Incursio

Timesink alert. Charlie Bit Me Blood! Ninja Cat And WEEEEEEEE! (contains profanity - NSFW) I like turtles! Truly Priceless! (Adult content) Lookin' Ass Kitty (uhmmm, they say Ass a lot, PG-13 content) The best part of waking up! (adult content, NSFW) Where the hell is Matt? The magic is in the hole! (adult content, Portland lore) Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger! Using Proper English (Profanity, Adult Content, NSFW) Sad Kermit (PG-13)

There is a new neighborhood networking community site, over at PortlandNeighborhood.com . Their new community component can be found here: Community @ PortlandNeighborhood Check it out, join up, and start networking your friends and neighborhoods! It is young but has lots of potential!

I came across " Hordes of Orcs " by Freeverse. This is possibly one of the most addictive games I have ever played. (Currently Apple Macintosh OSX only...) It is a "tower defense game", and for $25 it is a bargain. (You can save 10% through the month of December by using the coupon code MACSANTA07TEN ). They have a playable demo that lasts for 60 minutes. It is simple to play, tough to master. I highly recommend it... (As if I needed something else to cut into my free time).

Well, there is an awful lot of hubub on the net today about a certain number that the MPAA does not want people to see. Supposedly this number can be used to decode HD-DVD disks or some such use. Of course I would never condone such things. But I do not condone censorship either, and this kind of behavior shows what the DMCA is really capable of . So, people all over are finding creative ways to share the number. I can't vouch for any of these links. They might be valid for a while, they might not. And if you are worried about "work safe" content - I can't guarantee that either. This post itself has profanity... Here is my favorite so far, by Ludwik Trammer: there were 09 planets in the solar system Fucking 9 planets not 11 and not 02 but exactly 9 Damn planets right in the middle and everyone seemed happy until 74 professors meet on the conference and started to wonder: "we should have Exactly 3 planets in our system" – prop...

In a comment I made to BikePortland they censored the word "Jerks". They censored three words I used. The first was "Asshat", which while I clearly don't think that to be a terrible word, I will at least give them the leeway to censor that on their own site. However I am not sure what the problem was with the word "Jerks". Here is the original text of my comment: Too bad River City Bicycles is staffed by clueless asshats. I went in there twice in the last couple years to buy some moderately expensive bike things (a couple at about $300 each). The first time they were jerks, I chalked it up to maybe a bad apple or someone having a bad day. Last week we tried again and they were jersks again. So we left and spent our money elsewhere… Too bad too, I am in the market for a new Cannondale and they won’t get my business. (Note, the second occurrence of "Jerks" contains a typo extra s, I understand that already - no need to comment a...

Portland is one of the cities who now have real-time traffic speed maps. Check it out: Portland - Google Traffic Map If you are a Mac OSX 10.4 user, here is a dashboard widget with the real-time traffic information as well: PDX Traffic . And for direct to the source, here is the ODOT Trip-Check site . I guess a short blog entry is better than nothing.

Official Email Addresses Have you ever wanted to send an email to a couple local elected officials, but all you can find is stupid web forms for comments and no actual email addresses? No? Oh. Well, for those of you who might have or might some time in the future - (which may only be me I guess) - I found this site which lists many of the cities in Oregon and has the actual emails of their mayors and councillors and that sort of thing. AreaGuides.net And for those of you who are not in Oregon - it look like you could get to other states and cities too... Try clicking around. :) They seem like they are good addresses too, as I found the site doing searches for email addresses for a city. I had found one email address for a city that was in a format like "first.last@city.gov" and I knew the names of officials so I started searching for "official.name@city.gov" and found this site. In comparing the sites email addresses to official city sites that do ...