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Thursday/ Union Station, Ogden

I am at Salt Lake City airport waiting for my late night flight back to Seattle.  I saw this eye-catching ‘Union Station’ neon sign close to our hotel in Ogden on Tuesday night.  The station is now a museum with restaurants.  I had time to stop by tonight on the way to the airport to take a few pictures, and here they are.

Originally constructed in 1889 as part of a railroad depot, this building burnt down in 1924. This Union Station building was completed in its place – the architecture is Spanish Colonial Revival style.
On the left is the Union Pacific Steam Locomotive #833 (The ‘Speedy Locomotive with Elephant Ears’), the Union Pacific DDA40X locomotive #6916 ‘The Centennial Locomotive’ .. and I lost the information for the one on the right.
A side view of the locomotive with the ‘elephant ears’. Built in 1939, it was retired in 1957. Its top speed was 110 mph (177 kph). Steam-powered with a boiler pressure of 300 psi, it put out an estimated horsepower of 4100.
This is a Union Pacific Super Turbine Locomotive (#26). It is among the largest locomotives ever built. It’s strong enough to pull 735 fully loaded freight cars. That’s a train seven miles long! This machine was built in 1961 and had a top speed of 65 mph. There is only one more like it on display, Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.

 

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Monday/ even US Presidential Election campaigns end

.. which we are very thankful for. Stop the madness! Here is a set of pictures which I have to post today! – because who knows for sure what will happen tomorrow?  But time will soon tell.

Do not watch the elections alone, says this print ad – go to this Election Night Party (this one is for Democrats, judging by the paper it was published in). Someone is bound to cry in his (or her) beer when the night is done, though. E.v.e.r.y.o.n.e. c.a.n.n.o.t. win!
It really does not seem that the President will lose the state of Washington ..
.. or that Referendum 74 will be voted down.  (So gay people will win the popular vote for marry equality in Washington State).
.. and that Washington State will legalize the possession of small quantities of POT.
Here is the Obama campaign urging me to vote early (which I have, apparently as has 210 other Willems in the United States). Is that cool, or is that scary that they know that?
Polls and numbers from Monday’s Wall Street Journal, showing how evenly divided the popular vote is.
And numbers from some key counties inside the swing states, this is Arapahoe County in Colorado.
Volusia County in Florida.
And Hamilton County in Ohio.
And here is comedian Jon Stewart poking fun at the obsession of that the candidates and pollsters have with Ohio’s voters.

 

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Thursday/ restoring the grid

Multiple utility companies are working around the clock to restore the damage done by the storm Sandy. The Edison Electric Institute is the association of United States shareholder-owned electric power companies.  They have a web site with maps that show how the wide-spread repairs to the grid in the North-East are progressing.

[From the Wall Street Journal, supplied by electric utility PSE&G] A diagram that shows the types of damages sustained by the storm.
An update of the restoration progress from the EEI website (as of Friday 5.00 pm EDT).
This map is from the electric utility company PSE&G’s (Public Service Electric and Gas Co.) web site. It shows the counties in the state of New Jersey and how many customers are still without power.
[Diagram from Edison Electrical Institute website] Since homes are at the last few hundred yards of the entire grid, they are also the last to their power restored.
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Saturday/ 10-9-8.. Windows 8

Check out the commercial (I like it) that runs here on TV for Windows 8, officially released on Friday-  http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/microsofts-new-windows-8-commercial-has-lift-off/ .  The Microsoft entry into the tablet market is called the Surface (go ‘Wikipedia Surface’ to check it out), and is now on sale as well. The Surface gets Windows 8, as do Windows smart phones and all new Windows computers.  I wouldn’t spring for the Surface since I already have an iPad, but I would like to have Windows 8 for a new desktop computer or notebook computer.  It has been three years in the making : development on it started even before Windows 7 was released in 2009. Which makes one wonder what those legions of Microsoft programmers are working on today?

