Dare I say Ryan that you managed to find the worst picture of me ever taken? I mean jesus, I was a freak that day... So I think one of the first things we have to do is to take a better picture of ourselves before we start...

Are you forgetting the school picture in which you impersonated a pigtailed, bearded Britney Spears?

Not at all! I find that picture to be some of my best work! The picture with you and me has me at a number of disadvantages. First of all I had a horrible haircut. It's the kind of haircut that people use to vanquish boggarts... Second, for some reason I found it important at the time to try to make my face look pretarded. Not even tarded, certainly not tarded twice, but PRETARDED. Sigh, I dunno its only redeeming value is your expression of great uncertainty...

I thought you were going to eat me. Besides, we both look terrible. For godssake I was wearing a backwards baseball cap. What are the odds of me ever wearing a backwards baseball cap? That's a one in a million picture.

Maybe we could sell it on eBay... I'm sure there are enough fanboys/fangirls in the world that we have at least one or two apiece. We could sign them too! Oh my goodness, there's an idea for what we can do with pieisgood.org! Sell autographed photos of ourselves looking pretarded! We can visit pie houses AND our fan base!

Because hey, man, we have some DANG good pie here. You know my story.

of course are found in my kitchen - search Everything2 for "Blueberry crumble cobbler", "Lime Jello Cheesecake" (actually a pie in a square pan), or "Apple Crumble Cobbler". You'll never need to travel again. Also, I think you should designate cheesecake as an honorary form of pie.

Yes! I've long held the belief that cheesecake is pie, but nobody ever agrees with me.

I do! Cheesecake definitely has nothing to do with cake - cheese and cake simply belong in two very different domains of the food world. However, I'll agree any day that cheesecake is pie in much the same way kidney pie is pie. So there.

Of course cheesecake is pie, don't let the name fool you. If key lime is pie, then cheesecake definately is! Bedrick whole-heartedly agrees on this matter.

Don't bring the wierd-looking guy - he scares me.

Dear GOD! WHat has the world come to! WHen crazy pie-eating fools have their own fan-base...

*cowers in fear and awe*

Speaking as a fangirl, your merchandising plans lack wearability. If I'm going to be your shill, I need to look good doing it.

My gramma makes good pie. I would have to consult her before offering her pie as a sample -- and I might need a respectable looking photo of you two to show her, as I sure as hell ain't showin' her that.

She lives in Grants Pass, which is on your way as I understand it.

There is good pie at the Lair Hill cafe in Portland, on Corbett.

Starbucks is everywhere, and they all (I think all) have 802.11b these days. Theoretically, you have to pay T-Mobile to use said connection, but one wonders how secure they are.

Plus, a lot of bed and breakfasts offer 802.11b for their guests. Park outside and you should be able to surf.

Ooh! Ooh! Too bad there are no good WEP cracking tools for Windows, and the Linux drivers for my wi-fi card don't seem to support promiscuous mode. Maybe FreeBSD will work...

I think we'll probably pass on the grandma pies this time around. Not that I don't think they'd be delicious, it's just that I'd feel really weird just showing up at someone else's grandma's house and eating pie and then leaving. In addition to my usual shyness at meeting new people, I mean.

Is Chicago completely out? We've got some good bakeries down this way

MLO

Who is the evil-looking chappy behind you two, flipping off the camera, in that picture? From his behavior, visage, and red hair, I am tempted to say that he is the Divil!

That's Kevin Bates. And yes, he is the devil. Pants.

Pants?

It's a long story. Well, it's a short one actually. Remind me to tell it to you sometime.

This is a very cool product. It allows you to scan for Wifi connections, and also crack them I think. It also has a very neat feature in which if you have a gps hooked up (Not sure how this works, you would have to read/experiment into it) it will also automaticly take down the lat/lon. for you. Check it out.

Netstumbler is an excellent scanning and mapping tool, but it doesn't have any cracking features.

Correction: It is the "Old Lair Hill Market Cafe" and Corbett is called 1st there. Just take 1st south until you start climbing a hill, and look for it on your right.

Ok, well then I would have to suggest BSD.

One more try:
This for a cool page about Wifi.

This site has perl scripts for cracking purposes, as long as you have perl installed on your laptop. (this site is contained in the main site about wifi)

He's mostly harmless. Just don't let him make lemonade!

I have a tip for you on good pie in Astoria. I'm to ask what your favorite kind is and approximate date of arrival so that it can be specially prepared. (Pecan isn't an option, too far north I guess.) The same lady makes the pies sold in several of the different restaurants there, so you can have your choice of dining establishments. :)

Whoa. What makes you think that Canadians know or love pie any less than you? One of the great things about pie is its universal appeal, cutting across borders and biases. Good pie is relatively easy to make and can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age, race, gender or nationality. Pie is not unique to America and should not be pigeonholed in that way.

While I understand that our homemade pastries up here might be outside the reach of your trip, as a true pie connoisseur, I encourage you to explore the pies of other countries over time. I believe that the diversity and tastiness you find will surprise and delight you.

Just don't say that Canadians don't know pie!

It was a joke meant to make me feel better about not being able to extend the trip to Canada due to my lack of passport.

Hey, do you think if I got a passport they'd let me eat Canadian pie using that big space shuttle arm thing you guys made? Maybe while sitting on a moose?

Who says you need a passport - you can just snowshoe across and tell them that Celine sent you. Actually the guy who invented the Canadarm lives down the road from my igloo - I pass him every day on my bobsled! Unfortunately, though, my pet moose Henri died recently but I've got lots of loons you can sit on, eh? How aboot it?! Maple Bacon pie, anyone?

you'll just need a heart of gold to get to it I guess. Bit I bet you have one in your garage!