William Reardon’s Blog

Portland is nice. You could do a lot worse than living here.

At least based on this roughly square mile area I’ve seen. You can walk everywhere it seems. I like that people here jaywalk more than I do. I have a theory that there is some correlation between walkable a city is & how often people jaywalk. And police here just don’t care. Add in lots of greenery & water. Sweet.

And the airport — well done. Whoever is responsible for signage at LAX really needs to get their ass to PDX. (Actually, they should be beaten with a stick, but that’s a different story.) PDX is well laid-out, spacious, clear signs on where to go for what, terminals indicating your baggage claim area are in logical spots (say, I don’t know, right by the down escalators). I rented a car, but the hotel was close enough that it was probably overkill & I’m planning to try to return it tonight or tomorrow.

As the Marriott where the conference is being held was sold-out, I’m staying a short ten minute walk away at the Heathman.Being lazy, I piggy-backed on Rick‘s research and I’m quite glad I did. I was upgraded to a suite (I imagine because of either my boyish charm & rugged good lucks) and this suite is *pimpin’*! If I had brought Sang with me, I could have had my own personal, smooth asian man-servant staying in the room just outside. Maybe next time.

OSCON starts at the ungodly hour of 8:45am tomorrow. Why a conference targeted at developers starts that early, I have no idea. Time to call the front-end for a wake-up call tomorrow morning.

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