Portland Meetup

December 3, 2004 6:29 PM

Anyone else in Portland, Oregon?
posted by cmonkey to MetaFilter gatherings at 6:29 PM (21 comments total)

well, i've never been to spain.
posted by quonsar at 6:30 PM on December 3, 2004

You too, cmonkey. You're next.
posted by Evstar at 6:30 PM on December 3, 2004

hell yes! p-town represent!
posted by pikachulolita at 6:35 PM on December 3, 2004

I'm in Corvallis. Close enough.
posted by evilbeck at 6:50 PM on December 3, 2004

I'm in Portland RIGHT NOW!
posted by cortex at 7:54 PM on December 3, 2004

woot.
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 8:05 PM on December 3, 2004

Holla!
posted by turbodog at 8:46 PM on December 3, 2004

Portland!
posted by hopeless romantique at 9:29 PM on December 3, 2004

salem
posted by docpops at 9:56 PM on December 3, 2004

Challah?
posted by cortex at 10:08 PM on December 3, 2004

This reminds me of an AskMe question I was tempted to post:

Anyone here in Portland, Oregon? [MI]

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... and do you have jumper cables? I'm at 19th and Stark and it's cold...

posted by George_Spiggott at 11:48 PM on December 3, 2004

We're having a hella cold winter here, aren't we? And none of last year's rain. Just cold, foggy, gray days. Depressing stuff.
posted by mathowie at 12:03 AM on December 4, 2004

Oh, on the bright side in PDX is Sunday's Handmade Bazaar. I'll be there, shopping for various knitted things among the holier-than-thou hipster set.
posted by mathowie at 12:07 AM on December 4, 2004

Speaking of the local weather, I really hope there's a repeat of last year's ice apocalypse. That was awesome.

Uh, also, next Thursday the Portland Underground Film Festival starts, and I'm told it should be a good time.
posted by cmonkey at 12:13 AM on December 4, 2004

Matt, word. I've been trying to put down some cycling miles and have been coming back cold as a mofo.

It's a wonder that more people don't have SAD here...

...and here's some more midvalley (corvallis) love.
posted by asterisk at 12:38 AM on December 4, 2004

Hey, Matt, believe it or not, I was planning on going to the Holiday Bazaar on Sunday as well ... want to do a MeFi Meetup?

I really hope that there isn't a repeat of last year's ice apocalypse. I now live in a place where, if it's icy, I can not leave my driveway under any circumstances (too steep...).
posted by SpecialK at 12:49 AM on December 4, 2004

Porland here, and less than ten blocks from George Spiggot, aparently.

And yeah, I've got jumper cables.
posted by hob at 10:48 AM on December 4, 2004

I'm just down the freeway in Longview where nothing ever happens.
posted by leftcoastbob at 12:17 PM on December 4, 2004

we live on a small acreage in the hills and more days than not it seems, these past weeks, the fog stays through the whole day and I can't see more than a 100 feet. It sure feels colder. I'm kinda hoping for another crazy weather system, if only so my girls can get in some sledding. I could do without an inch of ice on my cars (still haven't gotten around to building that garage...).
posted by docpops at 3:07 PM on December 4, 2004

I welcome our recurring ice-tastrophe overlords. I live downtown; I walk to work (MAX a few blocks if I'm lazy and the timing is right); I don't give two figs about traffic conditions, and the low-friction antics of others provides me with cheap and plentiful entertainment.

Gleeful, mocking, gawking shock at Portlanders' collective inability to deal with freezing-weather road conditions is probably the one thing I'm glad to have taken from living in Worcester.
posted by cortex at 8:39 PM on December 4, 2004

MetaFilter: various knitted things among the holier-than-thou hipster set.
posted by wendell at 10:04 PM on December 4, 2004