Every serious rider has their own saddle

I can't tell you how many times i listened to that record: "R-E-S C-U-E..."

A handsome golden retriever wearing a Seahawks t shirt looks back at the camera

T says “Go Hawks Super Bowl champs!”

"Dropping something off? Just set it it down right there, that'll be fine."

Holy moly i can't believe the Seahawks won that game!

Back when Seattle was a real city, and really had it all: trucks on roofs, windmill signs, 2-tone El Caminos...

Basestar Hybrid YouTube video by Trent Fillmore

That nonsense seems familiar tho www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_UL...

A photo of a text computer terminal where an AI is doing coding tasks. It says “Both tests are passing consistently in my environment”

First time I’ve gotten “works on my machine” from a non-human developer

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

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Well, shoot. Thanks for a fun season Seattle Mariners! Excited to see what Dan Wilson & team can do next year

"Eyannn-thonyyyy?"

in the Andrej Karpathy interview, he says that the code produced by AI is slop

i think we’ve arrived at “slop is in-distribution”, boring because it’s not unique. And Karpathy’s words reflect that’s how he understands the word

but my entire career i’ve strived to write code that is exactly that

Amazed by this Kilauea eruption that started last night, with lava fountains reaching 1,000-1,500 feet in height at 10p HST (!!!!) www.youtube.com/usgs/live

A-rod: "When I was on the Mariner's, i played with this guy, named Jay Buhner...". We remember and love Buhner, Alex. We remember.

Deadwood - Swearengen and Bullock fight YouTube video by lglglglg

"Welcome to [expletive] deadwood!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=y07h...

A morning view of the Olympic mountains as seen from Seattle, with tall condo buildings and part of Elliott Bay in the foreground. There is a clear snow line starting at roughly the top 25% of the mountains

First dusting of snow for the fall on the Olympics

OMG GO MARINERS!

A photo of Mt. St. Helens erupting in 2004, viewed from the edge of Johnston Ridge visitors center parking lot. White ash & steam rise from the crater and start floating to the right. TV cameras and lights from assembled media fill the lower foreground.

I was there for a once-in-a-lifetime event! Literally just drove up in the parking lot at Johnston Ridge when it started going. Incredibly exciting to see

just too frightened by the sound of it

Caught the transient orcas feeding on a porpoise this am. Apologies to the porpoise

Caught some cool video of orcas, I think J-Pod, playing as they head north in Haro Strait

"Elf finger caught in box of Keebler cookies" caught my eye at the bottom of that page. Was always suspicious of those guys

I’ve probably missed a few smaller options. But I think that’s the story I a nutshell

In the last 20ish years the nautical options expanded a bit, with county governments running passenger-only ferries to a few destinations around Seattle

Oh and of course we’ve got a lot of water here. People have traveled by foot and bike on ferries since the 1800s, and since the 50s on the state ferry system that bought up the previous private firm that served cross-sound routes.

And a combination of real estate development schemes, and a previous ST decision to delete an expensive underground light rail station, drove additional development of a small new trolley network. But it’s not successful IMO

But the funding scheme of Spund Transit requires pretty strict regional allocation of funds. So other schemes fund further different transit expansion in Seattle and other cities. This includes recent BRT routes as apart of the Metro bus network. They run on city streets instead of freeways like ST

The light rail part is now a pretty useful system with expansions in the works thru the 2030s. Commuter rail is pretty niche and low-volume, and express busses serve regional routes that don’t have rail

regional “express” busses running on freeways, regional commuter rail sharing freight tracks, and a light rail system through Seattle and out to the suburbs. It went thru multiple ballot measures, multiple cost overrun/replan cycles, but was built.

In the 90s the state allowed the formation of a new regional transit authority which became called Soubd Transit, spanning 3 counties around Seattle. It had 3 parts: