Back in May, the blog Decode Ingress had a guest post called “Golro’s Guide to Glyphing” outlining more about glyph hacking than I’ve ever seen one explain. There’s really nothing inaccurate in that article, but there is a lot of stuff that probably doesn’t deserve discussion with most people. Golro’s not wrong that finger friction is a factor — […]
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Big Four Fear
My friend Danny and I were on the Big Four pedestrian bridge this weekend. We did the Ingress mission, hung out on the Flat 12 Bierwerks patio in Jeffersonville hacking a few portals in range, then we walked back and threw fields across the river. Lots of fun was had. But when I laid down […]
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Endgame: The Calling by James Frey
The book is far less intriguing than the real-world game that stems from it. It’s clearly created in the same thinking of young adult thrillers like Hunger Games and The Maze Runner. That’s not inherently a bad thing, but the book is so blandly following that formula that I really couldn’t care less about what […]
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Level 9: A Productive Grocery Trip
I got to Level 8 by throwing a ton of derp links out of one portal. A newbie mistake, but one I was willing to accept for the level. I got to Level 9 by blowing up everything in my sight on the way to and from the grocery store — with some efficient glyph hacking […]
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That Time My Wife Saved My Sojourner
Trying to head out the door this morning, I made one more check at my to-dos and phone notifications before we were on our way. “I only have 44 more minutes to hack a portal,” I mentioned to Ber. I knew, because I use a timer to help me track my Ingress Sojourner medal. “Something tells me you’ll be […]
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Birthday Ingress
For Amber’s birthday she mostly wanted to hang out with friends. When our friends hangout we play Ingress. At Ber’s request, I planned a small bit of multi-layering downtown the night before. The operation went by smoothly and everyone had fun in the nice weather. Everyone even wore blue shirts to support the Resistance! Totally […]
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Providence Park
Providence Park is the home of the Portland Timbers, a Major League Soccer team. But we actually attended a game for the Portland Timbers 2 (lovingly called ‘T2’,) the first game they’ve played in Providence Park. T2 is the USL team under the Timbers, which puts them in the same league as our new hometown […]
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Ninkasi Brewing Company
If you know me, you know I love beer. There is no way I could spend time in Eugene, Oregon and not go to Ninkasi Brewing Company. There was a lot of beer to be had in Oregon, and this is really the only brewery that stood out as truly amazing compared to what I […]
We were finally over the jet lag so Amber and I were ready for adventure Thursday morning. To kick off the day, we found a pretty great Ingress mission to tour University of Oregon. Throughout the campus, many trees have been planted to honor or memorialize people and events. The “Tree Fiddy” mission takes you to […]
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