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[Zenguy]

Jen, they are beautiful and it is all in how you look at things.

I have often thought about “what is art?” and for me it has to have some sort of composition. For example a solid white canvas I would not consider art unless there was some sort of composition in the brush strokes. A toilet sitting in the middle an art museum too is questionable.

But I would never judge someone else for liking something I do not. Variety is the spice of life!

[RainyDay1235]

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

[JenV]

not to sound cheesy, but “the heart wants what it wants” – I happen to find urban decay and industry beautiful, while others find it a blight. I would never try to change anyone’s mind, I just know that I have different taste than many others around me. this is an example of an artist/photographer who just blows me away:

http://www.artificialdaylight.com/

[MAS]

Just got word of the discussion of the now infamous “Sign Theft” thread, and wanted to start a real discussion about one of the concepts floating around in the posts.

As the spouse of someone with advanced degrees in art and art history I hear from time to time that my taste in art is terrible, though art which I create is generally well liked, even by my spouse – not just my Mom.

Are the aesthetics of something an absolute, which we can judge using some sort of useful scale, or is there more opinion involved than measurement? If there is opinion involved, is popular opinion enough to determine what is beautiful and what is not, or are there guidelines that must be used which enforce some sort of standards to beauty?

I’m posing these questions without any real agenda other than to hear what folks have to say. To me it seems that just being popular isn’t enough – or reality television should be considered high art, along with fart jokes and faking emails from your boss. On the other hand, I don’t care for the idea that some set of rules should govern our ideas of beauty or ugliness.

PLEASE don’t refer to the sign theft thread except to cite examples of how folks critique art and beauty. I’m with the moderator on that topic, it’s done.

[inactive]

Your Highland Park and Riverview neighbors need you! They want to throw down some good times while talking about the present and future needs of the Greenbelt Gateway to West Seattle – Highland Park and Riverview. If you are not sure if you are within the boundaries of those areas, come on down anyway.

On Monday, Nov. 24th the regular 7 PM meeting of the Highland Park Action Committee will be an important one for you and your neighbors. The agenda is copied below for you to have a look see. Even though this meeting might seem boring or unpleasant, be assured these are a group of friendly, positive, neighbors who REALLY want to get things done, and actually do get things done. But, they want to get their good times on as well.

Highland Park and Riverview need more uniquely talented, or motivated, or caring, or funny, wonderful folks to step up. But, first, sit down and eat with everyone! You are out there, reading this and wondering if it is worth it to show up. Well, if you care about your own, as well as others’ families, homes, schools, safety and community health, you belong at this meeting. If you like to be social, you belong at this meeting. If you have strong opinions about our communities, you belong at this meeting. If you’ve got a great casserole dish or appetizer recipe, YOU BELONG AT THIS MEETING! ;)

These current times demand that each of us, as citizens and neighbors, stretch ourselves and our families a little further than we are use to. It is fairly certain that times will be more challenging, but when goods folks step outside their comfort zone and join with their neighbors with good intention? Well, that is a good thing and remarkable things can happen. We strengthen ourselves and each other by sharing our unique abilities and gifts.

But, to do this, people have to at least connect with each other. So, come to this meeting and just observe, or share, or follow or lead if you are inspired.

This meeting is a potluck, but you don’t have to bring anything – but you! You and whomever you care to bring with you. Many are young, many older and a few in betweeners!

Introduce yourselves to friendly, fun-loving group of your neighbors who manage to put their heads together to find solutions to neighborhood challenges.

If you cannot make Monday but might attend a potluck down the road, and want to be included in all future mailings about the issues and events, please write to info@highlandpk.net and ask that you be put on the regular mailing list.

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this. Here’s the agenda copied from the recent notice for Monday’s meeting, fyi:

Top Five Reasons Why You Should Attend the Meeting:

1. Pot Luck dinner! We will now start our meetings with pot luck food and fun with your neighbors.

Bring a dish or some snacks, if you can. No worries! BYOB!

2. We need your good ideas. We are still dedicated to improving our community and keeping it safe but we also want to meet our neighbors

and have some fun. Bring your ideas for improving our meetings. Special guests, outings, poker night, you decide.

3. Big news about the proposed jail that the City of Seattle want’s to build in our backyard! Come and learn the new facts about what the city is

planning and what we can do about it.

4. Election time is here. It’s time again to elect our 4 executive officers. Come and meet the candidates or throw your hat into the ring!

5. Meet your neighbors, feel a little civic pride and learn something new about Highland Park. This is the last meeting of 2008!

Highland Park Action Committee monthly meeting

Monday, November 24th at 7:00

at the Highland Park Improvement Club building

1116 SW Holden

[margoodc]

Premier West Seattle Retirement Community seeking “Temporary Full Time enthusiastic Housekeeper. Ability to multi-task and provide excellent customer service to our senior population and their familie. Must have strong verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Come join our team!

