Electronical Borgness

Looking East-Southeast from Shute Road

Coming back from lunch at Longbottoms today, I'm sitting at the light and I look across Evergreen Road and into Intel's Ronler Acres Campus and I see this big black building with a bunch of stuff sticking out on top. I'm sure that building has been there for years, but it's the first time I noticed it, or maybe my brain is just noticing stuff like this now. I thought to take a picture, but then I thought I can just grab a screenshot from Google's Streetview and that will be good enough.

How so some ever, I get home and dial up Streetview and there is no building. So I poked around a bit to see if Google had newer footage from other places, and these are what I found. None of them give you the feeling of how big this thing is. I may have to go back and take an actual photo.

Looking Southeast from Westside Parking Garage

Looking West-Northwest from Southeast Parking Lot

Nobody has good photos of this place. This 3D drawing is the best of the lot, and it doesn't show much.

Ronler Acres Campus

I can't tell whether no one is interested in this place, or whether Intel or the NSA are trying to keep it on the down low.

Funnies

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Electronicalness

Intersection of Barnes & Miller Roads

Driving into Portland this afternoon, I stopped at this light and noticed all the electronical stuff in view at this point. We have the traffic lights with their spy cameras, we have a powerline intersecton, a whole raft of communications cables, and in the background we have four radio transmission antennas. We won't talk about all the electronic stuff in the cars.

Boeing

Boeing's progress from 1910 - 1955
Click to embiggenate

Famous airplanes in the above illustration:

• 707
• KC-135
• B-52
• B-17

Iowa Man reports:

Picked these up at White Salmon house Estate Sale perched on the Gorge. Beauty location, older miskept house. Scuttle butt is the house was in the Mansfield family for 5 generations. Picked up these free magazines & a book. Densely packed text with interesting articles. Also picked up free book that was tossed in corner, 1st edition Vision - A Saga of the Sky written by Harold Mansfield (of the house family?) who was born in White Salmon, then went on in 1937 to edit Boeing's magazine. The book recounts Boeing's progress from 1910 - 1955 including a bit about Dad's Bomarc (see lower right of blue picture). So quite a surprise, that I didn't put together till I got home.

Bomarc has been mentioned here before. Wikipedia has a page.

Funnies

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10 Short Videos #6288

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