SEATTLE

and while we're at it, why not talk about the great things in store?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/02/22/2003584174.jpg

thank you, norman foster!

It's not my city! This is my city:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/EdinburghFromCastle.jpg

But Seattle looks cool. We used to wonder (in 1991) if you could hear the grunge coming from Seattle from several miles out.

Seattle has a giant Kurt Cobain statue that straddles the I-90 floating bridge and ejaculates grunge onto lucky drivers.

ive gone through like 50 sets of windshield wipers

and while we're at it we might as well memorialize. this is getting knocked down, and not for anything good:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/pwright1/seattle2/seattle13/982beaa4.jpg

i don't know what that is

just a great apartment building on QA

wait where in qa?

on highland, across from kerry park. wait, that's like two blocks from you, isn't it?

yep. i've seen it before.

or you have esp

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4949/91vd4.jpg

watch seattle grow:

http://www.seattletimescompany.com/nwretailnews/images/Dean-Rutz_construction.jpg

i can't find a good image of the Washington Mutual / Seattle Art Museum building, also known as "my building" because i watched, from my office, as it grew from a mere elevator shaft into one of seattle's most striking buildings, and because i love it so much.

so instead here's a link to the "sam-cam," which is now just an archive, not an active webcam. if you're willing to make the effort, use the calendar and time selectors to go to june 1, 2006, 2:30 a.m., for one of my favorite images, not only of the building but of the city too.

http://oxblue.com/client/wamu-sam/

and here's a link to the four seasons hotel and residences webcam (actively being updated about every 20 minutes or so), which is being built across the street (towards the water) from the WAMU / SAM.

http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/

i wanted to post a rendering but suddenly i can't seem to do a proper google search, and it's really annoying me. j, if you can find one, will you please post it?

i took a good pic of your building (you were driving). i'll find it.

TS: hating PDFs vs. loving future transit maps

http://soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/st2/MAP_ST2plan_large.pdf

maps win.

and an article about it

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/313393_sound27.html

here's the best rendering for that 4 seasons. supposedly, when it's finished, it won't look nearly as good:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/Dancer-2/216168.jpg

here's a pretty faithful rendering of your building. i'm having trouble uploading my pictures so we'll take this for now

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/Dancer-2/445352.jpg

i'm loving this thread, having the links in one place and not buried in my email.

olive 8 webcam:

http://206.165.183.36/user/cgi-bin/view_S_t_uF.thtml

rendering:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/Dancer-2/Olive8atnight.jpg

your building, my picture:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/475373286_fcc3daa62d.jpg

THANKS!

yeah that's a great picture of my building; love it with that smokestack business in the foreground.

also, see why i love the viaduct?

TS: hating PDFs vs. loving future transit maps

i choose maps.

historic photos (not that historic-70s and 80s, but still)

http://www.cysewski.com/seattleweb/

the pictures in that link are something else! so weird to see seattle that way... maybe the b/w makes it seem more gritty and grim, but it's so difficult for me to imagine it looking like that. except, i guess, for some of the "industry" pictures.

also, really interesting to see the u.district looking much like i first saw it.

thanks for linking here. it's tops.

btw, the SAM expansion opens this weekend. have you been reading the press?

sinkhole madness at the university bridge! (thx to lx for the tip)

http://www.kirotv.com/2007/0502/13242395.jpg

The sinkhole swallowed two unoccupied cars.

it's alive!

kinda the same pic but...grittier.

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/M_IMAGE.11220589918.93.88.fa.d0.2d00b207.jpg

sinkhole = broken water main = low water pressure = coffee shortage in the u.district = TROUBLE!

i'm sure i would feel differently if it had affected me, but i have to lol a little bit at all the people trying to go south out of the u.district at 5 o'clock and the bridge still closed. because, come on, people. don't take montlake. take a different way. go to the 99. go to fremont. go to ballard if you have to. but montlake? of course that's going to take for fucking ever.

people in seattle are dumber than people in sf, i think. when that bridge burned in sf the other day they were expecting horrific backups and they never materialized. duh, take an alternate route! i think even with the orange DETOUR signs people would still try to take that bridge.

from what i observed this morning, yes: cars in the left lane on campus pkwy racing along towards the bridge, (past the ROAD CLOSED AHEAD signs) only to have to change lanes at the last second and then... what're you gonna do now, sucka? dumb-dumbs.

71, 72 and 73 buses are taking the freeway (olive to 45th). the 49 (formerly the 7) aren't coming to the u.d. at all. poor eastlakers are kinda screwed.

water cuts through our city both as a heartbeat and a heartstopper

nice. and true.

bridge reopened this afternoon.

Where has this thread been all my life? What is this 8090 business? WHERE AM I???

haha! welcome to our board, jaq!!

What is this shiny new land?? It's very cozy and peaceful here. May I apply for citizenship? I have skillz!

no application necessary. you are welcome!

This morning, I had the hi ho work song of the 7 dwarves from snow white stuck in my head. Mostly just Doc (or was it Grumpy) doing the hi ho call and the other dwarves doing the response. Maybe because of Hammmering Man: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/SAM.jpg

everybody report back on free museum weekend plz

lol museum is hueg

the centerpiece (frontpiece? The main exhibit, the gigantic one that takes up the majority of the first floor) exhibit was a pretty underwhelming dud, I thought. I feel like 7 automobiles hanging from the ceiling should have been more exciting somehow. Maybe something other than the tubes of lights would have been better? Also, the one fireworks-strapped car....couldn't they have done something less hokey with the footage of all the fireworks going off?

Lots of great stuff otherwise, though. My favorite was probably the aboriginal stuff (don't remember which countries). Loved the paintings, the giant mask in the corner, and the statue below it.

The only outdoors festivities I saw were the buskers at various locations and the super bouncy, permasmile jump-roping people who were making things fun for the people in line to the tune of kool & the gang - celebration.

