A happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!
Sunday/ Happy Mother’s Day!
Friday/ biosphere progress
Below is a pictures that I took today of Amazon’s biospheres, showing the progress that has been made in their construction. Here are more pictures and a report from the Seattle Times.
Thursday/ Tokyo in the rain
Here is a picture from the Flickr photo stream of Masashi Wakui .. I wish I could take pictures like these ! Sharp detail, amazing colors, rain-in-the-city-at-night atmosphere.
Wednesday/ paying for parking (the old way)
We went to Columbia City on Wednesday night for a beer and a bite, and lucked out with the last parking spot in the lot across from our regular ‘watering hole’. I love that lot’s parking fee ‘machine’ .. hanging in there, defiant, retro and analog, with no such fancy tech as accepting payment by mobile phone or debit card. Paper money and coins, stuffed into a slot !
Tuesday/ so .. it’s Trump
So it’s official (per Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus) : the Republican Party will nominate Donald Trump as their party’s candidate for the 2016 US Presidential Election. Trump won the Indiana Republican Primary Election easily today, forcing main rival Ted Cruz to drop out of the race. The result : we have an egotistical-billionaire-reality-TV host, with no political experience whatsoever, who is really not even a Republican, as the Republican Party’s nominee! That’s why the New York Daily News cover of Wednesday announces that the Republican Party as we have known it thus far, is dead. Also check out this analysis that Ezra Klein from explain-the-news web site vox.com offers.
Monday/ good times in Leicester City
I don’t follow any of the soccer leagues closely, but there were several articles in the news lately, describing the against-all-odds run of the Leicester* City soccer team in the Premier League this past season. (They have just won it, with the outcome of a match between Tottenham and Chelsea making Leicester City end at the top of the league, and by a wide margin).
Sports commentators describe it as the greatest season in sports history. The full story in the New York Times reports that the Leicester team’s payroll is roughly a quarter of Chelsea’s when it won the 2014-15 title, and that they finished 14th last season, and that their escape from relegation is a story (and a soccer miracle) all its own.
*Say LESS-ter
Saturday/ tunnel update
The elevated stretch of waterfront highway called the Alaskan Way Viaduct closed on Thursday night, for two weeks. It is as a precaution for the digging of the new tunnel for State Route 99 that goes under the Viaduct at this point. (When the tunnel has been completed, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be demolished). On a typical weekday some 90,000 drivers used the Alaskan Way Viaduct, and for the next two weeks there will be a lot of extra traffic using the downtown Seattle streets. For those that can : use the bus, use the light rail, bike, walk. Driving around in a car in downtown Seattle should only be done if there is no other option.
