Old Guy Complains About Technology

This technically isn't me.

Today I tried to work remotely using the laptop. A fine idea, in theory.

The marvelousness of connectivity is only true if all your devices aren't vintage 2010 ready-for-the-museum as is my laptop.

When I'm calm I know that five years is an eternity in technology, but when in the thick of trying to get things done I believe that because I use so many browser-based apps that somehow I can cheat the five-year curse.

Adding to the confusion is Intel Futurist Steve Brown, who gave an exciting presentation about, well, the future in his estimation. In his video he explained that devices will become more like the fixed costs of service providers -- they want the device to stay the same so they can make money on the apps and services offered through the device. Thus the need for frequent replacement of the devices will diminish.

This makes sense as our alarm service provider fought like hell to avoid replacing the alarm console, as it gets its loot from monthly fees.

So in a fit of delirious optimism I felt that my devices had been blessed by the future and would no longer need to be replaced so often, as long as I continued to consume new computing services.

Unfortunately the laptop didn't get the memo.

 

Thanksgiving Activity Gone Awry

Title of this work is "Weird Thanksgiving"

 

Poem By 5th Grader Deemed Awesome

The kid is good with the words.

 

What Are Daddy Blogs About Really?

Not sure why I chose this art, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Recently someone summed up Mommy Blogs thus: It's a really tough job, you're doing fine, relax and have a glass of wine.This summary was not based on any actual article that I read, but I suspect it exists.

Such got me thinking, what would Daddy Blogs, or my blog, be about if I had to bluntly summarize?

Here are some ideas:

• Hey, check it out
• Things I find cool, and, oh by the way, my kid did something
• The kid is insane
• The kids are insane because their dad is me
• Doing some stuff with/without the kids
• My point of view and some stuff
• Picture of kid, random commentary about everything
• Our family is unique, almost
• Who are you to tell me about Kung Fu?
• Why Portland is not what you think, but much worse
• My favorite character in "The Office" is Angela
• Social justice is important
• Modern times
• We are all screens

Thank you for your patience and back to our regularly scheduled program.

 

"Legend Of Korra" Fine Family Entertainment

The bald, bearded, stern older guy on the right is the character I identify with most-- often he is exasperated with his kids.

Lately the kids have been watching The Legend of Korra, an exciting sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, both animated shows originally airing on Nickelodeon. 

Set in a fictional universe in which some people can manipulate, or "bend", the elements of water, earth, fire, or air, only one person, the "Avatar", can bend all four elements, and is responsible for maintaining balance in the world.

The animation appears heavily in debt to Japanese filmmaker HayaoMiyazaki, and is on one hand relatively simple, but employing a happy fusion of early 20^th century technology and Asian styling. Of note, the show is an American creation, despite small doses of Tibetan Buddhism and large servings of Chinese characters. 

I’m happy the kids are into Korra as the storylines are overlapping and complex, handling a range of childhood and teenage relationship issues as well as terrorism and social unrest. Korra, the Avatar and main protagonist, is a teenage girl who doesn’t necessarily act wise beyond her years without a bit of prodding.

I give it a hearty thumbs up as the martial arts battle scenes are exciting and have that what-will-be-destroyed-next excitement.

A delightful mix of high and low themes, drama and humor, magic and realism, and stern, but wise, paternal advice – hey, I need a role model too!

 

Marijuana Shops' Names Entertain Kids Despite Glowering (Sniggering) Parents

Marijuana has been legal for recreational use in Oregon since October. When we drive around the kids look for the the ubiquitous green cross so as to get a giggle out of the shop's name.

Yesterday I was driving my 13-year-old daughter home from school and we drove past a few colorfully named pot shops, when she remarked that the first step in the marijuana business was to get really stoned and think of a name for the business.

We then passed "Marijuana Shop" where she said, "Those guys aren't even trying."

Indeed. Those losers probably don't even like marijuana, just opening the store to make money.

So for those of you out of state here is a list of names of marijuana stores. Some names repeat as there is more than one outlet and I am too lazy to edit the list.

