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The Seattle Times reported today that the City of Seattle will increase rates for curbside street parking. The plan is to use market-based pricing, charging more for prime locations and/or peak times of the day (and possibly reducing rates during off-peak times). Paid street parking hours may also be extended. I recently added a Medical [...]
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This is the text of a speech I recently delivered at my Toastmasters group. * * * * * Plenty of terms were bandied about in the recent discussions of health care reform, including “universal health care.” Universal health care simply means that everyone in a society is entitled to health care. The same way [...]
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This is the text of a speech I delivered at my Toastmasters group today. I have looked for a long time for a succinct description of the problems with our health-care system, couldn’t find one, and so I wrote this. It’s based in large part on T.R. Reid’s book, The Healing of America, but is [...]
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A nice group showed up for the noodle group lunch today. There were 16 of us, plus one infant, so we had to spread out a bit. We’ve now been meeting for more than 12 years – yikes! Mike passed his camera around, and everyone except Michael got snapped. Here’s a Flickr slide show of [...]
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The innovative Seattle Empty Bowls fundraiser is back in Ballard for the second year running. Last year’s event was a run-away success, with more than 400 bowls flying off the shelves within a couple of hours. They are prepared this year with even more bowls, including some wooden ones and ones designed just for pets. [...]
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Apple is starting to look just like any other technology company. Don’t get me wrong. I love my MacBook and my iPhone, and when MobileMe is working, it’s great. However, wasting well over an hour of my precious time resolving a simple login issue makes me wonder if Apple is so special after all. I’m [...]
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I just wanted to renew a few of my domain names. But, no. . . GoDaddy’s relentless up-selling system made me check and uncheck a bunch of boxes to execute this simple task. Not only that, I even had to go through a bunch of other machinations, including a call to a tech support/sales guy [...]
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Empty Bowls is an innovative non-profit started by an art teacher in Michigan in the early 1990s. Ceramic artists create and donate hand-crafted bowls and then serve a simple meal in them at a fund-raising dinner. All of the proceeds go to local food banks and soup kitchens. The Empty Bowls organization supports food-related charities [...]
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This video, “a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all” from Amnesty International, features some of my favorite world musicians – Hugh Masekela, Angelique Kidjo, and Yerba Buena – and introduced me to a bunch of other wonderful musicians. Very powerful music and a very powerful message. Check it out at The Price [...]
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Honk Fest West is a way-too-fun weekend-long celebration of street music. This year’s fest is scheduled for April 10-12. Last year I saw great bands from New York, Chicago, Seattle, etc. and had a great time. I hope this year is even better. Last year two of the most obvious local bands – Portland’s March [...]
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I have spent several hours today figuring out how to implement my weekly day of service. I don’t have all of the details worked out yet, but here’s the basic idea. I am committing one hour a week this year to helping activists, non-profits, and charities promote themselves online. I may also offer my services [...]
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