The entrance to the Microsoft store in University Village in Seattle.
Inside the store there was a buzz and a lot of people trying out the new Surface tablets. Not a lot of people waiting in line to buy it, though. Only a handful in line at this store on Saturday; there was a much longer line on Friday when it was released. Rumor has it that Micorsoft ordered between 3 million and 5 million Surfaces.
I was just thinking : this Sony Viao machine is not going to cut it for Windows 8’s touchscreen. The hinge is just not sturdy enough. So as you poke (touch) the screen, it bounces backwards. Annoying and NOT good. And sure enough, right then I see this article, saying exactly that : some hardware vendors will have to redesign the hinges for touchscreen computers. (If your computer does NOT have a touchscreen, Windows 8 will still work. You just have to use the mouse).
That’s me in the reflection, and that cable car and mountain is .. Cape Town, South Africa! (It was on there, I didn’t put it on). The pane above it is for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, and there are panes for firing up Excel, Word and Powerpoint as well.
The map shows where I am, in the University district : ).
The msn web page looks modern, also with a layout with panes. (And an inevitable advertisement – for Netflix).
The desktop mode or screen with Windows Explorer looks similar to the Windows 7, but there are differences.

 

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Sunday/ Bellevue Square

I stopped at Bellevue Square today.  The Apple store in there has been moved into a bigger space.  Weather-wise there was some nice sun breaks and blue sky to be seen today, but it was chilly outside, in the 50s (about 10 C).

At the Apple store. Got to love this giant MacBook Pro with the zebras! (from Africa, I’m sure).  Will something happen if I jump on the keyboard? The real one is the one with the parrot on the screen.
And here is an iPhone5 with a giant display behind it. I suppose I will have to upgrade my two-year old iPhone 4 some time, but I will wait until next year.
This is a beer from Oregon I spotted at the grocery store, and I couldn’t resist taking a picture of the Hop Czar.

And here is an ale named for Ebenezer (Scrooge), the character in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Here’s the blue sky.  These are the new-ish Bellevue Tower condos nearby Bellevue Square. A one-bedroom condo will set you back $500k and a penthouse at the top goes for $2m. I see their website has Russian, Korean and Chinese language options as well. Hmm.

 

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Friday/ new substation

Seattle City Light (electrical utility company) is moving ahead with plans for building a new substation in the city, the first one in 30 years.  The site used to be a Greyhound bus maintenance facility a long time ago.  Early planning is that 115kV or 230kV transmission lines will come into the substation.  The three alternatives under consideration are:
– A downtown underground route, primarily along Sixth Avenue
– A route that utilizes the downtown Metro bus tunnel
– An aerial route that crosses I-5 twice and traverses Capitol Hill << this does not sound good! Yes, it’s cheap, but unsightly and not nearly as safe as an underground route.

From Wikipedia : The typical electricity grid. The substation is the green one, and our homes are ‘secondary customers’ that get electricity at 120V or 240V.
Here is a map of the proposed Denny Way substation (part 1). From http://www.seattle.gov/light/dennysub/substation.asp
Map of the proposed Denny Way substation (part 2). From http://www.seattle.gov/light/dennysub/substation.asp

 

I took this picture just a few days ago .. the old Greyhound bus maintenance facility, site of a new substation near Denny Way and Stewart Ave. Now the windows are already out, and I am sure the walls will follow soon. G R E Y H O U N D L I N E S, says the lettering on the building.

 

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Thursday/ Washington State is already voting

Washingtonians vote by mail only.  So we have no walk-in polling stations where get ink on your fingers and go into a little voting booth.  The ballots arrive in the mail, and you mail it in, or go put it in a designated ballot box in your area.  I got my ballot in the mail as well, on Thursday.  I don’t think it’s legal to publish a picture of it, so I won’t.  We have lots to vote for!  Of course there is the President to vote for, but we also vote for a Governor, whether to legalize and control marijuana sales, whether to legalize same-sex marriage, and if charter schools should be funded by the state, among other things.

Picture from the election issue of the alternate Seattle newspaper The Stranger. The newspaper fully endorses our tongue-in-cheek ‘Kenyan Muslim overlord President’. I suppose that is him they are depicting, marrying two women in a field of marijuana.
[From Wikipedia] The two heavyweight contenders for President in 2012 ..
[From Wikipedia] .. but these two other candidates have ballot access sufficient to also theoretically win the election by a majority of the electoral college: former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee; and Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee. Virgil Goode will no doubt draw some Tea Party votes away from Mitt Romney in the swing state of Virginia : bad news for the Republicans.
A full blown article in The Stranger pleads with its readers to NOT vote for ‘moderate’ Republican Rob McKenna for Governor.  ‘If is looks like an elephant and walks like an elephant, then it IS an elephant’. (The elephant is the mascot of the Republican Party).

