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After today, it feels as though Gnomedex is my life! I’m not complaining, though. We’ve been quite busy getting things ready for all of you to descend upon Seattle in just a few short weeks. We announced some ticket price drops today, in the hopes those of you hit [...]
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It’s a good thing I have a friend like Michelle here in Seattle. She’s a gamer - and I am not. I like to play casual games, but I just never [...]
Mentally disturbed woman in Oregon harassing a family building a home on 20 acres:
Homeowner of feared stalker: ‘She thinks she’s the lady of the house’
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Biggest Contribution: Franklin Gutierrez, +15.9%
Biggest Suckfest: Sean White, -32.8%
Most Important AB: Johjima single, +15.2%
Most Important Pitch: Rodriguez homer, -23.1%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): -36.5%
Total Contribution by Lineup: -13.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
(What is this chart?)
The bike store Cyclesport in Park Ridge, NJ was devastated by fire in April. No one was hurt though it was a close call--one of the tenants in the residential part of the building rushed back in to save her cat and could [...]
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Recently, my friend Michelle had come to visit and help me with some video reviews. While she was here, she decided that WE needed to eat chocolate covered grasshoppers. I wasn’t [...]
I didn't know spelling impaired cats liked baseball:Thursday, July 9, is Cheezburger Night with the Seattle Mariners! If you haven’t gotten ur tickets, get urs now! Join Cheezburger and Tofuburger and all of ur Cheez Frendz at Safeco Field' [...]
These days, people are rabid in their thirst to learn more about PHP. If you want to become a programmer, you have to know what you’re doing when it comes to PHP. The following tips were sent in to me by Andrew. They are solid tips, so I wanted to [...]
I don't get terrestrial TV but I do get BS1, and tonight they have the Eagles vs. Fighters game in the Sapporo Dome on. Hooray!We had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness air guitar greatness at El Corazon last week, as one of the three judges for the 2009 Seattle Air Guitar Championships. The spandex was ferocious, the fringe mesmerizing, and the audience filled with royal assholes.
Oh man Seattle, it was: [...]
Boys aren't the only ones getting into fights on ball fields.
The Denver Post reported that the Cheyenne Mountain and Wasson High School girls softball teams were involved in a 30-person brawl on Monday night. According to the article, "a woman who was at the game is suspected of third-degree'" [...]
A crazy thought: Is Dell toying with Microsoft with its stealthy mobile device project?
That's what I wondered after reading the Wall Street Journal story about Dell developing Android-based devices, including a Web tablet slightly bigger than an iPod Touch and phones that could go on sale later this year. [...]
Adrian Beltre is home in Los Angeles, recuperatng from shoulder surgery, Chris Woodward is at thid base and the Seattle Mariners have all but cancelled the Wladimir Balentien-is-the-regular-left fielder experiement.
Ken Griffey Jr. is out there tonight, with Mike Sweeney the designated hitter.
With Endy Chavez on the disabled list, the Mariners [...]
The Windows 7 Professional Upgrade will not be available until October 22, 2009. However, if you want to pre-order now, Amazon has a great deal, which saves you a hundred dollars.
Amazon even gives a price guarantee:
if the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the end [...]
The Seattle Mariners have come up with an intriguing possibility to rework their patchwork infield next weeek - make a second baseman of Yuniesky Betancourt.
With that one move, they could free Jose Lopez to play third in the absence of Adrian Beltre and keep Ronny Cedeno at shortstop.
Betancourt [...]
In today's edition of "count on the Seattle Times comment section for the crazy," we take a look at this simple story about a Spokane couple and their pet baby giraffe. Somehow, the motley commenting crew manages to touch on Bernie Madoff, Michael Jackson, the Times' lack of' [...]
As you might know, my conference (Gnomedex) is headed into its 9th year, this August 20th - 22nd, having come a VERY long way since its inception. We just posted a Gnomedex FAQ a few minutes ago, too.
Would you like to register for Gnomedex? Awesome.
For Gnomedex, everybody [...]
In this excellent VeloNews interview with Lance, Armstrong talks about the tour, and who is really the boss of Astana. Short answer, no one. In a scenario that's played out in the Tour before, Armstrong admits that the leadership isn't exactly certain, and that' [...]
Tacoma native and former Seattle theater stalwart Louis Hobson scored his first Broadway role this year, and it's a great one. Not just a great role, with turns comedic and dramatic, but one that's in a terrific and affecting show. Hobson plays Dr. Madden in [...]
I received an email this morning from Nicole, a lady who is considering attending Gnomedex this year for the first time. She recently started a business based in New York, and had some questions about the conference. The questions are very good ones, and I decided that others may benefit [...]
It's raining in New York, so no batting practice on the field for the Mariners - but lots of tidbits fromt the clubhouse.
The game is now scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. (EST).