I would liked to have gone in the evening hours, but i have to get up at 4 am-ish

Here I am, up before 2 am. We went to bed at 7 (it was a long day). Time for tea. Will report on the wee hours crowd later.

between all of your crazy hours and my time zone this is a 24 hour board

lol museum is hueg

lingbert otm x 8080. It's doubled at least, and the two lower floors are free (cafe, shop, auditorium, hands-on studio, music stage under tumbling cars. Cars are very meh. The 3:30 - 4 am crowd was smallish, but there were still lots of people there. mellow amped guitar dood played non-stop to keep people happy, Caffe Lladro and Starbucks were open. We got there at 3:30, got tix for 4 am, didn't think to try to get in early until stepson and friend showed up at 3:50 - they let us all right in, no waiting. Techno playing and dancing in the main gallery. Escalators now up to the 3rd and 4th floor spaces, as well as elevators. Most disturbing new acquisition: Untitled (Cheap to Feed) - a taxidermied dog (jack russell or wirehaired fox terrier) curled up as if asleep in a dark tan plastic chair. gold plated Brancusi bird. Most memorable room after a nap: 5 Asian restorations, with the fabulous crow screen that used to be at SAAM, a 13th century chinese richly colored scroll, the section of 72 foot long japanese deer poem scroll. 2 original woodblocks from Views of Mt. Fuji. The PNW artists gallery - lots of Mark Tobey's market scenes and Morris Graves. Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight have their own gallery. The Tiepolo ceiling has been moved into this overwhelmingly shiny new porcelain room. My happiest moment - realizing there weren't any huge blatant Chihuly's hanging around. Favoritest piece - an atypical John Singer Sargent portrait titled something like In the Olive Grove.

We didn't see everything, didn't get to the tea house, didn't find the Maori longhouse or jade, collapsed in the cafe around 5:30 am and had tea and frites w/ remoulade and some cheese/crackers, then gawked in the new shop. Home by 6:30 am, asleep by 7:30.

jaq, you were getting home just as i was leaving home. and LOL there were times on the tickets? i just blithely walked right in. no line at all when i got there, though... uncrowded till after 8:30 or so. no techno either; that sounds fun.

guys, i liked the cars! at least i did after i saw the video that accompanies the piece. i mean i'm not in love with it, but i think it works. i love that it's pedestrian (whatever, ford tauruses) and yet monumental (that thing takes up a lot of space, and there are cars inside the museum! a bunch of them! and they're hanging from the ceiling!). i think it's a good installation.

i love that j. lawrence and g. knight have a gallery.

that dog is FUCKED UP.

i spent most of my time in the modern rooms. i especially enjoyed the minimal room and the, what was it called? the room with the joseph bueys and the dog-tag chainmail? god my memory sucks. anyway, the northernmost part -- the new part -- of the third floor is my deal.

i was pretty done by the time i got to the aboriginal rooms, and basically raced through the rest of it. the william eggelston in the special exibition room was a treat (though not one of his more compelling pieces, to be sure), but that museum needs a lot more photography -- non-portrait photography, that is.

otm to the lack of monster chihuly bullshit.

there's a lot i didn't see BUT i took the opportunity to finally get my museum membership (birthday 2006 now officially concluded). so i can go back any time. and so can you, jergins. or anyone who wants to pose as jergins.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/486966309_b038cc48cb.jpg?v=0

kudos to the lusty lady for being a good neighbor, and kudos to the neighborhood for letting the lusty lady be. luv u, seattle.

here are a couple of different renderings of the four seasons, posted at the construction site:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/486966341_cb1eff37f1.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/486966365_dc3b95f9fe.jpg?v=0

yay membership! we got one too; good to share :) I also really liked the giant seascape by the german guy - and the one of the isolated house by the same guy. And the etruscan influenced greyhounds. I was trying to imagine dancing with some of those masks on my head. Would severely curtail my party endurance even further I think.

jaq, speaking of: i just left a voicemail for you, re. sunday night cocktails. it's going to be a SAM de-brief. call me!

lxy, how long were you at the museum?

ling bert, mmm... 2 or 2 1/2 hours, i guess. how long were you there?

jaq, re. your question last night about what most excited or enthused or affected me: i named the contemporary japanese artists (nara, murakami) that i was happy to see but neglected to mention in my "review" above, however what i forgot to talk about both here and in our conversation is this:

joseph cornell! i love him, and i was so happy to see his work in person for the first time!

our quarter was released last week! i just saw it for the first time today.

http://www.usmint.gov/images/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/WA_winner.gif

I didn't see the Joseph Cornell and so now I have to go back.

What is that business down by the fish's tail? A fly-fisher on the shore?

herschel?

GIS I love you (searching for the other proposed WA quarters and i found this)

http://www.magicalrabbit.com/ebay/Gin_and_Tonic.jpg

the tunnel boring machine breaks through, completing the first of two link light rail tunnels under beacon hill:

http://www.king5.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=142029&shu=1

Tunnel boring pron! White spurting drilling stuff!

They are planting plants along the tracks down by us. I don't want it to sit idle until 2009; there should be short route mule-drawn trams! Take me 3 blocks, up to Othello, to the Safeway and the bank.

boys and their construction toys.

word is it'll open 3-6 months early, so that's something.

http://www.slate.com/id/2166300/

not necessarily a recommendation:

University District Street Fair this weekend

you love it

Hm. No market this morning due to street fair :( But we can go to the Columbia City one on Wednesday night.

The Seattle Cheese Festival is today and tomorrow, down at Pike Place Market. I don't know that we'll go. I had got tix for the cheese nun doco at the art museum for Fri afternoon, but Mr. Jaq had a late running phone interview so we didn't go. (He got the job though, yay!)

congratulations to mr. jaq!

look and this monster. damn. 44 stories at 8th and Pine.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/MetroGuy03/AVA.jpg

kinda fun:

http://www.urbancondominiums.com/

click on CITYSCAPE 2010 at the top. it'll popup for a flyover video thingee.

ghost buildings

ghost boxes

they managed to save first united methodist and are planning to put a skinny tower next to it. it may look something like this:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070530/450Church31_Proposed_Massing_with.1.jpg

Escala webcam (I can never seem to get these to work in Firefox):

http://75.160.106.198/user/cgi-bin/view_S_t_uF.thtml

i'd always wondered why the routing of the future LRT line through the u-district didn't go under campus:

Sound Transit moved its tunnel east from Portage Bay to the Montlake Cut, where the soil is more stable; and it agreed to a winding tunnel around the east edge of campus in a future phase, instead of a direct line that could pose vibration risks to UW science labs.

