January 2011
11 posts
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Ye Old List of Age Old Questions for the New Year
It’s that time of year again, already. As the clock ticks down and the new year, as of this writing, is just a few hours away; I’m mulling over my Ye Old List of Age Old Questions for the New Year to visualize “me” in 2011.
The dance it seems is finding a balance between how and what you make happen and getting out of your own way to let it happen. Of course, we all interrupt that...
December 2010
7 posts
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Gigantic Flash of Light Strikes Downtown Seattle
Well… not exactly. But it sure did look like it!
I took a break about 3:30 this afternoon and looking at pictures on my Blackberry, I didn’t realize what I captured.
Driving into Seattle this morning shortly after 7:30 AM. It’s still dark but the sun is just peaking over Beacon Hill and really lit up the buildings downtown. No, that’s not a fireball or a nuclear bomb, but...
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There's drama in those December skies in Seattle.
Little did I know when I left for work this morning the dramatic sky I would witness on my way to Seattle. It was dark, gray, and pouring rain when I left Renton.
As I passed Boeing Field the clouds began to break in crisscross patterns. Layers one above the other, moving in different directions with patches of blue sky in between. Some inky dark gray, some almost purple, and others white with...
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The Asynchronous Conversation, revisited
The Asynchronous Conversation, revisited…
The asynchronous online conversation is a lot like the ubiquitous dandelion seeds cast upon the electronic breeze that is cyberspace. They quietly reside dormant in the search engine index until the right conditions exist. We don’t know when, where, or how that will happen. Yet we do know if the search engines consider the seed on topic and...
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The Shumway Farm, a history
I’m Playing off my last post: We were bound to mete
Okay, I’m on an old map and tract book kick. I didn’t plan it. It just happened. A sequence of events brought me here. I was going through some project files when I stumbled upon (pun intended) a project I did back in circa 1986.
History of the Shumway Farm Kirkland, Washington
A couple of my clients were working in a new subdivision called...
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Wordle: The Blackberry Chronicles
Thought I’d update my Wordle tag cloud…
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We were bound to mete...
We were bound to mete…
I’ve always had a passion for maps. It started back when I was a kid. We grew up in a small neighborhood on the west edge of Renton that was right out of the movie American Graffiti. We were a little isolated because Sunset Highway cut us off from the rest of Earlington Hill on the north and the railroad tracks were a border to the south.
The rules were quite simple...