To chime in on the Hillsboro commute. The max from near PSU to Hillsboro airport is hour and ten minutes to hour twenty minutes, depending on connections. This is my daily grind of commuting, right now.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 07:27 Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote: > Retail everywhere has been hard hit by Amazon. I don't know the answer > for this but when a spark plug for my car from OReilly's costs $12 a plug > and I can get a box of 4 of the exact same plugs from Amazon for $20 I > don't see how you are going to recover it. > > Most of the problem with places looking scummy isn't the retail businesses > IMHO it's that current tax law and local laws all favor keeping retail > space intact even when it would be better to demolish it and put in > housing. We need housing badly we need more retail space like a hole in > the head. If we didn't have an oversupply of retail space that gun shop > couldn't afford the stripmall space and wouldn't be there. > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Ben Koenig > Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 6:57 AM > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@pdxlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ... > > Sidewalks are apparently not a thing in Hillsboro. For all the talk about > big tech in Hillsboro the actual center of the city has yet to re-discover > ancient Roman technology. > > Last time I was actually down there the whole area closed up because > someone made a run for it during a murder trial. Last 2 MAX stations were > closed and the entire area was on lockdown. TBH Hillsboro is like a white > ghetto... people say great things but when you actually go there it's > nothing but dingy SMBs and semi-homeless dudes looking for an opportunity. > The whole place is spooky. > > I've learned recently that the "Hillsboro experience" is not uniform. > People love to mention all the tech companies out here but there are places > where you can look behind the curtain and see a completely different world. > Kinda like at the Olympics where they built that wall to hide the actual > China from everyone. LOL > > That giant Salesforce building always makes me laugh. It's right across > from a dingy strip mall that has a church AND a gun store. That street is > like Corporate America, God 'n Guns, and Woke culture staring each other > down in a good 'ol Mexican Standoff. > -Ben > > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Monday, March 6th, 2023 at 5:21 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt < > t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote: > > > > There's lots of places afterwards near Hawthorne Farms. But like any > > suburban place they expect you to be driving cars to get to them. Mass > > Transit is sort of a novelty out there. It's kind of like the token > > green thing they drag out and show people to prove they care about the > > environment. LOL (disclaimer I grew up a few miles from there) > > > > Ted > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: PLUG plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom > > > > Sent: Monday, March 6, 2023 2:52 PM > > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group plug@pdxlinux.org > > > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Venue for next month ... > > > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 01:54:29PM -0800, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > > > If you can find a member at Intel or a sponsor there, the > > > auditoriums are free to use and are outside the security area. The > > > Hawthorne Farms site is ideal since it is on the MAX line. Of course > > > that implies people will want to travel to Hillsboro. > > > > > > I've attended many IEEE meetings at Intel Hawthorne Farms. > > The Max Blue Line stop is a 7 minute walk south of HF3. > > A meeting at Intel might attract some interesting speakers and > attendees. Not much nearby for afters. > > > > But then, I live in Beaverton, and I've noticed that many Portlanders > encounter an invisible force barrier west of Washington Park, perhaps the > same force barrier that I encounter near Vancouver and Gresham and > Gladstone. > > > > Keith > > > > -- > > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com >