 

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday/ the ‘eagle’ has landed

My new refrigerator arrived early Wednesday morning. The Sears delivery truck blocked the entire street in front of my house. Oh well. And the monster made it through the front door, but only with a special trick : sideways and tilted with the top doors completely open.  The door handles are very stylish and nice to use but they stick out a few inches.  And there it is .. what is this gleaming thing? I still think for a split second when walking into my kitchen. Oh, it’s your new fridge, silly.  And I am so thrilled to close the fridge door and know it is frrosty inside!

It’s shiny! And the top left does take fridge magnets. For now it’s only the crocodile, the hippo and the flower magnet that got to go onto the fridge. We will see how long THAT lasts.
Yes, life is good with a new fridge.
Here’s the chilled water and ice dispenser, with the LCD panel showing the temperatures inside the two main compartments. -1 ºF is -18 ºC and 35 ºF is 2 ºC. It’s cold inside !
Ready to be filled up with all kinds of goodies and some beer, and some drinks. It’s so w-i-d-e inside, since the freezer section is a drawer at the bottom. My old fridge had side-by-side compartments.

 

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Sunday/ Uwajimaya

Uwajimaya is a grocery store chain here in Seattle’s International District that carries Asian food and other specialty items. I happened to drive by and wanted to take a picture of the dragon on the lamp post – and ended up in the store’s parking lot.  Oh well, might as well go inside and buy a few items, I thought.

Here’s the dragon on the lamp post.
And another dragon inside with the store’s name.
I checked out the saké but did not buy any. I see Nigori means ‘unfiltered’ and ‘Genshu’ means undiluted, so this is a little more potent than wine (20% alcohol).
Fresh quail eggs from California? I didn’t buy any – had some of these in China (boiled as part of a ‘hot pot’ dinner) and they really tasted not much different from chicken eggs.

 

I learned in Hong Kong that Japan makes wonderful baumkucken (German layer cake – how did that come about, I wonder?) .. and lo and behold, I can buy some right here in Seattle.
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Saturday/ safaris in Zimbabwe

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal reports that Zimbabwe’s economy is doing better, four years after they started pegging the Zim dollar to the US dollar, and with a coalition government in place.  ‘Zimbabwean safari guides are known as the best on the continent’ says the article that covers safaris in Hwange National Park.  Visitors get up close to elephants (presumably NOT to lions and leopards) on foot.   As for myself : I have vivid memories of the African safari experience from Botswana.  I will never forget the one time when I went for a short walk into the bush on my own (with no weapon).  As I approached a clump of bushes, the birds went quiet, and a sixth sense made me feel something was about to happen.  I felt the hairs on my neck stand up straight .. the next moment the bush exploded and a big buck crashed out of it, scaring the living. African. daylights. out of me.  Man! at the same time, what a relief it was!

Here’s the article, with a lioness facing an elephant. On her own she is no match for the elephant. But if there are four or five of them ..
The Hwange National Park is up by Victoria falls and the north eastern part of Botswana. My family and I went to an area called the Northern Tuli Game Reserve a dozen times when I grew up in South Africa.
Here is a picture from Botswana from, oh, 1988 or 1989. That’s my dad on the left, and me on the right (and two of my brothers and one’s girl friend).  The guys in front know every big tree and every bend in the dirt roads in the area.

 

 

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Wednesday/ what would you build here?

That is the question that Skanska* asks on this billboard in South Lake Union that made me stop and take a look at it.  You can also express your urban planning ideas on a website they have set up. (I’m still mulling over my ideas).  Amazon’s offices are just a block or two away.

*Skanska is a Swedish design-and-build construction and engineering company that is also doing some roadwork for Seattle’s Alaskan Viaduct replacement project.

