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June 12 What are you doing this weekend?I am going to a couple of SIFF films including the closing night gala. I am also going to the Sounders game on Saturday night. What are y’all doing this weekend??? May 24 SeaQuest DSV and baseballOn my XBOX 360 I have been streaming the SeaQuest DSV TV show via Netflix. The show was on NBC from 1993-96 and depicted a time in the future of the years 2018-32. I watch it at some level to see what the writers thoughts on the future were. While I am half way through season one thing they have had is a couple of baseball references of note. The first is that in 2009 the Seattle Mariners played Havana in the World Series. 16 years into the future the writers were predicting that Havana had a baseball team playing in major league baseball. You could infer from that Communism had fallen and that now that the MLB had teams outside of the US and Canada. Maybe teams from the World Baseball Classic got to play in the World Series?? (episode: Give Me Liberte) The second was the the Florida Marlins were the World Series champs in 2010. Jonathan Brandis who plays the genius kid on the show wears a jersey with this written on the back. In 1993 the Marlins were an expansion team and it was interesting that the writers thought in that short period of time they would make it to and win the World Series. Of course they did win only four years into their existence in 1997 and again in 2003. (episode: To Be or Not to Be) Hopefully it will be Seattle’s year in 2009 as they are only one of three current teams to never play in the World Series. The other two are the Texas Rangers (Washington Senators) and the Washington Nationals (Montreal Expos). May 20 Mike McCready plays the national anthem before the M’s gameBefore the Mariners game tonight Mike McCready of Pearl Jam played the national anthem. I tried to capture it on my cell phone but I guess the video is just not that great and you will have to trust me that he was there. On his jersey it had his last name and the number 59 which I think is a reference to the fact that the guitar he plays is a 59 strat. You might be able to see the small set of amps behind home plate in these photos. They are kind of dark and people are standing in front of them.
Mike McCready plays the star spangled banner May 18 Picked my SIFF moviesHere is the list of movies I plan to see in the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival. March 25 The list of bands that have played at White River AmphitheatreApparently Wikipedia is not the place to list the concerts that have happened at a concert venue within a wiki entry for said venue because it is considered “unencyclopedic”. Awhile back I had added information to the entry about the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, WA with the list of bands that had played but then someone had come along later and deleted all of that content claiming there was no citations for the content. When I reverted this deletion and added citations it was deleted again saying that is not what wikipedia is all about. I guess from my point of view where would you go to find a list of shows? To preserve the content I guess I will list it in my blog because I do not think you can find the information anyplace else. 2003(incomplete list?) 2004(incomplete list?) 2005 2006
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February 25 White River Amphitheatre 2009 summer scheduleBookmark this post to see who is coming to White River this summer.
January 11 Love is in the air!Catching up on what happened over the holidays I wanted to give a congratulations to my buddies Erik Olson and Greg Price. Erik got engaged around Thanksgiving and Greg got engaged on New Years day. Before moving into my current place I lived in Erik’s place for five years, perhaps one year too long, and I am happy to hear that he has found someone to spend the rest of his life with. Greg was a roommate in college and also was a roommate in the Montlake House (as was Erik) and he and Laurie have known each other for many and many years now. I’ll have to start the workouts so I look good in a tux in his wedding photos come this June. I think I am down to one roommate I have lived with in the last 20 years that has not tied the knot. Of course there is also good old me and people gave up on trying to set me up years ago. :(
Congrats to Erik and Greg! January 07 The new Showare Center in KentLast Friday I went to the grand opening of the Showare Center in Kent, WA. Showare is a ticketing company like Ticketmaster. The Showare Center is the new home for the Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team that for the last few years has played in Key Arena in Seattle. Attached are pictures I took at the opening.
For the open house they had a stage on the ice.
This is a photo from my seats which are six rows behind the glass, behind the goal.
A few photos of the home team locker room. Nice space for each team member (but only four showers).
The visiting team locker room is basically bare with this lovely shade of green. Note the little hooks to hang things on compared to the home team locker room.
Hopefully you can notice the Braille on the referee locker room sign. This proves that in fact that the referees do have problems with their site. The umpire room at Safeco Field also has Braille on the room door. Update: I was able to grab a photo of the Umpires room at Safeco today.
Me and the T-Birds Zamboni.
