David Binnig

Not a clade, then!

Once it passes the escapement isn’t the hammer in effect “ballistic”? That is, the key is no longer accelerating the hammer by the time it hits the strings.

How the momentum translates into force should depend on how much time the contact between the hammer & strings is spread over.

Multnomah County Central Library, standard staple racks in a 2009 Google street view.

There used to be some modern staple racks out front but they were removed around 2015.

Bike rack at Multnomah County Central Library, metal is cut through & bent apart.

Bike rack at Multnomah County Central Library, simple hex nut has been fully removed.

Portland’s central library got a $15 million renovation & I guess no one asked about the antiquated bike racks.

related, the great american novel uses drunk driving as a central metaphor (really THE central metaphor) for the corrosive effects of inequality and somehow this was broadly ignored for decades

Streetcar-era development is really a sweet spot for this.

The soundalike cover of “The Weight” by Smith for the Easy Rider soundtrack album (licensing reasons) shows how much less interesting the song is without the clustered harmony.

Opinion: These 5 new residential districts will reboot Portland’s urban core - Portland Business Journal ZGF's Nolan Lienhart has studied the city's issues on several levels. His findings: All areas thrive when people, simply, live there.

Fwiw I think the co-chair of this roundtable agrees with you on the need for more residents.

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“While return-to-office has helped bolster foot traffic, it is not enough to drive recovery alone. The best way we can respond is through the growth of housing.”

Arguably everyone makes this mistake with Elohim, though!

Or … it’s complicated, anyway.

You’re saying we’re sans-seraph?

Okay good call but the book sort of justifies it.

Put L’Engle’s singular “cherubim” with Tolkien’s “dwarves” for nonstandard fantasy pluralizations I guess.

No one seems to make this mistake with cherubim but maybe it comes up less often.

Agree with removing the need for a permit for sandwich board (while keeping the rules around their placement)... but Portland should take a bigger look at its sign code in general.

Every cool sign that gets photographed would be illegal to build today.

Or worse, if some people listen to multiple “don’t rank” messages those voters can end up pointlessly throwing away their ability to influence the outcome after their favorite is eliminated.

A thing I hope Portlanders internalize for the next election is that “don’t rank…” campaigns don’t (and mostly can’t) work.

Anyone who’s amenable to the “don’t rank” message already wasn’t going to rank that candidate above other credible candidates.

I think you’re right that the incumbents will be hard to beat but I don’t really agree with the idea that 25% is a “low” threshold.

The stream was getting a little jazz odyssey today.

Arts Tax should be used to hire a live band to play the waiting music for Portland city council meetings.

BBC news’ West African Pidgin version is extremely disorienting for an English speaker.

Pretty sure James Kugel is where I saw this pointed out.
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Psalm 82 (ESV): I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince." Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!

Ends with the apparent demotion of the other national gods for failing in their duty to help those in need.

Psalm 82, ESV: God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

The council of gods in Psalm 82 is kind of a fascinating one that you don’t hear about much.

Maybe relevant that Douglass’ German girlfriend kept making him read Feuerbach and trying to convert him to atheism.

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Typed manuscript of Frederick Douglass’ “Composite Nation” speech: “To no class of our population are we more indebted for valua- ble qualities of head, heart, and hand, than to the German• Say what we will oftheir lager, their smoke, and their metaphysics, they have brought to us a fresh, vigorous and child-like nature; a boundless facility in the acquisition of knowledge; a subtle and tar-reaching intellect, and a fearless love of truth• Though remarkable for patient and laborious thought, the true German is a joyous child of freedom, fond of manly sports, a loverol music, and a happy man generally• Though he never forgets that he is a German, he never fails to remember that he 1s an American.”

Frederick Douglass backhanding German Americans: “Say what we will of their lager, their smoke, and their metaphysics…”

moving chain research has been very conclusively persuasive to me that every housing shortage is a market rate housing shortage

I think it started when one of them told the guy in the tree he’d make a good stylite.

The guys doing tree work in my yard were 40’ up with chainsaws having a yelled conversation about Hildegard von Bingen and medieval asceticism and this is sort of why I feel comfortable in Portland.

I assume they’re thinking of Paul?

Rom 13 is such a bizarre thing to have written in context (under Nero?) though.

Depends on how you regulate it but Portland hasn’t even opened to more than two e-scooter-share companies.

Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - Streetsblog San Francisco Do Americans even understand that posted speed limits aren't advisory?

Right, at some level of AV adoption I think you could get safety spillovers in that direction, as vehicles pegged to the speed limit create a moving roadblock for everyone else.

(Have to make AVs follow the limits but this is easier than with humans.)

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