oh ok. i guess i knew that. drugs.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so apparently there have only been 13 murders so far (altho that's just oakland - 400,000 ppl - and doesn't include all the cities that border us directly).
violent crimes: 1349
― smoove operator, Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cjgsu.net/initiatives/HomRates-2009-03-16-Score.pdf
oakland is #6 for homicides and seattle is #56
― smoove operator, Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i think bmore has about 600,000also we have this helpful map (can't figure out how to link to 2008 though, so 2009 will show up) http://www.citypaper.com/news/mi_map.aspi live in that hole in the middle, it's really not as bad as it looks i swear
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
smoove, Seattle has small towns on islands!!! And you can just hop on a ferry and get to the city.
― jaq, Saturday, 25 July 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
^way to do it imo
― jergins, Saturday, 25 July 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i want my own island.
― te,he (tehresa), Saturday, 25 July 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
HomoRates
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oakland does sound scary,even to a new yorker like me
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
and it's just getting worse. i dunno, i've been feeling really down about it lately, probably just a phase. i think it's a lot to do with have an annoying anxious nature anyway, living in a dodge 'hood just brings out the worst of it.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
just move here; you will feel better.
― te,he (tehresa), Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to say more about the light rail but am not sure where to start. look at these first, aren't they awesomehttp://www.soundtransit.org/Projects-and-Plans/STart-Public-Art-Program/Public-Art-Projects/StellarConnections.xml
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
cool! I couldn't figure out what the sodo symbol was from the handouts we got. I light-railed twice yesterday, from dragon to opera glasses and back.
― jaq, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
jealous! it would have been silly to ride from spectacles to tiara, though, and then get on the bus! lol.
that is a really neat project, though! i like the explanation of how the constellations were derived.
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 27 July 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
would ride spectacles to tiara just for the hell of it
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
lxy and i have an ongoing project to go to each of the stations and document them. so far we've gone to dragon and the end of the line, canoe
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
magic carpet ride ftw btw
sir, can i see some documentation, please?
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 27 July 2009 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i was a little offended when i saw 'magic carpet' and then i read the description and thought 'hmm, ok' but i'm still a little iffy.
you got to BELIIIIEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEE
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
canoe is fitting because you have to take the bus then to the airport and what isn't more fitting than the canoe for getting there sloooooow
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ts: canoe v rowboat
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 27 July 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
canoe it to get thru itrowboat u slow goat
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
love a lot trust a few and always paddle your own canoe v merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream
― estela, Monday, 27 July 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I will admit to intentionally riding to the dragon instead of getting off at the schooner, b/c it seemed too decadent to only ride one stop. lxy and jergins, when you come visit the schooner stop we should meet up at my local (the Collins, 2nd and whatever street is the further south end of the bus tunnel at that stop - James?) - they have many brews and delicious food.
Listing of all the area outdoor movies, mostly in August: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/174596.asp
― jaq, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
the other day as we were leaving the game jergins said "so we'll go jaq's and then get on a bus."
'do we really have time for that? does she know we're coming? when was this lovely behind-my-back-plan made?' thought i.
what he really said was "so we'll go to jackson and get on a bus."
but it made me want to go jaq's, and then get on a bus. so we're gonna, some time soon.
― lxy, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
^had to go to the airplane terminal (where the coach of the sounders was! exciting!) so that's why we couldn't stop by. but i know i'd love to. light rail-->jaq's-->light rail
― jergins, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yes! Please do!
― jaq, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
it is HOT today! and looks to be for the next week!? yikes.
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Nearly 2 hours on the bus from Redmond tonight - no A/C and the driver was completely terrible, sat in the middle of Stewart for almost 25 minutes while cars and other buses cut around her right and left. I got so fed up I jumped off the minute the doors opened at Westlake Center, started to walk home then detoured down to the tunnel for the light rail. At least it's cool and now I'll see how the transfers work with the orca.
Someone is predicting it will be over 100 F on Wednesday.
― jaq, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
100???! holy shit!
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
bus w/o AC sounds like hell. it's even hot up here in the islands. mid 80s is RARE up here, on the water
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i got so hot on the bus ride home i tried to hypnotize myself into remembering how cold i felt in montreal.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
how'd that go?
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
it worked a little bit. i will keep practicing in anticipation of 100.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
whew this week is gonna be a doozy! how did i develop a 'glow' walking downhill!!!?
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
learned from a seattle girl a long time ago to say you're not sweatingyou're glowing
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
horses sweatmen perspire ladies glow
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
but you have to be careful telling ladies they're glowing bc then they will think you mean they are pregnant and you are saying they look fat
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(i wouldn't think this, but a lady might)
i wanted to say more about the light rail so here.
sound transit and the people of seattle did a good thing making the inital line through the south. connecting seattle's poorest and most underserved neighborhoods and the airport is such a good pairing. and the neighborhoods, they're various. we always tell ourselves that our neighborhoods are all so different from one another and we're special because of that. yeah it's true and this shows it in an unexpected way (i grew up here and don't think i'd ever been to rainier beach before last wednesday). i love how vietnamese it gets along the street level. there's that moment of 'well it could be another country.' and the hard industrial parts. on some blog i read a person say it was like an east coast city, taking a line into town where you see the working face, the car yards and parking lots and office parks, every day places.
the other smart thing sound transit did is build this line for the future. you don't notice at first but every station can accommodate 4 car trains. right now they're at 2 car trains until ridership goes up. four cars hauls a hell of a lot of people. this has all been built with a mind to the future, where 30 years from now the areas around the stations won't look at all like they do now. it's creating (forcing?) those neighborhoods to figure how they can adapt to what places should be: safe, walkable, open, community-oriented.
also, it's beautiful. they spent some money. all the stations are different from one another architecturally. beacon hill has big-time fast elevators. 1% for art. across the duwamish the bridge lights up http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/20081107_duwamish.jpgsome of the art is hedious of course but that's fun cuz then you have an excuse to take the train around and jump off and be dismissive.
last they are hell of chill. it's pretty much the best to look out at a city through a clean train window. and to look at a city i feel so bored with sometimes, like i know all of it, and then here's this beautiful thing, this contraption straight out of 19th20th21st centuries, to spirit me along to places i didn't know existed? magic carpet ride ftw. it's the best, really.
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
two rails one dream realized
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, yes, well stated and tru. <3!
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so fun to talk about something that exists.
― jergins, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
and so fun to discover that we live in a real city all of a sudden. it was awesome to take THE TRAIN to a MLS GAME! couldn't have done either one last summer.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ps. i love the magic carpet, it is delightful just like the airport station should be.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
just wanted to say your post was v v thoughtful, jergs! i really enjoyed it!
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
following the semi-success of my self-hypnosis on the bus, i am now attempting to fend off the multitude of voracious mosquitoes by mentally suggesting to them that my blood tastes bad. should also work for any vampires that might be in the neighborhood this evening.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i semi-successfully tried to cool off with a bourbon rocks but it is quickly becoming bourbon and water. ps it is glowing.
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so pardon my ignorance but is a light rail like what the BART is here in the bay area?
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link