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[Dec. 30th, 2009|02:04 am] |
so where can I score some green around this place?
I'll private message my e-mail address.
thanks |
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| FO: Sock First! |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|09:58 am] |
My husband is a truck driver in the northeast. Since he's in and out of the truck at night in all kinds of bad weather, he asked if I could make him some wool socks. So I popped on over to ebay, found some wool and finally finished these last night.
They came out pretty well, I thought, and even fit him. Go me! :D
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| A questioning, ranting, confused, bewildered post. |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|09:39 pm] |
1) The amount of snow on the ground in Portland cannot exceed 4 inches.
2) The roads really aren't that bad out there (excepting the neighborhood and arterial streets, which are not good).
I come from Tulsa, a city that also goes "OMGWTFBBQ" when snow falls, and shuts the hell down. But nothing like this. I have never seen the entire infrastructure of a city just utterly fail like this. Buses crashing into each other like it's Doomsday. Gridlocked highways like the city is being bombed. My partner taking 4 hours to drive 12 miles, by taking winding back streets and avoiding I-5. 2.5 hours to get Chinese food delivered from 3 blocks away. West Burnside completely locked up at 9:00 PM.
So here's the question.
If this happens to Portland with 4 inches of snow, what would happen to Portland with 12 inches of snow? What was the total accumulation of snow last year that shut the city down? I know that involved ice underneath the snow, which is an entirely different matter, and quite a lot more dangerous.
Some problems I've noticed.
1) When you're starting from a stop, say in traffic, and you hear that noise that means your tires are slipping, the thing to do is NOT to go, "oooh, let me HIT THE GAS, THAT'LL HELP OMGLULZ!!!" Let off the gas, then apply it slowly, go into a low gear, and wait to see if you get traction.
2) When you're driving downhill, and you feel yourself starting to slip, the thing to do is NOT to go, "OMG BRAKES GOTTA HIT THE BRAKES!!!!!" That causes chaos and death.
3) When you're driving uphill and you feel yourself start to slip, the thing to do is not go, "OH SHIT I CAN'T MAKE IT UP THIS HILL LET ME STOP MY CAR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND WANDER OFF." This will annoy people who CAN make it up the hill BUT FOR your car in the way.
4) When you're on the highway, and you want to put your chains on, try moving to the shoulder, instead of doing it IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE LANE. Plus, if the highway is gridlocked anyway, WHY DO YOU NEED YOUR CHAINS? Come on, workers of Portland, lose your chains! (strained communist joke).
Just a few handy tips from someone who has driven in only slightly more snow than this (though I did spend a December in Minnesota once, so I guess that counts for something).
The most important thing is to relax, stay calm, and realize that this'll all turn to mucky slushy rainy disgustingness tomorrow - which is much easier to drive in.
Much love.
Oh, snark welcome. |
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| Stuck |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|08:38 pm] |
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I want to see how long people were stuck in traffic for. Myself, I left work at 3:30 to beat the traffic (HA!) and didn't get home until 8:04. I have a 14 mile commute. Now you go! |
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| Central Park Not-Hoodie - Finis |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
These photos are the best of the lot.
I seriously despise having my photo taken so these are the ones I will allow to go out to you all.
Sweater is complete except I need to sew in the zipper, but that will wait until tomorrow night. (When I can get to the store and buy one.)
Husband - who is ill with some kind of plague took the photos.
All the photos of the front are blurry and super icky.
He is hopped up on NyQuil and a bit loopy.
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For details I have more photos on my LJ as well as my Ravelry Page Moirar70 |
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| NOT a snow post!! |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|07:56 pm] |
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Damnit all, I deleted a job posting that I had favorited from Craigslist... Wondering if any of you know of the company...
A week and a half ago or so; they posted they needed part-time help. It was a call center of types. They were open 24/7 or something close to it. People would call into the call center, needing to be connected with an interpreter. Then the employee connects them with the interpreter as needed. I don't remember the name of the company, but they wre hiring for 2 shifts. Either Sat/Sun 530am-200pm or Sat/Sun/Mon from like 300pm-Midnight. Anyone know this off hand?