That Escala webcam is cool... live action!

we have to go to the showroom

I've been thinking that the Columbia Tower needs a counterpoint. It takes up too much mental space on the skyline. Something like the Chicago Spire:

http://www.djc.com/special/cmarket2003/BankOfAmerica.jpg http://archrecord.construction.com/news/images/070420calatrava1.jpg

(though they look evenly matched the chicago spire will be about 2x as tall when completed. but you get what i'm saying)

like WOW:

http://aycu27.webshots.com/image/17306/2001440139253023649_rs.jpg

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/320011_landsale16.html

exciting!

what will become of it?

http://www.see-seattle.com/odyssey-carwash.jpg

big day 7-8-7

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Boeing_787_crop.jpg

Marilynne Robinson is giving a free public lecture at 7 pm on 8/15 at the Henry. Spotting the announcement in the Sunday paper gave me giddy fan-girl palpitations!

And, I wondered, is this part of D4n's summer UW series?

it is part of that, as a matter of fact. good call, jaq!

UW / Sound Transit agreement

not exactly seattle but,

tacoma got a new bridge today:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/825215561_99bb2a613d.jpg?v=0

it's very beautiful:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/826125314_5950a410d0.jpg?v=0

Dear Faculty and Staff:

I am writing to congratulate you for helping the University reach a remarkable milestone. This week, the University is announcing that for the first time, total annual funding for sponsored research exceeded $1 billion. These results are for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007, and they include funding for research from the federal government and from private sources like foundations and corporations. Funding from the federal government comprises nearly 80 percent of this total. As you may know, the University of Washington has been the top recipient of federal funds among public universities every year since 1974. It has been in the top five for both public and private universities every year since 1969, and in recent years has been second only to Johns Hopkins.

Yet even with this incredible track record, this year marks the first time our total funding for research has topped a billion dollars.

This is an extraordinary accomplishment at any time, but especially now when federal funding is flat. It is due, of course, to all of you who participate in the University's research enterprise and who work so hard to garner funding for sponsored research. It is, in my view, the single most telling fact about the quality of the people who work here.

Competing so successfully at this level is truly an amazing feat, and I want to thank the many thousands of you who play a role and participate in our research for helping us reach this milestone.

Congratulations to everyone. You should all take great pride in being a part of this exceptional record of success.

Sincerely,

Mark A. Emmert
President

Seattle in the banner today

oh btw good work uw

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/31.jpg

(cuz it looks so good)

http://kasei.us/archives/roadtrip-blue_angels.jpg

since i've been giving portland bars props lately, i figure i should at least give ups to one of my favorite bars in seawa:

http://static.flickr.com/138/406363242_585656a22f.jpg

check out this route map for flights from seattle:

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z41/connorc14/sea2.gif

it gives you a good idea of why the flights to/from europe go so far north

AVA (something i like about this one)

http://www.image-upload.net/files/7450/AVAm2.JPG

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/M_IMAGE.11432118fbd.93.88.fa.d0.2dfc0d74.jpg

what is it picture of, please?

oh nevermind, i see it on the other thread. that's great.

there's a sudden explosion of outdoor movies this year, innit?

yeah, totally. used to be just fremont, eh?

seattle's only saltwater pool

hello bank of china knock off in downtown seattle i love u

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/586/5thandcolumbiagb2.jpg

http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/ and click time lapse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood_Rock

HEY! nice find!

how crazy crazy wonderful is this???
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/09/17/2003889458.jpg

omg do we live in a real city now? almost?

almost

i've been watching the live streaming webcast of Replica, which is part of the 2nd phase of motel. it is really boring.

nevertheless i love this project and i'm looking forward to the joy of painting tomorrow. it sounds cute.

and to hello from MOTEL on friday. because i am going to get a postcard out of it. written just for me. from the motel.

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z40/buddyrough69/1903fifth2.jpg

(proposed, heron tower, on 5th across from the westin)

4 Seasons http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/, Olive 8 http://216.163.80.83:8080/webcam.html, 1521 2nd http://www.1521progress.com/webcam_live.php, Enso http://sellen.oxblue.com/1/, Rollins Street http://vulcan.oxblue.com/rollins/, Veer Lofts http://vulcan.oxblue.com/veer/, and Swedish Orthopedic Building http://sellen.oxblue.com/soi/. And in Bellevue: Bellevue Towers http://www.bellevuetowers.com/and the Bravern http://68.178.124.204/index.html?size=1&mode=2.

we gotta go to this
http://www.seattlearchitecture.org/exhibits.cfm

i am loving november's balmy nights

shooting at sugar

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/11/Photo-0295.jpg

The Crocodile is closing. sad but okay. its course had been run, years ago.

Central Link Light Rail Update 12-26

http://blog.carlessinseattle.us/

kinda sexi midrise for SLUhttp://www.djc.com/stories/images/20080111/YaleRendering_web.jpg

a streetcar plan

i don't understand this (from carless in seattle blog).

"Excess demand for roadways during peak hours is the real problem, to which congestion is the most feasible solution."

i guess they're trying to say that the options for congestion are to build more roadways, increase mass transit options, or let people sit. considering the stupidty of the first and the cost of the second, this person is, i guess, arguing that letting people sit in traffic is the best option.

CHAKI HAS RECOMMENDATION:

my nephew's black metal band is opening up for wolves in the throne room in seattle. you should go see him!

