Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Darius Miles hits milestone with Grizzlies, digging into Blazers’ pockets – ESPN
It came and went without fanfare — and presumably fear of retribution.
Just more than a week had passed since the Portland Trail Blazers threatened their 29 fellow NBA teams with a lawsuit if someone signed Darius Miles.
Miles had already played in two regular-season games [...]

So. I’m sitting in my living room, waiting for the laundry to finish, and playing with the new iPhone. I found a cool application … A wordpress app. That right – I’m posting from the phone.
It’s very hard to restrain myself from text-speak. (like l8r &lol).
It’s nice to have when you [...]

Stolen robot pulled from Beaverton Lake
Washington County Sheriff’s OfficeShown here in better days, this “Propeller Quadrover” robot, weighing 90 pounds and about two-and-a-half feet long, was stolen last Monday and recovered Sunday from Commonweath Lake.Washington County Sheriff’s deputies made a strange discovery Sunday in Beaverton’s Commonwealth Lake — a stolen robot poking out of the [...]

Precision Castparts division laying off workers
Portland’s PCC Structurals Inc. — a division of Precision Castparts Corp., the second-largest publicly traded company based in Oregon — will cut 10 percent of its salaried workers, a PCC spokeswoman confirmed today.

Portland WordPress User Group – First Meeting at CubeSpace (Thursday January 15, 2009)
Thursday January 15, 2009 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm
CubeSpace
622 SE Grand Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97214
Category: Social
Where/When: Thursday, January 15th from 6:00-7:30pm at CubeSpace.

Anyone planning on going?

Thousands of Oregon Guard troops to head to war
Nearly half the Oregon Army National Guard will leave for war in 2009, the most since World War II, with more than 3,000 departing by summer.
They will include men who fight wildfires, search and rescue teams that rescue stranded climbers and help communities overcome floods and freezes.
This [...]

Senate boosts wilderness protection
In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness. Majority Democrats assembled more than enough votes to overcome GOP stalling tactics in an early showdown for the new Congress.
Republicans complained that Democrats did not allow amendments on the [...]

Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long [...]

Union to file grievance against Blazers over Miles
NEW YORK (AP) -The NBA players’ association plans to file a grievance against the Portland Trail Blazers, who have threatened litigation against any NBA club considering signing Darius Miles.
This is turning into quite a PR coup for the blazers. Reminds me of the mis-steps during the JailBlazer [...]

A Closer Look at the Portland/Miles Conundrum
On the heels of a Yahoo! report that the Darius Miles/Portland Trail Blazers clock is down to just two games – the Blazers sent out a message to the rest of the league threatening litigation if any team signed Miles “to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting [...]