High Winds Cannabis

buds4u

Alberta Green House

Western Oregon Dispensary

Pipe Dreams

Stoney Only Clackamas LLC

Top Shelf Wellness Center

Kush Klub PDX

DiamondTREE Inc

Green Otter Dreamery, LLC

The Holistic Choice

Pakalolo PDX, LLC

Green Knottz

7 Leaf Silverton LLC

Eugene OG

Gorge Greenery

Lime Green

Canna and the City

The Green Remedy

Williams Street Green House LLC

Greensky Collective LLC

Meg's Marijuana

Siskiyou Medical Supply

Nature's Alternative, Inc.

Oregon Cannabis Co.

Amazon Organics

Providing All Patients Access LLC

High Grade Organics

Peace Love and Cannabis

AmeriCanna Rx

Flint

La Cannaisseur

Piper's Holistic Essentials

Growing ReLeaf

Terpene Station

Divine Kind Inc

Herbal Remedies

Stone Age Republic LLC

Grateful Meds LLC

Jenny's Dispensary

Oregon's Finest

CannaMedicine

Green Room

RKO

Cannabis Nation Inc

GreenOak N.V.

Maryjanes Basement

420ville

Blue Moon Dispensary

Rogue River Herbal Pain Management Center

Puddletown Organics

Canna-Daddy's Wellness Center

A Better Way Medicinal Alternatives, LLC

Westside Wellness

SkunkRx

Marijuana Paradise

Club Pitbull

Gras on 7th

Home Grown Apothecary

Rogue Valley Remedies

Umpqua Green Cross

Herbalist Farmer, Inc.

Oregrown

Buckman Cannabis

Marijuana Store & More LLC

Krystal Green

La Mota 4

Cannabis LLC

Buds4u

Oregon's Finest

TLC Medical LLC

High Desert Dispensary

Cannacare Organics, LLC

Powell House Cannabis Club

Cannabliss And Co

Zion Cannabis

Rooted Northwest LLC

Sacred Flower Medicinals LLC

River City

Oregon Medigreen

Miracle Greens, Inc.

Oregon House of Herbs

Next Level Wellness

Kush Gardens

Chalice

West Coast Organics LLC

Track Town Collective LLC

Abuv

Emerald City Medicinal Delivery Service, LLC

Vessel, Inc.

Alpha Alternative Solutions, LLC

One Draw Two LLC

Alternative Farmacy

Green Apple NW

1st Choice Cannabis

PDX 2519 SE Belmont

La Mota 2

Exodus Wellness Center

High Quality Compassion

ReLeaf MM

Allied Patient Care, Inc.

The Greener Side

The New Amsterdam

Sweet Leaf Cannabis LLC

The Joint

Buds on Glisan, Inc

Powellhurst Alternative Medical Center

Mt Hood Wellness Center, LLC

The People's Wellness Center

Portland Extracts

South Coast Dispensaries

The Agrestic LLC

Foster Buds

Home Grown Remedies LLC

Oregon Weedery

Collective Awakenings

Oregon Natural RX LLC

The Medmar Clinic LLC

Fireside Dispensary Inc

MindRite

Portland Health Center Inc.

K9 Chronic LLC

J.C. Hawthorne's

Tokyo Starfish

Talent Health Club LLC

La Mota 3

Brooklyn Holding Company

Belmont Collective

The Pharm Shoppe

Columbia River Herbals LLC

Healing Green LLC

OMG Medical Marijuana, LLC

Brothers Cannabis Club LLC

Lincoln City Collective

420 Club LLC

Cherry City Compassion

Top Hat Express

Oregon's Herbal Remedies LLC

Kaleafa

Alternative Solutions

West Coast Alternative Medicine LLC

ANCIENT REMEDIES

Kind Heart Collective

Plane Jane's LLC

Kaya Shack 2

The Green Planet

The Human Collective II

Mt Hood Wellness Center, LLC

Native Herbs

Bud Bros

L.J.'s Medication Destination LLC

Pacific Wave Resource Center

Cannabend LLC.

Farma

Stone Age Pharmacy

SHANGO LLC

Family Philanthropic Enterprises

Natures Better Health Center

Urban Farmacy, LLC

Cannabliss And Co

Progressive Collective

Plantae Health Care LLC

Oregon Grown Gift Shop

HWY 30 Cannabis, LLC

Medijuana4U

Kaya Shack

Dr. Jolly's

DiamondTREE Inc

Budlandia

Doctors Orders

The Grass Shack

Garden Kings

The Holistic Coop LLC

River City Holistic Health LLC

Vernonia's Natural Choice, LLC

Grateful Meds LLC.

