Rodgers: Johnson, we need to talk about the pigeon problem on our transmission lines. Johnson: Agreed, sir. Though, which problem? Acidic breakdown of the wire sheath from the pigeons
Category Archives: Columns
Graffiti Defense System
We live in Gresham, OR. While walking on the bike path next to our home and toward the creatively named Gresham Food Carts, I noticed an unusual industrial paint job. The back of a warehouse had been painted brown halfway up, terminating in a flat line transition to grayish, beige-ish concrete about nine feet up. […]
Richard Mixin’
Ella said
Crackling Options
While on a walk yesterday on the bike path, Amy asked me if I could hear the overhead powerlines crackling. I couldn
Destroying to Dream
Will was crushing dandelion heads with his hand, acting like a titan destroying cities and skyscrapers. This calls for bad poetry to go on the prowl again. On a day with sun, on a day with pride What
10 Things I Learned While Installing a Pullup Bar
1. While cleaning up, I don
Basic Taunting
We ordered circle batteries for our scale from Amazon Basics. The packaging warns you to keep these batteries out of the reach of children due to the batteries
Social Distancing Enforcement
Unless you are a mole person, living in a bunker, without television, radio, or internet access because you feared a pandemic and its propaganda machine (kudos to you, by the way, for being forward-thinking), you
Municipalization
Most restaurants in the Portland metro have shut their doors because of COVID-19. Those that remain have cut back on service. Some have laid off staff entirely and have expressed no plans to reopen. To prevent this cannibalization of the daily lunch fare, I suggest we take a page from the federal and state playbooks […]
WWSD?
Ella and I were talking about when I saved Anna, my oldest daughter, two-years-old at the time in 2009, from entanglement with the pull-string on the mini-blinds and when I did a one-arm-out-the-corner-of-my-eye save of a friend