To apply, email resume to mgoodchild@thekenney.org, or fax to 206-935-8339, or apply in person at 7125 Fauntleroy Way SW Seattle, WA 98136-2008. Visit our website at thekenney.org

[mellaw6565]

Kewl – thanks for the heads up:)

[RainyDay1235]

FYI – Two Homeward Pet initiatives. Homeward Pet is the only King County no-kill shelter. They have ties in West Seattle, but are based in Woodinville…

1. Calendars are on sale. My husband took many of these photos and the calendars are great quality. All proceeds go towards their 2009 LOW-COST SPAY & NEUTER program: https://homewardpet.ejoinme.org/MyPages/2009CalendarHomewardPetAdoptionCenter/tabid/116780/Default.aspx

2. Going to the Space Needle this holiday season? If you buy tix online, enter code TFA14 and $5 will go towards HP. If they send the most people to the Space Needle they can win $25K!

:)

[JanS]

Mellaw..thanks for the nice thoughts about Pam. She works so hard at this, her passion…so, yes, if you can help her out, please do. She’s one of those unsung heroes in our community.

[Ken]

I guess I did not see the previous mention of dsl problems, but in the future, I can often diagnose and determine whether a problem is in the customer portion of the line or in the part qwest is responsible for.

I also have long experience getting past front line customer service folks to those who can actually work on the connection.

My own issues with qwest are intermittent and I have traced them to congestion issues with my ISP. That network has evolved far beyond the one my team built but I can still locate the points of packet loss with a fair degree of confidence.

Ideally every DSL connection needs to be a “home run” from the telco demark (NID, The box outside the house) to eliminate possible interference from other phones and devices on the incoming line. Electrical length of the qwest portion of the line can also be degraded by something as simple as the length of the line, I had one friend on Queen Ann Hill who had a phone line exactly the length of the frequency of broadcast signal of a nearby radio tower. I cut off 3 feet and the problems went away.

Your mileage may vary

[WSB]

I have deleted the previous comments because as it turns out, there was a typo in the OP that I was asked to help fix, so two previous comments related to that have now been deleted.

I also request that inquiries or comments on job postings please be sent directly to the post’er. Jobs are here because it’s the best place at the moment to have people directly post them, not to open them as discussions. Thanks.

[Aim]

When we were burglarized two years ago, our upstairs neighbor happened upon the scene almost immediately (we think he scared them away when he came down the stairs) He noticed the broken window, and tested the door. When it was unlocked, he came in to be sure we weren’t inside, injured or worse. Once he found that we weren’t home, he found all of our cats except one, took them to his apartment so they’d be safe and secure, and called me at work to tell me to come home immediately.

The burglars had completely destroyed much of our home, going so far as to tear up books and stomp apart bookshelves when they found that we didn’t have any valuables. When all the police reports, etc were done my partner began to clean up (and look for our very-well-hidden kitty!) He needed to be alone for a bit to work through his anger. Our neighbor took me upstairs and fed me vodka and valium until I was calm.

Thank god for good neighbors. We are so very lucky here. Many people would have pretended not to see the broken window, or would have assumed we already knew about it, and just gone about their day. It takes a special kind of person to care about their neighbors and go above and beyond by securing our most valuable “possessions” – the cats – even before calling us.

THAT is why we live in West Seattle. Neighbors like that are the rule, not the exception, here. I am very thankful to be able to live in this community.

[lola68]

Express Credit Union, a small community development credit union in Seattle’s SODO district whose mission is to provide fair and affordable financial services to the low and moderate income communities of King County is currently searching for an English/Spanish speaking Loan Clerk/Member Svc. Rep.

Qualified applicants must have a minimum 2 years prior lending and collections experience. Must be able to multi-task, be a team player in a small office environment, have a valid credit life and disability insurance license (or get one within 90 days of employment) and be fluent in both English and Spanish. Must be able to be bonded by CUNA. High school diploma or its equivalent and credit check required. Prior credit union experience a plus! Working hours: Mon-Fri

9am-3pm. Starting salary: $15 hr.

Please submit resume with references by 12/5/08 to: Express Credit Union, PO Box 94286, Seattle, WA 98124 ATTN: Norma or email to expresscu@qwestoffice.net

[andrea]

omg…thanks for the post malcolm…that article should be a must read for everyone! there needs to obviously be so much more oversite of these companies its ridiculous…hiring underage kids, druggies, felons, rapists, murderers, all so they will sell magazines at your door for next to nothing to them…amazing.

[GenHillOne]

Don’t think it’s illegal to offer your painting assistance to the garage owner :)

Maybe there are circumstances that have prevented them from taking care of it.

[Green Up Girl Kacey]

HELP WANTED – Seattle City Light’s Project Share and the Space Needle’s TREE FOR ALL http://www.seattle.gov/light/help/share/

Project Share is a City of Seattle program that helps eligible families pay their electricity bills in times of crisis. Funds consist of customer donations. This year, the program has had to temporarily stop accepting requests for assistance because there were no funds available.

