My name is Andrew and I walk around Portland, OR (or a city near you). I’m trying to write about one post a week concerning walks I’ve done – or other things I find interesting.
Beyond walking, I enjoy thinking about urban spaces, public transportation, trains, and bikes – as well as cooking, hiking, and camping
Some of my side coding projects live here: https://github.com/blumdrew (they are all unfinished, most of them are old, and some of them aren’t very interesting)
Everything you ever wanted to know about me (but nothing personal)
- City I live in: Portland, OR
- Date of Birth: 15 February 1996, I’m an Aquarius
- Place of birth: Meriter Hospital in Madison WI
- Commemorative plaque installed? NOT YET
- Where I grew up: Madison, WI
- 2014 graduate of Madison West High School
- 2018 graduate of Ohio State University (BS in Physics)
- Where I worked before being funempolyed: Nelnet, Inc
- Senator I admire: None! I don’t like any of them!!
- Current Senator I loathe: Ron Johnson
- Girlfriend’s name: Olivia
- Present pets:
- June B. Jones, Olivia’s beautiful sweet Norwegian Forest Cat
- Siblings: Sarah (older and wiser)
- Singing voice: Tenor?
- Non-USA countries visited: Canada, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Vatican City (yes it counts). I also rode on a train through Belgium
- US States not visited: VT, ME, MS, AK, HI
- Hair color: Auburn/brown with almost no Grey.
- Eye color: hazel or brown, depends on the day
- Number bikes owned in life: 4 (that I’ve purchased as an adult)
- Present Bicycle: Trek Checkpoint, a cool retro 70s Bianchi, and a green utilitarian Bianchi that replaced my old purple Raleigh
- Favorite fruit: blueberry
- Favorite cookie: Chocolate Chip
- % milkfat of milk: whole (rarely drink milk these days)
- Primary Schools (all in Madison, WI):
- Franklin Elementary (K-2)
- Randall Elementary (3-5)
- Velma Hamilton Middle School (6-8)
- Secondary Schools (all in State College, PA):
- Madison West High School (9-12).
- Number of years I had to ride a bus to school: 6
- Three songs I can’t help but sing along to:
- The Less I Know the Better by Tame Impala
- PPP by Beach House
- Should Have Known Better by Sufjan Stevens
- Favorite Ice Cream vendor: Meyers Dairy in State College PA!
- 2nd Favorite Ice Cream vendor: Graeter’s in Columbus, OH
- Favorite Ice Cream flavor: Mint Chip
- Favorite “Scientific” Book: Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
- Presidential election votes: Clinton 2016 (yay..), Biden 2020 (yay..)
- Sports I participate in: biking, walking, softball
- Present weight: 200 pounds
- Height: 6′ 4″
- Most annoying question: “Do you play basketball?”
- Favorite Seafood restaurant: NOT The Columbus Fish Market that’s for sure
- Favorite month of year: June
- Soap Opera that I used to watch: All My Children
- Instruments on which I have been instructed: 2 (trombone, viola)
- Programming languages I’ve used: Python, C++, SQL (does that count?)
- Hours I work each day: about 0
- Hurricanes I have lived through: none
- Number of hours without electricity after Hurricane Bob: also none
- Number of graduate advisors: 0
- Most embarassing record album purchase: Year of the Gentleman: Ne-Yo
- Number of kindergarten classmates for whom I have e-mail addresses: 0
- Time of day born: 8:30 in the morning
- Preferred method of commuting: Walking, but most of the time I bike to the bus stop
- Time alarm clock is set at: 6:30 AM
- Religion: Catholic (allegedly)
- Pet Peeve: grammatical errors in the newspaper
- Undergraduate GPA: 3.26
- Number of Ds received as undergrad: 0
- Number of shows seen on Broadway: depends on your definition of Broadway – but one in New York
- Last show I saw in a NYC theater: The Book of Mormon. I liked it
- Last show I saw in a theater: The Book of Mormon. I liked it
- Last movie I saw in a theater: Oppenheimer, immediately after Barbie
- Favorite Living Mystery Writer: Agatha Christie
- Favorite National Park: Olympic
- Least Favorite Highway: I-405 in Portland (or I-5 in Portland, or I-90/94 in Chicago, actually I hate all highways within city limits)