City of Seattle South Park Neighborhood Plan. I believe that this plan may be one of the plans disavowed by Mayor Nickels as a consequence of his stiff-arming the neighborhood planning process subsequent to taking office.
IYHY
IYHY.com. Note to self: bookmark this on treo.
seamless
You all know of Google Maps. Did you know of the USGS Seamless Map?
Click to zoom, as you might expect. But under the disclosure triangle “Elevation,” try looking at an area you’re geographically familiar with with the selection “NED shaded relief (1/9 arc second)” set. I turned off the road labels but kept the roads on, under the “Transportation” triangle.
South Park
Some news and information regarding the neighborhood of South Park in Seattle. Recently, the Stranger featured a charming tale of the neighborhood association’s new meeting spot, a watering hole known as the County Line. Prior to that, the P-I featured not one but two stories concerning gang-related killings and community response in the one-square mile neighborhood directly to the south of Georgetown. In 1999, the P-I’s Regina Hackett also contributed a sunny survey of the neighborhood’s future.
The neighborhood association’s old-school website contains links to information about a number of things including some interesting historical data from the City of Seattle and Historylink.org.
Drive Somewhere
My drive test is scheduled for July 23.
Cringley joins the fray
Venerable statesman of the networked and nerdly Robert X. Cringely announces his entree (or is that re-entry) to the media-blog-o-sphere, introducing a new version of the always-entertaining and often influential I, Cringley that will somehow tie into his PBS-slash-online TV show, NerdTV. What’s interesting about this is:
a) he terms the new show “videoblogging,” which seems a stretch, but who knows
b) I, Cringely as a blog is clearly the Right Thing if maybe Several Months Late and
c) he promises “plenty of interesting guests.”
Based on Bob’s track record of provoking discussion, headshaking, and worse, this has me more-or-less excited. Maybe the time is now to write about the incipient adoption of online distro for video – cf. Galactica, I gotta say. Gaah! I hope I have time for this!
Cat, considered as menace
Chloe just knocked my after-work martini to the floor, thankfully not breaking the glass. But alas for the gin!
This is London
As might be expected, sumit says some sensible and determined things about today’s events.
Housing
Another day, another five houses.
We saw two really pretty places, relatively close in, each well under 1000 square feet. Both were presented as two bedroom homes but realistically they were one bedroom places. In each case they were priced at $300k.
We also saw two more places a bit further out which we will be seriously considering. One is just over 1000 square feet and very nicely remodeled with a deck and a pleasant, non-maze like interior. The other is larger but underwent a misguided 1970’s makeover that has got to go. Viv and I will be discussing both seriously.
This week, we have looked at thirty houses. It’s getting to where I’m confusing details in my head. I have been taking a camera and snapping my fool head off in an effort to replaces actual remembering, but it’s not a completely satisfactory solution. For one thing, I don’t take pictures of homes I don’t like at all. For another, often, if it’s a place I like a lot, I get too interested in looking at the place to think about shooting.
This weekend, I will be borrowing the camera we just got at work, a D70, and trying to shoot with vigor in order to learn the camera. It will be interesting to see if that experience teaches me to think systematically about shooting during a house visit.
Galactica
SciFi’s running a marathon of Ron Moore’s Galactica and I’m finally able to take the time to watch. It is, as has been widely reported, pretty darn good. I have noted with amusement some clearly deliberate nods to Bungie’s beloved Marathon – as a small flight of ships drops out of jumpspace into a swarm of Cylon ships, a voice shrieks, “They’re everywhere!”
It’s a definite bonus to be able to see a bunch of this highly serialized show at once, too. The first one and a half were fairly dense even for me, but once I sorted out who was who and what was what and so forth, I started to really enjoy it.