Archives for July, 2010

via streetfilms.org A look at how Copenhagen has embraced cycling as a major component of their city life… Want to visit there someday…. Posted via email from Tim Lauer

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers. View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site. [...]

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

It has been a year since I bought a bike and started riding it on my commute to school. This is something I wish I had done years ago. The freedom of hopping on the bike and propelling myself down the street  is something that I really enjoy. I also enjoy the street level view [...]

via flickr.com On Wednesday, July 28, 2010 students from the Lewis Elementary and Abernethy Elementary Garden Camps came to Lewis for a day of garden work and cooking. Under the direction of Genoa Executive Chef David Anderson and his brother, Ray Anderson, Sous Chef at Nuestra Cocina, students made pasta and created a wonderful lunch [...]

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This past spring some of my first grade students planted sunflowers seeds outside my office window. Over the course of the summer, they have done quite well and some are over 6 feet tall. They provide some much needed shade for my south facing office. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via [...]

I found this over at iphoneography. A nice way to visualize which direction sunlight, or moonlight, will be shining at any given time and at any location… LightTrac is a must have tool for all outdoor photographers. You can use it to find when and where the light is perfect to shoot your subjects outdoors [...]

Yesterday I posted about using the iPad application Flipboard (http://flipboard) to view my Flickr photo stream. (You can see that post here…) I was having trouble getting it to work, because I could not get Flipboard to find the new Twitter account I had created for this. I sent off a quick Twitter post to [...]

I have been enjoying Flipboard (http://flipboard.com), the iPad social magazine application. I like how it grabs content from my social networks and presents it in an attractive magazine style. For example a friend might point to an image or an article using Twitter. Flipboard will take that link and parse it and present it graphically [...]

I have been enjoying Flipboard (http://flipboard.com), the iPad social magazine application. I like how it grabs content from my social networks and presents it in an attractive magazine style. For example a friend might point to an image or an article using Twitter. Flipboard will take that link and parse it and present it graphically [...]

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

While our regular education classrooms are on summer break, our Multnomah Early Childhood Preschool Program is in session over the summer. I snapped this shot at dismissal… Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Fortunately, over the last ten or fifteen years, amateur pianists have been scanning the contents of their grandmother’s piano benches, and… voilà. A million monkeys typing don’t get you Shakespeare, but a million monkeys scanning — that makes a dent. via nytimes.com An interesting discussion on copyright, this time around sheet music… Posted via email [...]

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Today was a pretty hot day. Well a pretty hot day for Portland. It is currently 93° F, which passes for pretty hot in Portland. Now 93° F in Portland is different than 93° F in say, Hammond, IN, where I grew up outside Chicago. There you would also have the associated 80% humidity to [...]

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer

Posted via email from Tim Lauer