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RE: Not That Suddenly...
oh, I guess I was just oblivious! I walk by there every day and never noticed the sign.
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RE: huh?
Andrew - you're comparing a freeway bridge to an apartment complex, not a valid comparison IMO. and re: window size - I'm not going to blame SHA for not designing their apartments like mental hospitals.
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KOMO
haha - Holding a camera pointed at a TV screen, and throwing in ONE "and Capitol Hill"? Is that really the best they could pull off down at their multi-bajillion dollar telecom hub?
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RE: ebooks anyone
wow, OK! never mind then!
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RE: ebooks anyone
I have a feeling you're going to be waiting a long time! I don't see publishers allowing that any time soon without a huge fight.
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RE: On Second Thought
first off Paul, if you click on my username I have my picture, my name and my website all there in my profile, I'm not trying to be anonymous. I just happen to have a dumb username on this site that I made when I had no idea I'd be writing/ making videos for the site. I'll let Justin speak for himself on the headline... but no, I'm not 'ashamed' of myself for it, it's clearly tongue in cheek. Not sure what your point is about your conversation with Kris. It sounds like you guys had a constructive conversation, but I don't see what that has to do with this post. As for your claim that I went in and "wound him up" and pulled out only the most controversial parts... that's just not true, and you have no way of knowing either of those things since you weren't at the interview and can't see what I cut from it. Sure, I did pull some of his more controversial points, and I cut out a lot of other stuff, I pulled the points that I found to be interesting... it's called EDITING. I do it, you do it, all your co-workers at the Stranger do it. Not sure why you're surprised about this. Trust me, if I wanted to make Kris look bad, I could've gone down a very different path. But thanks for riding over on your high horse and checking out CHS! David Albright
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Leave the Car!
I like it up there.
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RE: Another view
Being able to see a piece of art through a gallery window is not the same as this situation. This art is not just visible from public space, it IS public space. It is literally a part of the public right of way, since it is a part of the sidewalk. I guess I can't really blame the artist for protecting his copyright, but I really don't like the idea of anyone, artists or corporations owning a copyright on a public space.
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RE: Man shot
actually it's 707 E Roy...
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RE: Which Building
yeah, in the building in the bottom photo, I live in the building too. They're not letting anyone onto the first floor.
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Affordable Housing
"For her part, Dunn's planning to build 60 units of affordable housing around the corner from the Agnes Lofts on 11th Avenue in part, she says, to help keep the area diverse." I guess she must be talking about this development? ... none of the previous posts mention they're affordable housing though.
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@Tony - who is saying anything about a "massive populist movement?" you're the only one as far as I can tell. Straw Man arguments are not helpful.
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park
I like Summit Park or I-5 Shores Park, but I have a feeling it's going to end up being Perugia Park. The Parks people seemed to make a point of saying that they were just delaying the decision until the trial wasn't so fresh in everyone's minds, I don't think they said anything about re-evaluating their decision.
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cool pic
damn those are some serious power lines. And what is that, a bell tower about a block down on the right?
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third man video
awesome, glad to hear a local brick & mortar is taking on Netflix, if they have good enough selection I might just switch.
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RE: Picture it as a bus route
I agree about that map, I don't really see how it supports the 12th Ave alignment and it's actually one of the things that is making me lean toward the Broadway alignment.
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park
I think the last paragraph of the Unpaving Paradise statement hits it right on the head... the Seattle-Perugia Sister City Association should put some time/ effort into helping develop or plan a park, then as a community we'd be happy to let them name the park whatever they want.
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crosswalks?
what ever happened with those crosswalks we were supposed to get along Olive?
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RE: Taco Time Bldg on Madison
yeah! save the stand-alone fast food restaurant close to downtown so we can be more like Paris. Paris would never allow midrise mixed use buildings!
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RE: Does anyone really care?
it's the first thing I thought of when I saw the name.
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RE: drop a buck in his case
i did... you can reimburse me later ; )
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Still can't decide!