Project Share gets a welcome boost thanks to the Space Needle’s new holiday tradition called The Tree for All. It works like this.

Coded vouchers (Project Share -TFA12) are being distributed to various charities taking part in Tree For All – including Project Share. For every voucher submitted with purchase of a full-price adult ticket to the Observation Deck between November 12th and December 24th, $5 will go directly back to the charity that referred the guest to the Space Needle. For every voucher submitted with purchase of a full-price senior or youth ticket to the Observation Deck, $2.50 will be donated to the referring charity.

The organization with the most vouchers submitted during the season will be presented with an additional $25,000 from the Space Needle family to be presented during KING-TV’s live coverage at the “Quadrant Homes New Year’s at the Needle” festivities on December 31.

Tickets can be purchased in person at the Space Needle ticket booth and online. Guests are encouraged to use their tickets during the holiday season, but all tickets purchased through this program will be honored for up to one year from time of purchase.

To learn more and download a voucher, see http://www.seattle.gov/light/help/share/

To Purchase Space Needle tickets online as holiday gifts see

http://www.spaceneedle.com/visit/treeforall.html

and click on Project Share (Project Share -TFA12)

Please help families who need Project Share!

[Green Up Girl Kacey]

C’mon Seattle let’s GREEN UP!

Have you heard of Green Up Seattle? Well, if you haven’t listen up because this is an amazing program that allows you to not only make a difference, but bring more green power to the Northwest. By enrolling in Green Up, you can purchase green power for a portion of your electricity use and demonstrate your support for wind power and other new renewable sources (like solar and biomass). Seattle City Light’s wind energy comes from the Stateline Wind Project near Walla Walla, WA, which is one of the largest wind farms in the U.S.

Choosing Green Up! reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, improves air quality and helps reduce the growth of climate-warming emissions. The Green Up program is Green-e certified and fulfills LEEDTM Project green power requirements.

Ok so here’s the deal. You simply agree to pay a little bit more each month and you will get $25 towards an order on http://www.Spud.com. So for as little as $3 a month (or $6 or $12) you can make a 25%, 50% or 100% commitment and get local, organic groceries delivered right to your door! Spud.com is a northwest home food delivery service and we have teamed up with them to make this an offer you can’t pass on (good through December 31st, 2008.)

We pay about $3 for our lattes per day so pass for one day and make Seattle a greener place.

Check out http://www.greenupseattle.org or call 206-684-8822 for more info. Let’s all work together and pitch in. It’s that extra mile that makes the difference, and it always helps if you’ve got some food right?

Here at Seattle City Light we take pride in providing “green” energy for our customers. We realize that we all need to work together to reduce our carbon footprint and do everything we can to make renewable energy accessible and affordable.

[Ken]

Securuty theater like most of what “fatherland” security does.

I have no problem with the coast guard using it for training but trailing a ferry is going to do nothing but reassure the gullible public.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

— Juvenal

[mellaw6565]

Thanks Hammerhead for all the work that you do with animals. Heads up to all – Hammerhead could use some help defraying the costs of a neuter for a stray. Anyone wishing to help can PM her. She spends lots of her own money rescuing these animals and I know in these hard times a little donation will go a long way.

[GenHillOne]

oh man, yeah *thanks* add, just what I need, lol. Never heard of it and, of course, now I can’t stop digging through it! Love to hear from anyone who has used it – really like that you can focus on sellers in the area.

[RainyDay1235]

I’ve been in that same predicament. Once was on 405 in Bothell – argh!

People who get frustrated at traffic delays due to accidents – take a chill pill! I remind myself and my husband that there is someone up ahead who is having a FAR WORSE DAY than you are. Be grateful you are getting home in one piece! :)

[JoB]

the same people who were impatiently honking would be grateful if they only knew that the stopped car ahead of them kept them from a much longer delay… hitting a dog..

[GenHillOne]

Thanks, Hormel, cool site and good for them; looks like they have a pretty diverse customer base actually. I especially like their slogan – “God, Country, and Fast Boats” lol, testosterone.

[cruiser]

As a true Dub I haven’t been back in the Celtic Swell since I was poured a brutal Guinness there on my first visit three years ago.Although it is owned by Irish people,they are marketing their bar to an American audience and who can blame them. However it resembles no Irish bar I was ever in Ireland in the 35 years I lived there.

There is pretty good Guinness to be had in WS by the way (apart from my deck),not sure I want to share the location though:)..

ps Thee, PaulD said we should meet and discuss the above:)

[charlabob]

Jan’s right — she never leaves the island unless I make her :-)

We have a wonderful sweet cat who was rescued as a kitten on I5 downtown by a colleague at work. He saw this tiny fluffball, stopped, turned out emergency lights, got out, picked her up and brought her to work. Needless to say we fought over who got to keep her — I was his boss — I won :-)

The office posse named her Road Kill — couldn’t quite live with that, so she’s now officially Roada Katsky. People do care and do take risks and and that’s yet another good thing about being part of the human race.