Goodnight From Seattle!

So, yesterday I happened to head into the city right around sunset, and I thought I would add a little picture of my own to my blog.

So here is my totally awesome picture that I took from my car without looking at the camera!

I cropped out the parts that make it look really bad... the original wasn't centered well or anything... oh well, it's a cool picture if you ask me... but I guess that's just because I took it!

Later,

SteveO

Century old biodegradable plastic see's it's day!

Polylactide is this wonderful material made about a century ago that can solve the non-biodegradable plastic problems we have! just FYI. I have to admit that the pastic forks and spoons made from this material kind of taste funny, but it really just adds the taste of corn to your food. Plus, it's a lot better for the environment!

So, next time you have a party with disposable plastic dishes, remember: No waxed paper, and Polyactide forks, spoons, and knives.

Later,

SteveO

A couple pictures from the Seattlest flickr pool

So, I read this blog called Seattlest. They have a Flickr pool here.

I found these pictures on there, and just think they are totally awesome!Taken by: Taylor Hain. This picture is taken at the fountain in Seattle Center.

Taken by: Stuart Weibel. I'm not exactly where he took it from, but I know what he took it of!

Taken By: Cap'n Surley. Titled Night at the Arboretum, this is a picture of the 520 floating bridge taken from Seattle's Arboretum. This one is my favorite.

Ok, that's it.

Later,

SteveO

China wants us to know they have us by the balls!

So, in case you haven't been paying attention, China is using the Olympic games to show us that they can do whatever they want.

First, they agreed to open up Internet access for Chinese citizens, but they didn't do it.

Now, they denied Joey Cheek's visa because he is out-spoken against various policies in China. I recently found out that Joey Cheek, as well as an ex-Olympian, was the Co-founder of Team Darfur, which is the team of the US flag bearer Lopez Lomong. This is border-line banning an athlete from the games... but we won't do anything about it.

As if it is not bad enough that the Olympics are being held in the most polluted city in the world... China just seems to think that they can agree to anything, then just back out. Which is quite hypocritical of a culture that is notorious for not re-negotiating.

I think we need to say screw the Olympics... screw the International Olympic Committee... and just wait until the winter Olympics in British Columbia. I know it won't happen, but if we just keep letting China do what they want, then we will have 2 countries running around saying that nobody can tell them what to do. (We are the first...)

anyway... I guess it is just a little upsetting to me. I hate the idea of restricted internet access in any country. I'm glad the FCC did something right by not allowing ISPs in the US to restrict bandwidth and protocols, but I would like to see free speech in that part of the world... it would just be nice.

I almost feel like I need to yell out free Tibet... or more appropriately free the Uighurs! (see Tibet V2.0 on Frizzlefry Web Watch)

Free Ballard!

Welease Bwian!

ok... I'll call that a rant.

Later,

SteveO

The elusive blue angels in my camera lense

So, after trying again and again I managed to get a picture of the blue angels from my apartment balcony. The funny part is that I had a really good shot shortly before this one, but I didn't have my camera out to take the picture... I have just sort of left my camera out on the balcony so I had it if I needed it.

Anyway... it was a beautiful day today... James was in townand we went to Kirkland and walked around for a while, then went over to Marrymoore park to check out the Velodrome and take Jaani to the off-leash dog area...

James and I walked around talking about the funny parts of working for Microsoft and that sort of stuff for a while...

Then we came back.

It was a good day.


So, that's it.

Later,


SteveO

Jet City Auction and the Blue Angels!

So, good news and bad news... kinda.

The good news, I can see the blue angels as they fly around up in the sky... kinda. Well, when they fly way up into the air, I can see through a break in the clouds, then they go back down and disappear under the tree line... which is because the trees right next to my apartment are taller than my apartment is high.

The bad news... kinda... is that Jet City Espresso is having an auction. Which is good news for Deb and Paul, but bad news for people who go to Jet City because it marks the beginning of the end. See, Jet City will close in the middle of August, which is approaching way too fast. I guess we will all just migrate to the other side of the block and go to Mike's, but it is just sad to see the place go.

I plan to get some pictures today. I offered to help them run the auction by performing data entry tasks related to items, bid prices, and who bid on what. It is too bad, but I guess it had to come some time.

so... there is a quick update.

Later,

SteveO

Goodbye Miriam Lubow...

I found out today that Miriam Lubow Died on Tuesday.

She was the first Microsoft Administrative Assistant. The story is kinda neat. I also recommend that you watch the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, which features her... or at least an actor playing her. I found this to be sad news... mainly because she was pretty much the first hired Microsoft employee. I say that because at the time the only two other people at the company were Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

Anyway, kinda sad news... she died of liver cancer... However on a lighter note, she did manage to meet up with the original 30 members of Microsoft last month for a re-telling of the historic early days of the company in honor of Bill's retirement last month.

Later,

SteveO