Spring is here

What a difference a week makes. It was really heartbreaking to see the U.S. lose to Canada in the Men’s Hockey Final, but at least it was a great game. You can’t say we didn’t try. Yesterday was a brilliant day in Seattle though. The sun was shining. The temp was surely in the 60′s, [...]

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Pictures from my commute

Sometimes I commute via running on the Burke Gilman Trail in Seattle. My commute is roughly six miles. With my new camera, I can pictures during my run since the camera fits easily in my running pants. These aren’t the greatest photos, but I think they give you a window into my day. I’ve been [...]

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The beginning of the end for Belltown

This is a neighborhood in Seattle that once was industrial and once was called Denny Regrade. Then in the 90′s it got all hip with high rise condos, boutiques, restaurants and bars. One of those great restaurants was The Flying Fish which is now moving to the South Lake Union neighborhood — which Jake likes [...]

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Interesting article on a blogger being detained at the airport in Seattle

Award winning war correspondent Michael Yon was detained and handcuffed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Yesterday by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel. Yon was returning to the United States from Hong Kong to visit family when TSA officials stopped him during a routine security checkpoint.  “Officials asked me what was in my bag—nothing wrong with this [...]

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Disturbing scrubbing bubbles

I’m fascinated by aspects of advertising like where the ideas come from and who makes the decisions.  It’s interesting how advertisers can get it wrong so many times. What they thought was appealing just isn’t. I ordered a latte at the cafe the other day and watched the barista put on a Bodies the Exhibition [...]

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Are we savages when we’re alone?

I have only now finished season 3 of Mad Men. I don’t have cable and a friend gave me his recordings a couple of weeks ago. I was very intrigued by the episode where Pete is left alone for a week by his wife who is vacationing with her family. Spoilers after the jump.

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Busy, busy, busy

I’ll be starting my new job soon. Some of that preparation has made it difficult to post. Plus, I really haven’t had anything original to say this last week. I started running to work recently. Six miles there and six miles back. It’s a great run. One that is oddly much more fun than running [...]

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A Description of a City Shower

One of my favorite English classes at college was 18th-Century English literature. I found I really liked Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and other satirists. I guess I just really appreciated a time when people talked about serious things but in no way took themselves seriously. Jeni, if you’re reading this, what was the name of [...]

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Quote for the day

You find out the most interesting things in articles detailing the fall of financial institutions. I found out this about failed bank Washington Mutual (WaMu): “Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife’s parents,” [...]

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Can LOL Cats save Seattlepi?

Nearly seven months ago the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper converted to an online-only news source. So how’s that going? Judging by the fact that they’re looking to LOL cats to save the day, I’d say not so good. Today seattlepi.com begins to feature content from the blockbuster site, where site users both submit the funny [...]

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Socialism Please

The wingnuts are crazy about not increasing taxes lest we become socialist, but have they ever wondered how stuff gets done. I happened upon this great site from Seattle Public Utilities. Public indeed: Help Prevent Flooding and Improve Water Quality Join over 150 volunteers who are maintaining storm drains, a critical part of our utility [...]

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Bicycle repair classes, swimming and more

I have been monumentally busy lately. Busy at work. I think I can truly express authentically what a piece of crap Vista is. For those people who just don’t like how everything is organized, you don’t know the half of it. Inexplicably I can’t connect to Oracle databases in Access. The whole dang program shuts [...]

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Camping this weekend

You would think that 2 weeks in France would leave me relaxed and ready for at least 6 months of continued labor. Well it wasn’t. I ended up coming back to work at probably the most busy time in my whole career, and if that weren’t enough everyone on my team took vacations after I [...]

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Headline of the day

As long as we’re using a deadly pandemic disease to describe prostitutes, it might behoove us to acknowledge that the headline could also very well be “Aurora ‘plagued with johns’” or “Aurora ‘plagued’ with men wanting to pay for sex.” These women wouldn’t be there without paying customers. As an aside, I think Seattlepi.com has [...]

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Random thoughts on pedestrian and cyclist safety

I tend to pay attention to the news stories about pedestrians and cyclists getting killed by cars. I do this because I am a bicycle commuter and a frequent walker. Quite frankly, cars scare the shit out of me. While cycling home yesterday and encountering yet another close call with a car situation, I thought [...]

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Random thoughts about returning home

Jake is having some withdrawal symptoms from not having his daily pan aux raisin. I, on the other hand, am having difficulty reading anything to do with politics. All of it makes me angry right now and I don’t feel like getting into the details. On a local level though, I was pleased to see [...]

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Quote for the day

Amazon is being sued for deleting e-books from their customer’s Kindles when Amazon found out the e-books were pirated copies. The lawsuit said Amazon never disclosed to customers that it “possessed the technological ability or right to remotely delete digital content purchased through the Kindle Store.” No shit. I didn’t know that about the Kindle [...]

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Selling coffee by the 12 oz bag

I usually try to buy locally roasted coffee. This is Seattle after all so we have a lot of choice. For a very long time I was buying Pegasus which is hands down my favorite, but unfortunately my office moved and now Pegasus is completely inconvenient. Thus began my quest for a local replacement. I [...]

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Paw-licking good

Danton has some sort of liver disease. We don’t know what has caused it, but he is jaundiced right now. It’s been a rough week trying to figure out how this young cat got sick and it’s possible we’ll never know. Since he won’t eat or drink at all, part of taking care of him [...]

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Patrick Ianni’s bicycle kick that won the match

I didn’t see anything on YouTube that showed this well. You gotta go to the MLS site. It’s a beauty.

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I’m loving this trend

Once again, via MyBallard.com. I noticed that the billboard from last week has been returned to its original state.

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Telekinesis: Tokyo

We saw this local band a few months ago at the Crocodile and loved the show.

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Grade-A Crap

I was amused to see this billboard across from the Jolly Roger Taproom in Ballard. Luckily MyBallard got a photo of it.

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The war on the 4th of July

more about "The war on the 4th of July ", posted with vodpod

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Quote for the day

Regarding  interleague play which is the term used to describe regular season Major League Baseball games played between teams in different leagues: I’m not a big fan. It’s a novelty for the fans; I think we’re doing it for the fans. Which is fine. – Joe Torre, Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. What’s missing [...]

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