http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3202426984_06c14cca68_m.jpg
― lxy, Friday, 16 January 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― lxy, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
see u in march!
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
hey great!
― jergins, Thursday, 22 January 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
setting up lunch meeting w/ that opera co! weee!
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 January 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
THE TOWER
first, the P-IThe 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.
― jergins, Saturday, 24 January 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
tehresa what will you do in seattle
― Lingbert, Sunday, 25 January 2009 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
things i would like to do in seattle:prev. mentioned meeting w/ opera pplgo see operameet lots of ilxorsride a ferrysightsee wanderdevelop a feel for cityvisit portland*
feel free to recommend good things!
*not actually in seattle
― tehresa, Sunday, 25 January 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
eat food, drink booze
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
that part where it goes through the tunnel wall is kind of scary
― lxy, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
xox garden on my building xox
― lxy, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― jergins, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
NO CARS!
― lxy, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
haha that's exactly what the stranger pointed out
― jergins, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
nice shot from golden gardenshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/icantshoot/3286185163/sizes/l/in/pool-52240892586@N01/
― jergins, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3219979837_a3d5b68e55.jpg
― jergins, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― lxy, Friday, 20 February 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
hooverville caught fire this morning
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
is it okay?
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess the fire's out. the place didn't burn down completely. maybe we should swing by this evening and look @ the damage.
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i hope the twilight zone is ok
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
my first thought!
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it's been dragged out to the sidewalk and we can "salvage" it
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
double rainbow over shilshole
― jergins, Monday, 2 March 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Building toward a stronger economy... University Link Groundbreaking Join us Friday, March 6, 2 p.m.
― lxy, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3357108378_9ac7698084_o.jpg
― lxy, Sunday, 15 March 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
ahaa now i can see the t
― jergins, Monday, 16 March 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
hey heyhttp://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/23/daily26.htmlIcelandair 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.
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
LET'S GO!
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.draplin.com/pics/040709_get_on_top.jpg
― lxy, Sunday, 12 April 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.central-cinema.com/
it looks fun. do you want to see l.a. confidential and have some pizza?
― lxy, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/starbucksbuilding.jpg
― jergins, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thekolstrandbuilding.com/Kolstrand_Flash/index.html
― lxy, Sunday, 3 May 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/05/04/tangerine-thai-opens-next-to-phinney-market/
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
finally!
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
let's go!!
― lxy, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
this is interestinghttp://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/28/asphalt-alchemy-converting-streets-into-parksThe 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.
― jergins, Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds awesome. i love that part of town, why not make it even better?!
― lxy, Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― jergins, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
that post gets two wows
― lxy, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
is there breaking news in north seattle? 3 helicopters just raced over the house in quick succession.
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
more helicopters. lots of them.
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing on 4 or 5 news though, and it seems 7 doesn't exist any more.
"no signal" "invalid channel"
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
also i don't know how to search on the internet for shit like this.
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i'm not built to be a news hound
― lxy, Friday, 10 July 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link