http://weill.org When life happens, it happens here. Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:58:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (The map above is interactive. Double-click the left mouse button to zoom in, double-click the right mouse button to zoom out, and click any of the pushpins for details.) In late June I'm going to Providence for my friend Meg's wedding. The next day, instead of my original plan to ... http://weill.org/2008/04/05/planning-a-trip-the-21st-century-way/ There's a car in my neighborhood that has a small circular sticker in its window bearing the logo of the USA Water Polo Association: Every time I see it I confuse it with the Barack Obama presidential logo, which I really love for its simplicity: Coincidence or water polo association conspiracy? http://weill.org/2008/03/22/water-polo-players-for-obama/ 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 ... http://weill.org/2007/12/05/alive-but-damp/ I work at Amazon.com in the e-mail team, which manages mail-related applications for six of the countries where Amazon does business. This means that some days, the first Amazon site I see during the workday is one from another country. A few weeks ago, I was working on ... http://weill.org/2007/11/28/amazons-christmas-decorations/ 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 ... http://weill.org/2007/10/31/flexcar-and-zipcar-will-merge/ 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 ... http://weill.org/2007/10/06/living-in-a-missile-silo/ 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 ... http://weill.org/2007/09/23/how-i-built-an-led-confession-board/ It's been one year since I invested in Prosper and Kiva, two microfinance organizations that pool contributions from individuals to lend sums of money at low interest rates. Prosper lets lenders profit from interest payments. Kiva does not pay interest back to lenders. So far, Kiva has a better ... http://weill.org/2007/08/24/prosper-at-1-on-being-a-victim-of-the-credit-crunch/ 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 ... http://weill.org/2007/08/20/the-weirdest-local-candidate-ever/ You win this round, Hollywood.I’m in LA staying with my cousins who have graciously offered me room and board during my effort to get myself on a game show.I came down here to audition for Temptation, a new game show that is ostensibly a remake of the classic game show ... http://weill.org/2007/07/26/auditioning-for-temptation/