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tod
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response 65 of 95:
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Feb 22 23:44 UTC 2006 |
THINK GREEN
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marcvh
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response 66 of 95:
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Feb 22 23:49 UTC 2006 |
My friends in Bellingham are quaking their boots. Maybe we can get
somebody in Olympia to deny Alaskans emergency medical treatment at
Harborview in an effort to refrain from holding the state of Alaska
hostage.
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tod
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response 67 of 95:
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Feb 22 23:58 UTC 2006 |
Put a tariff on all LORAN and REI exports to Alaska!
<slams starbucks caramel macciato soy sugarfree hazelnut with room on table>
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happyboy
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response 68 of 95:
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Feb 23 02:18 UTC 2006 |
clam down plesco you'll only make things worse.
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tod
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response 69 of 95:
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Feb 23 06:51 UTC 2006 |
But its MY ferry!
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gull
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response 70 of 95:
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Feb 23 06:54 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:64: I just saw that in the Seattle Times, today. It seems like
a move that's more likely to hurt Alaska than Washington, unless I'm
missing something. Does it have any chance of passing?
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tod
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response 71 of 95:
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Feb 23 07:01 UTC 2006 |
Victoria Clipper will fly the Exxon flag while shipping Mexicans north for
oil rig detail.
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mcnally
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response 72 of 95:
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Feb 23 07:36 UTC 2006 |
re #70: No, there's no way it will pass. He's a laughingstock
for proposing it.
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mcnally
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response 73 of 95:
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Mar 14 18:08 UTC 2006 |
I woke up this morning to muffled scraping sounds coming from the
direction of my next-door neighbors' driveway and realized (after
a few more minutes of lounging in bed) that that meant there must
have been significant snowfall overnight. Where I lived it only
turned out to be a few inches but it's remarkable how pretty this
town looks under a coat of fresh-fallen snow. Roofs look white
and clean and in a landscape bleached of color weatherbeaten houses
look vivid again and everywhere the towering trees, which in normal
weather have a tendency to visually blend into each other on the
hillsides, stand starkly highlighted in pristine white.
And I think I've remarked before on how much I enjoy watching the
snow from the house I moved into this past year. I really like
being perched on the hillside where I can watch the flakes spiral
down and settle on the town and trees below.
Lest I make it sound too idyllic, however, I ought to point out
that it took me about 10 minutes to force my car doors open this
morning; they were iced up pretty thoroughly, and it doesn't help
that they've got these flimsy recessed handles that don't allow
you to exert any amount of real force on the door without fearing
that you're going to snap the latch off completely.
And furthermore I'm suffering some small pangs of regret this
morning, inspired by the fact that I'm too old to benefit from
the local school district's snow day and too conscientious to
simply call in sick or play hooky to go out and enjoy the snow..
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mcnally
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response 74 of 95:
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Mar 17 07:34 UTC 2006 |
For photo fans, 12 recent photos of my house and neighborhood
in the recent snow:
http://www.dfred.net/~mcnally/Winter.html
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scholar
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response 75 of 95:
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Mar 17 07:56 UTC 2006 |
i wish my house was on stilts. :(
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slynne
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response 76 of 95:
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Mar 17 14:26 UTC 2006 |
Man, you sure have one heck of a view from that house.
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albaugh
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response 77 of 95:
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Mar 17 17:50 UTC 2006 |
What slynne said - what a picturesque place you live in!
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tod
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response 78 of 95:
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Mar 17 18:06 UTC 2006 |
re #74
My toes got cold just looking at that.
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remmers
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response 79 of 95:
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Mar 17 18:07 UTC 2006 |
Lovely place. The winters would deter me though.
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mcnally
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response 80 of 95:
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Mar 17 18:27 UTC 2006 |
There's no doubt that the view is one of the things I love about
the house. I should take some pictures from the empty third-floor
apartment sometime; the views are even better from up there.
(The apartment, however, is a real mess, and is in need of total
renovation..)
What I've really been appreciating lately, though, is how nice my
neighborhood is. It's been snowing all week and one of my nearby
neighbors, who lives down on the street where my car is parked,
has been sweeping my car off in the mornings when he comes out to
clear his steps. And yesterday someone shovelled a path to my
stairs -- I think it may have been that the teacher next door,
who had a snow day and was shovelling in front of her own place,
just decided to continue on a few more feet and do mine, but it
might also have been the other next-door neighbors. They stopped
at my house during the day, while I was at work, to use my shower
(at my invitation) because their pipes have frozen and they won't
have running water until they can get them thawed.. It's all very
neighborly and congenial.. It's not that I've *never* lived in a
neighborhood that was as active and friendly as this one but it's
been a long time -- in Ann Arbor I mostly lived in pretty transient
student-oriented neighborhoods and when I moved to Washington I
found Bellevue to be cold and suburban, with little interaction
with the neighbors. I lived there for three years and I'm afraid
I probably wouldn't recognize the people who lived next door..
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keesan
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response 81 of 95:
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Mar 17 19:58 UTC 2006 |
We trade snow shoveling with the neighbors - whoever gets out first does
several walks, before they get trampled and harder to shovel. My area is half
rental.
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charcat
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response 82 of 95:
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Mar 18 00:53 UTC 2006 |
Great pictures Mike, they always make me wish I was there.
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gull
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response 83 of 95:
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Mar 18 01:27 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:80: It often strikes me that I don't know who any of my
neighbors are. I think that's the price I pay for living in apartment
complexes, where people rarely stay for more than a year or two.
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keesan
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response 84 of 95:
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Mar 18 03:01 UTC 2006 |
Have you ever introduced yourself to a neighbor? I also live in an area of
apartments.
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cyklone
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response 85 of 95:
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Mar 18 06:52 UTC 2006 |
Great pix, mike.
I see you have a brick building in your town that looks like it was
transplanted from Ann Arbor. What's that all about?
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mcnally
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response 86 of 95:
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Mar 18 07:28 UTC 2006 |
I'm not sure which building you're talking about. Perhaps the
inexplicably pink federal building?
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cyklone
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response 87 of 95:
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Mar 18 07:32 UTC 2006 |
It's right there in your first picture. I guess it makes sense that the feds
would drop in with something completely out of character with the rest of the
town.
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mcnally
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response 88 of 95:
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Mar 18 19:22 UTC 2006 |
Yeah, if it's five stories tall, pink, and doesn't look like
anything in the rest of the town (well, that's not true, there's
also a pink apartment building.. I think there must've been a
sale on pink paint at some point in the 80s..) then it's gotta
be the federal government..
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tod
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response 89 of 95:
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Mar 18 20:02 UTC 2006 |
DHS got an F on its information security (i.e. IT functions) report card
4 years straight. So, if you notice Feds are colorblind then consider it a
"feature".
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