Oregon has highest rate of homeless families

Oregon has highest rate of homeless families

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Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year ($531 million in 2023 alone), Oregon’s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it’s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families.

Axios reports that Oregon’s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the report, which relied on point-in-time survey data, a census count conducted on one night.
The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate less than half that of Oregon, with 7.2 of every 10,000 kids experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The national average was just 1.4.

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Zooming in

Zooming in

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Jesse Martin does an extreme zoomin on his art (I’m betting there’s some splicing, but it’s a great zoom-in). He also has a ‘making of’ video how he used ProCreate to do it.

Reminds me of the ‘Powers of 10’ video from 1977

Making a game in Assembly

Making a game in Assembly

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When teaching myself to program as a kid, my first language was type-in BASIC programs. After that, I made the very un-orthodox choice to learn assembly. I wrote a small database, a TSR (Terminate and stay resident program), and a couple other small creations.

Looks like GreatCorn did one better by writing his own game in x86 assembly.

Jonathan Frakes Fact or Fiction fun clips

Jonathan Frakes Fact or Fiction fun clips

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Jonathan Frakes hosted a cheesy little show called Fact or Fiction in which the viewer tries to guess if a short story is real or made up. People have had a lot of fun re-cutting the intro/outro portions to make some funny clips. Here’s some good ones.

Interesting martial arts counters

Interesting martial arts counters

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There’s a reason each of these moves is banned for regular competitions, but possibly very useful in a self defense situation where your life is at stake and you need to disable an attacker enough to get away.

Xerox Star

Xerox Star

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The recent auction of Paul Allen’s estate included not only an Apple Lisa, but a Xerox Alto II XM. After having been wowed by it at the Living Computer Museum, I humored the idea of buying the Xerox Alto – but the price went a lot higher than I was interested in spending ($252,000). Even the Computing Museum auction Xerox Star went for a measly $81,900.

Instead, there are some great videos on the Xerox Star in action such as this one by the Vintage Computer Federation which compares the Xerox Star and the Lisa.