Outfielder Ryan Langerhans, as expected, is here and in uniform, taking the roster space of Adrian Beltre.Beltre [...]
National Geographic just released their list of "The Next Big Things," items that are "game changing redesigns" of classic icons of outdoor fun. Instead of picking a multi-thousand-dollar road bike (as is so often the case with glossy travel mags) Geo has gone with a [...]
After the Alice in Chains tour announcement I surfed on over to AliceinChains.com and noticed the band is giving away a "Looking in View," the first single from their forthcoming album "Black Gives Way to Blue." Sure, it's bound to be controversial since it's the first cut the band [...]
Seattle Mariners @ New York Yankees
06/30/09 4:05 PM PDT
Seattle Mariners New York Yankees Ichiro Suzuki - RF Derek Jeter - SS Russell Branyan - 1B Johnny Damon - LF Jose Lopez - 2B Mark Teixeira - 1B Ken Griffey Jr. - "LF" Alex Rodriguez [...]
Michael Darling, the Seattle Art Museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, has assembled a surprisingly cool show with Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1948-1978, which opened last weekend at SAM and runs through Sept. 7. The post-WWII period saw the [...]
The unfortunate deaths of a number of celebrities recently has generated an increase in spam. Add political scandals to the news, and the junk mail really spikes upward. There has been (and will continue to be) a significantly higher volume of this junk email directed at your inbox. Not only [...]
Forrester Research dramatically adjusted its forecast for IT spending in 2009, saying it now expects a 10.6 percent decline instead of the 3 percent drop it predicted at the start of the year.
That's for the globe. In the U.S., Forrester expects a 5.1 percent decline, down from the 3.1 percent [...]
Artist rendering of Bell Street Park From the comments on SeattleTimes.com, you'd think that spending a couple of bucks on a park was High Treason. But Belltown, home to some 10,000 of us, has no park. Yes, it' [...]
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Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates dropped again last week, with the weekly average rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 5.48%, down from 5.58% the week prior. For 15-year mortgages, borrowers were quoted on average, 4.87% and for 5-1 ARMS, 4.65%.
Following several weeks of steady mortgage rate increases, the past two weeks [...]
Considering the 2008 elections occurred, oh, nearly eight months ago, it's hard to believe that some outcomes still aren't determined. Decision 2008 came a little closer to the end today when the activist judges Minnesota Supreme Court, in a 5-0 ruling, ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as' [...]
Morrow vs Chamberlain, 4:05 pm.
Brandon Morrow is an extreme flyball pitcher who gets torched by left-handed batters. New Yankee Stadium is turning more fly balls into home runs than any other park in baseball this year, and the benefit is going almost entirely to left-handed hitters pulling the [...]
While the Livestrong campaign received several high-profile shots in the arm this week, another group was waging a bicycle campaign to end a disease. The races of Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 took off on the grueling Race Across America, or [...]
The large, white worm at the top is the giant Palouse earthworm, Driloleirus americanus. Below is the southern worm or Aporrectodea trapezoides, which is considered an introduced species. Photo by Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of Idaho © 2005
The giant Palouse earthworm was [...]
To attend a Seahawks training-camp practice:
Step 1: Registration
You must register to attend on the team's Web site, www.seahawks.com. Registration begins on July 16 at 10 a.m., and practice dates and times will be available then. Practice attendance is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Step 2: Parking and transportation
There [...]
In the overlapping sets of Seattle restaurant owners and people who are dicks, there stands Phred Westfall, and it's not because [...]
Last night a motorcycle carrying two people (apparently driving a bit too fast) were screaming down Greenwood Avenue around 8:48 p.m., when they collided smack-dab into a car turning left onto 102nd Street. The cause of the crash has not been confirmed, but it did result in both [...]
The good news: Alice in Chains today. The bad: There's no Seattle date. Yet. But you know it's coming. Here's what just arrived in my inbox:
Alice in Chains tour dates
July 18: Detroit, MI (Comerica Park, with Kid Rock)
Aug. 1: Dublin, Ireland (Marlay Park)
Aug. 2: [...]
Seattle: 39-36
New York: 43-32
Another stellar week for the defense, rising four more runs. Expect the trend to [...]
Once the site of a posh country club with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, Meadowdale Beach Park in Lynnwood is now one of the few publicly accessible Puget Sound beaches in the Greater Seattle area. Accessible, that is, via a sometimes-steep 1.25 mile hike from the parking lot through a [...]
The Seahawks announced today the training camp, practice dates that will be open to the public, from Aug. 3 to Aug. 20. The team will use The Landing, a mixed-use facility next to Boeing in Renton, as a staging area for parking. Fans will have to pay $5 to park [...]
ONE SINGULAR SENSATION: James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's award-winning documentary Every Little Step is finally in Seattle, and we think musical and film lovers alike will get a kick out of this new hit. The film follows the legacy of A Chorus [...]
