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Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
You are great!
Wow Portland, I forgot how geat you were! So glad to be back!


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Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
FNNLC: End of Spring Edition
This FNNLC is the last one of the spring! After a rich and fruitful season of hanging out and being cool pals, its time to move away from the childish pursuits of spring and towards the serious business of summer.

And in personal news, I am going to be in Portland for the following week and am looking forward to seeing the sites and eating the foods.
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
World Naked Bike Ride: A Critical Approach
I really shouldn't have to mention this, because it is so obvious but:

We live in a shame based society. The very society and economy of our society is based on inoculating people with the idea that they are inadequate, shameful, and that they are always at risk of being discovered, and the only way to ward this off is to constantly be on a treadmill of economic productivity that benefits others. A vain game, but the only game in town.

The point of the World Naked Bike Ride is to offer a little slice of bacchanalia, to give people one day where they supposedly don't have to feel shame. But the exception just proves the rule: this carnival is meant to reenforce the status quo.

Just remember that behind those smiling happy hip naked bicycling people is the face of political corporatism and social hierarchal-nihilisticity.
Blackjack Gabbiani
damnportlanders
I need help with an emotional issue. My mom's precious cat is dying and she's denying that it's as upsetting to her as it is (not just in my eyes, but my dad and sister have also seen that she's trying to come off as better than she is). So I was wondering what the best course of action with my mom should be, especially considering that the cat will probably die within a week. I want to be there for her, but it's hard when she's covering everything up.
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
How did you find your job?
Lack of employment or lack of fulfilling employment seems to be a never-ending subject of conversation here.

Like many of you, I am employed in a situation I am going to be moving on from. I am looking for work.

How did you find your current job? (personal reference, craigslist, job service, etc. ?)

And do you think you will find your next job the same way?
12 Grimmauld Place
damnportlanders
Bowie vs. Prince vs. Morrissey
Do you like dancing? Do you like riding bicycles? Do you like strange popstars that rose to prominence during the 70s and 80s and are still kicking out albums?


Well, you should mark your calendar and raid your spandex and glitter stash for the SIXTH annual Bowie Vs. Prince bicycle mobile dance party. This year with an extra-special guest mash-up to make Bowie Vs. Prince Vs. Morrissey. June 22nd. Team Bowie has prizes for best costumes in a number of categories.

Team Morrissey 5:00pm, Peninsula Park, 700 N Rosa Parks Way
Team Prince 7:00pm, Clinton park, SE Division and 57th Ave
Team Bowie (THE BEST TEAM) 7:30PM, Everett Community Garden, NE 27th Ave & Everett St

Details here. RSVP on Facebook.
Rachel Chevalier
damnportlanders
Portland-Seattle Rideshare
Anyone want/need a spontaneous trip to and from Seattle Sunday 6/9 until Wednesday 6/12? Roomy, clean car with good mileage, just looking for some buddies to split gas money with and maybe make some new friends. :-)
ajaytea
damnportlanders
Sleep with the Sharks, June 29-30
So we're doing another sleepover at the Oregon Coast Aquarium on Saturday, June 29, to Sunday, June 30. This time around we're adding a tour of Rogue Brewery and a talk by a NOAA scientist on Saturday as well. Want to come?

Event page on Facebook

Registration page on WePay -- registration deadline is 5:00pm on Friday, June 14

More info:

This adults-only sleepover will allow you to explore the exhibits, get a behind-the-scenes peek at the aquarium, and drift off to the sleep while fish swim all around you (but not in a concrete shoes kind of way).

When: 2:30pm Saturday, June 29 to 9:30am Sunday, June 30, 2013

Where: Rogue Brewer’s on the Bay & the Oregon Coast Aquarium, both in Newport, OR

Cost: $90, includes dinner and breakfast, but does not cover food/drink at Rogue Brewery.

Adults 21+ only, please.
damnportlanders
Gotta pay my electric bill

So hey I was hoping there might be some suggestions here aside from what I've checked out already, but here's my situation:

I was unexpectedly unemployed last month after working for over two years in a job that didn't pay me enough to live. (Ok they paid enough for me to not be homeless but only just.) and then leaving it for a job with far better pay and overall conditions- and was told after a week that I wasn't needed after all, no warning no nothing. A month later I finally find out that my unemployment is likely going to be denied, possibly for voluntarily leaving the first job, but also for not accepting a job in a whole other field that I couldn't be reasonably certain I could get to on public transportation. But I won't find out for at least a few more weeks.

In the meantime, I start another job in a week and a half but won't get paid til July 1st. I've got help with rent for the month, but not my electric bill or cable (cable I could let go of for a few weeks but I have someone at home who uses the Internet connection trying to find a job, and trying to do that at the library is less than ideal.

So I'm trying to find a way to earn some extra cash in the next few days. I've been checking Craigslist gigs every few hours, nothing coming up lately that I'm able to do and I'm not getting responses on the ones I can.

Trying to use task rabbit but for the life of me can't find where one bids on jobs, there's no link or button anywhere and I've tried a couple of different browsers. Still limited there because I don't have a car or drivers license.

Planning to go in and apply at Labor Ready today, I've done that in another city before but it's not a guaranteed thing to get work on any given day.

