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[mblogsdon]

Jeff Heinig at Champion Small Engine Repair and Yard Service does a phenominal job on yard clean up. 206.335.7912. He cleaned up all of my blackberry bushes, hauled away two truck loads of yard clean up to the dump. It was so nice not having to deal with it myself. And the end result was great. He has been doing my yardwork for over a year now.

[JaimeGummer]

I’ve used a lot of cell phones but the iPhone is hands down the best I have ever owned. It is such a breakthrough in terms of design and technology-implementation that it has changed the entire industry, both in terms of its hardware and its superior software.

What I like best is how its functionality is infinitely expandable with all of the clever applications available through the iTunes store. I’ve had two so far and have dropped them a few times but have been lucky that they’ve still worked. Just get a proper silicone case for it and it won’t be so easily damaged when you drop it.

Having to deal with AT&T is the worst part of it. And the data plan and text message charges are outrageous. But then again, most plans from other carriers are overpriced too.

As much as Blackberry tries to copy the iPhone and catch up it is still just a watered down version of an old idea. The iPhone has much more functionality.

[jburr-chellin]

Dell Desktop Dimension 2350, 17″Dell E772c color monitor, Dell Quiet Keyboard, A few specs: 30GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive 7200 RPM, I added another 512 MB RAM;3.5 Floppy Drive, DVDRW CD combination drive, , Integrated 10/100 Ethernet, 56K PCI Data Fax Modem. Software includes Microsoft Windows XP Home, SP3; MS Works 2003; other misc software. Orig $744 all paperwork but no box.

[hammerhead]

I have blackberry and drop it all the time. It has never broke on me. I do hear the iphones can break very easy.

I love my blackberry, easy on the nails. lol:)

[saney]

to AdamOnAlki…

why do you think the blackberry is better? i am also debating the two and would love to hear the specific arguments for/against them both.

[JoB]

JanS…

i used to think that the sun addled their brains… but i was much much younger then:)

i now realize that every trip out of the house is an event for them and they are taking time to enjoy the trip…

but it might be wise for the city to bow to reality and create senior lanes.. then everyone would be happy…

ok.. i am off too my own little adventure to the grocery and local produce mart:)

i hope those following me realize that i consider speed limits the top speed one should drive.. not the suggested minimum.. and that i brake for small children, seniors, pregnant ladies and all animals…

i try to avoid insects.. but one can only do so much:))))

i am trying to find it in my heart not to ruthlessly run down snakes… LOL… that may take a while…

[cakeitseasy]

“elegant yet affordable gift items” (#20). That’s what used to bring me back to shop there.

Seems like they had to find a place to park all the overstock furniture from their defunct Fremont shop, maybe? I don’t begrudge them trying to reinvent themselves as primarily a furniture store…but I do *detest* the kind of customer service as noted @30 (which happens enough elsewhere, usually because of poor management). Personally, I’m not interested in wading through the sea of ‘apartment size’ stuff they’re pushing now, however they do have good taste style-wise, which is nice to see (instead of the frumpy, overwrought behemoths they sell in a lot of stores), but many of the pieces seem of somewhat flimsy quality for the asking price.

By the way, I don’t think there’s any virtue in shopping local if your’e not getting good value.

[Anonymous]

soclwr – I can’t tell, from your post, whether you confronted Capers management with your concerns or just assumed, based on other posts here, that nothing would be done.

[JoB]

BobLoblaw…

i agree with you.. i think we should request info about what Seattle’s business relationship is with their company…

it’s like giving to the telemarketers who call for the fireman or policeman fund… most of it goes to the telemarketing company.. that’s why i donate directly.

I am all for improving safety but also think that especially in these times, that needs to go along with a great deal of fiscal responsibility.

[WSB]

We are Mac diehards here at WSB HQ. Got an iPhone last summer and love it to bits. Unfortunately, we dropped it a month ago and its screen now has festive cracks, although it still works … so if you get one, get an extended warranty in case this happens to you. We have used it to update the site, to monitor the 911 website when we’re out and about, to of course check e-mail (both the account we default it to, and also webmail on another account) … Never used a Blackberry so can’t speak to that. Also, the camera on the iPhone is not too shabby …. we have used it as our first shot from various news stories because it’s so easy to snap a pic and e-mail it.

Cons: The AT&T wireless service isn’t so great, for voice. We have two other phones with a different carrier which DO work OK so it’s not too huge a deal, but if it’s going to be your exclusive phone … there has been some dropout trouble around West Seattle, particularly here at HQ (uphill from south end of Lincoln Park).

