Archive for: January, 2011

[BOTW] The Totem House of the Locks

We believe this is a photo of Albert Fikes, blogger of the week 1/31/2011.

In the morning, mist comes up from the Ballard Locks, White and feathery, it obscures totem poles and other Northwestern art that have stood for 71 years.

Support Ferry District Plan AND Save the Lusty Lady…at the same time!

Lusty Lady to reopen on a Seattle ferry.

At the outset of the legislative session, Governor Gregoire proposed a regional ferry district to pay for Washington’s world famous fleet.  Currently, the fleet is funded by the statewide gas tax and a target of Eastern Washington Republicans seeing no gain for their constituents’ contributions to the system. Our ferries may cease to exist soon [...]

Green Lake Moms Email Group Shaken by Residency Scandal

Portrait of Lies.

Internal investigation reveals interlopers within group Mean Lake-In the latest Green Lake Moms E-newsletter, the founder of the organization’s 2,000-member listserv, CoCo Hsu, revealed the results of a secret investigation.  The investigation did not unveil crimes like embezzlement or child slavery, but it exposed  how many of its members were breaking the “sacred” 2-mile rule.  [...]

Senior Citizen Soccer Teams Use Olympic Sculpture Park for Match

Elderly Seattle citizens organizing a soccer game at the scuplture park.

Frustrated by lack of soccer fields and overpriced elitist projects, mature teams stage match to put the “Park” back in Sculpture Park Dale and Edward Lunsford’s tranquil Saturday stroll through the Olympic Sculpture Park’s always includes a quite viewing of Mark Dion’s, “Nurse Tree.”  However, this visit’s tranquility was shattered by a soccer ball drilled [...]

Strip Club Closure Near UW Kills Computer Science Department Recruiting

Potential UW computer science students take in the sites in the U-district.

“Jiggles” was centerpiece of campus visits to attract prospective students U District – On Friday, the City of Seattle sued to close the University District strip club, “Jiggles,” for code violations. This came as a crushing blow to the UW Computer Science Department, who had made visits to the club the centerpiece of their recruiting [...]

Microsoft Using Black Magic to Remove Leadership at Google and Apple

Haitian IT consultant.

Voodoo collected by Gates Foundation Employees behind setbacks at rival companies Redmond-First, Steve Jobs’ health issues reoccur and then, Eric Schmidt, Google’s über CEO is suddenly replaced by one of the company’s near-autistic founders.  Coincidence?  Sources deep within Microsoft say not on your eye of newt.  Instead, magic is afoot. These informants say that the [...]

ATT Wireless Begs iphone Customers for “One More Chance”

ATT cordially offers chocolates to its iphone users.

Verizon’s grab of the iphone gives customers chance to leave ATT’s cycle of abuse Redmond-AT&T Wireless’ CEO Jeffery D. Petit, wearing his best Brioni suit and holding a dozen roses promised today to, “be better to our iPhone customers…that it will be different from now on…I promise…just give us one more chance.”  After a four [...]

BOTW: Brain Sharks Ambiguous Squid Loyalty Threatens Future

brain shark equation

[Editor's Note: Sorry for the late BOTW post, but I just received Conor's final blog entry. I went over to Conor Logan's house to get my credit card back and his girlfriend (wife?), Kendra, said he hadn't been home in days. I was about to leave when she handed me an envelope with the message [...]

Eastside Couple Puts Child Up For Adoption to Protect Family Dog

Handsome couple with dog.

Child “got in the way of our dog’s lifestyle”

[BOTW] Ritalin: How a Missed Dose Can

Digital nomad until SHA approves and processes his application.

As someone with adult ADHD it’s important for me to keep track of what exactly it is that I’m doing to make sure I’ve got some sort of handle on the types of symptoms most often associated with this type of disorder through the judicious application of some form of medication. I told her, but she didn’t remember either.

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