-- chaki, Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:18 PM (Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:18 PM) Bookmark Link

HUB renovation check out scheme C

wow! i say let's go platinum!

link light rail at night

new campus housing proposed

A new angle on Seattle's skyline

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k199/blackc5photos/8115th.jpg

http://www.soundviewaerial.com/

there are lots of great ones ^^ but the kingdome going down is my favorite:

http://www.soundviewaerial.com/gallery/arenas/a-01.jpg

http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/

The Stranger's Seattle photo of the day, worth a look

http://crosscut.com/images/managed/Story+Image_flickr_2287175967.jpg

The Trophy Building wow

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/02/trophy_tower_rendering.jpg

well i just did something i never do: take a walk without a destination in mind. i ended up walking down 4th, past Escala, and got this shot:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2329996216_8ef799e5e5.jpg

then walked to westlake and took the monorail back. good for me.

well then!

there's already none at mccaw

From HFS Director:

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Washington State Recycling Association has selected the University of Washington, Department of Housing and Food Services as the winner of the 2008 Washington State Recycler of the Year (ROY) award in the category Institution of Higher Learning. This recognition is the result of a lot of hard work by HFS staff and students, including members of Students Expressing Environmental Dedication (SEED), a UW residence hall environmental group. Our success has also depended on our customers; students, faculty, and staff, who are willing to follow our recycling and composting suggestions. HFS will receive the award at the 28th Annual Washington State Recycling Conference and Trade Show, May 18-21, 2008, in Pasco, Washington. Keep up the great work!

seattle and bellevue aerial pictures

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4540/210890736dded69ca00bdx3.jpg

buncha buncha good news from http://seatrans.blogspot.com/

Most of the rail is completed for Airport Link except along the roadway and at the final station. This is planned to be completed by this Summer. Wire installation of the entire route will be completed by the Summer of 2008. Beacon Hill Station building will start construction later this Summer with the structure being completed by the end of the year.

Sound Transit has put in an order for 20 additional LRV's for University Link. This will be the third order and will be delivered in 2013. Sound Transit currently has 21 LRV's on the property, leaving 14 of the initial order remaining which are all in Everett now for assembly.

Link operators are running 16 hour shifts, starting between 6am and going until at least midnight to get people accustomed to day and night operations. Metro staff will start training in February 2009.

Starting later this week or two, Metro and Sound Transit will begin bus and Light-Rail testing in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel. This will consist of 1 LRV and 6 buses. Next week will be 2 LRV's and 12 buses. They will simulate a broken down bus, broken down LRV, emergency drills, etc, which will all be repeated in Feb-Mar for Metro operators.

Sound Transit is aiming for a JUNE 2009 opening though it may very well be July 2009. Either way, it will be a Summer launch.

Signaling along MLK Way will be timed with the train and traffic. At any given time, the E-W traffic will be delayed no more than 35 seconds, a typical light on MLK Way. Currently the grade crossing is timed for 23 seconds at Lander and Holgate Street. I timed both of these crossings today. This model is NOT the same as the South Lake Union Streetcar, the Streetcar does NOT have signal priority on any of it's travel. It waits for it's own light which is why it suffers being so slow. Central Link will have signal priority throughout the entire line and will travel at 40mph through the entire corridor. From Henderson Street Station, Link will travel at speeds up to 50mph and it's maximum speed of 55mph on the elevated sections. Link also runs in a dedicated right-of-way and while it is paved over to Henderson, that does not mean vehicles will be on the tracks. Provisioning was left to allow a low yield fence along the right-of-way if pedestrian and vehicle incidents were to be expected.

Total travel time from Sea-Tac Airport to Westlake Mall is slated to be 39 minutes initially and as adjustments are made, will be down to as fast as 34 minutes.

Sound Transit is planning on operating 3 to 4 car trains during the baseball and football seasons, normal runs will be 1 and 2 car trains.

Sound Transit will be closing Pine Street next year to start boring on University Link. Two of the tunnel boring machines will start at Montlake to Capitol Hill, the third will start at Capitol Hill to the Pine Street Stub Tunnel. Sound Transit has most of the properly bought and will begin demolition early next year for construction staging.

Sound Transit will have Mukilteo Station open in June 2008 with the Northbound platform starting after BNSF Railway finishes up construction for Boeing. Platform construction is scheduled to start in 2009 and open in June 2009.

Today’s puzzler: where in Seattle is this magnificent pile of concrete located?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2072/2346770862_76ee9a56f4_m.jpg

good seattle picture

worthwhile pictures of georgetown
http://buildllc.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/better-know-a-neighborhood-georgetown-seattle/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2472591699_f38803cb0a.jpg

possible expanded streetcar network

i like it all except the ballard-west seattle route. that one needs to be light rail.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/2468889163_ce598bf6d4_m.jpg

yowza!

Northwest Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service between Seattle and Beijing

http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/images/Waterfront_1925.jpg

1925 btw

light rail got power today!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2486421771_992a56513c_o.jpg

^university bridge btw

ayo seattlers ... lxy's suggesting a visit down your way, which sounds like an a++ idea. do you guys fancy drinks and excitement anytime june 13-18?

that would be great! i just looked at my calendar for those dates and the only the i've got going is work, a few of those days (to be expected though). fun fun.

yes yes yes plz how wonderful!!

awesome! I will start making mi plans.

we have a couple of guest rooms so please count on staying with us if desirable and convenient, stet.

how perfect that the song 'happy house' is playing as i type.

stet can we complain about ilx problems to you the whole time you're here?

we're not going to talk about ilx

Museum Director Is Found Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/16arts-MUSEUMDIRECT_BRF.html?ref=arts

Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Published: May 16, 2008

The 62-year-old American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a detention center in Seattle, The Associated Press reported. The woman, Roxanna Brown, died early Wednesday, apparently of natural causes. Maggie Ogden, a prison spokeswoman, said an autopsy would be performed. Ms. Brown, director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, was arrested last week while visiting relatives in Seattle and charged with a single count of wire fraud. Health problems kept her from appearing in federal court in Seattle on Monday. She was accused of allowing art collectors to use her electronic signature to overstate the value of art they donated to museums in Southern California. Investigators said that procedure allowed the collectors to claim fraudulent tax deductions.

http://seattlecondosandlofts.com/2008/05/stadium-lofts-new-look

http://seattlecondosandlofts.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/stadiumdlofts_new.png http://seattlecondosandlofts.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/stadium-lofts-corner.png

http://www.vintageseattle.org/

Lingy you know i'll get drunk on seattle beer and you guys will have to take the keys to ilx off me for everybody's good and then we'll wake up having replaced every post since 2001 with "lol".

ha

yet another worthwhile slideshow, this one for the wing luke museum, a recently reopened pan-asian art museum in the ID.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/30/arts/wing500.jpg

the keys to ilx

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HEY STET,

are you coming here?

your friend,

jp

GOODBYE BROADWAY TACO BELL

HEY STET,

are you coming here?

your friend,

jp

-- jergins, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 3:48 PM (Tuesday, June 3, 2008 3:48 PM) Bookmark Link

PLEASE DO

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But Cunningham is not just any campus building. Constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, it is celebrating its centennial next year. It was the site of the state's first Suffragette activity and today is the only designated "women's building" in the state.

and it's going to be moved

i prefer "ladies' building" but ok

restaurant review of greenwood between 85th and 87th

http://www.wherearesueandmike.com/uploaded_images/DSCN1561-753607.JPG
they're here and goddamn those bastards are loud

I LOVE THEM it is my jingo mo

they're back. they just did this:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cgibeF1N4eaX/610x.jpg

and this:
http://frenchgilles.members.winisp.net/blog/BlueAngels/BlueAngels.JPG

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008091508_webcroc05.html

There's new hope, Crocodile Cafe mourners: Marcus and Sheila Charles have applied for the liquor license attached to the beloved club, and the approval process is under way.

