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This is so cool! I'm standing here at my work desk and I feel like I'm across the street at my favorite downtown coffee shop.

It's Coffitiviy, "Ambient sounds to boost your workday creativity".

I've read in a bunch of places lately (most recently this Smithsonian article) that creativity is boosted by cities, by metaphorical friction among ideas ( Read more... )

Inasmuch as I'm feeling a bit invalidish today, it's nice of January to act like April. I'm sitting out on my porch soaking up vitamin D in the hope that it will make shorter work of the cold that has settled, as my colds always do, in my lungs ( Read more... )

Portland's got some Recovery Act money to throw around on residential energy efficiency, so I applied for a piece of it the other day ( Read more... )

Wow. That was...really dull.

Almost exactly a year ago, someone climbed in through my kitchen window during the workday and stole some stuff. The police came, got a good solid handprint off the kitchen windowsill, and eventually made an arrest ( Read more... )

That's what the City told me. Rats. They have discovered a rathole (I never thought about that as a literal term!) on the edge of my property. A rathole, they explain, usually means that there's a break in the sewer line, by which rats (and vampires) can escape and come to the surface at night ( Read more... )

I've taken up running ( Read more... )

As I was walking to work today (note: Saturday. Work. C'mon, bitch with me, here) I saw two signs I liked ( Read more... )