Here’s the billboard. A good thing that there has been almost no rain in Seattle the last two months, or some brilliant ideas might have been washed away ..
A peek-a-boo view of the Space Needle through a new building on Terry Ave close by – where many Amazon employees work by day (and by night?).
Here is Skanska’s web site at www.400fairview.com. The most popular suggestions so far are for : a college-themed pub-and-grub place, a jazz cafe and bar, and a local Elysian Brew House Pub.
This urban design analysis is also from the 400Fairview web site.  Hey, I don’t know too much about urban planning and the ‘urban corridors’ in Seattle but it’s good to know that the bigger picture is taken into account as well.

 

 

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Saturday/ the Seattle Boat Show

So .. what floats your boat? Are you a sailing enthusiast? It’s very romantic (romantic as in roaming, and adventure). Or would you go for a luxury motor yacht?  To buy one outright will take a hefty chunk of money, and then a bite every time to fill up your floating home-on-the-water’s 2,500 gallon tank with diesel.  Here are just a few pictures to give a taste of what was going on.

This is the powder blue South Lake Union Streetcar arriving at West Lake station to pick us up and go to Lake Union where the Boat Show is. There is also a brown one, and there used to be a red one and a purple one as well. I’m not sure how many there are and if they are rotated in and out of service.
Here’s the map. The blue at the top is Lake Union, a much much smaller lake than Lake Washington which is a little further to the east and which separates the city of Seattle from the ‘east side’.
This stop is ‘sponsored’ by Umpqua Bank. There is also a station with the alternate name of Amazon.com, named for the Amazon’s headquarters close by.
This is a motorized boat .. I am not sure of the model and name, I just like the classic hull shape and windows on the deck.   Some of these boats have really really big diesel tanks, up to 2,500 gallons.   That would enable a range of over 2,000 nautical miles, but it would cost around $10,000 to fill up that tank.
The sign on the side of this 70′ McKinna 2012 model boat says it was a demo boat, and is now priced at $2.5 mil (retail $3.7 mil). It has 4 staterooms and 4 heads (bath rooms), and is loaded with custom options.

 

Pretty flags on a Tayana yacht’s mast. There must have been a dozen yacht manufacturers putting their yachts on display. The styling and fittings could get updated almost every year. So if you are looking at a ‘2008 Jeanneau deck salon 45’ it tells you the year, the manufacturer, the yacht’s style (deck salon means the deck is raised and has windows on the sides, letting more light in, a plus for the cloudy Northwest weather), and the yacht is 45 feet long.
A classic analog compasses, found on the rear of the yacht by the steering wheel. I am sure they will continue to be fitted on modern yachts as a back-up to all the navigation digital equipment.

 

Here’s what it’s all about ! .. navigating through the straits and islands, and taking time to explore the scenery and the coves and bays. (Picture is of a map fitted on the table on the inside of one of the yachts).
We’re done looking at the yachts (tall masts in the distance) and now we’re in the motorized yacht section.  I am actually on the top deck of a big boat, and there’s the Space Needle in the distance.
Here’s a little impromptu show of water acrobatics we ran into.  Best from what I could tell the jet ski’s powerful water pump is used to propel water into the orange tube with enough force so that Mr ‘Iron Man’ can control it and use it for defying gravity.

 

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Tuesday/ the Steel Building and the Gulf Tower

It was a sombre day in the USA with the 11th anniversary of 9/11.  Here are three pictures of the same downtown Pittsburgh scene from my hotel room window Monday night and Tuesday.   The very tall building on the left that runs out of the picture is the headquarters of US Steel.  It has 64 floors and was completed in 1970.  Its outside is steel and it is called – quick, want to guess? – the Steel Building.  The Gulf Tower next to it with the colorfully lit top at night has 44 floors and was completed in 1930.

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Monday/ downtown Pittsburgh

Downtown Pittsburgh is at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River.  The city was founded in 1758 and named after British statesman William Pitt.   Pittsburgh no longer has its famous steel mills within the city limits but is now instead home to an economy based on healthcare, education, technology and financial services.  There are many theaters in the cultural district downtown, and I ran into stunning architecture and building adornments there on Sunday as well.

Downtown Pittsburgh is at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River.