The Croc, at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street in Belltown, closed suddenly in December. It was Seattle's best and most famous rock club. Marcus Charles owns the Bad Juju, a bar on the same block.

welcome back? they gotta change the layout. and yeah maybe most famous but best? hell no

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/seattle.jpg

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/acrossfromcinerama.jpg

Another 400-foot residential tower has been proposed in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.

This one, on Fourth Avenue between Lenora and Blanchard streets, may feature something different: In what its backers call a "cultural response" to its next-door neighbor, the restored Cinerama Theatre, the project would include a "large-scale outdoor projection movie theater" on the roof.

o monorail

wha happen

the red one broke

pos

i think the blue one is already in the shop so

it's a good think i like my winter clothes since it's already winter clothes weather

http://www.vintageseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/koskimo_01.jpg
http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/08/22/a-dangerous-thing-1914/

# Calandra wrote:
August 22nd, 2008 @ 7:45 am

What a great photo! I work at the Seattle Art Museum, and we’ll be opening a Pacific Coast Salish Art show in October that features a number of Curtis’ images. If you enjoy this one, you should really come check it out!

loooooooooove native coastal art. we should all go.

i will go to this. it will be something nice to do when the weather is shittier than it is now.

also, i have decided that at some point during the winter, i am going to the goldmyer hot springs http://www.goldmyer.org/

it will be a good motivation to get outdoors.

i will take the virtual tour

the bank of america tower is the 51st tallest building in the world

oh bummer for not making the top 50

tallest west of the mississippi when built. once one of the 20 tallest buildings in the world

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...a world with a disco ball that spun lights throughout the huge performance hall. When we came out of the hall into the rain, I felt I was almost staggering, drunk with beauty. And then I heard the sound of a tuba. A man in a sodden, red and white Cat-in-the-Hat hat was husking in the rain. He was terrible. Couldn't even recognize the tune. I put my change in his bucket, next to the dollar already there. He stopped to say thank you and played on.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2211/1803056066_3c52cf4f95.jpg

i've thought for a while that i want to explore the Duwamish and this seems like a good primer:
http://seattlest.com/2008/10/17/life_on_the_duwamish.php

map here:

http://www.duwamishcleanup.org/uploads/MapOrderForm.pdf

port of seattle parks resource:

http://www.portseattle.org/community/resources/parks/index.shtml

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/10/menacing_poster.jpg

NOW

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2972655982_c639ceae1d.jpg

NICE

4 those of you who don't know, that's our front yard. notice how nicely trimmed it is.

thank you, waste management:

Starting March 30, 2009, Seattle will add new recycling services, including:

*Weekly food and yard wast collection for all households.
*Subscribers will be able to put leftover meat and dairy in their carts.
*Glass bottles and jars will go in your recycling cart - no more sorting into a separate container!
*More plastics will be recycled, including cups and take-out containers.
*Special curbside electronics and used motor oil collection.
*New low-emission garbage and recycling trucks will dramatically reduce key pollutants in neighborhoods.

(about a year ago wm implemented a program to allow non-meat and non-dairy food waste and food-soiled paper in the yard waste bin. we hardly have any garbage now. with these new services, plus the banning of styrofoam containers which will go into effect in january, we could consider getting rid of the garbage can entirely.)

!!!

what would still need to be thrown away? some plastic?

can't recycle or compost garbage from the bathroom, and yeah some plastic probably. definitely we can downgrade to the smallest size garbage can. but we could do that already if somebody got around to calling.

somebody = me

http://www.soundtransit.org/x78.xml?curID=x9880
http://www.soundtransit.org/images/newsroom/photos/2008/20081107_duwamish.jpg
Blue Duwamish

Earlier this week, the recently installed artwork on the Link light rail elevated guideway over the Duwamish River was turned on. The artwork is a series of steel "ribs" that include clear plastic tubes filled with blue LEDs (light-emitting-diode) lights. The lights will turn on just before a light rail train crosses the Duwamish, and turn off soon after it passes. The Blue Duwamish artists are Dan Corson and Norie Sato. (photo by Dan Corson)

http://seattletransitblog.com/2008/11/17/new-look-pioneer-square-station/

<3

0:27 saw Nirvana in that crappy building
0:58 they painted it grey/brown. weak

did i ever tell you guys about when i was 15 and i went to seattle and i wanted to see kurt cobain's house and so my dad dropped my sister and i off to walk around and look for it but we never found it and so we left. then later, there was a shot of it on 'unsolved mysteries' and my dad said 'oh hey! that's the driveway we turned around in when you guys were walking around!'

good news today from the stb

Seattle’s City Council approved a streetcar expansion plan in a 4 to 2 vote today by the council’s transportation committee. Four lines in total were approved, the First Hill Line, the Central Line, a Ballard line and a University District Line. The two streetcar lines fast-tracked are the First Hill Line, which has had $120 million in funding approved as part of ST2 that passed last month, and the Central Line, which is meant to be a part of viaduct construction mitigation. The Central Line will replace the defunct Waterfront Streetcar line, which will be finally removed during viaduct construction.

The First Hill line would run from the Pioneer Square or ID tunnel station up Jackson to around Broadway, turn north and follow Broadway up to either John or Aloha. The Central Line would follow First Ave from the Pioneer Square station to about Mercer street. Neither alignment is fixed, and there are groups pushing to change both plans. Some in First Hill want that line moved further west, since it was meant as a replacement for a First Hill subway station, and some along First Avenue don’t like that alignment for the Central Line, believing it would worsen traffic and remove parking along the street.

