(Part 3) Top products from r/Portland

Save your money.

Grab the grip and lighting book from Harry Box (yes it’s a terrible name). It’s the book we use on film sets, it’s an easy read and has some awful jokes in it too.

Watch every film you can, and the commentaries.

Watch thing in theaters, Hollywood theater, watch rare things at movie madness.

Get a subscription to American Cinematographers magazine. (Read old articles.)

Buy a camera. 6k blackmagic or canon 5D miv. Have an iPhone (works easily, and easy to edit on.)

Have fun. Be curious. Be a happy puppy, and treat everyone fairly. Punch up, never punch down.

If you want a job in the film business, know that you want to do it for free...for love, if you do it only for money...you will fail.

Portland (and Oregon as a whole) has a long history of nativism and resentment of outsiders.

Really

Long

Honestly, I'm glad I left after college. I've seen more of the country, I know about what other towns are going through. Most cities would KILL to be in the position Portland is in. Portlanders: you should be welcoming all these smart, ambitious people with open arms. You should applaud when 1 of the 500,000 bungalows in SE gets torn down to make room for more dense housing. You should tell NIMBYs who try to shut down apartment construction in transit corridors to shove it.

It really saddens me to see so many people from my homeland throw away the enormous potential their city has because they want a relatively larger slice of the pie. Please, everyone, get over your aversion to immigrants and high density housing. Portland has a once-in-a-century opportunity to transform itself in to a Great American City. And we have the resources to do it. Now we just need the grit.

There's a great book by Ellen Ruppel Shell that I read not too long ago titled Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. The author describes all the ways companies do everything possible to externalize the fully-burdened costs of doing business in order to offer lower and lower prices.

Interestingly, there's nary a mention of companies working to make their product better in ways that would be both profitable and allow for a higher price-point that consumers would accept.

The thing is, so many people are barely making enough money to eek out a tolerable existence. Profit-driven companies will, among other things, cut wages to below what a person can live on. Those same companies wonder why nobody will buy their goods if they don't sell them for very, very cheap.

I got so tired of looking for good bagels in the city that I decided to learn to make them myself.

It is a multi-day process and you need a pretty heavy duty mixer, but [this book(
https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Silvertons-Breads-Brea-Bakery/dp/0679409076/) is in the central library and I use a modified version of its bagel recipe.

I also quickly realized that learning to bake starting with Bagels what's like trying to start mountain climbing by scaling Everest, but dammit I wasn't going to be without good bagels.

The entirety of the system is not substandard. We are substandard in places, but far above the curve in other places.

If you really care about the subject of healthcare in America, read this book: The Healthcare Handbook

Though I think most people would rather opine about the subject on the internet instead of learn about the issue in depth.

No Call Too Small: The best of the police log from the pages of the Lake Oswego Review

No but I do have some reading recommendations:

How not to be an Asshole Free shipping with Prime!

It you want get to know our local thrushes, Sibley's Western Field Guide would be an excellent place to start.

This book may interest you: http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp/014311493X

No affiliation with it, other than I read it a few years ago and it was really interesting.

Like shoblime said - indigenous peoples of the Americas did not practice land ownership of surveyed parcels with a single entity as owner. Our current understanding evolved from medieval arrangements under European feudalism, in which those who worked the land were forbidden from owning it.

The best brief explanation I ever read of how native peoples and how the white settlers saw land ownership differently was thus:

>For instance, the Cayuse believed that to plow the ground was to desecrate the spirit of the Earth. The settlers, as agriculturalists, naturally did not accept this. The Cayuse expected payment from wagon trains passing through their territory and eating the wild food on which the tribes depended; the settlers did not understand this and instead drove away the men sent to exact payment, in the belief that they were merely "beggars".

And, indeed, breaking ground in that area (deserty eastern Washington) could result in unhealthy erosion and runoff during flash floods. It's this sort of thing that made a desert out of the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization.

If you're into anthropology at all, the book The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig explains how religious beliefs grow up around what is the best environmental practices for human in a given locale.

The settlers of the prairie would find out about the harmful effects of cutting the sod a few decades later during the Dust Bowl, when it turned out plowing up ground held firmly in place all that time would result in 850 million tons of topsoil blowing away (most of it ended up in the Atlantic Ocean) in 1935 alone.

Meanwhile, back at the Willamette, pioneers showed up and thought everything was just naturally fabulous, not realizing it was the stewardship of the Native peoples who'd made it that way.

