SEATTLE

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.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3357108378_9ac7698084_o.jpg

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