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: March 2012
Wallpaper Monday
Cassini project leader Carolyn Porco tweeted this image with the comment: And now to remind us all what really matters..a fantasy view of Saturn in artful b&w, w/ its moon Tethys. Revel in it! It does look like a fantasy … Continue reading
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Saturday picture show
For the bug lovers among you, check out the gorgeous photography of Ondrej Pakan. You can waste a happy hour browsing this gallery, and there are plenty of wallpaper-worthy images in the collection. The files themselves are not large, but … Continue reading
Notice of intermittent blogging
Friends from my hometown are coming for their first taste (in some cases literally) of Portuguese culture, so expect intermittent blogging for the next two weeks. We’ll be touring around a bit, and of course hitting all of our favorite … Continue reading
Posted in life
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Extreme book art
I love this quote: “There’s book art…and then there’s extreme book art.” Check out Judy Berman’s Flavorwire article on Spanish artist Alicia Martín, who created the stunning installation shown above at Madrid’s Casa de America. The article features photos of … Continue reading
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Rita Hayworth, Stayin’ Alive
Did you know that you can take a bunch of footage of Rita Hayworth and her various costars (including Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly) dancing, put it to the music of “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees, and it works … Continue reading
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Going to remember this one
My wife came up with a new-to-me Portuguese saying last week, which is one of the least “bem educado” (well-mannered, or properly brought up) things I’ve heard from her. Which, of course, is why it cracked me up. After an … Continue reading
Posted in language, Portugal
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Wallpaper Monday
Mokolii, Hawaii, just off the coast of Oahu. I love the contrast of the threatening skies — and the visible rain squalls — with the turquoise water. (Click the image to islandate. It’s linked to the “X2” size — there … Continue reading
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When health insurance will cost more than annual income
A couple of weeks ago I posted about the high costs of health coverage in the US, and the ensuing commentary was quite interesting. So this recent headline from my home state paper caught my eye: Health insurance will cost … Continue reading
Posted in politics, USA
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Driverless cars
This video has been dropping jaws all over the tech blogosphere. It’s a model of what a (freaking huge!) intersection would look like if traffic signals and human driver decisions were eliminated in favor of total computer control: individual computers … Continue reading
Posted in culture, tech, video
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“How real people will use Windows 8”
Chris Pirillo is a computer geek. His dad is not. As an experiment to see how an average, non-geeky user will react to Windows 8, Chris plopped his dad in front of the computer and let him try to figure … Continue reading
Posted in tech, video
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