I'm always shocked when towards the end of an election there's still "undecided voters", but somehow after observing this debate for months and months I'm still undecided on this. At this point, I'm leaning towards Broadway or Boren because I really think that since this project was created to serve First Hill, it should stay in First Hill. Someone on STB brought up the idea of keeping the streetcar in First Hill, and moving some bus service to 12th... that seems pretty fair to me.
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boring
I can't really speak to the details of the design but just based on those pictures, I think it looked better before, especially in picture 3. Looks to me like "simplifying the massing" just turned it into another generic, flat walled breadbox (albeit with one pointy side) that we already have too many of. Design review seems to do an ok job with making sure the building functions well (like the parking entrance changes you mentioned) but buildings seem to always come out of the design review process looking more generic than when they went in.
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RE: Benches
hhmm... interesting, I always assumed they pre-dated the apartments behind them.
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more
there's also a good first person account of what it was like on Capitol Hill by Ben Dunn at Geekscape... http://geekscape.net/features/15b7fbac0d900e87eb875b9aea44d0 "I was a student in my Sophmore year at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Life was pretty good. I had just gotten an apartment with a few friends in the Capitol Hill area... I was going to the grocery store at around 6pm (curfew started at 7pm) when I heard shouting coming from down the street toward the store. As I neared the store I saw that there was a large group gathered at the end of the intersection. When I got close enough I saw that on the other side was a group of riot police blocking off the road. Everyone has seen cops in riot gear on TV or in movies, but there is something completely different about seeing them face to face and knowing that you are on the WRONG side of their shield."
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same as last year
off to visit family in North Seattle. Happy Thanksgiving!
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nice
great article Josh.
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RE: A few missing things
thanks for your comments uhura. re: "this article makes a pretty big presumption that everyone knows of and accepts the "well-established coffee scene on the Hill"" It wasn't my intention to knock Jacob for not knowing the coffee scene. I actually felt like he probably had a lot more to say about it than he would say on camera, which is what really reinforced the corporate image for me. He said that he had visited all the neighboring coffee shops, and I'm sure he had personal feelings about which one he liked best, and what he liked and didn't like about each one. But still, all he'd say on camera was that they all made great coffee. That's just part of the game when you're representing a company so I don't fault him for that, but it just reminded me that this wasn't a guy speaking for himself, he was speaking for Starbucks.
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partners?
I don't know how deep their partnership runs, but KOMO and the pi are "media partners." So not only are they attempting to competing with CHS without devoting any extra resources, they're also competing against their own media partners. Strange.
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Routing
I've been undecided on where I think this streetcar should go. But after spending a couple days here in Portland and checking out their transit, I'm definitely in favor the 12th/ Broadway loop. The Portland streetcar (and MAX downtown) runs on parallel streets most of it's route and it seems to work great. And as I've said a in countless comments and will say again, the streetcar really should to be taken to it's logical end point, Broadway and E Roy, if not all the way to Aloha.
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RE: Perhaps it is a business on the decline?
I don't see the end of printed books any time soon, but it does seem like we're seeing the end of the small independent neighborhood bookstore. A lot of them have closed recently, and when was the last time a new one opened? It seems like the successful independent bookstores now are the big destination stores, like Powells in Portland or Village Books in Bellingham.
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RE: Respect for Police
Agreed. Police deserve extra respect, especially after they've been killed in the line of duty, and it's really too bad they're not getting that respect it in this comment thread so far. They do their jobs in public, and their jobs are to protect the public so it seems fitting to me that they also be honored in public, even if it means a disruption to someones commute.
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Thanks
Thanks for the ideas gerwitz... interview is up http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2009/11/04/my-interview-wi
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RE: faux historicism
how is the Packard building any better than this one? looks pretty much the same to me.
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RE: Thanks!
yeah I do take requests (although no guarantees I'll do them all!), and I set up a forum thread for just that purpose. http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/forums/2009/10/13/capitol-
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Re: suggestion
yep, definitely plan on doing Pike on a weekend night... just gotta wait until I have a weekend night with nothing to do!
