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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.
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"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.
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I *think* somebody's trying to put up a site explaining the new bike commuting tax incentive thingy. (that passed with the bailout.) will have to give another look later.
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would this be something to use if we ever got around to an ENA history/archive project?
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"He has three bikes in Washington and five here, and he cycles in all weather, even in the unusual snow Portland has had recently." delightful! I'm also intrigued by his interest in federally subsidized flood insurance, esp after the last couple of winters. Includes obligatory bike-vs-car showdown reference
links for 2009-01-13
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"He has three bikes in Washington and five here, and he cycles in all weather, even in the unusual snow Portland has had recently." delightful! I'm also intrigued by his interest in federally subsidized flood insurance, esp after the last couple of winters. Includes obligatory bike-vs-car showdown reference
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Neat. As you might imagine, pretty heavy on hydroelectric around here, although still about a third coal.
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"I can imagine that it was first used in by servicemen during WW2, along the lines of “Some people think `Let's ask the officers'….â€. " heh. (search inspired by a recommendation of regexp in a CSV -> JSON problem.)
links for 2009-01-12
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"The Russians react to this a bit like the Americans might if the Midwest were to secede, begin speaking French, and demand boxcars full of quality merchandise at low, low prices." Maciej on the situation in eastern Europe, and life in Poland.(tags: politics)
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Shelley is looking for work.
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don't let me forget to do this next year. (I have a cranberry sauce recipe that I looooove, but I don't eat anywhere near all — or even most — of it.)
links for 2009-01-11
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was thinking of this yesterday: "In his nine years with the department, Dr. Jones has failed to complete even one uninterrupted semester of instruction." heh.
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I totally want to try this, but I have to pick a photo. 🙂(tags: photography)
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"We suggest it specifically interferes with the way sensory memories are laid down in the period after trauma" whoa. but does it increase the incidence of crazy tetris dreams? (which I had endlessly in college.)
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actually pretty damn reasonable. I'd like to think my dad (20 years Air Force) would be proud/pleased.
links for 2009-01-09
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pretty.(tags: architecture)
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"Imagine the class discussion about the theme of, say, "The Cask of Amontillado," and that one boy with a heavy metal T-shirt in the back finally joining the conversation with his interpretation: "Some motherfuckers just have it comin'."" heh. I fondly remember Ms Osborne reading that story on Halloween (?) in 7th grade; it was the start of my junior high Poe obsession IIRC. (none of that compare/contrast sh!t from her, thank goodness.) also, I once had a fling with someone who was a bit (!) of a Poe nut, which I found endearing. (mmm, good times.)
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this is what I worry about. 😉
links for 2009-01-08
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very clear & helpful. could've used some advanced tips for managing transition of a live site, but this overview was the best thing I found.(tags: drupal)
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heh.
links for 2009-01-06
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"There is evidence that designs with fewer edges are not only more aesthetically pleasing but also easier to use, when compared to designs with a greater number of edges" also, label above field, rather than next to.(tags: usability)
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I have Kat's old (ancient!) apple laptop, onto which I'd transferred all of the files from college: papers, letters (I assume), stories, poetry, etc. Would love to have that stuff, and to get rid of ye olde brick.
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huzzah! (THE thing I miss when I'm using the macbook. iPhoto doesn't especially agree with me.)
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"Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology." 3/24/2009, which I guess gives me 3 months to pick somebody. will you join?
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"If law isn’t the answer, vigilante teams of mad archivists are the answer." hells yes. (I've nearly lost my entire website twice now, and once had exactly one day to rescue all my files from a data center after my host went bankrupt & vanished off the face of the earth.) warning: green text on black bg.
links for 2009-01-05
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all the forms, brochures, etc., etc. warning: here be pdfs.(tags: remodel)
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"Any addition, improvement, remodel, renovation, structural correction, or repair that materially adds to the value or improves the condition of an existing dwelling may qualify for reduced property taxes for three years." no kidding!(tags: remodel)
revenge of the return of the toe
I don’t know how many readers have known me this long, but this is a story that starts way back in September 1996. (I may have written about it incidentally in re: the death of Becka Ozias Smith.)
I was working at the Children’s Museum of Tacoma, on a Sunday IIRC, with LKW; I was carrying the paper-cutter across the front office by the handle, the handle fell off, and the hinge hit me squarely in my right big toe. ow ow ow ow ow. LKW ran & got an icepack, and for a couple of days I just tried keeping it iced & grinning/bearing.
But after spending my birthday party (such as it was) with a bag of frozen peas on my foot, Greyson persuaded me to let him take me to the emergency room. The doc drilled through it (fun fact: I had on purple nail polish, and when they removed the polish, the nail itself was almost exactly the same color), they sent me home with neosporin & drugs, and that was that. It fell off not long after, and slowly grew back, although never quite the same.
The last few months, C’s been bugging me to go to the doctor about it, just because it looks kinda nasty. I’ve been putting it off, because it didn’t seem like that big a deal. But it has been …wiggly… lately, so I finally made the appointment.
Today I went, the doc looked at it, and said (a) it’s disconnected from the bed most of the way and (b) it has a fungal infection and (c) o by the way we could just take it off now. $deity help me, I said yes, and they walked me right over to the little mini-surgery room. 3 shots of numbing, he gave it an initial go, it still hurt, waited some more, yeah, still hurting, another shot, and then I was just weepy and didn’t know if it actually hurt or if I was just freaking over the pressure sensation. But then suddenly he was done, it was all wrapped up, and I was out the door.
It’s still numb right now, and while I haven’t looked, I think the toenail itself may still be on, but will pop off shortly. Then it’s antibiotic cream, and antifungal cream, and maybe this time it will come back in something closer to normal condition. In 6 months or so. Bleh.
I hope it’s not too sensitive for too long, because I am DESPERATE to get back on the bike after the last 2+ weeks of SNOWPOCALYPSE.
update: yep, he actually removed the whole toenail. ewwwww. and it still smarts something awful; I drove this morning, rather than biking or even walking the 3 blocks to the bus.
links for 2009-01-01
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As sung by Beaker. Awesomely silly!