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  Seattle weather

  12.30.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Stereotypical life in Seattle, as portrayed by my iGoogle weather widget:

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  Snow Snow Snow

  12.24.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  So far, I’ve been letting Seattle off lightly for its inability to deal with snow. Sadly, The Seattle Times digs out the truth, if you will- and you must to continue reading. To paraphase, the ice and snow packed streets of Seattle exist by design. The city wants to use rubber plows on its trucks [...]

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  Snow Day

  12.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So, although yesterday was supposed to be the big storm day, and turned out relatively mild (all Seattle schools were closed as well :-/), I woke up to 3-5 inches of snow today. Now, while I know this isn’t much, its basically slowed all movement on Seattle’s streets and left most stranded at home. Not [...]

• Seattling, The more you know..., Things I hate

  Snow & Video Game Cartridges

  12.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Why, why, why must it snow? A whole inch, although half of it is gone. And its cold. Like low 30′s cold. Here’s the part where I plea for some mercy from Zeus, but I can’t come up with anything clever, because well, if I were to be in Chicago, things would be much worse. [...]

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  Escalators

  11.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Discovery: Non-functional escalators make me dizzy. Event: Earlier today, I was forced to walk up a non-functional escalator. In theory, the always-forgotten, never thanked, heavenly, automagical steps should become just another stair case when not operational. Physically, this is true. However, I ride a few escalators every day due to my commute requiring me to [...]