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RE: Exit only
actually the real tisk tisk goes to the Ford Explorer (at the start of that same shot) that almost hit the biker that you can see right next to it. The way I cropped it you can't tell, but they were having a stare down and arguing pretty loudly, you can barely here the biker say something like "you may go now" at 1:02. I liked the shot because it showed how chaotic it can be between peds and cars around here.
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The most pointless comment ever
and thanks for re-stating what I already said in the post.
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parking
haha, nice. reminds me of this picture gallery that was just up on StreetsBlog... http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/10/16/space-hogs-where-you-l
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my solution
http://chs.uservoice.com/pages/13380-general/suggestions/356
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RE: Impressions
Mike G, I don't remember Mallahan appologizing for using "customer" and in fact, he said it again (in the exact same context) in the Kiro 7 debate.
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RE: Mallahan
Ok well I half-retract my last comment. McGinn is definitely being much more concise and direct in the KIRO 7 debate right now, than he was being last night.
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Mallahan
I agree that the description of the citizens as "customers" was off-putting, but overall I was actually impressed with Mallahan at the forum. McGinn's still got my vote, but Mallahan seemed more in tuned with the issues than I expected. Mallahans speaking style was much more clear and straight forward than McGinns, which works better in a campaign setting. McGinn is kind of like Obama in that when he answers a question he gives some background, and goes into a lot of detail and qualifications. That's good for fostering dialog, not so good for campaigning, when the media is always looking for short sound bites.
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RE: ...
curious... what do you like about Capitol Hill, if not the people?
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Daybreak
I'd be all for co-housing on Capitol Hill... as long as it looks better than the Daybreak community you have a picture of there.
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Thanks
Thanks for the feedback everyone. @Mike With Curls - the sports field is not in it because I couldn't see it from the spot I picked. The idea is to pick one singular spot and look around from there. I did move my tripod once but only about 10 feet. And yes, it could move a lot faster, and I also could've added techno music and flashing lights, but that kind of defeats the purpose of an ambient shot now doesn't it? :) @JanaF - yes I thought about that while I was shooting and while I was editing. But how do you show a place without the people in it? If I were shooting people secretively that would be one thing, but I promise you I stick out like a sore thumb with my big tripod, camera and bags.
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zebra club
I heard from an even more reliable source (my girlfriend), who heard from a Zero Zero employee that Zero Zer has plans to take over the space, and turn their current space into something arts related... art/cafe maybe? can't remember exactly. On 9/27 via twitter @zebraclub_store said "Today is the last day that the c.hill store is open. Don't fret though, we should be up and running again in no time! 85% off all day today"... That seems to conflict with what the employee said, and Zero Zeros apparent plan. When I asked an employee at the Capitol Hill store a couple weeks ago if they were closing (based on the 85% off everything sale) she said no... so sounds like the employees there might not really be in the loop as to what's going on with the stores!
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small pics
sorry to be a knit picker. But those pictures would look a lot better if they filled the width of the column. And it's easy to fix, just change the dimensions in the embed code.
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RE: .
it was me... and to clarify, your comment wasn't specifically held for moderation, ALL comments from unregistered users have to be approved by a moderator before they go on the site, that's why there was a delay in your comment showing up on CHS.
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RE: I'm glad I voted against this tax of working people
if this fee didn't target the ones "causing the pollution" (I assume you're referring to the the plastics industry) why would they put $1.4 million in to stop it? That said... I'm not heartbroken that this didn't pass, we should've done an all out ban like Edmonds, it just makes so much more sense in the long term.
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RE: Komo pulled the post
but they erased all the comments that were there on the post... which I must say is pretty hilarious because the only comments that were there, were Z-O accusing CHS of censoring comments, then KOMO went and deleted the whole comment thread. So Z-O, aren't you going to rant here about KOMO censoring your comments about CHS censoring your comments?
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Komo pulled the post
this is a required field
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fancy shmancy
what's up with all these fancy shmancy wine meetups? how about a pitcher of Hamms meetup at Lindas?
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Old Starbucks
I wonder if this means they're going to close the Starbucks at Broadway and E Republican... just two blocks south.
