On Saturday, December 1, I was shopping in downtown Seattle when huge snowflakes started to fall. I was overjoyed — we never get snow! Not much of it stuck, and snow gave way to rain that night. Then more rain came, and the rain kept coming.
Seattle is known for being rainy but […]
Big news today in the world of car-sharing: Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar and Seattle-based Flexcar will merge. The combined company will be called simply Zipcar, and all Flexcar members will be absorbed into the other company’s base. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has more coverage of the merger. I was surprised to see that “neither […]
Real estate is much more pricey in Seattle than in Pittsburgh, but a bargain hunter can always find a good buy. Seattle Bubble, a great counterpoint to the relentless optimism of commission-starved Realtors, found a gem of a property: 57 acres, massive square footage, and a unique structure from the mid-20th century.
It’s a decommissioned […]
text confessional: it works!
Originally uploaded by Lele McLeod.
Earlier this year, a co-worker pitched to me the McLeod Residence, an off-beat project in which he was an investor. “The Residence” is a bar/gallery/social club with an emphasis on creating a sort of synthetic family. […]
Tomorrow is Seattle’s local primary election. I received a pamphlet in the mail but hadn’t intended to read it or vote — the election is only a primary, and there hasn’t been much about it in the local media anyway. I thumbed through the pamphlet anyway and found one of the most bizarre challengers […]
It is now March and I can drive my car again.
Back in December I decided to take the City of Seattle’s One Less Car Challenge. In exchange for $100 worth of Flexcar credit, I agreed to stop driving my car entirely and to instead rely on Flexcar, ride-sharing, car services and mass transit for […]
“Flexcar 2.0″ launches this Thursday. It is a total revamp of the fee structure from before:
Instead of a flat rate per hour, cars now have “peak” and “off-peak” rates based on their usage to date.
Rentals used to have unlimited mileage, but they will now include 150 miles. Extra miles are 40 cents each.
Plans are no […]
What started in the East will finish in the West.
This was 2006, a momentous year that saw me celebrate a Steelers Super Bowl victory only to leave the first full-time job I’ve ever taken months later and arrive in the city whose team the Steelers defeated. Seattle is home to my aunt and uncle […]
Last night I attended Ignite Seattle, a technology gathering unlike any I’ve seen before. Imagine 200 people packed in like sardines to watch a list of a diverse group of 25 people give rapid-fire talks to a captive, tech-savvy audience.
Anyone who knows PowerPoint presentations knows that a “five-minute presentation” after including setup time, switching […]
“This is by a wide margin the least likely thing that has ever happened.” – Leela, Futurama episode “Godfellas”
I’m not normally such a spiritual man, but there is some serious divine intervention going on. Earlier tonight I met up with Andrea, a woman I hadn’t seen in nineteen years.
The Beginning
The last time Andrea and […]