It mostly rains in Portland, mostly.
The Strategic Retreat
Dreads
My business model for The Strategic Retreat is a pretty simple bait and switch. Step 1: Don’t even attempt to make money. Step 2: Get majority of hits via one cookie recipe. Step 3: Once readers are lured in with cookies hit em with my own brand of extreme right/left -but never center- perspective. So far, so good.
In reality there are more steps and sub-points but you get the idea. As not to get too hung up on details; today’s cookies are dreads. Specifically, white people with dreads. Not everyone lives in a world where… Read the rest
Portland SantaCon 2010
SantaConians did their thing yesterday. Their thing, pretty much, is to dress up as Santa and drink. The more observant Santas also give gifts and address each other as “Santa”. I worked yesterday so I did not participate. I was, however, given a gift (pictured above) from Santa as I waited for my train.
A couple things about that gift:
1. It was very nicely wrapped.
2. I was told it was a “kids” gift as opposed to an “adult” gift.
If somebody dressed as Santa gives me a gift I pretty much thank them and take… Read the rest
Does The ‘Door Close’ Button in Your Elevator Actually Work?
Yes, yes it does.
Does the ‘door close’ button in your elevator work? I have no idea. Unlike Nova, I’m not going to assume that the elevator I use daily sets the template for every elevator in the world. That wouldn’t be sciencey at all. Also, in my world, street-crossing buttons work.
Nova took an incorrect fact and ran with it. They succumbed to what I like to call “The New York Fallacy”. Basically, it’s a combination of several informal logical fallacies that come down to this; The world does not revolve around you.