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congrats!
It's too bad the pi didn't take this approach... it seems like it would've made so much more sense for them to do this kind of a partnership.
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power
I'm right in the middle of the approximate area on that map and my power has been fine. E Roy @ Boylston.
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RE: Tazo + Clover = Starbucks........... Duh
to answer your questions in the first paragraph... yes, to a lot of us it does matter.
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Hey PBS
Call me up next time I'll go out and shoot some video for you so you can have something besides just still photos and an audio-only interview for the segment!
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RE: people-watching and leaving the park are suspicious actions?
obviously these guys weren't just "people watching and leaving the park" Phil...
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Mayor of Capitol Hill?
I have nothing against this guy, but what has he done to justify calling himself the mayor of Capitol Hill? anything?
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RE: referendum?
Yes, Some Dude - my thoughts exactly!
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The blue angels are awesome.
You don't have to love every single event that happens in your city. There are enough people that love the blue angels and look forward to them every year to make them worth it. So quit yer bitchin'!
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RE: You people...
I don't hate Starbucks, and I do appreciate that they're trying something different... I just think it's funny how hard they're trying to cultivate a community feel. And they're just so clumsy in how they're going about it; sending "observers" to indy coffee shops, calling the media to tell people to come post stuff on their message boards. It just plays into their image of being out of touch and overly-corporate.
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haha
this is kind of funny... it just shows how Starbucks wants the message board as a decorative piece to add to the "community feel." A real coffee shop would put up a message board and wait for the community to start using it (which they would), not contact the press and ask them to beg for the community to come use their board... Starbucks, you are trying way too hard.
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RE: Lakeview overpass supposedly closed
closed, meaning closed to cars? or closed to people standing on the overpass watching the fireworks? I'm pretty sure I remember that last year it was full of people watching the fireworks... but maybe not.
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RE: Thanks to everyone who came and voted!
Jennifer Power = Comrade Bunny?! Do any of the other officers have CHS accounts? (besides JoshMahar of course)... Seems like it would've been an obvious question and an easy way to get to know the candidates better BEFORE the election, but it didn't even occur to me. Anyways... congrats to all the winners!
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CHCC Voting
Do we have to be present at the meeting to vote?
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Chinese Food
It's probably my fault for how I wrote the headline... but you all seem to be ignoring the fact that this place says it's CHINESE and Vietnamese Food. Maybe this place IS the good, cheap Chinese food you've all been waiting for!
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oops
meant to vote thumbs up but accidentally hit the thumbs down instead, sorry!
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David Albright?
who the hell is David Albright?
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Moderator
Totally agree with the comments about the moderator. Does anyone know who he was? I thought he mentioned at the beginning that he went to film school with Spike, which made me think that Spike was friends with him or chose him as moderator or something. That made me feel not so bad about the awful questioning, but if SIFF chose him as moderator then I agree... how embarrassing for SIFF.
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RE: cranky pants
I don't see anything 'cranky' about zeebleoops comment either, seems to me like a completely rational counterpoint to Brotmans claims. it certainly doesn't warrant being hidden "below viewing threshold."
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Jack in the Box
Seattle Sketchers take on the Jack in the Box. >http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seattlesketcher/200918
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RE: re: meh
wasn't going to comment on the technical aspects of the video, but since it was already brought up... The audio was artifacty, but it was understandable for the most part, except in a couple spots where the music overpowered the narration. A pretty common mistake is to mix the music too loud, and the narration too quiet, as is the case around 2:54-ish. But good video, and great ideas, I didn't find it overly melodramatic. Good luck!
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hipster olympics
this reminds me of the hipster olympics... http://current.com/items/88832801_hipster-olympics.htm
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RE: Curb Bulbs
yeah I see the bulbs... i still think they're curb bulbs though not bus bulbs. If they were bus bulbs they wouldn't have crosswalks coming out of them.
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Curb Bulbs
great to hear about the curb bulbs, pike and pine definitely need them. It looks to me like that second before/ after picture is actually of curb bulbs rather than bus bulbs, since they're at the intersection and have crosswalks coming out of them. Bus bulbs would be in the middle of a block instead of at an intersection.
