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This past week, I was in Portland, Oregon to attend the FLIR User Conference. I’ve been to Portland before, several years ago, and had good memories. The good memories remain intact. I had, however, forgotten about the panhandling. I would swear the panhandlers are unionized. I am not joking. Any time I paused — sitting …

My sister finally gave me copies of the photos, as a Christmas gift this year, from the trip to Disney World her family and I took in January 2009. The photo from the Tower of Terror is the one I kept hounding her for. Though (due to the time of year and a not-so-packed park) …

The beach was empty except for Sabine and I, that mid-September day back in 2004. Our three-week vacation in Washington state was nearing an end and we’d headed to the ocean for a few days. She walked down the beach, picking up shells and driftwood, and I looked back at the path we’d climbed down …

I’ve never been much of a salesperson, so my technique for burying things on my site so that people don’t notice them is a finely honed craft, the likes which have rarely been seen. A friend recently sent me an email and indicated both surprise (“I just found this on your site!”) and interest in …

It’s fun to go places. It’s gotten more enjoyable these past years as the government has expanded its interests from liking long walks on the beach and pina coladas, delving into Uncle Sam’s Hell-On-Earth Travel Agency, which is exemplified in a sort of schizophrenic attempt to both bail out a troubled airline industry and make …