Abuv

Tree House Collective, LLC

The Medication Station Inc.

The Herbary

JAYNE

Jamaica Joel's

Oregon Microgrowers Guild

Green Goddess Remedies

Little Amsterdam Wellness Center SW

The CDC

Purple Organics LLC

GW Retail Weidler Inc

Breeze Botanicals

Stoney Brothers LLC

Nectar Medicinal Herbs, LLC

Green Gratitude LLC

Medicine Tree LLC

Yer Best Bud

Breeze Botanicals

Attis Trading Company

The Medication Station I, Inc

Rose Plaza LLC

NBHH

Rogue Valley Cannabis

The Gorge Green Cross

Oregon Coast Cannabis

Botanica

Bridge City Collective

Sweet Relief Scappoose

The Green Front

Gramsterdam

Top Shelf Medicine

Flora Portland

Cannacea

Evergreen Medicinals

Green Stop Meds

Mountain View Naturals

Happy Leaf

Going Green Albany

Banana Belt Safe Access Center

High Desert Botanicals

Green Oasis

Sweet Leaf Illusions

New Leaf CannaCenter

Bijan LLC

Stonies LLC

BUDS LLC

Green Valley Wellness LLC

Pharm to Table LLC

Four Seasons Dispensary and Resource Center

Good Leaf Organic Collective

The Herbal Centre, LLC

High Tide Wellness Center LLC

Oregon Euphorics

House of Leaves

Eagle Cap Dispensary LLC

Uplift Botanicals LLC

Sweet Relief Natural Medicine

Patients Helping Patients LLC

Little Amsterdam Wellness Center

Blackbird Indica

Central Organics

Herbal Choices

Mandy's Med Club

THC

Stumptown Cannabis

Little Amsterdam Wellness Center West

7 Leaf Collective

2nd Step Dispensary

Local Herb Collective

PHMR LLC

Sweet Tree Farms

Country Cannabis

Albany Alternative Health Solutions

Mid Valley Patient Resource Center

Kings of Canna

Pure Green

Going Green Sweet Home

Cascade Alternative Resources

mahalo

Bloom Well, Inc.

ANTHEIA, LLC.

Club Sky High

Club Sockeye

NW Compassion Medical Center, Inc

Green Cottage Remedies

Portland Organic Therapy

The Medication Station

Silver Stem

Natural Wonders

Canna Source

Five Zero Trees

Rose City Oreganics

5LMNT, LLC

Renee's Herb Store LLC

South Coast Compassion Coalition LLC

Five Zero Trees

Nature Script's LLC

Traditional Medicinal PDX

CannaCopia

Farmacy LLC

Emerald Leaf Institute

Mainstreaming Our Medicine LLC

Deanz Greenz

Nectar Medicinal Herbs LLC

Bridge City Collective

Blooming Deals

Highway420

Portland Medicine Pot

La Mota

Oregon's Best Meds LLC

Madras Resource Center LLC

Wellstone LLC

The 45th Parallel Group, LLC

I and I

Left Coast Connection, LLC

Rip City Remedies Inc

Portland Compassionate Caregivers

Plantae Health Care, LLC

Cannabliss And Co

Apothecaria LLC

Nectar PDX, LLC

Coastal Cannabinoids

Whistling Sister Green Goddess

Positive Vibrations

Herbal Grasslands, LLC

Earthy Herbs

Green-Way Medicinal Inc.

Calyxes LLC

Bloom

New Vansterdam Med LLC

Portland Canna Connection

Waldport Cannabis DLLC

Thurman Street Collective

Flowr of Lyfe

Beaver Bowls

TJ's Kind Care

Green Health Associates

Twenty After Four Wellness Center

Terrapin Care Station

Maritime Cafe, Inc.

Nature's Choice Alternative Medicine

Northwest Releaf

Cougar Cannabis

CannaMedicine

The Herb Center

Oregon's Alternative Medical Center

Greeley Gallery LLC

Attis Trading Company Inc

Going Green West Coast Inc