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Olive
Summit and Mercer?! Does that mean No Space is leaving? There are no empty retail front there right now so something must be leaving. I did notice about a week ago No Space had written in sharpie on the wall, "Goodbye Seattle, New York loves me," or something like that, so I guess that would make some sense.
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Eat Drink and Be Merry
I definitely wont be missing Eat Drink and Be Merry! That space needs something bigger. They're in a big wide open space, but they're these small, mostly transparent, hard to make out figures... they seem out of place. I'm sure they'd look better somewhere else.
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RE: On second thought...
I'm with you on that. At first the idea sounded like a good one, but the more I think about it the more it seems like a national issue rather than a local one. In the long term it would be great for the national economy to have faster and more widespread internet, but I don't necessarily think it should be a top priority of our mayor. If the video was on youtube I'd put one of those little pop-up boxes that says "comment redacted." but it's not... so TOO LATE!
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RE: pedestrian entitlement
"There is a sense of entitlement that pedestrians have that they have the right away." -- That's because they DO have the right of way, at marked OR unmarked crosswalks (AKA every intersection). Drivers must yield to pedestrians at intersections - Vehicles shall stop at intersections to allow pedestrians and bicycles to cross the road within a marked or unmarked crosswalk (RCW 46.61.235).
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RE: Changs?
Was going to mention in my post but forgot... that coming to Chang's is my ONLY childhood memory of Capitol Hill, so you can't blame me for not remembering Sizzler! Growing up in Lake Shitty I never ventured south much except to go the Ave or Downtown.
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RE: P-I news boxes
you might be thinking of this video i took of a bunch of PI boxes in a dumpster at the Seattle Times distribution center... http://dalbright.com/blog/?p=89
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North Side
Regardless of where it goes on the South side... I think it should definitely go all the way to E Roy. The commercial strip of Broadway has a pretty clear end point on the North side, why not just take it all the way? It'll be within reach of a lot more housing up there on the North Broadway/10th too. Also would make for much easier access to Volunteer Park for a lot of people.
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all bad
this is all bad news seeing as I have to get up early in the morning and drive to Bellingham.
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RE: why...
HC - the only opinion in this post is that the note leaver was overly aggressive, there is no judgement there about how the scooter should've parked. In somewhat related news, I saw a smartcar on First Hill getting a ticket for parking sideways in a parking spot, like this... http://www.flickr.com/photos/schneelocke/358978171/ damned if you do, damned if you don't i guess.
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RE: like a Woonerf
yeah, I just saw this 'The Southlake' article on the woonerf that's part of the coming Yale Street Campus http://www.thesouthlake.com/2008/05/whats-woonerf.html Looks cool, I just hope these get used enough to make them work. I also hope they don't actually try to call them woonerfs (or Mews's). If we want these to be more than a fad or oddity... just call them streets!
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RE: I don't get it
it's cutting off my link too... But the scene I was talking about is at 68 Rambla dels Caputxins, Barcelona, CT, España
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RE: I don't get it
Seems crazy to us but yes, the restaurants on Las Ramblas have servers that come out of the restaurant and cross the one lane of traffic to serve people, and it works surprisingly well. I don't know if that arrangement would work as well here in the US, cars and peds seems to coexist much better in Europe than here. In this street view, the seating on the right of the traffic lane belongs to the little orange restaurant on the left. This arrangement is duplicated many times on La Rambla. http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=la+rambla+barcel,2.173791&spn=0.028305,0.045447&t=h&z=15&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=41.380649,2.173865&panoid=enGT3_cky22vcPFIgxR1aw&cbp=12,145.06243566373632,,0,5 If this actually were to happen, you're right, it would make much more sense for a restaurant on the North side of the street to utilize that seating, but there's not one there at the moment, so in my fantasy land it belongs to Vita and Quinns.
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RE: Seasick
yeah, definitely seasick. not a horrible concept but the execution is so bad it's almost funny. Maybe if it was full screen and the movements weren't so spastic and flashing.
