In the Times today: Sims proposes bringing back bus-wrap ads.

Sims now proposes that the council allow partial-wrap ads that would leave a 15-inch band of glass unobstructed. “If that provision is repealed, Metro would like to sell a limited number of partial-wrap buses,” [Sharron] Shinbo said.
She said Metro estimates it would make $275,000 in 2009 [...]

Alternative title: Screw the deaf and blind. Second alternative title: Screw the people at work who don’t have time to watch an entire video.
Digg’s starting a series of “dialoggs”, where they solicit questions from the digg population in text form. Then they ask a random assortment of the top voted questions and the interviewee responds. [...]

The Seattle Times cover story today is about FFRF’s billboard located in Capitol Hill. However, I don’t think this photo is doing them any favors. I call that pose “Full Contempt”, although Zoolander would come up with a better name for it.
With apologies to Mike Christensen, I am guessing it was just bad timing.

Esther and David at some overlook in the North Cascades

After a year and a half together, Esther and I are getting married. The number one decision to make is the place, since it leads us to picking a time and scheduling food and licensing and [...]

Seen while attempting to repair a disk…
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700:
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700: Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk1s3” because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2008-08-09 16:19:15 -0700:
That was the entire error, datestamps scattered around exactly like that. Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his [...]

Shouldn’t steampunkers use .plan and .project files?