The vote also approved an extension of the SLU line on Eastlake to the University District, and a line to Ballard either on 15th Avenue or along Westlake through Fremont. Those two lines are not fast tracked. It’s worth noting that there is no funding for either of these lines, and that funding for the Central Line as part of the viaduct replacement is not definite.

Since these routes can be built pretty quickly, both the Central Line and the First Hill line could open by 2012 or possibly sooner. Many in the city want the First Hill line to open much sooner than the funding is scheduled to come on line from ST2 - which allocates funding for the line around 2016 -since construction on the Capitol Hill station is going to disrupt life on Broadway, and bringing the streetcar there could make life a little easier. Final engineering for the First Hill line should be done by February 2009.

crosscut has a good rundown of how the viaduct might play out:

http://crosscut.com/2008/12/11/alaskan-way-viaduct/18703/

looks like surface/transit + maybe a tunnel and tolls. seems like an ok way to go.

rat city roller derby is skating at the key arena next season i'm gonna hook us up with tickets

lol @ fashion here at the theater:

flowy white dress + leather jacket
utilikilt (to show off the tats?)

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those colors!

jergins are you going to go to city console next week and ask why wasn't the snow not plowed

city hall. would this building make you more or less likely to go in?
http://buildllc.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/city-hall_05.jpg

where is the fountain that is a wall that you walk through? i went there once. maybe i will find the lol15yearold picture when i am home for christmastime.

i wouldn't want to go in that building even though i am a fan of ugly buildings. what's that penis building in the background?

The Seattle Municipal Tower is a 62-story skyscraper located at 700 5th Avenue at the corner of 5th Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle. Rising to a height of 220 meters (722 feet)[1], it is the fourth tallest high-rise building in Seattle.

along interbay
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0029.jpg

i would totally go into that city hall and also i would go to that baby bar on interbay.

coupla inches fucking with commutes today! so pretty though.

look who walked four miles to work.

got good pix though

articulated bus at 63rd and woodlawn
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aurora bridge
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nice work (both walking and pix).

i bussed both ways with no trouble, just a long wait for the 44 both ways.

better pictures to come

i drove around today. drove up to mountlake terrace in the morning. it was truly fun. some of the xmas songs i had playing sounded perfect. i listened to "if we make it through december" 3 times. i was later listening to a bollywood comp, and Asha Bhosle - In Aankhon Ki Masti meshed so well with the snow and snowfall. it was a pleasing moment.

the only shitty part is parking. parking on hills is a ball sack.

i love these pictures

thanks!
aurora motel assortment pack
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motel pack would make grebt postcards

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alien captured on camera:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3120901948_8dc50054d1.jpg?v=0

22.1 on the porch guys

it's on the other thread but we gotta catalogue it here
over i 5, the main highway
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http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_121908WXB_bus_hangs_over_I-5_TP.7ba7cab9.html

http://i41.tinypic.com/2lu5jdl.jpg

giant headline this morning:

IT'S TIME TO START PRAYING!

i was all WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY PREDICTING ARMAGEDDON NOW?! but then i realized it was a quote from one of the people on that bus.

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is that our young tza downtown?

1997!

nice. that was the fountain i was thinking of.

lingbert did u hit the town for new year's?

went to a dinner with a friend at her friend's place. it was crabs and steak and salad. i remembered why i never eat crab. what a fucking huge hassle for the smallest of payoffs. then went back to her place and hung out with her bro and his gf. then we walked up to a party another friend of hers was throwing in some tea bar kinda near chop suey. i went to bed late. i thought i set my alarm but apparently not because my supervisor woke me up 30 min after my shift was supposed to start and wanted to know if i was still coming in. oops.

oh the party at the tea room was a masquerade ball theme and had techno djs playing. i didn't know about the theme before going out though. so i just masqueraded as a someone.

i approve of your crab policy, it's identical to mine.

did people guess who you were?
xpost

the majority of the people there didn't acknowledge my existence, but they were probably thinking hmm i wonder who that special someone is

the P-I is likely to shut in the next few months

:-(

i hate their dance critic-dude is a straightup dick-but that's small consolation.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/facts/

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the oldest morning newspaper in the state of Washington and has a following throughout the Northwest. It has been "The Voice of the Northwest since 1863."

will probably cry if/when this goes dark:

http://www.g1sat.com/images/sce/Seattle_PI_globe.jpg

themediaisdying SEATTLE PI has lost 14 from the newsroom (39 employees laid off in total). less than 10 seconds ago from TweetDeck

themediaisdying The SEATTLE-PI has been put up for sale. If it doesn't sell in 60 days, it will become web only or fold. 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck

this link is somewhere upthread but it's worth a repost because whoever does this seems to be constantly uploading photos. page 1 isn't much today but there are a bunch of great alaska-pacific expo pix on page 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/

insight into how the story broke at the PI
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/10/_please_join_me_in_the_newsroo

from http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/washington/seattle/safeco/07-04-08/index.htm
love a double exposure
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not my pic
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The University of Washington has taken the drastic step of closing its doors to new students who want to start classes this spring.

The move, which applies only at the main Seattle campus, comes in response to budget cuts and overenrollment -- both driven by an ailing economy.

see u in march!

hey great!

setting up lunch meeting w/ that opera co! weee!

THE TOWER

first, the P-I
The best decoration for a high-rise is built in, not tacked on. It grows out of a bold, intriguing and thoughtfully detailed sculptural form. The Columbia Center still may be Seattle's best skyscraper simply because it's so strong: No other building expresses attitude, ambition and power so nakedly.

and then, the stranger:

Let's remove The Columbia Tower out of the mud of Cheek's doubt by saying this with no hesitation: It is the best skyscraper in Seattle. And this is so not only because of what it expresses ("attitude, ambition and power") but also because it facilitates cognitive mapping over the widest area. The tower can be seen from my mother's grave in the hills above Renton, and from the east side of Vashon Island, and from the Ave in the University District, and from a considerable length of Aurora Avenue. Its orienting power helps make the city readable and your place in it understandable. It connects you to the center of things—a center that radiates from this one and sure point. When you see it from Magnolia Park or Rainier Avenue or on I-5 not long after passing the exit to the airport, you feel as if you are one of many beings and buildings orbiting this core. And that feeling of being a person in an urban system is the same great feeling of being a planet in a solar system.

tehresa what will you do in seattle

things i would like to do in seattle:
prev. mentioned meeting w/ opera ppl
go see opera
meet lots of ilxors
ride a ferry
sightsee
wander
develop a feel for city
visit portland*

feel free to recommend good things!

