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Spent Sunday at the local drag strip's Mopar Nationals. Worked at our equipment stand at the swap meet, then when eliminations started after noon, we closed shop and enjoyed the races. In our racing group, among them, two young guys in Dodge pickups were the only ones who got to the semi-finals before getting bumped by some "more experienced" drivers. None-the-less, it was amazing. Their...
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Last night I just bought, (paid $25), and downloaded a copy of acoustica, the CD ripper, at acoustica.com and once installed, seems to work very well at mixing CD selections into one albumn. The install wasn't without problems though. It seemed to be missing a dll named riched32.dll. So I googled for it, found a site where I could download a copy, put it in...
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Haven't updated for a while so here goes.

Spending a quiet Fourth weekend at home... except for today I'm working at the 3D Center on NW 19th and Lovejoy in Portland. Will be going early like very soon so I can have my favorite breakfast at Emmanons on NW Lovejoy just a couple of blocks away from the center. It's a quiet little friendly resturant/bar,...
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Hot Lips Pizza near PSU serves the greatest pizza ever... Their Thursday special, "Organic Shiitake mushroom" was sooooo goood...

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Presently am working on a 3D stereoscopic slide show using Powerpoint. One of the digital geeks in our club has... count them... not one but two dlp digital projectors and he hooks the second digital projector up to his computer much the same way as you would a second monitor, so when you set the page width in Power Point to 21.333 inches wide by...
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Today's the day I should go to a funeral but can't and that pisses me off. You see a friend died of a heart attack a week ago.... actually not really a very close friend or anything like that but what makes it weird is a week before he died, we were all at the races in Cottage grove and he spent the whole time...
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Sunday, the day before Memorial day, drove to Cottage Grove and took in the Outlaw type Sprint car races there Sunday night and were they exciting. A 17 year old from Langley, BC won the A main feature. Good for him. Haven't seen sprint car races for many years. Stayed overnight with friends there and together, we all sat around the camp telling lies and...
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So this morning we're off to Woodburn to pick up an engine we're having built for a customer. It is finished now and the engine builder will meet us there so we can haul it home, crate it up and send it off to a customer. It is interesting what goes in to having a complete engine rebuilt for someone, the terminology, crankshaft, bearings, oliver...
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Well.... accidents must come in pairs.... a good friend of mine was hit last week but she didn't fair out as well as I did. She had stitches to her upper lip and inside her mouth That was really upsetting to me because she's the nicest and greatest person in the world and one you just don't want to see be in a lot of...
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Portlanders should go see how Gene Faulkner's stereographic diptych and triptych anaglyphs provide a unique view into the third dimension of vignetted environments at the pushdot studio, 830 NW 14th Ave, Portland, Oregon. His exhibit is showing tonight, 05/05/05 from 6pm to 9pm and it runs through 05/27/05. Should be great.

Update on my Subaru damage.... So the guy that hit me called me last week and left a message saying he turned it over to his insurance company and they will pay for all the damage plus get me a loaner car. So he said his insurance company will call... and they did... and they left a message for me to call them. So that's...
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