 

I don’t have the names of these buildings!   I just loved the contrast of the old architecture (not sure what style this is .. Baroque?) brushing up against the sleek modern stone and steel building.
I will go and stay in the William Penn hotel just to be able to admire the canopy while I wait for my taxi to take me to the airport. (I stayed at the Marriott a few blocks away).
Check out the detail of the metal work on the canopy. Out of this world.
Colorful mural painting on an exposed brick wall.
Here I am on the Andy Warhol Bridge, also known as the Seventh Street Bridge looking at the city’s skyline. The bridge spans the Allegheny River. I am surrounded by the bridge’s custard color!
And this is the Rachel Carson Bridge, also known as the Ninth Street Bridge.
Canopy of the Renaissance Center in the cultural district.
Here’s a Heinz ketchup triceratops in the square at PNC World Headquarters : a tribute to Heinz Company that has had its headquarters in Pittsburgh for more than a century now.
There was also a mosaic mirror tile Stegosaurus.
Beautiful ironwork detail on a gate in a building downtown.
This ornate clock dates from 1898 and is on the corner of the Macy’s department store, declared a national landmark.
The First Presbyterian Church in downtown Pittsburgh.  Reminds one a little of Notre Dame, does it not?
A skateboarder came riding into my picture of the old downtown and its tall buildings. This is Fifth Ave.
Here’s where the triceratops and stegosaurus are. No, it’s not a Mormon temple! It’s the plaza inside the PNC Bank’s world headquarter buildings.

 

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Saturday/ last day in New York City

I tried one more time to get into the 9/11 Memorial, but the only slots available were late Saturday afternoon, and I didn’t make it back there to go inside.  (At the base of the tower a group of 9/11 conspiracy theory believers were making their case. Man! Give it up).  Late morning in Manhattan there were gusty winds, with showers in the afternoon.  I learned on the news two tornadoes touched down at the edge of New York City! — but no serious injuries were reported.

Here’s a day-time view of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center), now at 105 stories, already making it the tallest building in Manhattan. The steel frame has topped out; the spire of glass and antenna still has to follow.
The main entrance of the New York Times building on 8th Avenue (52 floors). It’s fairly new : completed in 2007.
I had to go check out Grand Central Station’s main entrance (Park Ave and 42nd St). It was one of the pictures of New York City in my ViewMaster (disk with slide show pictures) many, many years ago !
The Chrysler Building is not far away, on Lexington Ave and 42nd St. It is an Art Deco style skyscraper, and is surrounded by several other very, very fine examples of art deco.
Art Deco on Lexington Ave – and no, this is not the iPhone Apple, it’s a different Apple.
The corner of the same building (I couldn’t get enough of the Art Deco). I am not sure if the silver metal cladding on the building on the left is old or new.
The Stars and the Stripes on a lamp post on 42 nd Street.
This is a food vendor on a street corner by Bryant Park.
This is about 8 pm on Saturday night after a downpour, looking south over the trees in Bryant Park at 42nd Ave. Yes, that is the Empire State building (on 34th Ave).
A closer look at the Empire State building’s top, this is from 36th st and 6th Ave.
This is close to Herald’s Square where Macy’s is, a designer studio from what I can tell. I am having trouble keeping the raindrops off my camera lens.
A night time shot of Grand Central Station’s facade. Shortly after this it started raining hard again, and I went back to the hotel.

 

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Wednesday/ midtown Manhattan

It was a long day at the office and we went out for dinner, so I did not have too much time for gallivanting around New York City and gawking at the buildings and the people !

It’s 7.30am and I’m sitting in the lobby waiting for my colleague to walk over to the PwC office. The rain gods smiled on us : dry while we walked over with a big downpour soon after that!
It is so easy to find one’s way with the phone’s GPS and maps. Just plug in the address you want to go to and presto! This is midtown Manhattan, the area directly below Central Park.
A little city park called Bryant Park is close to the hotel. This is a cityscape view from within the park.
This is Times Square, 42nd St and 7th Ave. Check out the New York Police Dept’s Tokyo-style police box right there on a strategic street corner.
There is a Hard Rock Cafe in the historic Paramount building, just off Times Square.
The police on horseback seem to be very popular tourist attractions !

