Talk: Portland, Oregon
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- being a one-foot diameter circle, its "acreage" is only about 0.3 square metres
Those numbers don't match. One foot is 30.48 cm, so the area of a one-foot diameter circle is about 900 cm^2*0.7854, or 0.07 square meters. -phma
- The diameter was wrong. The city web site says it's 452 in2 which corresponds to a two-foot diameter circle. That means the diameter is 60.96 cm so π×30.482 = 2918.64 cm2, or about 0.3 m2. (whew!) --Nate 19:03 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)
I was reading through the table of contents for this article, and it pretty much sums up Portland: Parks, Beer, Public Transportation. :-) --Nate Silva 22:05, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I just noticed that Tri-met is spelled incorrectly. However, I'm not going to correct it because there is a link that might be destroyed if incorrectly edited. TriMet should be changed to Tri-met. Pingveno 05:28, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Both spellings are correct. http://www.tri-met.org and http://www.trimet.org TriMet is preferred. Mkmcconn 18:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Famous Portlanders
Okay, I'm giving fair notice that a few names have slipped into this list who I do not consider Portlanders, & whom I will be removing from this list. It's not because one has to possess a certain modicum of elitism to be on this list -- it's just that some folks don't have a true connection to this town.
- Paul Allen - So he owns the Trail Blazers. BFD, they've sucked almost to the day he wrote the check. Otherwise, his involvement in Portland has been less than minimal. Seattle can have him.
- Ward Cunningham - No disrespect to Ward (I've met him, he's a nice guy), but does he live in Portland or across the hills in Washington County? -- Ward & Karen have a Portland address, but with respect, I wonder if Ward is notable outside Wiki fame. Should be, perhaps, but ...? User:gnetwerker Feb 13, 2004
- Well, the rule I've always heard is when in doubt, include it. Since Ward does have a Portland address, I have no problem putting him back in the list.
- Dr. Frank Stearns Giese - Portland State University professor convicted of Conspiracy for January 1973 military recruiting station bombings.
- This is a little odd - This entry, as well as the mention in the "city nicknames" section about "City of Bombs", seems to be part of a poorly-executed disinformation/propoganda effort. I have only been able to find mention of Portland as "City of Bombs" on a lot of identical bot-entered forum posts, and at least one site which seems to be a fake blog with one entry on it and some fake comments, aimed at characterizing the Earth Liberation Front as a terrorist organization. Anybody else for expunging it? I don't think the guy who put Dr. Giese in this list realized that the original author of the list was suggesting *removals* from the existing Famous Portlanders list. Pjrich 01:33, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Clarification and further detail: it seems to involve the NLF, the Northwest Liberation Front, and seems to be organized by a guy calling himself Ronald James Scheller, which also seems to be the name of one of the principals in the NLF's history. The same guy seems to be posting on random forums online on a variety of inflammatory topics including legalizing marijuana, etc. As far as I can tell the point of his duplicate forum posts is to get the phrase "City of Bombs" in the google ranking. It smells like amateur cointelpro from here. Pjrich 01:41, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Tonya Harding - Yes, it's fashionable in Puddle Town to dislike her, but around here, when you mention Tonya, you think of Clackamas County. Sorry, even if you argue that Joe Clueless in New York thinks she lives in Portland, my response is that the same Joe Clueless probably thinks Oregon is a suburb of Los Angeles.
- Phil Knight - Nike is carefully situated outside of the city limits of Beaverton. I doubt that Knight even lives in Portland. Portland doesn't need to steal famous names from its suburbs.
- Monica Lewinsky - Once upon a time she attended Lewis & Clark. Some days I'm not even sure L & C is inside of the Portland City limits; some days people at L & C don't care who she is, let alone know that she took classes there. And when the press looks for her, they pester folks down south in Los Angeles.
Sheesh, if we don't show a bit of restraint, who will be added to this list next? Garrison Keillor, who lost a manuscript at the train terminal here? L. Ron Hubbard, who was stationed here for several months in World War II? (Okay, he's a maybe.) George H. W. Bush, who was picketted every time he showed his face in Portland? Rudyard Kipling, who is rumored to have left the train during a stop in Portland to take a leak?
Yes, I'm probably ranting here, but is Portland so insecure about its self-worth that anyone tangentially connected with the city must needs be listed? -- llywrch 00:44, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Just noticing the irony between the list of suburbs and the satelite cities remark. This remark is also somewhat inappropriate for an encyclopedia. - Pingveno 04:06, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
206.138.226.162 had added Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. I removed this because it's actually in Beaverton (maybe it should be on the Beaverton page). This comes out of an earlier case where llywrch had pointed out that Marylhurst University is actually not in Portland. To avoid this page becoming a laundry list of "nearby" things, the colleges list has been kept to those that are actually in Portland. --Nate Silva 03:16, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Not to be contentious, but OGI ha sbeen merged into the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), by acronym slight-of-hand, formerly the Oregon Health Sciences University. OHSU is based in Portland, so I don't know if that changes anyone's mind about anything. -- Gnetwerker
Hey! I'd love to see some information in here on the arts scene in Portland. Specifically theatre and dance. So far all of the 'arts' stuff in here seems to be movies and sports teams. =) -- jbailey
Building heights
"Portland's city center does not cater to tall buildings due to the 200 ft. long city blocks and design codes that constrain building height"
Shanghai Tunnels
Having just been on an extremely informative and interesting tour of the Shanghai Tunnels (more formally known as the Portland Underground), I think it would be both appropriate and interesting to either include information on them in this article, or even start a new article and link it in. What would people prefer? Tim 15:35, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
