Hu.ma.ne looks cool. And I'm not just talking about the URL. It's like a Star Trek comm badge, basically. Except they didn't have laser projectors. This may really cut into sales of cell phones, especially as they add more features. Apple should be doing this, but they've lost the edge. Whether or not you like this device, you need to be aware that it's out there.
Edit: Uh, maybe not.
I never really liked leaf blowers, so I'm not unhappy that they may go away. The noise, the stink, the airborne particulates. But the mess will be harder to clear, so we'll have to see.
“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” A professor's viewpoint of his college students is spot on. They know just enough to be dangerous.
My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.
And the prophecy I make is this. To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colours.And you will be drawn in, if you are drawn in, not by desire for gain or ease, but simply because at that moment, when the cup was so near your lips, you cannot bear to be thrust back again into the cold outer world. It would be so terrible to see the other man’s face—that genial, confidential, delightfully sophisticated face—turn suddenly cold and contemptuous, to know that you had been tried for the Inner Ring and rejected. And then, if you are drawn in, next week it will be something a little further from the rules, and next year something further still, but all in the jolliest, friendliest spirit.
Portland can't win for losing. Judge throws monkey wrench in plans to get rid of the homeless. Down the toilet we'll continue to go. Southwest Washington is more serious about cleaning things up, although the effort is rather mild.
Question asked and answered. Dog care workers question why Seattle PD never showed up after 911 calls about intruder who wouldn't leave.
The consequences of being poor. Portland has a shortage in the Bureau of Development Services, so no new construction in the city.