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Monthly Archives: May 2003

Awkward Fit

Saturday, May 31, 2003

I don’t wear these jeans very often - the pair that has my usual waist size and inseam size inverted - they’re an inch short in the leg and an inch too wide at the waist. The bit of extra exposed ankle leaves room for a surprising amount of ventilation. The pants drape [...]

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Transportation

Friday, May 30, 2003

Photo Friday: Transportation
Sea-Tac Airport - 4/8/02

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Getting Dark Late

Thursday, May 29, 2003

On a late night walk along Lake Union, past the lakeside chain restaurants and through a quiet street of warehouses, I saw an anonymous white van parked in an otherwise abandoned parking strip. I could just make out the figure of a man framed by the driver’s side window. He had the same profile as Lenin.

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What I Was Writing About

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Olive Way
I was writing about the musty Datsun Honey Bee my parents had when I was a kid. (My sister claims that the bee decals that decorated either side of the car were mismatched, but I don’t remember that.) Writing about that car transitioned into a list of the things I remembered about [...]

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Orange

Monday, May 26, 2003

Three views of Seattle

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Waiting Outside

Sunday, May 25, 2003

The same dog from the other day - the more excitable one - was running around yesterday for the hour or two that I was at Bauhaus. He was playing with anyone who lingered. He was sniffing around an old man’s boot, and the man tried to shake him by turning away from [...]

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Overlooked

Friday, May 23, 2003

Photo Friday: Overlooked
MyLackey.com closed down 2 1/2 years ago, and this advertisement is still up in Belltown.
I’m puzzling over this quote about the company from a high school classmate of mine who worked there: “As anybody in the dot-com industry can tell you, whoever is willing to put in the time and effort [...]

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The Tie

Thursday, May 22, 2003

There’s a tie hanging in a padlocked parking attendant’s booth. It’s a cheap black tie with a collapsed half-Windsor knot still tied in it, the stretched-out loop hung over a hook. It’s been there for months, ever since the parking lot was transitioned from an attended lot to a self-service lot. Did [...]

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Some Things

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Pier 62/63

They were painting the top of the Space Needle blue. It was hard to judge whether the irregular little dots up there were people moving around or if they were fixed pieces of equipment.
A bird landed on the little bundle of cables that runs out of a hole near the top of a [...]

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Declaration

Monday, May 19, 2003

The governing body of such things has declared that today shall henceforth be known as Backup Your Files and Your Databases Day in Struat.com, Apt. D-3 (and hell, how about Apt. 3-G, too), the Reservoir Park, and in all Territories and Protectorates Thereof (because the next hacker might do more than just replace the index.html [...]

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