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The Other Utility Fog
They link to me, I link to them, They link to me...
Safety Warning. Not for use as a stroller. May contain parts. Manufactured in a facility where one or more of the following may be present: Peanuts, almonds, unfiltered water, oxygen, ultaviolet and infrared radiation, sunlight. Use only as directed by your legal counsel. Do not use during earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding or presidential election years. Use of handles may promote RSI, see your doctor or therapist before opening. May be flammable when exposed to open flame. Not for use as a stepping stool or adult seat. May cause injury if dropped from a height. Does not enable user to fly. Do not eat.
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Sat-Jan 21 2012
Thanks #sdot, for closing the Counterbalance halfway down. I love unplanned detours onto narrow, unplowed side streets in a panel truck
Thanks #sdot, for closing the Counterbalance halfway down. I love unplanned detours onto narrow, unplowed side streets in a panel truck
Twitter Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:06:14 Tweet 160558795360190464
Thu-Feb 24 2011
Finally there's snow outside, let the mass civil panic commence. #snomg
Finally there's snow outside, let the mass civil panic commence. #snomg
Twitter Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:19:11 Tweet 40807926344056832
Mon-Jan 10 2011
RT @daviddlevine: Many Portlanders believe that the city is built on an ancient unicorn burial ground. You saw it on Twitter, so it's tr ...
RT @daviddlevine Many Portlanders believe that the city is built on an ancient unicorn burial ground. You saw it on Twitter, so it's tr ...
Twitter Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:28:43 Tweet 24427411080749056
Wed-May 19 2010
Seattle Nanny-state's latest target: burlesque comedy wrestling show
Seattle Nanny-state's latest target: burlesque comedy wrestling show ** Seattle tries to shut down burlesque wrestling show Lucha VaVoom **
Twitter Tue, 18 May 2010 23:16:34 Tweet 14280555212
Fri-May 14 2010
Yeah!! "Seattle is the most miserable sports city" - Another reason I like it here
Yeah!! "Seattle is the most miserable sports city" - Seattle is the most miserable sports city - - Another reason I like it here
Twitter Fri, 14 May 2010 00:14:48 Tweet 13964329627
Fri-Apr 02 2010
wsdot just lost all computer traffic info for downtown Seattle. This ain't good. Camera's are still up. P.S. We're having a windstorm
wsdot just lost all computer traffic info for downtown Seattle. This ain't good. Camera's are still up. P.S. We're having a windstorm
Twitter Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:40:44 Tweet 11489403832
Thu-Mar 25 2010
Twitter Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:43:33
Seattle's tallest building is underwater on it's mortgage - Columbia Tower misses mortgage payment -
Tweet 11042667223
Fri-Feb 26 2010
Twitter Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:01:21
It involved a car maneuvering on the side of the road, but whatever I watched for
5 long minutes was in no sense "parking" #rtfm #ptfc
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Wed-Jul 08 2009
High Weirdness
Police Investigate Mysterious Coded Message Left At Hospital
Sat-Dec 20 2008
Woopsie II
KOMO News has some great aerial shots of the scene: Tow trucks rescue charter buses dangling over I-5
Fri-Dec 12 2008
Perfect Timing
A massive winter storm is heading for Washington state (Seattle+Snow=APOCALYPSE) and the Official Traffic Map and Incident Report Page are FUBAR. Update: Working Traffic Incidents Page
Mon-Nov 26 2007
Mental Diet
Ladies and Gentleman, The Reverend Bruce Howard:
The Reverend was one of the high points of Seattle Cable Access TV in the 90's. He went through 3 stylistic phases: The slooooow vampiric talking head, then the giddy "Buddy Love" featuring pastel backgrounds and his nervous dog, and finally the dark cultish ranter complete with on-screen disciples. Many was the time that an innocent dive bar was terrorized by my co-workers and I demanding our friday night after-work fix of Bruce.
Wed-Jul 04 2007
Gleefully Celebrating Corporate Marketing
![]() Damn right I am, because the 7-Eleven at 4th and Denny in Seattle is one of 12 stores in the US and Canada converted into a Kwik-E-mart , complete with "real" Simpsons products. No Duff Beer though-not PG-13 enough. ![]() The Sandwich Rack. ![]() It can't be the Simpsons without donuts. ![]() I think Ralph is wondering what his popsicle would taste like if he dipped it in baking soda. ![]() They were good Squishees, though I couldn't get one that was all syrup. I also left the cup at work, so the pictures of Homer being chased by a pig will have to wait. ![]() Jasper Beardley is preserved in the freezer. ![]() Internet research ("so it must be true") suggests that the sign is part of the conversion. I wasn't sure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The detail is amazing. Comic guy is reading an Atomic Man comic, the no-parking signs say "violators will be executed" and the chair for the (real) security guard has a Kwik-E-Mart logo. ![]() Kwik-E-Mart (Wikipedia)
Thu-May 17 2007
About Time
"Comcast Corp. plans to drop Microsoft Corp.'s television software and on-screen program guide from its digital cable boxes in the Seattle area and the rest of the software company's home state."This is good news. The new system has to be better than the current dreck. One example of how fubar Microsoft's software is: "E-mail" from Comcast is hidden under the "Settings" menu.
