our library in a scene from battlestar galactica: http://www.kriskrug.com/images/vancouver-library-battlestar-galactica.jpg
i was just in seattle briefly to tour the U-W campus' student union building in advance of a similar project at SFU. how does the university district fit into the city as a whole, culturally? both of vancouver's universities are relatively quite isolated from the city centre.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry to derail the thread. i'm just trying to prompt some similar photos of the seattle library.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
(i assume, minus a dot, that's your email?)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The U-district is certainly in a corner of the city that many can easily avoid if they want to, however, it's really easy to bus to from any central neighborhood in Seattle, really. If you have to try and map central Seattle as a square, the U-district would easily be the NE point of that square... it's not "way the fuck out" there, comparatively speaking, i.e. it's NOT like UBC where it's this place hidden and tucked away west of a mini-forest that separates it from Kitsilano.
That said, UBC is a beautiful campus in a beautiful spot.. and the isolation does give it part of its charm.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
True story: One night about 11:30 p.m.--a weeknight--on Capitol Hill, I was headed to Chop Suey for a show. No traffic, except one car coming from my left. I was about to jay walk and decided, sensibly, to wait for the car to pass. The driver stopped in the middle of the block and waved me across. It's like, "You idiot, I'm waiting for YOU. YOU'RE the one with the 2,000-pound piece of metal that could crush me. GO!"
I really love the U District, one of the places in the city that's retained its funkiness, and especially enjoyable once you're immune to spare-changers, as I've been for a while now. (Though once I did get heckled by a couple spare-changers in Belltown, which was interesting.)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Is it like New York's?
Fugghedaboutit.
It is like Robson St in downtown Vancouver?
Uh, no.
Does it have a lot of cool shops that people gloss over and don't realize exist because people think Capitol Hill is the Soho of Seattle when in fact it's really the fringe art retail neighborhood moreso than anything else?
Definitely.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
"Boy, I wish Nellie hadn't gathered me those sad looking shoes from the Avenue :( "
― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
btw, the U district was a huge part of our life over there - I love the Neptune and the Varsity theaters, the U bookstore, etc etc etc. Also, theater productions at the U, Trader Joe's, Go Center, varied restaurants and other shopping.
― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I even mentioned you there. :)
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 13 August 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link
SEATTLE CROQUET FAP
Jaq and I decided that this coming Sunday (8/20) would work best for both of us. We're calling it 2 p.m. My house. Email me for directions: jergins at gmail dot com. Easy bus access to Phinney ridge.
There will be: food, beer, rum, croquet, music. Who's in? What else?
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Karachi Handshake (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
In case ILX suffers a worse shutdown soon, I will then have everyone's contact info in some form or another for tMG Easy Street FAP thing.. as well as the Sunday Croquet thing.
I won't be here often, due to ILX wonkiness... so contact me! I can be reached at macro at either myspace or 43people dot com, and put a "k" between the "c" and "r". Then I'll tell you my email address.
OK!
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Karachi Handshake (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Croquet! That's me playing in Madison Park. Sadly I can't make croquet on Sunday but I will see you guys Monday night
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 19 August 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Jaq?
― Dreaming of People With Black Eyes,Dressed In Black (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm taking your mom and stepdad out for all night ravin at Decibel Festival. They won't need to sleep.
PLUR, HEH HEH HEH!
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
We're in town to house-hunt that weekend (I start work on 9/25, otherwise I'd join the dow nut for that all night ravin...)
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dreaming of People With Black Eyes,Dressed In Black (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Dude, my mom and stepdad are total e-tards!% Everytime I go to their place, it's like "No, Mom, I don't want see how amazing the door mat feels when you're barefoot."
Thanks for the suggestions guys. A fount of Seattle wisdom you are.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
It wasn't too bad. It was functional. It served its purpose. No bugs or anything. They didn't have any major complaints. You could hear with little effort the guy next door because the rooms have a connecting door, and the walls were pretty thin. Also, the entire perimeter of the connecting door was sealed with masking tape. I can't imagine this was a security measure. Maybe it's to keep out smoke? Either way, it looked classy. Also, no outlet in the bathroom.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Too bad I could never afford to buy a house there. Holy crap. Who's got that kind of loot?
― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Ned, I'm currently somewhere near your town I believe - working 7 days a week though at the Frank Bowerman landfill in Bee Canyon (Irvine?) so I doubt our paths will cross this trip. Hopefully things will be less frantic when I'm back in late Oct/early Nov.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link
jaq i love how you post on a seattle thread knowing ned will read it
― NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
please tell me Bow/Edison, please.
― NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Jaq, the 7 bus runs in Othello 7 days a week I think... maybe not as close as the 48 would. Don't know your exact location though.
I should be up for a Saturday morning/day thing.
So, beer battered waffles?
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Ned is everywhere :) Shelve by color! Shelve by height! Shelve by the third letter of the author's first name! Each set of shelves can have its own theme. There are over 100 banker boxes full of books; plenty to play with. Mr. Jaq is more particular about the records.
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Woodinville.
― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link