amfn

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Saving the lesser Seattle landmarks

Posted Sat, Feb 23, 10:55 p.m.

I'm lost: Knute, Can you explain to me the difference between googoo in Ballard and buildings with the misfortune of their designers being lost or unknown? What kind of snobish nuthouse is this anyway? You really got my attention when you started talking about old brick apartment buildings. I photographed ...

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Dreams of our mothers

Posted Mon, Feb 11, 6:49 p.m.

Leah you are a brave one: It really takes courage to know how hard the wind is blowing, yet still stick your neck up and reason with your heart. I too long for a day. The day when we go beyond rallying for one leader who's to show us the ...

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Transportation: Can't we all just get along?

Posted Wed, Jan 23, 5:41 p.m.

PSRC: I concur with making PSRC's role more well known and unforgetable. They are already the official acgency for a number of planning functions as for as federal and state law is concerned. The old agency, with the pisscog phonetic was unforgetable, but this one is not a mess and ...

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The last train to Hooterville

Posted Mon, Jan 21, 4:01 p.m.

real questions seeking serious answers: Sorry, it's probably obvious, but my post with this same name was attempting to respond to the post two above--the one on rubber tired trolleys. I guess I got outside the thread or it no longer works that way.

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The last train to Hooterville

Posted Mon, Jan 21, 3:54 p.m.

real questions seeking serious answers: The S.LU.T. is so much fun in so many ways that it is easy to overlook the serious questions in the post just above, which innocents phrase– this slut's naked! And we adults phrase: 1. Seattle trolley wires are not strung in a day, why ...

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The Vancouver gambit for building roads and transit in Seattle

Posted Tue, Jan 15, 5:11 p.m.

rose colored glasses: Anyone remember the fate of the Blackball Line, or why the numerous streetcar lines were first consolidated and then sold to the city to maintain? With history like that we should be able to think though the ramifications this time around.

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Inside the minds of Microsoft's libertarians

Posted Thu, Jan 10, 6:49 p.m.

thinking through the ramifications: Re: "we all know (I'm a software tester, btw) that computers are always doing what we didn't mean and are always failing to do what we did mean. The disconnect is our inability to correctly use language to fully express our intentions. Sometimes we just plain ...

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