 

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Tuesday/ arrival in NYC

It’s been a long day since I got up at 4.00 am Seattle time to make my 7.00 am flight.  We left Seattle a little late, and there was light rain in New York City when I arrived, but everything went according to plan.    I had dinner with a colleague and then we went for a short walk to Times Square.  We also went down to the World Trade Center site. The 9/11 Memorial had already closed, though.

This is the Airtrain shuttle that runs between the Newark Airport terminals. I am on my way to the Newark Airport train station to catch a train on the New Jersey Transit system to NYC Penn Station.
On the NJ Transit train on the way to NYC Penn Station with very old industrial age structures flashing by.
Here is the main schedule board inside Pennsylvania (Penn) station in New York City.
At the Marriott Residence Inn on 6th Avenue. ‘All pets much be checked in’ would be better, not? Fido cannot check himself in with a ‘woof!’.
The McDonalds by Times Square is right up there with all the other gaudy neon signs and displays.
The corner of 7th Ave and 42nd Street.
The tower at 1 World Trade Center has 3,000 construction workers on site everyday, says a sign there. It is expected to be completed in mid-2013.

 

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Monday/ planes and trains to New York City

I leave very early Tue morning to go to New York City to attend a training course set up by my firm (yes, the old dog can still learn a few new tricks).  I will arrive at Newark Liberty airport, and I need to get right into Manhattan.  I will take several trains to get there :  Newark Airtrain shuttle to the Newark Airport station, the New Jersey Transit to Penn Station in Manhattan, and then the New York subway train to get me to two blocks of the hotel.

The United Airlines website’s New York City picture.
The sprawling New Jersey Transit system. I start at Newark Airport station. And it’s good to know ahead of time there’s a Newark Penn Station and a New York Penn Station, and they are NOT the same!
Once in Manhattan, the New York subway will whisk me where I need to be (well, I make it sound easier than it is. Sometimes it takes a little time just to find out which exit to the street level to take!).

 

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Monday/ the many forms of Scrabble

I love my Scrabble on my iPad.  I had time on Sunday to haul out my other Scrabble sets as well.   As far as I can tell there are no on-line versions yet for my Afrikaans edition of Scrabble, or the German one I bought in Vienna some years ago.   And check out the Japanese word game I bought just recently.

This is Scrabble on the iPad. You have to give it all you got to beat the ‘CPU’ machine like I did here.  OK, I’ll confess : ADNATION – (botany) the adhesion of different plants – I had the Scrabble program find for me. The computer built GLOBEFISH around ‘LO’ but check out my own 7 letter word : MISSPENT.
This is German. My German vocabulary is very shaky, so I’m kind of limited to 3 and 4 letter words !
Here is my Afrikaans Scrabble set. They used to be available in wooden tiles, but lately only in plastic.
It looks like Scrabble, and it has pretty pictures, so never mind that it will take 6 months of intense study of the Japanese language to play – I had to have it as a curiosity. I guess one can use the cheat sheet, even though you will not know what word you are building. These are katakana characters. Japanese also has hiragana and Latin charaters (called romaji).

 

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Sunday/ resting up

I took it easy today, just resting up and reading the Sunday newspapers.  I did walk down eight blocks to Starbucks on Olive Way to have some coffee and a slice of lemon pound cake -as birthday cake! .. I will look to celebrate it later, such as next weekend.  One does not need a birthday for throwing a party, right?

This is Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right), with his running mate Paul Ryan, from a write-up in the alternative newspaper Seattle Weekly. As the writer Paul Constant says – Ryan is .. ‘the Republicanist of Republicans’ .. ‘anti-choice, pro-discrimination, anti-gay, anti-public education, anti-environment, pro-big business, anti-gun control and anti-separation of church and state’.
Not much new information about jet lag in this article from the NY Times, but they do confirm my experience that east-to-west travel is much harder to adjust to, than west-to-east.
Since I always struggle to recommend to visitors what sights to see or what to do in Johannesburg, I’m keeping this article from the NY Times Travel section.  (No mention of the terrible incident from last week at a mine 40 miles northwest of Johannesburg in which 34 miners were shot and killed by police during a violent protest). 
.. but I’d be very hesitant to say it’s OK for a foreigner on his/ her own to go attend a soccer match at FNB Stadium.