Skip to main content

Some random image thoughts from around Portland

Here are some random image thoughts that I have from around the Portland area. Image thoughts. Those are images that struck me in one way or another, and here are my thoughts about them:


Seen this week at Fred Meyer on NE Broadway & 30th. Best sale EVAR!!!!


This is another one that I took a few years back (Feb 2003 to be exact). I figured I would include it here, for posterity sake. Good thing these price adjustments are "Automatic" because otherwise I would worry about the folks running the store. Or maybe we should anyway, because even if the computer spits out the signs auto-magically, some human has to take the sign and tape it to the products in question. These two photos were taken more than 5 years apart. Why was the "bug" in the software which allows "automatic price reductions" of zero to occur and print out not found and fixed within those 5 years?



You can barely make this one out. But it was a food-shoot. It is inside "Mothers" - and they were having a photo shoot for food. I watched them for a few minutes, and they were really primping whatever it was in that bowl. Maybe for a menu or an add. Who knows? Mothers makes some good food though. Maybe a touch pricey, but good. I will not, however, link to their site because it is annoyingly 100% flash.



Hey Look! It's the Apple Foods trucks blocking the sidewalk and the bike lane YET AGAIN. The owner keeps asking the police why they give him tickets, and I hope they keep telling him that it is because it is illegal to park trucks across the sidewalk or bike lane. Let alone both... This is a very familiar site for anyone who bikes the Springwater to Esplanade connection in SE, near OMSI. I think it is funny that they even re-striped the bike lane to try and give them more room, and they still block it...



Hey folks, look what one of the TriMet ticket purchasing machines was stuck on the other day... So much for Fred Hansen's initiative to improve the reliability and "uptime" of the ticket machines. Maybe they should switch to Macintosh?
Note: the link to the TriMet security page will most likely change in the future. So for this "joke" to be funny even after the page has changed, here is the text I am referring to:
"Improved ticket vending machines
Ticket vending machines are being upgraded and new, more reliable machines are replacing older machines at several eastside MAX stations. Tickets will be available at several concessionaires located at major MAX stations."
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Free Topographical Maps

The Libre Maps project has purchased and made available for free all of the USGS Topographical maps of the USA. All 50 states. The maps have always been free sort-of, there was just no where until now to actually GET them for free. The Libre Maps project raised enough funds to buy the many gigabytes of data and the Internet Archive is hosting them. These are great 24k scale topographical maps folks. The same types you pay for in sporting goods stores. And many applications on your computers can work directly with them and your GPS. You can get water and tear resistant paper and print them out.. All good stuff... For the lazy in the audience, here are Oregon's.
1 comment
Read more

Every bit of plastic ever made still exists.

If you have ever crate trained a pet dog, you will have found that dogs will do everything within their power to not shit where they sleep. A dog will hold it until their face turns blue. Unless of course they are already blue, then they will just get a darker shade. And if you (and the dog) have had the misfortune of getting stuck a little to long, and the dog HAS had to go in their crate, the minute the poor canine makes eye contact with you - you know it. The dog will feel as though they have betrayed the universe by pooping in the crate. Well, humans are assholes. We could learn a thing or two from our dogs. We only have one earth. Only one. No "fall back" or "plan B" exists despite what you may see in the Star Trek movies or read in the Cristopher Stasheff or Orson Scott Card novels. I imagine that some day some poor wasted species - a distant relative to the Human - who has had to survive underground or in bubbles without being able to breathe ...
3 comments
Read more

Not safer, just stupider.

The first definition of stupider is "Slow to learn or understand; obtuse." I think that there would be good cause to add to it "See American". Today, while passing through the security checkpoint at Portland International (PDX) I witnessed the TSA personnel sending people to the back of the line for not taking off their flip-flops. They shouted endlessly about removing liquids, regardless of size. And they generally treat every one of us like we were infants incapable of understanding simple instructions. But perhaps they might be on to something.
3 comments
Read more