My name is Joshua Jenkins and this is debris; a collection of tiny snapshots into my life. I make websites in Portland. I like bicycles, coffee, cities, running, beer, and letters. I like other stuff too.

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  1. CK, PD’S, and DC in Stanley Park, Vancouver last weekend.

    CK, PD’S, and DC in Stanley Park, Vancouver last weekend.



  3. One of the most amazing things about Vancouver is the extremely serious approach to density which results in gorgeous and livable areas. This view of downtown Vancouver feels strangely similar to Midtown Manhattan, just quite a bit shorter, which isn’t a negative thing. Midtown Manhattan makes you want to kill yourself, downtown Vancouver does not.

    One of the most amazing things about Vancouver is the extremely serious approach to density which results in gorgeous and livable areas. This view of downtown Vancouver feels strangely similar to Midtown Manhattan, just quite a bit shorter, which isn’t a negative thing. Midtown Manhattan makes you want to kill yourself, downtown Vancouver does not.


  4. Across some body of water from downtown there’s North Vancouver. I have never been there but most people seem to take a water-bus there, or go all the way to Stanley Park and take the Lionsgate bridge. Can’t go wrong with water and hills.

    Across some body of water from downtown there’s North Vancouver. I have never been there but most people seem to take a water-bus there, or go all the way to Stanley Park and take the Lionsgate bridge. Can’t go wrong with water and hills.


  5. The good ol’ days.

    The good ol’ days.


  6. I didn’t spend a lot of time in Gastown while I was in Vancouver this time, but it’s cool little neighborhood with angular street intersections and lots of interestingly shaped buildings. It’s Portland’s equivalent of Old Town except people actually want to go there. I took this photo from Harbour Place, which was the first time I’ve ever gone to a vantage-point style tourist destination in any of the cities I’ve been to or lived in. It was worth the nine Canadian dollars.

    I didn’t spend a lot of time in Gastown while I was in Vancouver this time, but it’s cool little neighborhood with angular street intersections and lots of interestingly shaped buildings. It’s Portland’s equivalent of Old Town except people actually want to go there.

    I took this photo from Harbour Place, which was the first time I’ve ever gone to a vantage-point style tourist destination in any of the cities I’ve been to or lived in. It was worth the nine Canadian dollars.


  7. Probably the most entertaining and surprising thing I learned about Vancouver while I was there is that it occasionally gets warm and there are actually sandy beaches on some of the dozens of places Vancouver touches some body of water. I spent an afternoon walking around Kitsilano beach which butts up to English Bay sort of across from Downtown Vancouver. What I saw looked more like what you would expect in Southern California. Swarms of scantily-clad beach goers doing all the normal beach things: playing volleyball, sunbathing, walking dogs, swimming (a few in the Bay, most in a huge pool on the beach), and many just being pervs. I was tasked with coming back to the States and informing the masses that there are indeed warm Canadian sandy beaches, and luckily I don’t have to lie about it. They are gorgeous with the mountains and the cities as backdrops, and if you like looking at body parts it’s a good place to go.

    Probably the most entertaining and surprising thing I learned about Vancouver while I was there is that it occasionally gets warm and there are actually sandy beaches on some of the dozens of places Vancouver touches some body of water.

    I spent an afternoon walking around Kitsilano beach which butts up to English Bay sort of across from Downtown Vancouver. What I saw looked more like what you would expect in Southern California. Swarms of scantily-clad beach goers doing all the normal beach things: playing volleyball, sunbathing, walking dogs, swimming (a few in the Bay, most in a huge pool on the beach), and many just being pervs.

    I was tasked with coming back to the States and informing the masses that there are indeed warm Canadian sandy beaches, and luckily I don’t have to lie about it. They are gorgeous with the mountains and the cities as backdrops, and if you like looking at body parts it’s a good place to go.


  8. I had been aware of the Vancouver Public Library for a while, but had never visited it in my previous visits to Vancouver. Luckily my good friend Pasquale D’Silva recently moved in across the street so I had the entire weekend to experience the library and the way people interact with it. As a laymen fan of architecture I instantly fell in love with the building. The sweeping curves, the playful lines and geometric interesections are feel at once new, timeless, tastefull, and playful. That sentence at once feels corny, contrived, and lame. I was most excited by the fact that things like the library even exist in Vancouver. Living in Portland, a city with an almost identical population, and almost identical metro population, I often become frustrated that we are so conservative with similar public works projects. For a city that prides itself on livability, sustainability, and building succesful urban fabric we fail to really have any pieces of iconic, functional architecture.

    I had been aware of the Vancouver Public Library for a while, but had never visited it in my previous visits to Vancouver. Luckily my good friend Pasquale D’Silva recently moved in across the street so I had the entire weekend to experience the library and the way people interact with it.

    As a laymen fan of architecture I instantly fell in love with the building. The sweeping curves, the playful lines and geometric interesections are feel at once new, timeless, tastefull, and playful. That sentence at once feels corny, contrived, and lame.

    I was most excited by the fact that things like the library even exist in Vancouver. Living in Portland, a city with an almost identical population, and almost identical metro population, I often become frustrated that we are so conservative with similar public works projects. For a city that prides itself on livability, sustainability, and building succesful urban fabric we fail to really have any pieces of iconic, functional architecture.