[soclwrkrinmotn]

The first time I went to Capers, the customer service was terrible–down right rude–and each time I came back was worse than the one before. The last time I came up was to purchase a small gift for a co-worker, and we were left standing at the check out for 20 minutes while the employees chatted with each other. Every time I attempted to get their attention, they’d scowl and tell me to wait.

I ended up leaving the items at the check out and walking out.

I haven’t noticed that talking to management/the owner does a bit of good…and I really doubt they have any concern about the community’s opinion.

[flowerpetal]

What this forum sometimes needs is humor and you supplied that What The. I’m selfishly glad that I didn’t read these posts until this morning. When I read your original post I thought What The may be planning something drastic like ending What The’s life. AZ is sometimes hotter than hell but not as drastic as checking out permanently.

Best wishes for this new chapter.

[miws]

Best of luck to you, What The.

I, too, have enjoyed your postings on the main Blog, and here on the Forum.

I also get a kick out of nics, such as yours and “yikes”. I often find that when another poster is replying to a person with such a name, that I think the poster is actually using the expression that the name is commonly used as.

And, by all means, keep in touch when you get back on the ‘net. It’s the next best thing to being here! ;-)

Mike

[Bikefor1]

I was at Newport in Feb and heard about this place:

Sylvia Beach Hotel

267 N.W. Cliff Street

Newport, Oregon

http://www.sylviabeachhotel.com

888/795-8422

“Farther south, the literary-themed Sylvia Beach Hotel, on an empty strip of Nye Beach, is the perfect place for a quiet tryst. None of the 22 rooms has a phone or television, and each is named after a writer and decorated to evoke his or her works and life…”

[Emmers]

Well all I have to say is that Capers is finally getting what they deserve. I have not stepped foot in that store since the owner in the past has only thought of herself and what is in her best intrest and to line her own pockets. I am glad to finally see the community is finally recognizing the person behind capers. Carma does really exist—good things happen to good people and well we know what happens to the rest!

[Jiggers]

The musical keyboard would be for me. Money is tight right now to buy a new one much less a decent one at a discount. Name brand and pictures would help. I can make arrangements to have it picked up. If it’s a real good one, maybe we can work up some type of payment plan. E-mail me thru my profile info. I’m not looking for something that has a steep learning curve to it. I need to get back practicing again. Thanks.

[Duckitude]

Hi All: I really don’t like to get into discussions about dog owner rude behavior, mostly because I haven’t met a dog owner who breaks the law by running their dogs on a public beach (or lets them crap on the beach) (you should see the crap that has showed up lately at Lowman Beach –I sailboard off the beach whenever possible, so I see it all) (or whose dogs threaten me, get territorial with me about the beach they have “claimed,” etc.)… I haven’t met such a dog owner who gives a damn about what I think about their or their dog’s rude and/or illegal behavior.

“Entitled” is absolutely the right word for the attitude I have run into repeatedly. As if the park and the beach belong to the dogs… pretty soon, it just may well belong to the dogs.

You know, there is much more than the issue of off-leash dogs. You would think that at a minimum, a dog owner would not get a dog unless he or she at least had a place for them to toilet themselves. Instead, no, they come to Lowman in droves to toilet their dogs because they don’t want to toilet them at home, or they don’t have a place to toilet them. The dumping hour generally starts at about the end of the business day — prime time toileting “happy” hour.

I once went through the trouble of counting all the times I saw dog owners come to Lowman in their vehicles just to let their dogs take a dump and a pee, and then off they go…

I just wonder if dog owners ever think about all the kids who roll around and play in the grass at Lowman and whether, if they had kids, they would let their kids roll around in dog crap and urine? Really, it is kind of sickening thought, but it is the reality of Lowman Beach Park… one of the most popular dog toilets of West Seattle. If you have 40 dogs crapping in the park every day and 70 urinating, and maybe 5-7 of those a day aren’t cleaned up properly or cleaned up at all, you get the picture, right? Small park, lots of crap… way too much toileting density. Ugly…

I quit trying to impact those issues a long time ago. Let the parks go to the dogs… just don’t teach them how to sailboard, okay?

[JoB]

catlbob..

i can see why they tell us to look at Beck..he is doing one hell of a populist sales job… but it is just that.. an emotional sales job.

and we are supposed to believe it because it comes from an independent…

Bush didn’t just tell us to go shopping after 911.. he also used the crisis as an opportunity to shove the republican agenda down the American throat in the name of patriotism…

Those people hollering about change have short memories… most of the change currently being advocated does little more than erase nearly a decade of changed policies and priorities…

I know some of those hollering now aren’t old enough to remember much else.. but it really hasn’t been this way that long…

and there is a lot of rolling back to do before America even begins to resemble the nation it once was.

