"most of what police are called upon to do, day in and day out, requires patience, diplomacy and interpersonal skills." not this paramilitary BS. Honestly, I don't want to be all "F*** Tha Police"; I'd rather have guys like the one who gave me a ride home after C's bike crash.

meter turned into bike lockup. brilliant.

mostly in WA, but some in OR & BC.

"If you’re feeling adventurous and have the time, it is possible to travel from Seattle to Vancouver on public transit by making a series of transfers and some walking or cycling across the border."

quirky article by Dylan. it makes a weird amount of sense.

"To submit comments or to obtain additional information, contact Application Contact [Vlad Dracul] via pitchfork-carrying mob during any full moon." hilarity.

Kathy Gill is looking for history around this group. (Was it really 10 yrs ago that I was co-events something or other?)

definitely want to go!

adorable, really.

the squirrel and I both fixated on Dylan's Viking funeral slide. odd.

the commenters are all haters (no surprise), but TDM is a really important part of my past (plus I still like their food)...C & I ate taco salads at the old (now closed) Tacoma location all the time when we were first dating.

"I believe deeply that integration does not work when it’s practiced only by 8-year-olds. It must (why is this such a hard concept?) be practiced by their parents as well." Integrated *neighborhoods* are vital to an integrated school and society. (True story, so far as I can tell: in high school I was, in fact, bused as if I were a black kid.)

yipes. on the plus side, "no tsunami expected."

"How do you come together and share a resource? Submit a creative project to answer this question and your group, organization or co-op could win $5,000." from Seattle Metropolitan CU. I love it. damn clever idea, and a nice bright design. Irony alert: I can't watch the video because it's blocked by the nannyware.

Oct 24, I'm assuming in Seattle. definitely want to go.

not sure how this compares to the same thing in Oly (a project for OlyBlog or Everyday Olympia, perhaps?), but it makes me think that I should start loading up my bike at the Safeway on the way home.

some names I recognize from either twitter or digital eve, including the entirely awesome Kathy Gill. :)

""What they're seeing in these losses are not attributed to the operation of BECU. We're actually very strong and performing very well," said spokesman Todd Pietzch." A very solid article.

"Together, [inexperienced leaders], orchestrated a disjointed response to the winter weather that left major streets unplowed while Jackson, the man calling the shots, worried aloud about clearing certain streets so the mayor could drive to work, according to interviews with plow drivers and street crews and thousands of department records analyzed by The Seattle Times." daaaamn. makes the chaos in Oly look pretty good, actually.

yay dylan! :)

nice press. via dylan.

"design & urban development"

also runs: Phinney-Greenwood | Fremont | Magnolia | Queen Anne

because I'm not going to bother signing up to comment on Dylan's piece: the biggest problems with this are all around "bring in a top [x]" where [x] probably wants a big freaking salary. the rest of the ideas are not super IMHO, but not god-awful either.

"I think a lot of people dismissing the idea of a single-market, online-only news site forget that a city can be a niche just like a neighborhood or an industry." This may be the key bit, even tho he makes it in the comments rather than the main piece. Not a reader of Seattle papers, but curious where this all ends up going.

found in a Seattle antique store.

closer, but not quite here. (will be looking for this to go open-source before it can be used for Oly, I should imagine.)

"First off, “spawned” windows? What do these people think this is, Team Fortress 2?" hawesome rant from Dylan.

"most bicycle advocates say cycling deaths are sharply up" ORLY? I had not heard that at all. also, yay (not): Seattle Critical Mass incident hits the friggin Economist.

kewl. this is what I'm talking about, vs. the whole crazy Critical Mass thing.

I might actually have to make a jaunt up to Seattle for one of these.

thank you. exactly.

"While Mark still believes this incident was sparked by hostility from cyclists, he does seem genuinely remorseful about what happened and is disappointed that cyclists are being charged for the incident."

an eyewitness account.

Dylan's take.

"I’m completely pro-bike but nobody wins in these idiotic, testosterone-fueled attacks on cars." amen. OTOH, I would LOVE to see a Ciclovia-style event where a chunk of town is closed off to cars for a few hours or more.

Dylan cracking me up with his riff on OKC, too. (I always thought it was HAWESOME when LA became a city with NO football teams, btw.)

that is a freaking neighborhood association. (oh, if we'd been something big enough to have taken over the old Madison School....)

Seattle ranks high in avarice, envy, and lust. (Avarice & envy seem like flip sides of the same issue.)

shop in seattle that offers test rides.

wanna do this. (thinking abt using drupal for a major work project.) not super-thrilled about going to Seattle, but it just might be worth the trip.

"with Anita there was no such thing as the 'cool kids' vs. the 'uncool kids'" -- a brief piece by Dylan.

"this really is a storm that earns its -pocalyse suffix" -- also, amused by the invocation of story problems. I ::heart:: story problems.

1) what, no greater f*ckwad theory? 2) imagine that, Calacanis & Winer being jerks. ;) 3) hey, that's my buddy Dylan.

"For an introvert, it's a feature, not a bug." heh. kindall cracks me up. it's definitely a regional thing. (read the linked article at the top, btw.) it's been insanely difficult to make friends in Oly, most of the people I know are C's childhood buddies

OMG. Have wanted to go for ages, and we were just talking about this the other day. Definitely want to go soon.

Dylan continues to be f'ing funny, tho not on his own blog. As for Seafair, it's like Lakefair down here, only in Oly it's loggers/farmers vs. hippies. (Don't get me started.)

Dylan hits the nail squarely on the head. (OTOH, we get a bit more hot weather down here in Oly. Not as much water effect.)

gah! I found out too late to be able to ask for a vacation day, I think. (somebody from OlyBlog should go, IMO.)

OMG -- it includes Oly!

Scott was w/out power about twice as long as I was. I think most of his comments are spot on, although for us friends were more important than neighbors. Plus great Mr. Science style in the comments.