jennifer_jamesn

Thank you, Portland

2009-10-24T23:39:50Z

Dear DamnPortlanders,

After I posted on dp, I was in contact with Channel 6 news. You may have seen me talking about losing my scooter. The response from the community was swift and generous. Several people offered to buy me a new scooter. I spoke to one couple who said they would come to the scooter shop with me to buy a new one. By the time they called the scooter shop to make arrangements, someone else had already paid for a scooter for me. Many other people offered cash donations, stunning in tough times like these. Some people offered scooters they had lying around. All these acts were supportive of a stranger and very kind. Thank you, Portland.

It is a Pride Mobility Victory 10. It is very fast and stable.

Many thanks to Brian Griffiths from a Cut Above Pawn Shop in Beaverton.

the new york times lives under a rock.

2009-01-29T02:09:19Z

because they just discovered POD.

fig, yesterday

2008-08-11T15:05:25Z

i was expecting the first fresh fig i ever ate to be a wowser.

i wanted to spit it out ungraciously and scrape my tongue against my top teeth.

i liked the taste ok, but i couldn't surpress the reaction that the texture was similar

to a roiling hive of maggots.

whoroscope

2007-07-11T06:57:25Z


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Where or how do you look for airfare?

2007-06-28T19:55:32Z

I need to fly between Portland or Seattle and New York/New Jersey, or I suppose, Boston. I need to be in New Haven on the morning of July 18.

I thought I had a decent amount of time to get the ticket, but lots is sold out.

So far, I have tried

cheapflights.com
travelocity.com
lastminute.com--this didn't work. I'm not close enough yet, but the prices were high anyway.
cheapair.com
priceline.com
hotwire.com

Individual airlines:

Frontier (ATA)
JetBlue
Southwest (ATA)

....

Do you have any websites to suggest that I've overlooked? In addition, when I lived in Hawaii, I had a travel agent that always got me better fares than I could get myself. Do you use anyone like that?

Thanks for any input. I guess I'm considering Greyhound as back-up, but I'm trying not to miss that much work. Also, I'm thinking of some combination of flying to Chicago and taking the train from there, but I'm not entirely solid on that one yet.

Anyway, thanks for any input.

sinister!

2007-06-21T23:18:31Z

Rosalind Franklin <3

2007-06-18T03:35:40Z

Some revolutionaries were slighted by the scientific establishments of their time — like Rosalind Franklin's exclusion from sharing in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Described by her peers as a "genius," she exposed herself to massive amounts of radiation to try to get the best possible X-ray photograph of a strand of DNA, dying of cancer at 37. Her image of a double helix provided the crucial evidence James Watson and Francis Crick needed to complete their model, but neither scientist acknowledged her work when they received the Nobel Prize in 1962.