[Al]

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=14947#more-14947

1st Ave lane closures may put more traffic onto Marginal as an official re-route option starting Monday 3/16

[charlabob]

THIS IS FROM CATLBOB, charlabob was innocently logged on to the computer when I posted it. Don’t trash Charla for this one, it was Bob.

The clip of Glenn Beck you provided JoB illustrates the fundamental dishonesty of his “We Surround Them” appeal. Just as few of them I wrote down while watching it:

Speaking of the drug problem in Mexico, he refers to the people who have been killed or beheaded. Beheaded, is that worse than death, or is it a reference to some other culture?

2nd largest corporate tax rate canard that Beck repeats is meaningless because the United States Government Accountability Office reported in July 2008, that 72% of foreign-controlled domestic corporations 55% of US-controlled corporations, reported zero tax liability .

Enforce the law with a video of Rod Blagojevich, is he really the biggest law enforcement problem we face?

You can’t have it all, and anyone who promised you that is a liar, with video of Barney Frank, Tim Geitner and Barack Obama. They promised we could have it all?

Chuck Norris, a certified crackpot, was at one of the Beck viewing parties.

So the big problem that Beck wants to solve is laid at the doorstep of the new President and a Congress not the failures of the Bush administration.

The bad guys that Beck shows us are all Democrats.

He is right, we were all united after 9/11, the whole world was behind us. What to do Mr. President, lead us. Bush said, “go shopping.”

Our conservative friends here tell us to look to Beck to understand conservative thought. Why?

[Anonymous]

My fiance and I are common folk, we were able to get financing (due to hard earned perfect credit, being first time home buyers and not having a house we need to sell) and purchase a house for an amazing deal – yes, it’s in Phoenix.

There is opportunity out there. How you live (within, below or above your means), is a factor in whether you can take advantage of those opportunities. Just like everything in life.

What happened with the housing market is definitely a correction. What JT said is dead on. IMO.

Btw, a heck of a lot of companies (my fiances included) are making it easier for people to live and work from anywhere (I believe this is a reflection of the majority of people not being able to sell their homes right now – and companies are realizing that).

[JustSarah]

I’m putting in another rave for Revo. Just got home from my third visit, and it was great as always. I went with my dad and his girlfriend. We split the calamari, each had a cup of soup, and I had the caesar salad while they split the luna di mare salad. All very delicious and in generous but not overwhelming portions. Our server, John, was very attentive and welcoming, and Sean was making the rounds as usual! So glad business is going well for them so far. Thanks, guys! :-)

[Irukandji]

We finally had dinner there this week as well. Definitely bugs – from being invisible when seated in the bar to timing of food service. The HUGE upside was the grace and humor with which staff and owners interacted with us when we brought up what our IDEAL would be vs. how things went.

Excellent food, and I wouldn’t hesitate to go back. Great martinis, lasagna, steak. I sure hope they are able to do their own bread soon – the purchased bread doesn’t hold up to the quality of the food they make in house (maybe a deal with Bakery Nouveau for bread?).

[JoB]

You may be able to make an argument for an inflated housing market… and the need for correction…

though we haven’t seen the bottom yet… and if it equals phoenix we are in real trouble…

i am wondering what common folks are going to be able to get loans to finance these housing bargains?

and what common folks are going to do when their loans are called because the equity is half what is owed… how many will have the resources to bail themselves out?

that is, if they still have jobs and have been able to make their payments…

How many common folks could sell the houses they live in.. even if they own them free and clear.. and move to phoenix to cash in on these bargains?

and if they could, do they have the financial resources there to survive without a job.. because the unemployment rates there are impressive…

i don’t think there is much opportunity here for the common man.. but it is an investor’s dream.

calling what is happening in the housing market a correction seems more than a bit optimistic….

but….

how do you explain away retirement accounts that are worth considerably less than the participants put in them?

Keeping those accounts captive in the stock market subject to professional money managers hasn’t turned out so well ….

I don’t think this is about blame…

i think this is about taking stock and realizing that what has been happening isn’t working…

and that putting some regulation back on the books and enforcing them isn’t socialism… but prudence…

[Jiggers]

Can anyone donate a good conditioned full 88 digital working keyboard? It would be much appreciated.