Just heard a friend's daughter is going to Reed, in Portland, OR

Congrats to KC!

Reed is a wonderful school. My friend Drew went to Reed and I've wandered around the Campus several times. It is a very cool school. Lots and lots of famous (and not so) people have gone there.

They have a very small nuclear reactor, so they have a great physics department! They are also a very eclectic bunch of people. Associating with Drew, I met many of his Reed friends, and they were all very interesting people. One winter day in 1995, I was going to Reed with Drew and some of his friends and we missed the "traditional" nude snowball fight - oh, well ;) From what we heard, the turn out was truely disappointing ;(.

I lived in Portland during my Graduate School days. Portland is probably my favorite city in the World at this point. There are so many cool places to go:

For Sushi - Takahashi, 10324 SE Holgate Blvd, (503) 760-8135, out past I-205

For Coffee - Rimsky-Korsakoffee House, 707 SE 12th Ave, (503) 232-2640, East side of Portland (check out the Bathroom!)

For Cajun - Le Bistro Montage, 301 SE Morrison St, (503) 234-1324, under the east side of the Morrison Bridge.

For Books - Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St, in Downtown Portland

For Cool Neighborhood #1 - Hawthorn District

For Cool Neighborhood #2 - 23rd Street

For Theatre-Pubs - The Bagdad on Hawthorn and the Mission, both McMenniman theatre-pubs. My brother Paul and I went to the Bagdad years ago and watched True Lies and drank Terminator Stout and ate pizza! Fun times!

Portland is such a cool city!

Congrats to KC again!

/M

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