About Oregon Expat
Sometimes the best view is from the outside, and an American expatriate living in Portugal is, in many ways, outside of both nations. The views can be spectacular. I’m also a science nerd, Mac dweeb, grammar geek, and science fiction author, so the posts in this blog tend to be eclectic.
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Recent Posts
- Hope, an unfamiliar emotion
- Pompeii takeout and American assumption
- Far Enough
- I have an issue with Netflix’s “Away”
- Now, about *that* topic
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star is in the wild
- Alsea Rising is out and #1!
- Coming soon: Alsea Rising
- On his terms
- Beyoncé: Homecoming
- UPRISING and balance
- The brain radio
- Alsea lovers: This is the one you’ve been waiting for
- The chicken church
Recent Comments
- Fletcher DeLancey on Porto’s most famous bookstore
- pablohaake on Porto’s most famous bookstore
- Alberto on Throwing flowers
- Rael on Portuguese idiom of the day: Lança perfume
- Rael on Portuguese idiom of the day: Lança perfume
- Fletcher DeLancey on Hope, an unfamiliar emotion
- Miriam English on Hope, an unfamiliar emotion
Categories
Monthly Archives: July 2010
US/Portugal culture: Protesting
The National Organization for Marriage, a group that pulls in significant amounts of money by demonizing and legislating against gays, is conducting a “Summer for Marriage Tour” in the US. Each stop features a handful of NOM members or supporters … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Portugal, USA
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Scenes from Lisboa
A few of the things that make Lisboa so charming, at least to my eyes… — The way architectural beauty just pops up where you least expect it. You look up an ordinary street lined with apartment buildings and whoa, … Continue reading
Posted in life, Portugal
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Sunfish or moonfish?
We’re back from Lisboa, where we spent a few days playing tourist. While there, we visited the Oceanário, which has a Mola mola in its giant central tank. Now, we saw this Mola a few years ago, on our first … Continue reading
Posted in life, science
18 Comments
Wallpaper Monday
We’re sitting in almost 105-degree heat right now (40 C.), so my imagination is conjuring up memories of the cool Oregon coast in summer. Of course, while I lived there I’d rant about the ubiquitous fog and wind and cold … Continue reading
Posted in wallpaper
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Commuting past the goats
I wish I’d had a camera in my car today. I was commuting back home after teaching a Pilates class, and as I went through a highway roundabout I saw a herd of about 50 goats streaming across one of … Continue reading
Posted in life, Portugal
6 Comments
Closed due to whale
The Cape Town Sailing Academy in Cape Town, South Africa is closed for the next six weeks. Why? Well, they had a little run-in with a southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), and their sailboat did not come out the winner. … Continue reading
Posted in life
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Five-second rule?
A Clemson University professor and his students conducted an experiment to test the famous five-second rule — the one that states that if you drop food on the floor and pick it up again within five seconds, it’s still good … Continue reading
Posted in science
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Cognitive surplus
The Intertoobs are chattering about Clay Shirky’s newly released book, Cognitive Surplus. Shirky grew up like most of us in the western world, watching TV after school and on evenings and weekends. His premise is that modern culture has maximized … Continue reading
Wallpaper Monday
Hope Valley, in Derbyshire, UK. (Click to download larger versions.) Those rocks in the foreground are just begging to be sat on, with a sack lunch in one hand and a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the other. Derbyshire, … Continue reading
Posted in wallpaper
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Making music with the solar system
I’ve had this in my blog folder forever (which, in modern terms, means about 3.5 months), and since today is hot and everyone in my house is in heat management mode, it seems appropriate to post something about the coolness … Continue reading
Posted in life, science
8 Comments