Comcast will no longer use Microsoft's TV software
Wed-Jul 26 2006
Where the Wee Folk Live
Even though I drive by it every day, I had no idea there was
a Seattle neighborhood called "Tangletown"-it sounds like
someplace out of a Neil Gaiman novel.
Sun-Apr 30 2006
Sun-Mar 26 2006
Holy Crap
"A gunman opened fire early Saturday in a home, killing six young partygoers and critically injuring at least one other before committing suicide when confronted by police outside.This is unsettling. I've been to parties just like this, though not usually till 7am, and not on Capitol Hill. No angry voices, no fighting, no warning. The shooter doesn't sound like somebody who just lost it-he had stocked up. I wonder if we'll ever know what the orange "Now" was all about. Gunman Kills Six, Self in Seattle Home
Sun-Jan 22 2006
Fri-Dec 02 2005
Mass Hysteria
"Attention citizens the Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area. As we have received 1/16th of an inch of show municipal code N-774290.4.c is now in effect, requiring all drivers currently on the roads to drive their vehicle into a ditch at the earliest convenient moment. If you are unable to do so because your nearest ditch is already filled with vehicles, you may instead precipitate either a rear-ender or a fender-bender. Your compliance will ensure that local news stations have no difficulty obtaining footage for their "BlizzardWatch '05!!" coverage, which will begin immediately and continue until the last sludgy lump of ice has melted from the median of I-5.Snow Advisory From Defective Yeti Great Sneezing Buddha, tell me about it. I had to drive around King County all day today and people were driving like it was raining blood and frogs. The snow was melting as soon as it hit the ground (40 degree weather will do that) so what we had today was a classic "Seattle Snow Panic" only without the snow.
Mon-Aug 08 2005
Aha
The Badhill route generator
(King County only) is intended for bicyclists, but I can see
putting it to use the next time Seattle suffers one of it's rare snowstorms.
Via robot wisdom weblog Googling "seattle snow panic" revealed this gem: "As soon as Seattlites see this unnatural white substance falling from the heavens, they shriek and gibber and panic and fear the wrath of their heathen gods. I can only conclude that Seattlites are a soft and weak people, ripe for conquest by the nomadic warrior tribes that stalk the frozen corn-tundra of my native Iowa.Absolutely true. One bright side is seeing all the expensive SUVs in automotively compromising positions. 4-wheel-drive doesn't help you stop. Snowjob
Mon-Apr 18 2005
Comcast Follies
" Comcast, the top U.S. cable TV network operator, is being sued by a Seattle-area woman for disclosing her name and contact information, court records showed Thursday.I'm no fan of the phone company, but I think I'll be choosing DSL when circumstances allow me to get broadband. Link Via Boing Boing
Sat-Apr 16 2005
Another Brush W/Celebrity
I met J.P. Patches today. I moved about 600 pounds of stuff into his garage and
he gave me a t-shirt. Nice guy, the Patchster is.
Tue-Nov 02 2004
Here We Go Again
Winter begins in Western Washington state and that can only mean one thing: Flood alerts.
Every year we are treated to rivers with funny names running over their banks and TV reporters
in raincoats standing around in the dark looking worried. I'm just amazed that nobody
ever says "Hey, do these damn rivers have to flood year in and year out? Is there anything
we could be doing to stop or lessen all the damage these annual floods cause?". But no, the
subject never even comes up.
Mon-Sep 27 2004
Mon-Sep 20 2004
Beware Of The Walls
![]() ![]() I've learned more about the enigmatic graffiti mentioned in an earlier post. The artist is "Cold Killer" aka "ColdK" and he's part of the "BOTW" or "Beware of the walls" crew. And they aren't paintings of evil pac-men, they're ghosts. Stranger Article Tom Harpel's coldk photos Beans for Breakfast Blog has pics. Murmur Blog has more pics
Sun-Sep 12 2004
Pictures
![]() I've spotted quite a few of these around town. I don't know if they're evil Pac-Men or what. This one is by Seahawk Stadium. ![]() Capitol Hill ![]() U-district: this might be unrelated to the first two. ![]() Lemonade stand for Kerry ![]() Somebody doesn't get the concept.
Tue-Mar 09 2004
News Flash: High School still sucks
BELLEVUE (WA)-- Starting Monday, students are barred from wearing hats and hoods at Interlake High School, reinforcing a school prohibition against gang-related clothing. I'm obviously a stone original gangsta, because I wear both hat and hood. Of course I belong to the notorious Brotherhood of White Delivery Vans: We Are Everywhere. Why do we bother putting people in jail when all we need to do is take away their hats and hoodies and presto-law abiding citizen! Link Via Metafilter
Sat-Feb 07 2004
Tue-Dec 02 2003
Various Chuckleheads
![]() Here we have a buttmunch holding up about 5 cars while attempting to make an illegal turn across 2 lanes of busy traffic into a line of 10 cars waiting for a light. I really wish I was the car behind them so I could use my horn. ![]() This is classic. Not 1, not 2, but 3 cars parked in a load/unload zone while they busily load/unload what-lattes? Actually the last car in the line is parked in a bus stop. ![]() One of the things I miss about my last job was the ability to have non-customers towed out of our lot. The nicer the car, the better. This arrogant jerk hasn't even fed the meter. Oh yea, I miss having cars towed. |