My Archives: May 2006
Tuesday, June 6, it's the East Side Weblog Meetup! Start time is 7:00 pm, and location is Crossroads Mall Food Court, NE 8 and 156 Ave NE, Bellevue WA (map). We'll be sitting between the stage and the giant chess board -- look for the sign! Free WiFi courtesy the King County Library branch. Weblog folks who live and/or work on the east side meet to chat about weblogs and more. See you there!
(tags: blog, blogs, meetup, EastSide, SeattleMeetup)
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Seattle Taco Trucks posts reviews and pictures of the various taqueria trucks found around town. There are some recent entries, so maybe there will be more reviews of taco trucks coming soon! We've eaten at several East Side taco trucks, but we need details on more! Via Megan Not Martha.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
In her blog, author Jo Beverley treats us to bits of historical research that don't fit into her novels but are too good to waste. In this episode, French traveler Louis Simond reports on how the English (those of middle to upper incomes) were housed in London during the Regency. "These narrow houses, three or four stories high,--one for eating, one for sleeping, a third for company, a fourth under ground for the kitchen, a fifth perhaps at top for the servants,--and the agility, the ease, the quickness with which the individuals of the family run up and down, and perch on different stories, give the idea of a cage with sticks and birds. The plan of these houses is very simple, two rooms on each story; one in the front, with two or three windows looking on the street, the other on a yard behind, often very small; the stairs generally taken out of the breadth of the back-room. The ground-floor is usually elevated a few feet above the level of the street, and separated from it by an area, a sort of ditch, a few feet wide, generally from three to eight, and six to eight feet deep, inclosed by an iron railing; the windows of the kitchen are in this area."
(tags: JoBeverley, Regency, Author)
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Monday, May 15, 2006
The Big Top of the Cirque du Soleil, visible from 520 as you drive by Marymoor Park in Redmond, looks so festive and tempting. And I've always wanted to see the Cirque. -- this show is Verekai. Has anyone sat in the cheap seats? Thirty five bucks versus 70 bucks makes a difference. You can see what might be your view from various sections by clicking on the seating map.
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Friday, May 12, 2006
Wednesday, May 17, it's the Seattle Weblog Meetup! Start time is 7 pm, location is Ralph's Grocery and Deli, 2035 4th Ave, in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, diagonally across from the Cinerama (map). Free WiFi, and food and drink are available (you can buy anything in the store and consume it in the deli area, so that includes wine and beer if you want). Local and visiting webloggers talk about blog topics and lots else. I hope to see you there! Parking can be tight in the neighborhood but I usually find a space on Sixth or pay to park in the Warwick Hotel garage across the street for five bucks. You can show up even if you are late; there are usually folks hanging out until nine pm or so.
(tags: SeattleMeetup, weblogs, blogs, blogMeetup, WeblogMeetup, Seattle)
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
My brother was asking me where Trailer Park Girl had gone to as her former blog location was turning up 404 -- he's a fan of her blog as I am. Luckily she turned up in my referrers at a new URL! Now we can keep up with her activities at the permaculture school and her various road trips (one should take the opportunities to travel if one lives in a trailer, yes?).
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Friday, May 5, 2006
Jack is getting ready for a business trip next week. We should have been doing research at Magellan's Travel Supplies ahead of time! Lots of travel advice as well as products (web specials, too!). A Time Wheel will keep you from getting confused about the date line.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Ross MacDonald, an illustrator, writer and commercial artist, has also created bunches of prop books, drawings, and documents for movies. Fascinating! For Capote: "In addition to being a cold blooded killer, Perry Smith was also an amateur artist - the only example of his actual art I had was his drawing of Jesus, which he had done in prison for the chaplain. Based on that single example, I had to imagine his style - an amalgam of sensitive slightly childlike drawing and prison art." For The Legend of Zorro: "The script originally described this book as 'thousands of years old' and 'printed on papyrus'. Since the book described events from the crusades I explained that it would actually have been hundreds, not thousands of years old, and that historically no one printed on papyrus, an early form of paper woven from reeds, used by the ancient Egyptians. I recommended doing the book in the style of the earliest printed books of fifteenth century. All interior pages were designed and composed using latin text and woodcuts from that period."
Via Hungry Tiger's LINKALICIOUS aka del.icio.us. Isn't Ross MacDonald a fannish name? Ah, I'm thinking of the mystery author.
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