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[lazybeard]

When you’re in the corner of Oregon, I recall going up a plateau and then coming across a vista and I captured this:

Other than that, I have the rest of mine located here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/colbyp/collections/72157624895271052/

[Irukandji]

For Aim.

[Irukandji]

Okay, since I can neither resize nor delete thru WSB, I’m going to try again with getting this right:

[WSB]

We didn’t get that phone message, sorry they got voice mail, we answer 24/7 but once in a while someone calls while we’re already on another call. 206-293-6302. We then always ask callers to e-mail us (so we have the info in writing) but of course that wouldn’t work in this case! (Was an Airstrean trailer involved, by any chance? We did get a confusing voice-mail message about a stolen Airstream trailer.)

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(added) Checking the mailbox again – we do have a note about this.

Anyway, I have a Crime Watch roundup in the works so we’ll include this. Sorry to hear it happened.

[Irukandji]

FTW

[jwws]

They’re all cute when they are small – my “little” avatar is now 87 lbs of chocolate Lab fun and the griffin he’s in front of has had a few wing and tongue surgeries over the years!

[mightymo]

The best part about that site is that it lists the last pickup time for each mailbox. I have no idea how often it’s updated (and whether it’s accurate) but that’s useful.

[RKB]

[JanS]

well, Leo is sometime part dog…

the puppy pics sure are cute, though…

here he is in all his grumpy glory :)

[JanS]

[Forest]

Thanks for so many helpful answers, especially the Google map of every public mailbox in the 98116 zip code.

[acemotel]

mightmo, that’s very cool!

[Al]

Metrognome, yes I post long because so many people jump to the “emotional” triggers about this issue instead of researching the actual information. And I don’t count on people acutally clicking a link ;-)

To answer IMHO your thoughts/questions…

a) adding cycling infrastructure actually cuts down on road costs and driving costs by indirect “traffic calming” and reducing the amount of injurious collisions on bike routes. This is well documented. In addition, cyclists are generally known as canaries in a coal mine regaring road maintenance – we complain about it earlier thus giving DOTs a heads up about looming infrastructure problems. Contact and DOT and I’ll bet you’ll hear this. Bicycles do not cause damage to the roadways – tree routes do worse.

b) licensing/tabs/etc were introduced to make sure the persons operating a large, dangerous machine could do so safely without killing everyone around. When bicycles were the bigger more dangerous machines (before cars) they were also often licensed. The automobile changed the focus for good reason. A portion of the fees, only a portion, goes for road maintenance. The cost of running a licensing program for cyclist is so high, it’s been abandoned by most cities. And “licensing” programs still in existence are mostly for registration of bikes if they are stolen.

c) Will we register/license ALL bikes? What age should the rider be licensed? If one is riding a bike from outside the city, will they be pulled over? How will licenses be attached to the bike? Again, all these questions have not been able to be satisfactorily answered by other cities and the idea has regularly been abandoned.

d) The city settled in the cyclist case because the city had been notified multiple times by other cyclists of a dangerous road design problem. In that stretch I believe, cyclists must ride on the roadway. The roadway was altered and a dangerous gap left that was reported and not corrected by the city. Thus, the city was liable and knew it. If the city knew about a dangerous situation that would be dangerous for motor vehicle drivers, such as a sinkhole in a city street that could cause a car crash, or a motorcycle crash, should the city just leave it and tell all the drivers to just “go around?” Roads are not just designed for cars – the are primarily designed for vehicle traffic, which includes car, trucks, cyclists, motorcycles, etc.

e) Unfortunately many people do cite bicycling “scofflaws” as a reason for licensing cyclists. But licensing does not solve driver/rider poor behavior. SPD can and does pull over cyclists (I’ve seen it and was glad) even though we don’t have licenses. Many drivers seem to forget that a license doesn’t magically solve car drivers attitudes any more than it will cyclists.

Ironically, the less drivers there are, the less tax revenue municipalities will collect. So as less property tax collected as housing values drop and less sales tax as people purchase less. And then there’s the whole baby boomer retirements coming up so less $ will be availble from employment taxes as well. I agree, it’s a bad situation, but blaming cyclists for lack of funding for roadways is really not the right answer. I am in agreement with you that it’s complex and the roadways across the US are in dire straights with no real funding answers in the near future.

[DP]

>> APP and Spectrum ARE in the public school system.

I know that, and I congratulate the folks who put their advanced kids in these public school programs rather than moving the kids to private schools — especially if the parents have the $$$ to go private.

Nothing wrong with private schools mind . . . but we do need a good mix of kids in our public schools, too. Just like we need a good mix of ethnicities and income levels in our neighborhoods.

Frankly, I don’t see any inherent contradiction between the people who want their advanced kids to have the most challenging education possible and the people arguing for more of a mix. Of course, no one should have to sacrifice the best interest of their child in the name of “mentoring others.” But there’s a self-fulfilling prophecy at work here. If every parent with an advanced child took that child out of public school on the grounds that public school wasn’t a rich enough environment then truly, what would be left of public school? It wouldn’t be a very rich environment, would it?

But this is precisely where Spectrum and APP come in; these programs are a way to keep kids of different abilities in the same school while still giving them the challenge they need.

Clearly, teachers and admininstrators — and yes, school boards — have to do their part to ensure that Seattle public schools continue to be rich learning environments for all our kids. Some schools are already there apparently (as per yeah-me) but other schools are certainly “broken” — and the School District needs to fix them, albeit with plenty of help from the parents.

Anyhoo, if I had an advanced kid, I’d want her spending at least some of her time around kids of differing abilities — not just with kids “behind” her but with kids “ahead” of her as well. I would want her to understand that the world is filled with people of different capabilities and different gifts. I would want her to mentor some and be mentored by others.

And I would want this for her sake, most of all.

[Gina]

NW corner of College and California.

[mightymo]

This should give you all your options:

http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/zip_codes/maps/9/98116.html

[acemotel]

There’s a mail drop at Alki Mail on Admiral Way across from the nursing home.

[saney]

there is one on the northwest corner of california and hanford

[Admiral935]

There’s also the Admiral Junction Mailing CenterTravel office on California, kitty-corner from Safeway under construction. Just South of Lafayette school.

[Karl]

4700 SW Admiral Way. Between the street sign and the bus stop.

[Forest]

I received junk mail at home today, but my outgoing mail wasn’t picked up. Are there any USPS public mailboxes in the Admiral Junction area these days? Thanks.

[JanS]

hmmm…opinions?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110202/ts_yblog_thelookout/tree-octopus-is-latest-evidence-the-internet-is-making-kids-dumb-says-group

[DP]

Well, just about any photo taken within Seattle city limits was taken on a hill, mirabile . . .

But yes, technically you’re right. This particular hill is running south, but the shot was taken facing slightly southeast.

Here’s a slightly more revealing view:

This is one of those many West Seattle things — like the “Dont Tread On Me” medallion from last week — that hides in plain sight. However, unlike the medallion, which was a small thing, this is quite a big thing.

A great big thing, in fact.

In spite of its size and its (one would think) striking appearance, we have become so accustomed to seeing it every day, as we whiz by on our Segway personal transporters, that our awareness of it has been gradually shifted and re-shifted within our brains. Until, finally, it gets filed away in some dark little cubby-hole labeled “permanent storage” — alongside the billboard advertisements, speed limit signs, and other cortico-subliminal junk mail.

And I can’t believe I actually just said that . . .

[2krazy4words]

pictures and story also now on FAF’s Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43688&id=114608895250532&saved

[DP]

Grok this one, my pretties:

If you dare!