Anyone have any suggestions or ideas? My skills that can be quickly used are mostly computer- related, I did tech support for Apple for years, so anything to so with macs, iPhones, iTunes, iPods. Basic unskilled labor (I particularly enjoy spackling walls), I dunno.

I'm open to suggestions.

rekre8
damnportlanders
Weird places
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201307/strange-landscapes/slide1-fly-geyser-nevada.aspx

I've been to 3, and really want to get to Ireland.

Do we have any local Portland oddities? I mean natural ones, as well, keep Portland wierd tends to be people-centric.
Circumambulate
damnportlanders
Detritus of a Dying Age
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/fuo/3832473999.html

CD racks, yes, things you put physical media on. Insanity!

Very nice set, shallowest available and can be assembled in 600-disc increments up to 1800 disks. Mfg's link: http://www.boltz.com/cd-floor-rack-shelving-cd-1800.html

$650 worth of shelves for $100 bucks, they're disassembled and gathering dust in my office.
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
Read any good books lately?
What has everyone been reading lately? Have people found time to read?

Or like many of us, do we not have time to read, even though we have 2 hours to play a flash game online glassy eyed?

Anything come highly recommended? Any books change your life?
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
FNNLC: Drinking Raspberry Beer
Hello all

I am drinking raspberry beer and thinking about how sad life is.

Hollar back at me!
rekre8
damnportlanders
Potatoes or corn?
They say here they identified the cause of the Irish Potato Famine.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/cause-irish-potato-famine-has-been-discovered

I disagree. They may have found the pathogen that caused the potatoes to blight, but the cause of this famine was that an entire island (over)population was nutritionally dependent on a single plant, and one that wasn't native to it's soils.

If the US had a 3 year corn blight (and let's include both organic and Monsanto varieties), would we starve?

Alternatively, what do you prefer your chips to be made of?
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
Have we reached our Omega Point?
I wonder if one of the reasons why this community has become so dormant is because we have said everything we have needed to say.

We already know and recognize trolls, and don't respond to them anymore.

We don't care about people's different lifestyles. We aren't going to use the internet to beat our chest because our tribes are feuding.

Any opinions about veganism, bicycles, sexual orientation, the CRC, suburbs, punk rock, Voodoo Donuts, fareless square, and chicken coops have already been stated, restated, and worn down.

Even absurdism doesn't work anymore.

Has this community, and perhaps the internet as a discussion board, reached "The End of History"? Has the dialectic played itself out until there is nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop and an illustrated book about birds?
bennomatic
damnportlanders
I made an app.
Hi all,

I haven't posted here in a while, but I thought some of you might get a kick out of this.

I made a CB radio simulator app for iOS, called, simply, "CB".  You load it into your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, choose a channel, hit the push to talk button, and broadcast to the world!

It's an unmoderated, free, anonymous communication channel on the Internet, so of course, there are some bozos out there, but there are a lot of nice folks using it, too.  There's a block button for the bozos.

The app is free; there's an upgrade option available, but the main app with all the core functionality is free.  Download it and check it out!

http://appstore.com/cb

It's like DamnPortlanders, but world-wide, in real time, and with audio instead of text.
obsessive ocularity
damnportlanders
DACP Reading Group - first meeting May 30, 630-830pm, PCC Cascade Campus
Portland, OR's Disability Art and Culture Project is starting a new monthly reading group on disability justice and activism! You can participate in-person or online or via telephone, so you don't need to be living in Portland to join in!

Join us to discuss fiction and nonfiction readings on disability justice!

Join us at www.facebook.com/groups/DisRepresentation or go to the main website at www.DisRepresentation.com!

The first in-person discussion at 112 Terrell Hall, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, 6:30-8:30pm on May 30, 2013. If you would like to participate in real time from your home, by phone or computer, go to http://www.DisRepresentation.com/ for information on how to access the conversation online!

Also join us at DisRepresentation.com for online discussion of the readings anytime!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE. You do not need to have a disability to participate.
Whether you read everything, one of these pieces, or none of these reading selections, WE WANT YOU HERE!

FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/163997240436455/

Thank you!
rekre8
damnportlanders
Anyone in need of boxes?
I put my stuff in storage about a year and a half ago, and am now moving in to a permanent location, which means unboxing a lot of stuff. If someone is going to be in need of cardboard boxes in the next couple weeks, I'll be breaking them down into a big stack soon.
Matthew Harris
damnportlanders
Geoguessr
This is a website that has been passing around the internet, and I thought it would be fun for you to know of it:

http://geoguessr.com

It gives you a picture of google street view, and you try to guess where it is.

What rules you use are up to you: scrolling is fair, and I think that researching street names is fair as well. Others might disagree! But it is a game, so have fun, and let me know how you do!

Also, let us know if you get anything local.
StJason
damnportlanders
FNNLC - Bestest buddies edition!
Right. It's actually hot outside. So that means all the cool kids are at home on their computers, right?

Tonight's topic: I've been thinking about friends a lot lately, so it's time to share: Who are your good friends? What makes a good friend? What major organ would you give up for your buddy?

Portland related because long distance relationships suck.
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