I’m going to file this one here for my own use, and hopefully someone else will benefit in the process. I bought two new batteries for my late-90’s Yamaha WaveRunners because the old ones were dead. I got the batteries all prepped, charged them per the instructions, and went to install them in the watercraft.
The little torti has been struggling since her spay. I thought it was her heart, but, then I discovered hard feces all along her intestinal path and enlarged kidneys. She is impacted with stool!She was eating like there was no tomorrow after coming here. Now she's so backed up that likely the hard stool is compressing he
New bike corral installed yesterday in front of Crema at the corner of SE 28th and Ankeny.Slideshow below - (Photos © J. Maus) Yesterday, city maintenance crews put the finishing touches on Portland’s 19th bike corral (number 20, just a block away at SE Pine, should be done any day now). This one is in [...]
By Ramzy Baroud Much can be said to explain, or even justify Hamas' recent political concessions, where its top leaders in Gaza and Damascus agreed in principle with a political settlement on the basis of the two-state solution.
He said so himself. Also, he's watching you poop.
Former Trail Blazer and lifetime Jail Blazer Zach Randolph has apparently been traded again -- this time from the Knicks Clippers to the Grizzlies.
This guy's a little behind on his $435,000 of education debt.
Torsten Kjellstrand/The Oregonian Crazy Enough, and its ever-expanding Portland Center Stage run, has been exhausting enough for Storm Large to take a well-earned break. Though, it means another slight shift in the Blues Festival schedule. Storm was scheduled to perform...
Professor Duy released the U of O Index of Economic Indicators for May this week.The University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators™ fell 0.1 percentage points in May to 85.0 (1997=100). The relative stability in the UO Index over the past three months is consistent with a pat
The OregonianCoffeehouse Northwest's Adam McGovern Portland coffee talk is getting ready to move beyond "Can I have a triple half-caf tepid soy latte?" Up next: "Where is your espresso from today?" So get ready. Perfectionist barista Adam McGovern, whose Coffeehouse...
2127.I am now using Firefox 3.5, and I'm well pleased. This is a good update. And, judging by the popularity, me and over eight millions worldwide rather agree.Firefox never debuts without a little flash and style, and they've provided one in the form of the live download
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission took some moments away from its routine business of rapidly creating paperwork for its paperwork and registering bureaucrats for its Bureau of Redundancy to send out this genuinely helpful note: "Check ahead for July 4th liquor store hours: The Oregon Liquor
An alert reader writes: PDX has been choked down to one runway for the last several weeks. Well, 1¼ if you count the Dash-8s using the cross-wind runway to fly to Seattle every half hour. Have there been any delays? Have airlines had to cut flights? The place doesn't look like it's all that choked. Maybe w
With IntroDUCKtion in full swing, Drew and I had to think of a way for the Commentator to make a lasting impression on incoming freshmen. What better way to do that than hand out free condoms and The Hate Issue to concerned mothers and brace-faced nubiles? Too lazy to walk around the EMU and take [...]
Tough news for editorial boards who want to raze Memorial Coliseum. As reported on OPB, the 49-year-old building is headed for Na
Several Multnomah County roads and one bridge will see traffic changes during firework displays and community events on the Fourth of July. On the Hawthorne Bridge, sidewalks will close at 8:00 pm and the outside traffic lanes will close at 9:00 pm. All lanes and sidewalks will reopen after the fireworks show en
Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis is against free summer lunches for kids. "Can’t they get a job during the summer?" asksthe politician / Bible book store owner. The editorial board of the St. Louis Dispatch reports: State Rep. Cynthia Davis,...
I wrote back in April about the Vatican's sanctioned inquisition of American women religious. Today the New York Times reports on the status of the V
We got a great email from Jennifer who has successfully kicked paper napkins and towels out of the house and has converted to cloth (much to the horror of her paper towel-addicted mother...her mom now brings her own paper towels...
