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No Pictures Fail

Taken at the Portland Rose Festival "waterfront village". "No photos of our [crappy] display allowed" Editorial comments added by me... I can only guess either they are scared that I will copy their business model, or that Disney will find out they are using Disney materials. Either way it was fun to take pictures of their "no pictures" signs.

Don't surveil us surveilling you.

This is in the entryway to the locker rooms at the Mt. Scott pool in Portland. I found it a tad funny. Your mileage may vary.

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 ...