Pros: Showare Center is small so you have great sightlines from most places in the venue, including the suites at the top. I really think it will give the T-Birds more of a home ice advantage. It also will be nice for concerts assuming that the sound does not echo. It seats 6100+ for hockey and less than 8000 for a concert. This makes it about 2000 smaller than the Everett Event Center. Kent Station is near by which has some decent restaurants like Dukes or The Ram. The paperwork with our season tickets said we should not park there but I have no idea on how they would know you did and went to game. If you can park there and go to the movie theatre it would be just as long to go to a game. Cons: When it is sold out it will be hard to move around. At the first game the lines were long for concessions and you really could not move around the concourse. The second game which was an average game crowd size made it easier to move around. At Key Arena I had the habit of making loops around the concourse between periods just to get a little walk in. In Showare you cannot make full loops as one end is closed off from walking through. You can go from ground level, up steps to the top and go over two sections and walk back down however. The main parking lot only holds less than 900 cars. There is the old park and ride lot less than two blocks away to offset this and in either case chances are you will have less of a walk than you did at Key Arena but do not expect to park close unless you get their early. In theory they do have spots set aside for carpools and hybrid cars but I have not seen it in practice. I tend to think that they might not have enough bathrooms. On opening night there were long lines, even for the guys, when you compare to Key Arena. I only counted four stalls.
Overall however it is a nice building. It was built at a low cost and should do well for the T-Birds, Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters, etc. type of events. It is far from being a fancy venue. December 01 How is MSFT doing against the DOW with Balmer in chargeI have blogged a few times about Microsoft is doing against the rest of the DOW since Steve Balmer became the CEO. Since today was the day that the recession was agreed upon I thought I would pull the data on how Microsoft is doing (the answer is not tha well). Note that I include Bank of America, Chevron, and Kraft which were added in the last year or so to the DOW and International Paper and Kodak which were members when Microsoft was added to the DOW.
November 04 RIP Edward McMichael aka The Tuba guyThe news today out of Seattle was that Edward McMichael who I only new as the Tuba guy (and in the paper they refer to him at the Tuba Man) died in his hotel room days after being beating and robbed in Seattle. You could always count on seeing the Tuba guy and sporting events and generally in the same spot at every event. I remember him playing outside of the Kingdome before M's games. My friend did a documentary on Richard Peterson who was a trumpet play who would also play out in front of sporting events, along with being on the radio with the Robyn and Maynard. One of the parts of the movie is when both Richard and Edward where on the Seattle TV show Almost Live playing their instruments. He really was an icon in the town.
After any event at Key Arena you could always find the Tuba guy on the fountain side of the arena under the same light post. After T-Birds or Sonics games with a win I would always drop my spare change in his steal bucket with a loud clank and you would hear that baritone voice say thank you, go T-Birds, or he would play you a few bars of a song. At M's games you would always see him on First street in the same place outside of Safeco field. Also at hockey games he would either get a ticket from someone or buy a cheap seat and you would see him in the last row standing and marching in place for the majority of a game. Many little kids would come and join him.
Tonight was a T-Birds game and it was very cool to see lit candles and flowers outside of the very spot he would always be at Key Arena. There was also big juice bottles as he would always seem to have at least one large Sunkist style bottle of juice or a gallon of water at his feet. After the 8-2 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings my buddy Greg and I dropped our spare change in with others as part of the memorial in our way of trying to say goodbye.
I took the attached photo from the Seattle Weekly. Two months without a post!Well my blog might be almost dead. I guess it has been over two months without a blog post. I have been keeping my lists up to date for movies, concerts, books, etc. but I guess I have not had much to write. I think facebook makes it a bit easier to write something really quick even if it just your status on what you are currently doing. Hopefully everyone just has this on their RSS and gets the updates if and when I make them. August 22 5479 days at the same companySaturday (tomorrow) will be 5479 days that I have worked at same company (5925 days if you count my internships). As such I have 15 pounds of M&Ms outside of my office which is the tradition to bring in a pound for every year you have been ther. Stop by and get yourself a treat! Because 15 years is considered a hallmark at my company I got the M&Ms personalized.
Any interesting fact is that 15 lbs of M&Ms weighs over 19 lbs when shipped.
August 10 I want CBUT in HD!We are only three days into the Olympics coverage and NBC is driving me crazy. I am tired of seeing "Live" listed next to events listed on NBC when the events happened much earlier. Living in Seattle we get the Canada channel CBUT on cable which is the CBC channel for Pacific time zone and it always seems to have coverage of Olympic events that is much more live than anything on NBC (or MSNBC, CNBC, Universal, etc.) but its downfall on cable is that it is not in high definition. I also like the fact that I get to see events that NBC seems to ignore or if there is not USA people participating. It was great to see some team handball and water polo on CBUT. Just tonight some of the swiming I saw on CBUT at 8:30 was jus shown on NBC at 11 pm! |
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