3 posts tagged “portland oregon”
Off Line Too Soon: Portland's Electric Buses and Forgotten Portland from Cafe Unknown's Dan Haneckow.
Portland Trolleys and Streetcars from PDXHistory.com
Portland Vintage Trolleys, a website from the Richard Thompson (no, not that Richard Thompson), author of Portland's Streetcars
Tinzeroes's PDX's Historical Trolley Lines map
More recent light rail:
Portland Streetcar History
So, now I'm here. I've wanted to be here, vox, for several weeks now. I love the idea of being able to share things privately, and publicly, to have one place where I can direct friends and colleagues. I've been on livejournal, but, that hasn't been entirely satisfying. I've had my public personal blog, in which I speak freely--sort of, not really. Or I do speak freely, and then worry about it later.
So now I am here. But where are my friends? I'm thrilled to be an early-adopter, but right now, if I do speak freely... well, will anybody hear? I know that things will progress, I know that I will have friends in this space, but right now, it's a bit odd. And perhaps that is what punctuates many of the entries that I'm reading: this sense of, who am I writing for now? And how will anyone find me?
In the hopes of integrating my vox life and the rest of my online life, here goes:
- I am looking for a job. I'm very into organic search engine optimization, and interested but without a lot of experience in PPC. I'm interested too in information architecture, though I don't have a lot of formal experience. My resume site is at http://www.vjbeauchamp.com. I'm also very obsessed with alternative transportation & communications, and I'd love to move into that area.
- I live in Portland, Oregon. Right now, I'd like to work in Portland, Oregon too, though perhaps later that might change.
- I write a 5x a week blog called altportland. Someone I don't know described it as "Things that do not suck, in Portland. Site has a really odd format, midway between an events calendar and a reference wiki." While I wouldn't exactly call it a wiki, it is a guide to what to do in Portland. I'd love to somehow integrate my love/obsession/stalking of Portland into something like work.
- I'm a librarian by training. I just got my MS-LIS in 2004, concentrating on digital librarianship & technical services. I did the distance program at University of Illinois. Great program, loved it intensely and deeply and all that. Now I wonder if I will ever actually work as a librarian. Not that I'm bitter, oh no.
- I'm a bicycle commuter. As a teenager, I was a manic bicyclist who participated in the Belle Isle Double Century. After college, I broke down and bought an expensive, gorgeous hybrid bike, and on my first ride, got doored. I spent a summer unable to walk. In the last three years, I've worked hard at regaining my confidence, and while I am a lousy slow bicyclist (mostly because I'm fat), I bicycle almost every day now, in traffic, on bike lanes, and downtown--things I never would have been able to imagine a couple years back. I currently own a pink Townie 3-speed, which I totally bought because of the color. It's a great bike if you don't have to deal with any hills, or are in great shape. I've been riding my Sweetie's Townie 24-speed, which is much better on hills. But the Townies are too long for our public transportation bike racks, and I'd like to have the option to wuss out every now and again and take the bus/MAX.
- I'm working on getting into the bike fun community here. They're pretty welcoming...
- I'm the sort of person who appears really outgoing. But I'm really shy.
