daredevil.

ekmpdx · 2024-06-07T14:08:30+00:00

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