Archive for the 'Seattle' Category

New park in Seattle

31 March 2009

I saw a couple posts on the Seattlest group on flickr from a new park; the gentleman opined that this park may well become the new Kerry Park. I agree. The park is so new the signs consist of blue tape and paper:

New Park

There isn’t much to do in the park but sit and look at the city; it is all of perhaps twenty feet front to back. I dig the little basalt columns; I thought they were bike racks at first, but they appear to just be.

The park

Smith Tower shows a new (to me) side:

Smith Tower

One bit of urban blight dominates:Urban Blight

Forturnately, a step or two south improves the view:

Urban Renewal

Here’s a little pano from the south end of the park; I imagine when the sunsets clear up, this will be heavily populated. Click for a much larger version:

Seattle pano from south end of park

Walking around

27 March 2009

I joined a group of four other Seattle-area unemployed people at Discovery Park this morning for a walk around the top of the bluffs; this turned out to be a three mile walk on very easy trails. While the walk itself wasn’t an issue, my left boot loosened up at about mile two and I couldn’t get it to stay tight. This cost me a half-dollar sized patch of my ankle skin. Sigh.

We made plans to go for another walk Sunday. I don’t know how many (if any) calories I burned on the walk, but I wasn’t puffing or anything at the end. I suspect that wouldn’t be the case if we’d walked down the 200 feet or so to the beach.

Attitude

23 March 2009

I keep reading comments on Seattle’s 911 blog along the lines of:

If only he’d had a gun…

they could have taken it from him along with his money, or just shot him with theirs if he pulled it on them…

Or he could have run to a well-lit area and shot his assailants. He didn’t have the option because he wasn’t carrying; carrying a firearm adds options and forecloses others.

Did you know WSDOT has an RSS feed for Snoqualmie Pass conditions?

8 March 2009

Well, I made the ad at least

8 February 2009

Last year, I wrote about Man v Food being filmed at Beth’s in Seattle. It looks like I at least made the ad; we’ll see if I made the episode as well.

Man versus Food @ Beth’s Cafe

14 December 2008

Potentially continuing my streak of getting airtime via no skill or talent of my own, I rode the coat-tails of Adam and Man Versus Food at Beth’s Cafe today. I say potentially, as I very well may end up on the cutting room floor; if I don’t, however, here’s how to recognize me:

My hat, with dillo

Big furry hat with LaRue Tactial Beverage Entry Tool (‘dillo). I showed up about 1500; looking at the schedule, they’d already been on location for 5 hours at that point. I took my usual place at the bar and snapped a picture of the talent:

Man v Food @ Beth's Cafe

This is Adam and Dave cooking the “talent” omelet. In all, four omelets were cooked – talent, stunt, and the two (!) that were eaten. More on this later. Adam mugging with the talent omelet:

Adam poses with the talent omelet

This omelet was eaten by someone the owner knows that was hanging around. Here is the stunt omelet being cooked:

Camera man films stunt omelet

This is Adam doing the cold open for the next segment using the stunt omelet. This one was eaten by the manager; I can never remember his name.

Adam of Man versus Food @ Beth's Cafe

You can see the glove Adam wears to protect himself from the hot tray. The production staff was prepared for everything! This is one of the few shots I took of the “competition” room; the producer asked me not to have the camera out while they were taping:

Adam and makeup artist

One of the Beth’s regulars (also named Adam) showed up and challenged Adam to an eat-off. I won’t give the ending away, but both Adams put down a prodigious amount of grub. There were 24 eggs up for grabs!

I was in the background of a lot of shots (hard not to be when there were only a dozen people in the background); I also got interviewed by the producer, and got to ask a question at the end. I think one of my segments with the producer may make the air, as I mentioned Alan had eaten a 12 egg omelet when he was 15. Unfortunately, I followed that up with a three-take try on answering another question; take two ended with a “fuck”. On take three, I mentioned the ar15.com thread.

Before last night, I’d never heard of the show; I saw a blog post somewhere that they were filming at Red Mill Saturday, with Beth’s set for Sunday at 15:00. I was there for about three hours; when I left, they still had a couple hours on the schedule.

One of the crew members said something pretty strange; if you ask me in person, I’ll tell you what she said. I’m not saying it in writing; she might hunt me down.

Regardless, it was neat to see what all goes into a location shoot. I wonder if Adam had a six dollar shake for the road? No, no I don’t.

How archaic

10 March 2008

Ashtray

I’m sure if you tried to use it, a smoke alarm would go off.

Talk about a white tail

15 February 2008

No N number on this bird. Parked in military parking at BFI.

New 737s

13 February 2008

Shot at RNT:

RyanAir & 2527

JAL & Southwest

Kicking around Seattle

10 February 2008

Panoramas from today. As usualy, click for the much larger version. From Kerry Park; Joe’s account has more background.

Seattle waterfront (70mm, handheld):
Seattle waterfront from Kerry Park

Space Needle (300mm, handheld):
Space Needle panorama

Space Needle uncropped (I like the bug in the panorama program):
Space Needle panorama - uncropped

Downtown Seattle (70mm handheld):
Downtown Seattle panorama

Other Seattle panoramas here, here, here, and here.