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3rd Annual NW Book Festival

Saturday, July 28, 2012
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
(corner of SW Morrison and SW Sixth Avenue)

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The 2012 Northwest Author Fair

Saturday, August 25, 2012
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
In the plaza next to Bob’s Beach Books
1747 NW Hwy 101, Lincoln City, OR

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That’s my boy!

That one right there, crossing the finish line

of the 43rd Annual Birch Bay Marathon at 3:31:43.

Quote: “I’m totally wearing this medal to school tomorrow.”

Not sure who’s prouder, him or me (or his mom).

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In Which I Wax Somewhat Rantic (Again)

Thought you were guaranteed the right to speak out by that silly little thing, the Constitution?

Well, maybe you were wrong.

“As she fights to keep her job at Central Bucks East High School, 30-year-old Natalie Munroe says she had no interest in becoming any sort of educational icon.”

Pa. teacher strikes nerve with ‘lazy

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The Other Side of the Turing Test

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, SEPTEMBER 2009

I wake up in a hotel room 5,000 miles from my home in Seattle. After breakfast, I step out into the salty air and walk the coastline of the country that invented my language, though I find I can’t understand a good portion of the signs I pass on my way—LET

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Completely Irrelevant Fact o’ the Day

Because three people have DM’d me on Twitter to ask why:
(And no, I won’t out them by name.)

For the context, check here, here, and here (read all three).

The hook on the end of a tape measure is loose for a reason. It slides just far enough so that you get an accurate

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The Price of Innocence

By now, the story of Judith Griggs and “Cooks Source” magazine is all over the internet.

I’m going to assume you’re familiar with it (if not, go read this article at Wikipedia, which I’m fairly certain is not the “my own Wikipedia page!” she may have been fantasizing about a year ago), so I’m not

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A Glimpse Into My Real Life

Proof that I really do exist outside the story…

My son, Warrant Officer Aaron Montgomery, and his wife, Lt Anne (Rocky) Montgomery, graduated on 27 Oct 2010 as United States Army helicopter pilots. They both fly the UH-58 Kiowa, a reconnaissance and scouting platform.

Aaron pinning Rocky (she outranks him, so she graduated first) …

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So we’ve all got these smartphone thingies, right?

And they’re really cool, you know?

You can make your shopping list right there in the phone, so you always have it with you. You come across something to talk about with your friend Chuck, and Hey! Why not make a quick note of that, right here in my smartphone thingy?

You know what’s dumb about these

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A Little Detective Help, If You Would?

Because if “Doh!” could be linked to dada, that would just be too cool.

Ok, a slightly twisty, bumpy road for you to follow this morning:

I’ve been following @jdistraction on Twitter for some time now, but haven’t actually made it all the way to her blog. You know how it is; too many things to

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Just a quick note re Google greed (and spying)

Google seems to truly believe that all information in the world should either be free, or should result in an income stream for them. First, they try to claim every copyrighted work on Earth, scan them, put them online, and make money off them, now they seem to think that all of your email contacts,

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ÜberTwitter – Still Everything TwitterBerry Wishes it Was

A Non-Review

I don’t really believe that I’m qualified any longer to compare ÜberTwitter to any of the zillion or so other Twitter clients for BlackBerry, since I have given only the most cursory glance to any of the others for quite some time now. So this isn’t a fair and balanced review in any way

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