Seattle
Aerial Seattle
One of our wedding presents was a gift certificate for a Kenmore Air flightseeing tour. Today was gorgeous, so we finally booked it and went. Knox decided to put his treasured Lensbaby on the camera. I usually find it gimmicky, but this time the pictures we took were pretty cool. (To see a professional achieving [...]
Flying Wheels Century 2009
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I just got back from biking my first century, the Flying Wheels, which is a preparation for the 2009 STP we’ll ride later this summer. The STP can be done either in a day or two; we’ll do the latter, which will involve two 80-odd mile days. People should be training for it now, and the Flying Wheels is [...]
Snow day!
We have a dusting of snow today. Or, as Seattleites call it, Winter Blast 2008.
See, things here just come to a standstill at the first snowflake. The city is hilly, it doesn’t have many plows, and its denizens are not used to driving in such “extreme” conditions. The papers are all atwitter.
We just had two [...]
Crime
This morning, I was witness to a crime. As they were getting off, two punks swiped the iPod of a guy sitting next to the rear door of the bus. The victim gave chase but couldn’t catch them. The bus driver called the police and several passengers provided helpful details on the perpetrators.
I felt horrible [...]
Fishy
It takes a lot of effort to fix what is broken—the more complex the system, the greater the effort. Blame entropy.
I was reminded of this truism today when we went to the Salmon Days celebration in Issaquah. That we need fish hatcheries and salmon ladders speaks to the fact that we have overfarmed this fish. [...]