*not actually in seattle

eat food, drink booze

hey lxy look at this there is an 18th floor garden up on your building and these are the pictures

we never talked about the 99 replacement tunnel announcement last week

that part where it goes through the tunnel wall is kind of scary

xox garden on my building xox

they call it the back yard = cutie

an artist's rendering of what seattle might look like in the future. from 1914:
http://www.vintageseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/seattle_2014_01.jpg

NO CARS!

haha that's exactly what the stranger pointed out

nice shot from golden gardens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icantshoot/3286185163/sizes/l/in/pool-52240892586@N01/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3219979837_a3d5b68e55.jpg

wow, didn't know the weyerhauser headquarters, which i've always admired from the 5, was designed by skidmore, owings & merrill

http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0110/images/11247_image_6.150.jpg

hooverville caught fire this morning

is it okay?

i guess the fire's out. the place didn't burn down completely. maybe we should swing by this evening and look @ the damage.

i hope the twilight zone is ok

my first thought!

maybe it's been dragged out to the sidewalk and we can "salvage" it

double rainbow over shilshole

Building toward a stronger economy...
University Link Groundbreaking
Join us Friday, March 6,
2 p.m.

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ahaa now i can see the t

hey hey
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/23/daily26.html
Icelandair will begin flying four direct flights a week from Iceland to Seattle beginning July 22.

Flights from Reykjavik will be on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and flights from Seattle will be on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

LET'S GO!

http://www.draplin.com/pics/040709_get_on_top.jpg

http://www.central-cinema.com/

it looks fun. do you want to see l.a. confidential and have some pizza?

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/starbucksbuilding.jpg

http://www.thekolstrandbuilding.com/Kolstrand_Flash/index.html

http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/05/04/tangerine-thai-opens-next-to-phinney-market/

finally!

let's go!!

http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/05/04/food-health-inspection-violations-in-neighborhood/
Any Red Critical violations are handled on the spot, with the inspector teaching the restaurant’s manager the proper procedures. Here are three recent bad inspections from the neighborhood:

Red Mill got tagged with 65 points of Red Critical violations on March 26, including hands not washed as required, improper methods used to prevent bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods, and improper cooking and temperature of potentially hazardous foods.

Pete’s Egg Nest received 65 points of Red Critical violations on April 21, including hands not washed as required, improper cold holding temperatures, and improper handling of pooled eggs.

El Chupacabra got hit with a combined 53 points from Red Critical and Blue Critical violations on April 21, including hands not washed as required, and garbage not properly disposed.

An inspection with 45 Red Critical points requires a re-inspection within 14 days; 90 RC points would shut the place down. A combination of 120 Red and Blue Critical points also would require a shutdown.

this is interesting
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/28/asphalt-alchemy-converting-streets-into-parks
The city is considering a new plan for parks: Rather than purchasing expensive private parcels of land, some of which remain as parking lots for years without funding to complete parks, the city would save money by converting streets, which the city already owns. Tonight, the parks department’s board of commissioners will hear a plan to tear up five blocks of Bell Street, between First and Fifth Avenues, whittling traffic down to one lane, and replacing the other lanes with lawns, trees, shrubs, and the like.

The project would create about 17,000 square feet of green space, says Donald Harris, the parks department’s Property and Acquisition Services Manager. "Given the high cost of land in the downtown area, more creative ways of providing park space need to be found, particularly taking advantage of already owned City infrastructure," he wrote in a letter to the parks board of commissioners on May 20. Recent purchases of private land for parks, he notes, have cost the city from $300 to $350 per square foot. By that metric, a project of this size on a city street would save about $5 million in land costs. The city would also realize savings by coinciding park construction with work by Seattle City Light, which needs to replace electrical utilities on Bell Street, and by partnering with developers, who were planning to spend money on street improvements on Bell Street anyway. The project would cost about $2.5 million, funded by last November’s pro-parks levy.

that sounds awesome. i love that part of town, why not make it even better?!

a worthwhile voice in seattle has burned out. aww, but i also understand. worth reading for a quote from a novel that i will buy:

http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2009/05/28/gone-fishin/

that post gets two wows

is there breaking news in north seattle? 3 helicopters just raced over the house in quick succession.

more helicopters. lots of them.

nothing on 4 or 5 news though, and it seems 7 doesn't exist any more.

"no signal" "invalid channel"

also i don't know how to search on the internet for shit like this.

i think i'm not built to be a news hound

BUT i turned the tv on this time!

it's hot here, shit

thunder up here right now and it has cooled down

paul constant of the stranger re: light rail

I was surprised by how scenic the light rail was. Granted, it was a gorgeous day and you could see for miles anyway; the views of Mount Rainier were amazing. But the view of downtown, too, was at an angle I'd never seen before—from high above Sodo—and Seattle looks really grand from that side. But there are some moments once the train passes through Beacon Hill* where all you can see are trees all around and it feels like you're taking a train to the wilderness, and I expect those moments are only going to get eerier and better once the rain and gloom comes back.

I can't wait for the light rail to extend further north—I can't wait for more streetcars, either—but I'm glad it's going south first. Seattle's always been a north-minded city, and the light rail calls attention to some under-recognized neighborhoods. It's also going to be a drastic change for some residents: Somewhere near the end of the line, the train passed over a couple who were frolicking, naked, in their backyard pool.

