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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
As I was watching the live TV coverage of the vandalism in downtown, I considered going down to get more protest pictures, but from the news coverage, it looked like a lot smaller group of serious people, and a lot larger group out for trouble-as-fun, than the Anti-War marching in 2004. The damage level looks about the same as post-WTO, for the areas that were hit, but the affected area seems smaller. It certainly is all over faster.
The pics at flickr are getting a lot of extra hits, so the protestors accomplished something ‘positive’ in my life.
Tags: anti-war, mayday, pictures, protest, seattle, wto
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
Completed the Star Destroyer, and a Republic Frigate. Determined this morning, if I want to create a set of accompaniments for the Destroyer, he needs 76 Tie Fighters, 4mm long, if they are to be to scale. So, even mini lego models would be outsized. It occurs to me, if I were really a nerdy nitpicker, I’d calculate out whether or not the Falcon really could hide on the back of a Destroyer’s bridge…done, looks like a scale Falcon would be .85 inches on the longest side, or as Wolfram Alpha helpfully tries to make visualizable, 0.42 AA battery lengths. Without the model at hand, and the applicable DVD scene freeze framed, it does seem plausible.
Watched the last half of Robin Williams’ Popeye, found out the soundtrack is available on Rhapsody =)
Watched most of Resident Evil: Afterlife, can’t believe they are up to five movies, that I have found reasonably entertaining, out of a video game I never was even remotely interested in.
I watched some Super Bowl commercials, in between all the rest. And made tasty nachos.
Tags: lego, movies, robinwilliams, videogames, weekend
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
When I first saw the SLUT off its tracks, I assumed it was weather related. It turns out to have just been a really stupid person, driving without attention to the road before them, or the light that had been red long enough for the train to cross most of Mercer.
I’m sure I could look up the weight of the train, the weight of her car, and measure the distance from impact to final resting place, for both vehicles, but I don’t have a clue what the standard engineering formula is for determining how much of the energy required to lift the train out of the tracks, nor how to determine how much of that energy was imparted by impact from the car, and how much was its own momentum. Or the train’s rolling resistance on pavement.
But my guess would be ‘pretty darn fast’, as an answer to how fast the car was going.
Tags: accident, seattle, snow, southlakeunion, trolley
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
It says something about humanity that this picture of my first attempt at using one of those pore strips, has overtaken a picture of some random naked guy at Fremont Solstice, as the most popular pic in my photostream.
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
When I yakked past them, they asked me to show them my tits, so I shook my vest covered chest, and then they mooned me. Good times =)
Tags: drunks, funny, lakeunion, reversesexism
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
You could tell it was these ladies first kayaking trip on lake union. When the seaplanes started landing, they started freaking out, screaming and yelling in literal panic. Now I will admit the pilots like to cut as close as they can, but this guy isn’t touching down anywhere near as close as I’ve had them land next to me.
Tags: kayaking, lakeunion, seaplane, seattle
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
I know which is easier, but I’d rather attempt that which is cooler.
Living across the street from work, and with a view of the lake I kayak on, I’ve been thinking of cool things to do with the potential configurations. I want to setup a long-distance self-portrait, with the camera on my deck at home, and me in the yak on the lake. I want to setup a way to play with my cat while at my desk.
Easy would be to setup the camera fixed on an easy to get-to spot on the lake, and then a really long timer to trigger the shot. Cooler would be some sort of laser-targeting system that would let the camera find me anywhere in it’s view of the lake.
Easy would be to setup a laser attached to some sort of remote controlled servo, in the new place. Cool would be to setup a mirror-chain from my office to the office of someone with an exterior window, to the window of my place.
Tags: control, decisions, projectidea, remote
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
The first sunrise pics taken from the new balcony.
Tags: sunrise
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
The Hooters on Lake Union in Seattle has been ‘closed for remodel’ for months now. I suspected it was a permanent closure since they didn’t seem to be doing any actual work on the place, and felt certain of my suspicions when they missed the memorial day weekend. Looks like I was right.
Tags: change, lakeunion
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
I didn’t see the moment he got stuck, but I think what happened is that he tried to squeeze in behind the Seattle Queen sternwheeler, as the bridge was closing. It’s the first time I’ve seen the bridge operator come out of his little room. He’d called the harbor patrol/coast guard for assistance, but then a boat exceeding the no-wake speed limit went past, and the sailboat was able to get unstuck in one of the troughs.
Tags: boat, bridge, stuck
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