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Oh the places you’ll go!
I ran across a neat tool to build a map of all the places in the world you’ve been. Really you can use it to highlight any set of countries you want, but the suggested usage is to show the places...
View Article80% chance of rain in Seattle
The forecast today calls for an 80% chance of rain. Traditionally this means that 80% of the time it will rain, but that there’s a 20% chance it won’t rain at all. Here in Seattle we interpret those...
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Free IP-geo location services
I’ve been installing OS’s a bunch lately. Every time I do the installer asks me what part of the world I’m in so it can set the timezone. This totally seems like 20th century technology to me. There...
View ArticlePinke: The final answer to “Pike or Pine?”
Pike or Pine? For those of us who live in Seattle, this is an eternal question. Often rhetorical. The two streets run parallel from downtown through Capitol Hill and nobody can keep them straight....
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Interesting Times in China
"May you live in interesting times." -Ancient Chinese Proverb (actually, it isn’t.) The idea behind this saying is that times of rapid change are generally quite painful. Historically interesting...
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100% Chance of Rain in Seattle
I’ve had my own system for interpreting that "chance of rain" numbers that meteorologists use to predict weather. Along the lines of how people say eskimos have 137 different words for snow, here in...
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Co-housing: We are not alone
One point I didn’t get a chance to make in my Ignite talk on Advanced Co-housing Techniques is that we are not alone. It’s easy to listen to one guy singing on stage about how happy he is in his...
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