SEATTLE

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.