Last Friday marked the first time I ever spent the night in a hospital. Fortunately, I was able to walk in under my own power. As I approached Admissions, the staffer immediately said “Sleep Study?” She said it was pretty easy to recognize folks coming in to the sleep clinic, as they were carrying an [...]

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It’s a brazillion degrees in Portland today.

So OF COURSE our heat pump has shut down.

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In order to maintain compliance with FCC regulations, and in the interest of serving the public, PAgent’s Progress hereby provides two Public Service Announcements (PSAs):
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Note: the following may be a little discomfiting to those of a particularly prudish nature.

For further information, please contact the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation at carpetestes.org. For more excellent [...]

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You know how in Star Trek, they were always going on about “resonance frequencies” of the shields, or they trot out the classic footage of the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows bridge, and explain that it was due to destructive resonance?
But what IS resonance?
Here’s a great little video that demonstrates resonance between metronomes. Note [...]

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I haven’t posted anything substantial in a while. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. You might be tempted to think this was due to our new PDX Network project, and to some extent you would be right. But that’s not nearly all the story.
My son has been as sick as the proverbial dog. He had to [...]

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I would be remiss if I didn’t note the passing of Cyd Charisse. Ms. Charisse passed away on June 17, 2008, at the age of 86.
She was an elegantly beautiful, leggy brunette and a gifted dancer. She starred in MGM musicals opposite both Fred Astaire (The Band Wagon, Silk Stockings) and Gene Kelly (Singin’ in [...]

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