Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou

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  • Forty Years of Lunar Lander

    In 1969, an Apollo-crazy high school student wrote one of the most influential computer games of all time.

    Benj Edwards  of Technologizer has a nice summary of the history of Lunar Lander and the High School student who wrote one of the first computer games of all time.  It started so many of us using computers, able to replicate lunar landings, so soon after we all watched images of the first man to step on the moon.  I played this one for the first time in 1972 and it started me thinking, of imagining.  That was a big deal, everyone knew computers counted things, but beyond what was being done at the time with computers it was easy to see more, especially when I wasn’t constrained by understanding how it worked, yet.  I hope my students become as inspired.

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  • Who’s team is going to bag this year’s Bike Commute Challenge?

    Tuesday is the first day of September and the first day of the BTA’s 2009 Bike Commute Challenge. We hope that you’ll join us again in the friendly competition to see who can bike to work more.  Weekly prize drawings, head to head challenges, the goal to beat last year’s personal or workplace record. . . It’s Challenge time again, and we hope that you’ll log back in and start logging trips.

    Did someone say prize drawings?  That’s right.  If you missed the survey email that went out last week, you have one more chance to qualify for the first prize drawing of the year by taking a short 3-minute survey from ODOT’s Transportation Options program, one of our lead sponsors.  The end of the survey will take you right to the Bike Commute Challenge homepage.

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PAOAmysvyCEMjT07UjxM1g_3d_3d

    If you haven’t logged back in yet this year, go to the Bike Commute Challenge homepage, click “I rode last year,” and enter last year’s username and password.  (Forgot it?  No problem.  Click on the “I forgot” text under the login box, and we’ll send you an email reminder of your username and a link to reset your password.)  All of your personal and team information remains intact from last year’s Challenge, so once you’ve logged in for the first time this season, you’ll have the chance to make any changes to your profile.

    We thank you for getting on a bike, and we hope you challenge a friend to try out bike commuting this September as well.

    Wishing you luck in this year’s Challenge and many happy bike commutes,

    Stephanie

    The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has a mission to create healthy and sustainable communities by making bicycling safe, convenient, and accessible.

  • Hillsboro YouTube sensation looks for mainstream fame

    by Wendy Owen, The Oregonian

    Thursday August 06, 2009, 6:35 PM

    Abby Metty/The OregonianHillsboro teen Savannah Outen has fans as far away as Kuwait and Australia but doesn’t yet have a record label. She plays a song she wrote during a visit to Coyote’s Bar & Grill in Hillsboro.

    HILLSBORO — Savannah Outen is looking for her big break. The thing is, the 16-year-old singer is already famous.

    Outen has more than 38 million hits on her collection of 40 YouTube music videos. If that were a CD, she would have the Recording Industry Association of America’s diamond album hanging on her wall, just like Celine Dion or ZZ Top. (more…)


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