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| Hey old-timers... |
[Dec. 30th, 2009|07:31 pm] |
This happened back in Jan '98 or so... ice hit in the afternoon and a bunch of people got stuck downtown...
At the time, I remember people saying it was pretty common and 'had gotten better in recent years'... So that's the question. Was this 'common' prior to '97 or not? (I've not seen ice or 'random snow' to hit and totally screw up traffic since then, but old(er)-timers seem to insist it was common-place).
Anybody know? |
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| Snuman! |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
| [ | How do you feel today? |
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It's screaming because it has green dye in its eyes and hot pepper sauce in its mouth.
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| The Last Bottle (part IV), Chapter 2 |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|09:52 pm] |
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Chapter 2: Willard Street, West Avenue, and Alfred Street Nick Sparks was, most of his friends agreed, a very good-looking, generally congenial guy. Obviously of Italian descent, he had brown hair, brown eyes, dark features, was just short of tall, and was thin but athletic; he dressed, like a typical young person of nineteen or twenty, in clothes mostly purchased from the mall. His face was somewhat long and slightly angular, with prominent cheekbones and thin cheeks, though he did not appear gaunt. His chin was very noticeably cleft. Nick was also, most of his friends agreed, a little odd at times; but at the James School almost everyone was at least a little odd, and so this was usually overlooked. ( Read more... ) |
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| Cab Company With Child Safety Seats in PDX? |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|06:33 pm] |
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I was supposed to pick up my ex and my 4 year-old from the airport tonight. I'm thinking I will send a cab for them instead and avoid driving. Has anyone used a taxi service with baby or child safety seats in Portland? The phones to all of them are busy (of course), or putting me on hold forever. I just want the easy answer! Thank you in advance, Deepies. |
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| hello? |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|06:30 pm] |
Does anybody know what happened to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jef182? His account is deleted, and I havent seen any posts from him in a long time. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|09:23 pm] |
A while back someone showed me a hat she had made for her daughter with a diamond pattern, and it looked just like this (ravelry link) but it was knitted.
I am wondering if anyone knows this pattern? I just can't seem to find it on ravelry, where I was told it had been found. I got the yarn and everything and thought I had the pattern but... well, I somehow managed to miss that the above is a crochet pattern. I know how to crochet so it's not that, but I really wanted to knit it.
Any and all help appreciated!
ETA: Pattern found! |
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| Frack a fracking frack... |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|06:21 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | snow, venting | ] |
| [ | How do you feel today? |
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Took the bus half an hour to travel thirteen blocks tonight. I hate snow. |
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| Obama destroys national sovereignty |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
Edit Note: Changed from original to present the information in a bit more mature and less caustic manner.
... well, he did sign away U.S. sovereignty and every Americans' right to due process and other constitutional protections against foreign entities.
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009."
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-surrenders-u-s-sovereignty-his-interpol-executive-order/
"A paragraph later, McCarthy describes Obama’s actions in the starkest of terms:
This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States."
When you read most of the legalese, it looks like a lot of tax and duty issues, but there are two tiny little statements that is what should concern everyone: the end of sec 2(c) "The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable."
All INTERPOL has to do now is 'claim' they have records/evidence/proof that deems someone guilty of a charge, and no one in this country can question it since their archives and records have been deemed inviolable; or beyond reproach.
Their property and assets are also immune from search and/or confiscation. As the citizen.com article points out; when you're arrested, you become a ward of that policing organization, read: their responsibility and property.
TheCitizen.com article:
http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/41292
Original 12425:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12425
Amending of 12425:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
International Organizations Immunities Act:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/International_Organizations_Immunities_Act#Title_I
Edit:
INTERPOL can not directly arrest you; however their issued warrants are generally executed without question. Their agents can 'detain' you without legal representation without limitation. It also makes INTERPOL immune from subpoenas, searches, or the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). Essentially they can spy on you and invade your privacy without redress. If you don't understand the severity of Obama signing away national sovereignty, then you don't understand the value of your rights. |
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