Seattle goings on
About 11am. J, from the kitchen: There’s a guy walking past the houe with a giant fish! Me: WHAT?! J: Look outside. He’s walking past the house with a huge salmon. Me, getting up from my desk, going to the front window. J: See, he just set the fish down on the grass next door. …
Jason Solarek, the design guy behind Air Wear sent me a box o’ swag with my airport code on it – that’s SEA in case you’re wondering. I’ll tell you what I told him – those snappy airport logos make my eyeballs happy. I’m using the notebook for a project I’m starting today – and …
Occidental Park should be grand – it’s a lovely brick plaza with big leafy trees and totem poles, but more often than not it’s a gathering place for forgotten people. The plaza is often littered with wet trash and, let’s face, it can be kind of smelly. Every now and then, it gets a nice …
This morning our house is chock-a-block with jetlagged Austrians, they’re stacked like cord wood down in the basement. (If you’ve been to Austria, you know they are very skilled at stacking. They are a stacking people, a nation of stackers. ) Last night, we took them for pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) which I swear is …
I don’t make a lot of money from the ads you see here on Nerd’s Eye View, enough to keep me in web hosting and the occasional side purchase – Nerd’s Eye View t-shirts, postcards or photo books, that sort of thing. I did buy a fancy camera last year before we went to Hawaii …