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  So here's a cheesy, amateurish video clip of the fountain in the Pioneer Place food court. I normally wouldn't bother including mall food court fountain in the ongoing fountain project, except that a.) I just got a shiny new 5th generation iPod nano with the builtin video' [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:34pm EST
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• excalibur, las vegas

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  A few photos of the Excalibur, the sorta-medieval-themed casino on the South Strip in Vegas. I'd just like to stress, emphatically, that we did not stay at the Excalibur. It's corny on the outside,' [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 2:21am EST
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• autumn ginkgo, plaza blocks

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  I haven't posted many fall photos this year. It wasn't a very photogenic autumn, unfortunately, and I wasn't too enthusiastic about its arrival. I also wasn't too enthusiastic about revisiting the old staples of fall [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:11am EST
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• pigeons, lovejoy fountain

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  I don't actually like pigeons very much, but I was walking through Lovejoy Fountain Plaza, camera in hand, and the little bastards mobbed me. So here are a few photos. It's possible they saw the' [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 10:35pm EST
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• the hummingbird again

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  More intermediate results in the ongoing quest for really good hummingbird photos. It would probably help to get set up and lie in wait for it, rather than just grabbing the camera in a hurry and firing off a [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:25pm EST
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• tug & barge, willamette river

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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• infrared contrail

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:19am EST
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• a tiny hummingbird

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:53am EST
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• december twilight

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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:48pm EST
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• Summer Lake

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  A few old photos from Summer Lake, in far SE Oregon. No, really, there's a lake out there somewhere. Unlike many lakes in the area, it doesn't quite dry up' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:19am EST
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• Vegas: Luxor (yes, again)

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:43pm EST
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• Vegas: Inside the Luxor

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:40pm EST
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• SF: 560 Mission Street Plaza

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  This is the fountain in front of the JPMorgan Chase tower in San Francisco's Financial District. Apparently this spot is fairly new. You don't see a lot of quasi-public spaces like this in' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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• Pettygrove Park

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  Downtown Portland's Pettygrove Park often gets overlooked. It's in the middle of the 60's urban renewal maze that is the South Auditorium district, and it's bordered by pedestrian trails rather than streets on all sides, so you aren't likely to run' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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• SF: Bay Bridge

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  A couple of mediocre photos of the Bay Bridge, which I wouldn't bother posting if I had any others' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:23am EST
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• SF: Wood & Steel

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:30am EST
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• SF: Marine Firemens Union

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  A couple of pics of the San Francisco Marine Firemens Union building, at 240 2nd St.
  
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:27am EST
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• pile

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  A few photos of "Pile", one of the new public artworks on the revamped transit mall in downtown Portland. I'm not sure how I feel about this one. It's kind of whimsical, and isn't overly [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:40am EST
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• Rooftops of San Francisco

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  A few photos from one of our less successful vacations, in which we learned why February is considered the off season in San Francisco, tourist-wise (i.e. it's cold and damp, just like Portland, [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:44am EST
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• pumice desert, crater lake

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  A few more old mini-roadtrip photos, this time from the Pumice Desert area in Crater Lake National Park. As this article explains, the sparse vegetation is due to poor soil [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:23pm EST
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• Strength of America

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  At the corner of 35th & Belmont, in inner SE Portland, is an old historic fire station that now serves as a firefighting museum. And on the streetcorner [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:58am EST
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• Kvinneakt

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  Yep, the famous "Expose Yourself To Art" statue has finally returned to city streets, after an extended absence due to MAX construction. I posted about it when she was first removed, way back in November 2006, and [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:25am EST
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• Capitalism (the fountain)

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  A few photos of the Capitalism fountain at the Lloyd Center mall, near the corner of NE 9th & Multnomah, just outside the Nordstrom store. The Smithsonian's art inventory [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:30pm EST
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• Vernon Ross Veterans Memorial

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  At the corner of NE Sandy, Thompson, and 48th Avenue, out in the Hollywood District, is Portland's Vernon Ross Veterans Memorial, a small monument with a very [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• an ex-tulip

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  Taken at Riverplace, downtown Portland, late April '09.
  
  
  
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:31am EST
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• renyming and other miscellany

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  If a.) you read this blog on a recurring basis (unlikely) and b.) you pay attention to the man behind the curtain (more unlikely), you might notice that the green profile box on the right has changed. The big deal is that I finally dumped the annoying old "atul666" nym, [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:37am EST
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• infrapink

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:55am EST
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• as seen on the interwebs

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  A fun thing about putting your photos under a Creative Commons license is that you never know where they'll show up out on the Series of Tubes. You don't automatically know when this happens, so it's nice when people email you about it, but that's not required. And when that [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:38am EST
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• three flagpoles

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:40pm EST
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• giant enemy crab

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  Looks more like a lobster actually, but then it wouldn't be a slightly-out-of-date interweb meme, would it?
  
  If I was slightly more cynical, I'd announce this was the Virgin Mary (possibly wielding the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:38pm EST
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• The Revenge of "Next Blog"...

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  Way back in the mists of time, Google/Blogger used to do a thing where, when someone arrived at this humble blog via the "Next Blog" button (see the very top of this page, toward the left side), you'd get a chunk of referrer info so you could see where the' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:03pm EST
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• blue heron, westmoreland park

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:38pm EST
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• july infrared

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:57am EST
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• august infrared

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:49am EST
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• pearlhenge

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  Some construction photos from somewhere in the Pearl District, at the tail end of the condo bubble. I'm not sure which building this turned out to be; I haven't been paying close attention to the Pearl recently, and many of the new buildings aren't overly distinctive anyway.
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:43pm EST
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• reflected, autumn

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  This is the area around 3rd & Ankeny, going by the bit of the "Keep Portland Weird" slogan you can see here. Don't bother doing a pilgrimage this time -- in RL it didn't actually look very [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:08am EST
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• big pink in a window

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  A few more window-reflection shots, this time of the US Bank tower, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:02am EST
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• Hall & 14th

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  A few photos of the nameless city park at SW 14th & Hall, just across I-405 from downtown Portland. I've mentioned the place before, in these three posts, but I've never gotten around to doing a post about it. Quite possibly that's because it's not [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:56pm EST
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• twilight, market street

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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:26am EST
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• fallen

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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:23am EST
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• Doughboy Monument, Astoria

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  A few old (2007-ish) photos of the "Doughboy Monument", the slightly odd World War I memorial out in Astoria, at the corner of Marine [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:19am EDT
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• Triad, Laurelhurst Park

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  A few photos of "Triad", a modern (circa 1980) steel sculpture plunked down in the middle of Laurelhurst Park. I'm not sure it fits the site all that well, but taken on its own it's [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:14am EDT
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• Mysterious Milestone 5

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  So now we've come to the last milestone that I know of, and it's a mysterious one. Like the "other" P7 I mentioned the other day, this one's located' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:27am EDT
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• autumnal & inedible (probably)

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  As seen on SW Ash St., in downtown Portland. I don't actually know what sort of tree these are on. My rusty Boy Scout tree identification skillz were pretty much 100%' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:38am EDT
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• Southwest Milestone P7

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  Ok, so we finished up the last Stark St. Milestone a few days ago, [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
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• Cat in Repose

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  Here we have some photos of the big stone cat on the Transit Mall, on 5th between Morrison and Alder. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:11am EDT
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• Milestone P14

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  So here we have the last Stark St. milestone on our tour: Milestone P14 is way out on the far end of Gresham, on the campus of [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:44am EDT
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• sailboat, eastbank esplanade

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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:34am EDT
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• the buildings in the water

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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:04am EDT
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• willamette, october

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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 3:28pm EDT
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