Getting underway at the #sstc!
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A Lifestream Experiment
A downtown Tacoma resident for 7 years and counting, Erik covers the arts, technology, and politics with a smattering of travel blogging thrown in. Email him at erikemery (at) gmail (dot) com.
I'm on a panel about non-profits and technology at the SSTC tomorrow ...
I'll be part of a small panel tomorrow at the South Sound Technology Conference on non-profits and technology.
With me with be Scott Kuehn, from Topia Technology, who volunteers his technical expertise with the UW Genome Science group. Should be interesting! See the whole schedule here.I'll be twittering throughout the day I hope.
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Dennis Seinfeld Emerging Leader Award Lunch today!
I'm busy most of the day getting ready for (and then wrapping up) the City Club Leadership Lunch.
I'll start brainstorming something interesting to say when I've got a little more time for blogging later.
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Lauren Bacall wins!
via nydailynews.com
I'm always a fan of her. I like this especially:
"I can't believe it - a man at last," quipped Bacall, as she accepted an honorary Oscar over the weekend. "The thought that when I get home I'm going to have a two-legged man in my room is so exciting."
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The 1991 Beard and Moustache Competition in Tacoma
via exit133.com
You most definitely should watch this video. Great find at Exit133!
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Ha! Trekkies on Vacation
“If you’re a travel journalist, does that mean you’ve come here to write about us?”
“Yes, as a matter of fact I’ll be writing about everything that happens on this cruise.”
A woman in the front row wrinkles her brow at me. “So that means you’re kind of like the Talosians from ‘The Menagerie,’” she says.
“Talosians?”
“Yes, the Talosians,” she says. She gazes at me for a beat. “You’ve come to observe our behavior like we were animals in a zoo.”
I give the woman a neutral look; I’m not sure what she’s talking about.
“Season one, episode 11,” the guy in the back offers. “Original series.”
“I guess I didn’t see that one,” I say finally.
Fifty or so people stare at me with a mixture of pity and disbelief: It’s as if I just told them I’ve never seen a sunrise.
via worldhum.com
First in a 5-part series at World Hum.
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Ouch. Re-reading things you wrote years ago can be painful.
While editing a novel I finished back in 2002, I found this humdinger.
I was surprised, though, to see that the door was already cracked open. And through that vertical aperture I heard a voice inside, and my stomach clenched.
Vertical aperture? I want to wring the neck of that 23-year-old English major.
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First Streetcar Line Will Be MLK?
the City Manager announced that the next streetcar line will most likely be on MLK. He said the city is pursuing that route because of an LID underway in that area - and because of the muscle power of Multicare at one end of Hilltop and the Franciscans at the other end. He also said it might be built out of sequence with a planned extension of the downtown LINK streetcar up Stadium Way.
via i.feedtacoma.com
This via Morgan's Brain on FeedTacoma.
I think it's an interesting idea, and if it means getting rail in the ground sooner rather than later, I'm for it.
Connecting the two hospitals, and then wrapping the LINK up Stadium Way and connecting the two lines at Multicare seems to make sense.
But, and here I agree with Morgan, I wouldn't want it to detract from a line up 6th Ave, which makes the most sense to me, especially connecting that line to TCC and eventually the UP Town Center.
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