> https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/article/231478

>When the first settlers arrived in the Willamette Valley in the mid 1800s, they found a broad valley covered with clusters of oaks, tall fir, and grassy prairies. It looked like an untouched wilderness, but it was actually a well-managed system, the result of thousands of years of planned burning by the native inhabitants...

I was under the impression that the railroad workers don't tolerate this stuff. I have always heard that they were notorious for being strict and sometimes violent to trespassers and "hobos riding the rails". I'm not speaking for Portland's railroad nor do I have first had experience.

Edit: the little "knowledge" I have of this, came from reading this book by Ted Conover it's a really great book called Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes, and I highly recommend it.

Low Life, a book by Luc Sante, about the shifting demographics of the lower class of NYC over the decades, is a must read. https://www.amazon.com/Low-Life-Lures-Snares-York/dp/0374528993
Every neighborhood, in every US city has always changed from one thing to another. And so it shall always be.
Even if you don't want to agree, it's a great book.
I lived at NE 25th in 1987. It was an all black neighborhood.
To me, Portland looks ''gone'' and has been replaced by artsy hipsters, and here come the yuppies to conquer the hip area. It's as predictable as expecting to see homeless people in a major metro area.
It can be easy to depend on myopia to ascertain your position, but the big picture says that cities change, drastically, and always will.

Maybe this?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VL1VZG1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gD8RDbSF13JNX

http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financial/dp/0691152640

Any time someone brings up PSU CS, I always recall the book @Large, which features PSU very prominently.

Here's a $10 kit amazon.com sells that includes all the little parts you need if you're going through Getting Started With Arduino. Regardless of having the book or not, it's a nice starter kit.

I was reading this when it hit my place. Kinda freaked me out a little bit, actually...

THANKS FOR THE ADVICE. I DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE TO GO TO A CODING BOOTCAMP THINKING THAT WOULD GET ME A JOB, BUT IT DIDN'T WORK OUT TOO WELL. COLLEGE WAS TOO SLOW PACED FOR ME. FOR EXAMPLE, I WAS ABLE TO SKIP A FEW CLASSES AND THE FIRST CLASS THAT I HAD TO TAKE WASN'T EVEN GOING TO GET TO POINTERS UNTIL WEEK 12. SO. SLOW. I CAN CODE IN C++ AND JAVA, THOUGH I'VE ONLY BEEN WORKING IN PYTHON FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, SO THOSE TWO LANGUAGES ARE INCREDIBLY RUSTY(BUT I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS: SQL, PHP, JAVASCRIPT). I'VE RECENTLY BEEN DIGGING INTO ALGORITHMS AND THE MATHEMATICS OF CS, THOUGH. I'M CURRENTLY READING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

• THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - KNUTH
  
• STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS
  
• A PRACTICAL THEORY OF PROGRAMMING - CR HEHNER
  
• INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS
  
• MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
  
• CONCRETE MATHEMATICS](https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Computer-Science/dp/0201558025) - KNUTH
  
  MY MATH SUCKS, SO I'VE BEEN WORKING ON TEACHING MYSELF CALCULUS AND PROBABILITY/STATS.
  
  HOW SHOULD I MENTION THIS STUFF ON MY RESUME? I'VE CONSIDERED COMPLETELY REMOVING THE EDUCATION PORTION FROM MY RESUME, BECAUSE ALL THAT'S THERE IS SOME PARTIAL COLLEGE THAT WASN'T WORTH ANYTHING FOR CS/PROGRAMMING AND MY WEBDEV BOOTCAMP, WHICH I GET THE IMPRESSION CAUSES MY RESUME TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE REJECTED PILE... THE WORST PART IS THAT WHAT I DO HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH WEB DEVELOPMENT. I'M NOT BUILDING STATIC WEBSITES. I'M BUILDING STUFF THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE A WEB APP AND I ONLY DO THE BACK-END STUFF + JAVASCRIPT.
  
  ANYWAY, I'M GOING TO START TRYING TO FOCUS MORE ON JAVA OR C++ AND SIGN UP FOR LEETCODE AND CODERBYTE LIKE YOU SUGGEST.

This is the Volokh Conspiracy blog. They have nothing to do with Reason Magazine other than being the current webhost. Ilya Somin is one of the premier experts in this area and has written extensively on Kelo v. New London and other cases.

I heard they’d be there tomorrow.

There’s interviews with some of the family in the book A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312423632/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_2z16BbN2FCKFD