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Month: September 2025

NY Times list of Portland things to do

NY Times list of Portland things to do

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The New York Times has a strange love-hate relationship with Portland. They fawn over it’s eclictic parts while (rightly) lambasting many of the now widely known disastrous far-left public policies.

They mention all these things to try with 36 hours, but there’s absolutely no way to do all of this, or even half of it in that timeframe. Still, it’s an interesting list.

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Photography for the blind

Photography for the blind

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Six blind people from around the world were given a camera and asked to take photos. The film explores perception, resilience, and creativity.

I think it also clearly challenges the modern excuse that disabled or disadvantaged lives are not worth living.

Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail

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Three student teachers in Minneapolis created a computer game. 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series was known by just about every kid in the United States.

Reset a forgotten Windows 7 password

Reset a forgotten Windows 7 password

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https://youtu.be/RCInsJ6BLjY?si=1a2wUVjed_kpSpm0

TipsNNTricks shows how to bypass the login password without a recovery CD or without any software. It does require physical access to the system (or a way to trigger a recovery boot); but this really helps if you found an old hard drive or system and can’t remember the password from eons ago.

You first boot in recovery mode. You then gain access to the drive by opening a debug message which opens notepad. This allows you to do File…Open and look at all the files on the C drive. You rename the ‘c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe’ to something else (bak or whatever), then make a copy of cmd.exe and name it sethc.exe in the same directory as the original sethc.exe.

When windows reboots, you can then press the shift key 5 times to trigger hotkeys (sethc.exe), and it will open a cmd prompt instead. Then use net use to reset the password for your accounts and you can log in. Clever!




Chapman Swift rap

Chapman Swift rap

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At the end of every summer, Vaux swifts start migrating through the region. For many years, thousands and thousands of them used to roost each night, precisely at sunset, in the Chapman elementary school chimney.

After decades of roosting there and attracting near circus-level crowds that watched them each night, they appear to be seeking quieter locations to roost each night on the east side of Portland. It’s probably for the best – the swift parties near the school were getting out of control.

Little did I know someone actually wrote a song about them.

Bungie was bankrupt when Sony bought them?

Bungie was bankrupt when Sony bought them?

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Fascinating. Comments from a former workers who have become very vocal after layoffs said the studio was struggling with too many projects and even the success of the Destiny series was not covering the bills.

Bungie misrepresented its finances and had significantly overextended itself when Sony acquired the studio for $3.6 billion in 2022, former workers claimed in a new Game File report published in the wake of Wednesday’s layoffs.

It was apparently bad enough that at least one source described as a “well-connected former worker” went so far as to claim that Bungie faced dire consequences if the acquisition hadn’t happened, saying that the “alternate history is insolvency.”

IGN