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BUILD IT!
this is great. The Mews is like a mini version of these great little pedestrian only retail streets here in Barcelona, definitely a step in the right direction for Seattle.
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RE: blockshopper
I wouldn't say linking is how they're "going to stay in business." It's just one part of the transformation that they'll have to go through to turn from a 20th century newspaper business model, to a 21st century internet news business model. From my POV the PI is done, they're not going to be able to stay in business in their current form. But hopefully someone will be able to keep the PI brand going using an updated business model. (DISCLAIMER - I may be slightly out of the loop in PI related news, I've been out of the country since Friday)
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RE: You young whippersnappers don't know squat!
That reminds me... in 1994 I LOVED Bill Nye the science guy. I applied to be one of his on camera assistants, or something like that, even though I was probably the shyest kid in the school and would've been terrible on tv.
Comment by cheesecake February 10, 2009	( 0 votes ) Recommend this ( report abuse )

In 1994
I was in 3rd grade at Wedgwood elementary school and living Cedar Park/ Lake City. And I still haven't been to Lindas!
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SeattleIAM
Josh - thanks for posting about this event. I submitted it as a story idea to SeattleIAM.com and they approved it so I will be there covering this event for them. If any of you are there come say hi. I'll probably be pretty easy to find, I'll be the guy with the video camera interviewing people!
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RE: Classifieds coming soon
excellent, forums too?
Comment by cheesecake February 05, 2009	( 0 votes ) Recommend this ( report abuse )

highchairs
not happy about the highchair trend. If I want to be reminded of how annoying kids are I'll go visit Wallingford. (I know I should be happy to see kids around considering my thoughts on families who automatically move to the suburbs when they have kids... but that doesn't make me any less aggravated by their screaming and fun having)
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Summit Cottages
There is are 8 cottages right next to my apartment on Summit about a block and a half North of Top Pot that never get any attention online. I would really love to move into one of them (please add cottages in the I-5 shores to your next residential trajectory question J:) ) I posted a comment about them on hugeasscity asking if anyone knew anything about them and didn't get any response until one day I got the following email from a Legislative Aide for Dow Constantine... -------- I also live in the neighborhood and have been fascinated by this interesting development. When I worked as a journalist, I accompanied a photographer who was taking pictures there for a story on cottage housing regulations. I was also interested in them because of an old poster from the 1920s that a Laurelhurst activist named Kate Hemer made copies of and brought to a neighborhood meeting. It showed a set of little cottages, obviously recently constructed, on a denuded lot next to an elegant Victorian home. The poster itself called for Seattle to adopt a real zoning code (implied threat: or else someone will build something like this next to your house). I am pretty sure that it was a picture of the Summit Avenue Cottages and the home directly to the south, but unfortunately I have no idea what ever happened to my copy of the poster. The message on the poster is especially ironic because, after years of tree growth and many modifications and improvements to the little buildings, the cottages are beautiful and a great part of the neighborhood. I’ve pasted the assessor’s information for the cottages below. They are owned and operated as a condominium. The “year built” listed is 1920—a figure that may be approximate, although the city’s building department might have a more exact date, if you decide to do further investigation. Most of the surrounding homes were built in the year 1904. Not terribly valuable information, I know, but I just thought I’d share it with another admirer of the cottages. James Bush Legislative Aide King County Councilmember Dow Constantine District Eight (206) 296-1697 This e-mail and any response to it constitutes a public record and may be subject to public disclosure. ---------- If someone wants to fill me in on how to do a block quote I'll put the letter in one.
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Drop down menus
Seems to be something funky going on with the drop down menus from the tabs at the top of the page. In Firefox, the "Maps" menu sticks, once it's open it doesn't go away. In Safari, the drop down menus don't appear at all.
Comment by cheesecake February 02, 2009	( +5 votes ) Recommend this ( report abuse ) ( reply )

Nice
looks better. Why does the banner say "CHS Capitol HIll Seattle blog" twice?
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