I was without oxygen, and equally without beer. It was only a matter of time until it was all over. No doubt they would find me, sprawled amidst the rock and snow, feed cap semaphoring over the miles, flickering yellow and off, yellow and off.
If not for the backwash of the snowboarders’ leavings, I would be dead toady, there is little doubt of that.
Telegraph | News | Mighty Zeppelin returns to skies over London (Telegraph of 06-21)
A sight that once brought fear to the hearts of our grandparents and great-grandparents, a mighty Zeppelin, followed the route of the Thames into central London yesterday.
Zeppelin NT has a customer in the land of the rising sun. The vessel is scheduled to make a journey from Europe to Japan, apparently by air rather than shipping container. Gotta keep my eye on the ball, because it’s shameful that I missed this bolus.
As we drove south on Chuckanut Drive, overlooking the waters that hold the San Juans, we came across this lovely militarian art car, lableled in stencil on the trunk “54 Buick Special P-40.”
The car also featured what I’d have to describe as ‘tail art,‘ and a front-facing fifty-caliber machine gun in the back seat, not clearly visible in my picture. Also not visible in my pix are the detailed additional rivets added to the skin of the car to make it look more like a vintage warbird.
Oddly, a year ago, on Chuckanut, I also photographed an extreme militarian conversion of a Porsche 911 4×4, this one without apparent armament, although shrunken heads were noted.
Commuter Trip Plan and Point to Point Schedule offer range-oriented bus-schedule planning tools for King County Metro which can be stored on a PDA. I don’t know if these are new tools, or just ones that I missed, but they are a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, since they only output results, they are limited in utility if something goes awry while you are on the road. As far as I can tell, there is still no way to download entire route schedules for any individual route in a PDA-oriented format.
DejaMenu 1.1 for MacOS X, a utility that clones your OS X menu bar and makes it available via configurable key-combos at the current location of your mouse cursor. Via AxMe, and to which I must say w00t.
The New York Times > Movies > The Political ‘Fahrenheit’ Sets Record at Box Office, notes the NYT. The film is set to take first place in grosses this weekend, an amazing feat when one notes that the number of theaters involved, and consequently the number of possible screenings, is about a third of a large-scale Hollywood opening weekend.
As we came in from a weekend out of town last night, we crested the hill at 45th near the Ave. This is where Seattle’s Neptune Theater is showing the film, and I uttered the ejaculation which titles this entry. It came upon seeing the line, a huge crowd that stretched around the block. I have certainly never seen such a thing before at the Neptune, which generally houses offbeat films rather than blockumentaries, as Fahrenheit appears set to be.
It will be especially interesting to see if in the coming week theater owners rush to add screens, something that I’m not calling – the weekend’s rush could simply be the result of Move On’s push to get people in the theaters this weekend.
I could be totally wrong, though. Daymented was getting a posse together for Friday, I know.
Other Seattle-area bloggers appear to be writing about it, too, though, so who knows.
Viv is in the living room watching TV. Ebert and Roeper are on, reviewing Fahrenheit 9/11. ABC News breaks in to report that the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq will occur on Monday, two days ahead of schedule. Then Ebert and Roeper return to discussing the movie.
I’m thinking that a) these things are not coincidentally linked and b) that’s the short version of the news for the next week. Buckle up!
Mount Baker Highway, an interesting drive. Anyone been here?
For years, I’d heard that there was once a real yellow submarine, beached and rotting somewhere in Puget Sound. It appears that the USS Menhaden [caution: speakers down!] was indeed a factual artifact, and even the description of her as “beaached” appears to have a basis in fact. I’d guess my recollection of this is based on news stories about the City of Everett scrapping the hulk of the Menhaden.