"alas, in swapping he for they, Fisher replaced a number problem with a gender problem" interesting language history.

"We demand the freedom to use our phones as we choose — on wireless networks that offer true high-speed Internet and real consumer choice." word.

" Although I'm now finally teaching a workshop on the subject, for two years and more, I put off doing anything that might contribute to the Facebook hype. Here's why."

Srsly. (Makes me feel like a slacker for not going to PDX.)

I miss the enormous sour cherry tree across the alley from the rental house where I lived Summer 1994.

"I stopped complaining and shouting about this a few years ago because there isn’t much of a point when you have no solutions and no idea of how to change things for the better." sigh. this is the place where I got stuck with my scifi novel, because the main chars were running into something similar, and I couldn't find a decent plot way out of it.

"provides uncertainty information along with a probabilistic weather forecast" friggin awesome.

“I would like to give the ProJo some money – can you please find somebody who will take it?” the boggling difficulty of placing newspaper advertising.

"Living a bicycling-rich life may more effectively begin if not leapt into it but trodded onto softly." have had people in our Commute Challenge team who in NO way could bike commute, but who ride to store, etc. in their own town/n'hood.

would love to make (sans bell peppers, of course)

turning the Fetid Lake of Doom (an OlyBlog nickname) back into an estuary.

it says "executive" but I say "super cute"!

WTF?!

"By creating personas around specific roles for volunteers you can begin to think about what motivates her, what she’s interested in doing for the project, what she expects from her involvement, etc. Once you start answering these questions, you can create a handbook for your community leaders so that they can easily identify contributors in those roles and quickly know exactly what to do to engage them."

sustainable south sound kicking it into overdrive, apparently. (the lacey location is over by the office.) it's not a particularly popular opinion, I think, but I keep wondering if the eastside garden should be somewhere other than the park.

"searchable collection of free, real-world images relating to walking and bicycling" non-commercial use only.

"a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction" (not just TV)

funny-sounding articles from PubMed.

work starting on 1st roundabout, at intersection w/Log Cabin Rd. I don't go that far down on Blvd very often; I'm much more interested in seeing the ones at Morse Merryman & 22nd.

"a larger question here is whether people who cannot manage to merge at low speed into a counter-clockwise circle and, yes, perhaps even change lanes in that circle, before finding the correct exit should actually be holding licenses that enable them to operate heavy machinery in the first place" nice diss. (I love roundabouts.)

$28. this is the cooler that xtracycle sells with their logo…for $39! score.

this is mom's retirement fund. she's just a couple of years away from retirement. I'm incredibly nervous.

Baldur's new blog, which is good so far, and some interesting musing on use of different media in writing.

great idea, if only I could get it to *work*!