Eric Berg

Eric Berg

@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

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Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

1. My lowest tap is a place I've visited two or three times and my mom lived shortly as a kid. 2. These are Big Screen Taps (desktop computer). 3. I looked at maps Ukraine over the weekend with family. www.maptap.gg October 22 99🔥 100🎯 100🎯 94🏅 99🔥 Final score: 978

maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

My cousin is visiting me in Portland for the first time since the 90s. He wants to go to "cool coffee shops." What are your recommendations? Eastside preferred. The "coolest" coffee places go to semi-regularly are Case Study (NE Sandy) and Grendel's (Lower Burnside). Thanks.

Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

This reminds me of something I did in 2106. #rctid

American Soccer Analysis@americansocceranalysis.com

Been a lot of chatter about how the upcoming MLS schedule change is going to affect play on the field. @kierdoyle.bsky.social decided to look exactly how. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/10...

americansocceranalysis.comWinter Is Coming — American Soccer AnalysisFor reasons unbeknownst to me, the algorithm decided to surface a lot of people talking about the upcoming change in the MLS schedule for the 2027/28 season. Maybe it’s the crisp fall air, the departu...
Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

Ancestry sent an update. It’s pretty much what I’ve always thought. 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 Swiss on Dad’s side; 1/2 Czech on Mom’s. I’m going to miss being [1%] Portuguese, though. That was, as they say, “Maravilhoso!”

Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

My Swiss immigrant family founded one of the first sawmills in Washington’s Coast Range. They later sold it and lost everything investing in a company that made a chainless bicycle. The mill was sold to a guy named McCormick who became partners with some guy named…Weyerhaeuser.

Eric Berg
@ericbergpdx.bsky.social

My great-grandparents invested $10,000 in the Hill-Climber. That was a lot of money in 1900, almost $375,000 today. It’s one of the reasons my grandmother moved to Mt. Angel - my hometown - as a child. My great-grandfather’s first job there was working at the Mt. Angel Abbey’s dairy.