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From Jim Ross, Oregon's latest voter registration numbers: The Oregon voter file has just been released. Of the 46,710 new registrants since the election, 17,449 have registered Democrat, 10,647 have registered Republican and the remaining 18,614 have registered non-affiliated. Okay..it's really "Rock the Boat"...
2126.In case you thought the fixie-haters only lived in PDX, think again; they don't like 'em in Berlin either.Yes, Berlin … the one in Germany, not the charming little hamlet down in Linn C
Oh alright, one more... Wexler: Settlement freeze would call Arab world’s ‘bluff’ Visiting Israel, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) tells Herb Keinon of the Jerusalem Post that Israel should agree to a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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City is rolling out public outreach process for more bike boulevards.(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland is about to embark on a series of open houses to inform neighborhoods about their bike boulevard plans. The Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is busy planning and designing 15 miles of new, low-traffic streets throu
As Multnomah County experiences its first real heat wave this summer with temperatures expected to hover in the low 90’s over the next few days, the Aging and Disability Services Division would like to remind older adults and people with heat sensitive disabilities to take the following precautions in the hot weather:
This is not an argument that the system of background checking is getting out of hand or that these in particular aren’t merited. But after a while, you do start to think that some overall parameters should be set around the practice, lest we wind up with half the country doing background checks on the [...]
Lastly here is some linkage to a great article explaining the newly unveiled Metro rebranding of trails and parks, rivers and streams as The Inter Twine. I attended the kick-off event at Keen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Israel postpones ‘drought tax’ Look at a topographical map of the region and note where the bulk of the water flows and you'll begin to understand that religion and "terrorism" are merely a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Art is not dead, even in the recession. As a supporter of the “make local habit” campaign in Bend, my favorite place is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
REPERTORY ROUNDUP: Trivia time! Did you know that Michael Madsen, who as Mr. Blonde infamously sliced off a cop's ear in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut "Reservoir Dogs" (starts Friday at Clinton Street Theater), is so violence-averse that he had...
Ron says.... Whoa!Afterbirth for Dinner - TIME: "There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don't argue about with a pregnant woman: what she eats and that being full of life indeed looks sexy. So when Cassand
It was a short week in Oregon tech -- here's a retrospective:...
AH!!! My first day all to myself in about a month. All the kids have gone for their summer visits with their dads. My wife will be home after work and then we will enjoy a welcomed three-day weekend (as the USA commemorates its “Independence Day”) alone together. So, this day. What will I do? What [...]
Lunacy StageworksJuly 3, 2009Summary:Lunacy Stageworks presents a series of reflections and memoirs by a small ensemble of young writers from Rwanda, Vietnam, Okinawa and beyond. The mood of their work ranges from curious to tragic, moving and sweet, sad and funny - but always rich with the diversity of our roots. Free chi
Good weather and the right amount of rain are giving us great roses this summer
Money can’t buy happiness. Or can it? The TierneyLab blog from The New York Times recently conducted an informal survey. Based on Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, a new book from Dr. Geoffrey Miller, readers were invited to: List the ten most expensive things (products, services or experiences) that you h
The great thing about writing about Adam Gnade is that he does most of the talking for you. Here he talks about Texas in the middle of summer—which sounds miserable, really—and the dreams that die there. He does so over some sparse, twangy guitar and that’s that. It’s not until about four minutes in until [.
I've been following the story of the jet crash off the Comoros and the young girl who survived. The other day I was reading an article where her father expressed amazement that she was the one to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ty Ennis NAAU presents the next installation in the Couture series: Ty Ennis' You'll Live It Here: The Lilac City Track Murders '96-'98, a multimedia installation of drawing, photog
By Jesse Springer of Eugene, Oregon. Jesse is a long-time political cartoonist and illustrator. Previously, he contributed "Trick or Treat!". See more at Springer Creative.
I think no trip to Tampa would have been complete without a visit to the Florida Aquarium. It was within walking distance of the hotel, so a few of us grabbed an opportunity to check it out. Here is Jaylyn, Amanda, Sara and Melanie out front.
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