The Beacon Hill station is probably my favorite; it feels like a real subway station, and its dark, cool blue is an uncommon color for public transit. It appeals to the depressing, depressed Seattleite in me.

this looks pretty decent! and answers a question we'd had
http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/07/25/city-approves-of-new-fire-station-21-design/

i didn't know till just now that cesar pelli, architect of the petronas towers, designed the physics-astronomy building (1994) on the uw campus. neat.

about cornish dorms, interesting
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/07/31/theyll-leave-the-light-on-for-you

this i think is neat, haven't quite figured the "real time" part, but the "explore" could be handy

http://onebusaway.org/index.html

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/252/top-10-greenest-universities.html

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200909/coolschools/default.aspx

hell of cool!

jesus wtf:

On September 5, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., a female UW student was on her way to the UW vs. LSU football game walking alone in parking area E-9 on the north side of Husky Stadium. She was pushed to the ground by two unknown males in their 20's, who then took the victim's football ticket from her rear pocket. Both suspects fled toward the North Plaza entrance to Husky Stadium and entered the facility. Responding Officers were unable to locate the suspects among the crowd. Fortunately, the victim did not sustain serious injury.

Seattle named #1 "City of the Future," there's a picture of a goat eating brambles

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/249/top-10-u-s-cities-of-the-future.html

On Sept. 28, students were extended the option of swapping their archaic WebPine or Web Alpine services for systems offered by providers Microsoft and Google.

...

The extra storage is a colossal upgrade from the skeletal in-house system count of 300 megabytes. With Microsoft’s system, 10 gigabytes are available to fill with messages and photos, and more than seven gigabytes amp the Google inbox.

Plus, with UW Windows Live Mail, users receive Outlook Live — the latest version of exchange e-mail — integrated messaging, Windows Live Spaces — an online work space ideal for collaborations with class groups and photo sharing — and SkyDrive, 25 gigabytes of online file storage. Google wrapped their application suite in the UW logo, extending Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk to students.

my question is when will staff be able to choose gmail

uw film archives:

2 minutes with an artist: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=52699
1 minute about salmon: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=52517
2 minutes of trash cans: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=52297

3 minutes of chemicals in a lake: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=53184

The UW will be the first educational institution to provide campus information on BlackBerry hand-held devices.

2 minutes of arson investigation: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=53319

2 minutes of highway research: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=53509

from phinneywood:

Michael reminds us that it’s the 20th anniversary of the John Cusack classic “Say Anything,” with two key scenes filmed right here on Phinney Ridge at the 7-11 and the adjacent Woodland Park by the zoo’s north entrance.

i did not know that!

eleanor roosevelt building, aka taproot theater

no more, lame

http://www.phinneywood.com/images/Eleanor_Roosevelt_bldg_demolished.jpg

strong language from uw's president emmert:

"The proposed budget is by any measure a train wreck for the state...."

this kinda fucking freaks me the fuck out:

At approximately 5:15 p.m., a female student waiting at a bus stop at University Way, N.E. and N.E. 42nd Street was checking the bus schedule on her iPhone when a male suspect slapped it from her hand, picked it up, and fled on foot in a southerly direction with two other males. The victim was not injured in this incident.

cuz, you know, that's right there. and i do that. at that time. all the time.

and i've thought about how that could happen. wtf.

maybe i should get my name off the UW alerts list; they make me worry too much, i think.

Starting Monday a part of the Burke Gilman Trail across from Hec Edmondson Pavilion will be closed, signaling the start of construction of the long-awaited Sound Transit light-rail station.

The closure, which will last 18 days, until Jan. 3, is the beginning of 6 1/2 years of construction activities near Husky Stadium to build a Sound Transit light rail station and install a 3.1 mile underground tunnel connecting the UW to Capitol Hill. When the station and tunnel open in 2016, Sound Transit projects that 27,000 riders will pass through the UW station each weekday.

full article here: http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?id=54255

http://www.humantransit.org/2010/01/a-carbonneutral-seattle.html

http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/profiles/university-washington/

about our new buildings:

http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=55443

many lols resulted from this unfortunate phrasing in the article linked above:

And we found a huge population of students who live off campus who would like to live on campus if the right project was available at the right price.

the temporary naming committee need not meet, because we've already come up with a good list:

the ghetto
the projects
el barrio
shantytown
hooverville

i like 35w with the interior courtyard, very euro

i see now how 31w works with that small lot we were conjecturing about last night: the alley extends through and two smaller buildings sprout up

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seattlesketcher/2011184707_green_alleys.html?

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-americas-most-diverse-zip-code-shows-the-way/19414386

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/dining/06unit.html?pagewanted=1

"This isn't Dallas."

http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/best-cities-2010-seattle-wash.html

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/spaceneedle.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xlmzo5uqA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.flickr.com/groups/seattlestreetart/

neato pix of the space needle being built
http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/07/06/world%E2%80%99s-fair-sliding-pt-3/

that IS flushing awesome.

I LOVE IT

baltimore does not care enough for me to even know that was an issue. hair? no flushing hair?

new york thinks it's talking about a place where they play tennis

I love our neighborhood :-)

We had a yard sale yesterday (today too), and sold so much stuff and it felt like everyone from our end of Georgetown stopped by to just say hi and pass on some good will. People bought SO MANY BOOKS! And we had lots of good chats about reading. Hoping for similar today. Also lots of dogs came by, one that looked so much like Basil!

Aww, I wish we could have stopped by!

i'm sorry i missed this, we would have for sure come

FAP for WmC at the 9 Lb Hammer tonight, starting around 6:30. I can't be there b/c I overcommitted for tonight, but Robert and WmC will be hanging out for a bit.

aww

out of 8, the number of ilxors to have visited with us in seattle in the last ~3 years who want to move to seattle: 5

of 3 who don't want to move to seattle, number who want to move to portland: 2

of 1 who doesn't want to move to seattle, number who really do but can't/won't: 1

(important to note: "visited with us" is not presumed to be the driving factor, just distinguising that group from the other ilxors who have probably visited seattle but haven't visited with us. i have no idea whether or not they want to move here.)

jordan has been talking A LOT about wanting to move to seattle. it's probs only gonna happen if something goes terribly wrong with the company he works for, tho.

<3 jordan. not wishing ill for his current work but

I want us all to live in Seattle

Me too, sort of. (Portland!)

i liked seattle but i preferred portland. i think i just really like the sort of small-town vibe and it reminded me of wellington quite a bit.

wellington reminded me of portland!

FOUR years ago? wtf?

i heard traffic was gonna be bad

it might be! we're both working remotely as much as possible over the next 3 weeks.

stay as cool as possible this weekend my beloved boxlers

thank you, dear mookie. we're hatching a plan to gtfo. it'll be miiiiild on the coast.