As also noted on the football blog, I'm trying to get some vacation time in this week, so there may be limited activity on here for a little while. For now, however, a few things to pass along. ...
--- As some of you have already linked, ESPN's Jim Caple' [...]
Look we all know about the greatness of Felix Hernandez. And we've seen him make the leap to another level this season. But of course, this being the Northwest and the fact that the four-letter network seems to think the world revolves around the American League East,' [...]
Get your hot, fresh Web browser from Firefox today.
Firefox 3.5, the latest version of the competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, was released today. Developed by open-source company Mozilla in Mountain View, Calif., Firefox has revitalized competition among Web browsers since the first version came out in 2004.
Firefox first introduced [...]
Although I don't keep to a tightly regimented training schedule for bicycling, I usually know my route when I roll down the driveway and I'll stick to it.
Occasionally, though, I just take my bike and head out with no destination in mind. I'm just going out exploring on my bike,' [...]
American celebrities used to be more than television and sport stars. They were newspaper tycoons, gangsters, and real estate moguls, with homes as eccentric as the fellows who lived in them. Still, what they wanted from a home is not so different from the famous folks of today [...]
Yesterday afternoon the City Council was all ayes when it came to the Bell Street Park Boulevard. Design is to finish up this fall, and by next spring, it's all top hats and tails on Bell from First to Fifth. Who's paying? We already agreed to; the P-I point [...]
You know, when the PT Cruiser first came out we were excited to see this brawny, modern hot rod that looked back to the great Plymouth roadsters like...uh...well, looked back period. But then we saw one up close and realized it was a station [...]
Whenever the discussion of what the M’s should do in terms of trading this summer comes up, inevitably, someone will make the point that this team can’t trade away Erik Bedard or Jarrod Washburn and hope to keep contending because “those guys are the reason the team is where they [...]
Seattle's Zera Marvel recently opened up for Tom Brosseau at the Tractor and I have to admit, if she wasn't so incredibly kind, I'd be quite jealous of her. Besides being quite stunning on stage, she belts out sultry sweetness taylored for sharing a stage with TomB.
Thanks to Victoria [...]
Associated Press reporter Gregg Bell recently climbed Mount Rainier and wrote about his experience. A West Point graduate who still runs more than 30 miles a week, Bell said he was smoked after reaching the 14,411-foot peak, and told league commissioner Roger Goodell that he better be in shape [...]
The News-Miner profiles Spc. Ricardo Farrell, who was recently awarded the Soldier's Medal.
FAIRBANKS — A Fort Wainwright soldier has been awarded the Soldier’s Medal for rescuing a trapped soldier from a flooding Stryker vehicle.Spc. Ricardo Farrell, of Annandale, Va., a member of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker [...]
Yes, we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky fan for Pet Shop Boys' Pandemonium tour, which hits the Moore on Sunday, September 20. If you want to go (and trust me, you do) and would like the chance to go for free, send an e-mail' [...]
Multi-National Division – North
DIYALA, Iraq – A ceremony to celebrate the transition of security in the cities from Coalition forces to Iraqi Security Forces was held in Baqubah on June 25.
The ceremony was attended by senior government officials in the Diyala province along with Coalition leadership from the 1st [...]
Story by Sgt. Philip Schratwieser
BAGHDAD – Soldiers of Company C of the 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, "Paxton Rangers", 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad conducted a combined patrol through Abu Ghraib June 25 to disrupt insurgents in the area and improve their [...]
While rarely informative, I always enjoy hearing athletes talk*. While some of that stems from the entertainment value inherent in watching someone like Chris "Birdman" Anderson try to deliver holiday greetings (or Brandon Jennings running his mouth), these opportunities give you a better idea of the person in question. [...]
"These Boots Were Made For Walking" by Russell, from our Flickr pool
Now we wish we'd made it to Artopia. Thanks for sharing, Russell.
From the "why didn't we do this" file, comes a bike pulling a car. Bonus that the video is a promo for belt-driven Simpel bikes. Cargonistas this is your calling to do a car pull at the next bike festival!
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From the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. "She's got legs, she knows how to use them," is what we thought and Velocouture never goes out of style.
Buy the framed image from LIFE.
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How much bicycling is too much if you're trying to start a family?
Lengthy and frequent bicycling -- like more than 186 miles a week -- can cause "significant fertility problems" for men, says a report presented to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
But bicycling to work on' [...]
Now that Versus has announced that Le Tour will be streamed to us in HDTV goodness, we at Hugga HQ are atwitter (not Twitter) about this year's tour. Who is going to win? Who will take the polka-dot jersey? How many times will we see [...]
[...] So I chatted up Tim Wilson, whose dad is none other than the Ventures’ Don Wilson, before Saturday night’s Dick Dale show. We get to talkin’ and he tells me about a sweet interview his sis, Staci Lyne Wilson, scored recently – none other than Jimmy Page and Jack [...]
