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Worst album covers ever, vote for your favorite
This is my favorite:
And this is a close second:
What's your "go-to" movie? The one you watch when you need to just get away from it all?
Submitted by uncagedbird.
Fight Club.
How are you spending this Memorial Day? How will it differ from Memorial Days past?
On Memorial Monday, I went to Canada with Tim and his friends. The friends went to see this suspension bridge, we decided $30 was too much to spend to walk around for a couple of hours, so we walked around the neighborhood for free. Then we walked around Vancouver's Chinatown. It didn't even feel like Chinatown because it was so clean.
What did you do for fun when you were a kid? How is it different from what you see kids doing now?
Submitted by jaklumen.
I played outside everyday and got dirty. TV's only something I watched if I couldn't play outside because it's dark/raining. There wasn't much in the way of children's television programming other than a couple of hours of cartoons everyday. I also read a lot.
Kids today don't really seem to play outside and get dirty. Nor do they seem to read anything that's not Harry Potter or school related.
What's your favorite type of cheese? Or, if you don't like cheese, why not?
Submitted by Draegon Scribe.
Hard cheese: Gouda aged 5 years. It is mellow, flavorful, and completely transformed.
Soft cheese: Montbriac. Soft ripened blue cheese, on the opposite end of the spectrum from the gouda, but still so well rounded in the creaminess from all the fat and sharpness from the blue vein.
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After 2 long days of driving, Tim and I arrived in Seattle, my new home city.
Day 1: Looking up apartments on Craigslist and making appointments.
Day 2: Seeing those apartments, driving all over town, moving into my temporary corporate condo.
Day 3: Looking at more apartments, finding the perfect place.
Notes:
The city of Seattle itself is really big, there are two major highways that run through it, and each neighborhood has its own completely distinct flavor.
The corporate condo is in a downtown high-rise, right next to Seattle Art Museum and Pike Place Market. It's full of amenities like 2 pools, 2 saunas, 3 hot tubs, and a gym in every single one of its 4 buildings. My attraction to this place was that it advertised a climbing wall; well, there's no climbing wall anymore, I'm really bummed. There are several restaurants and a Tully's Coffee onsite to boot. Downtown living is pretty fun, but walking around at night gets a little sketchy after 6pm when all the businesses close and tourists go away. Right next to the plush high rise are also two adult entertainment venues. Shopping in Pike Place Market has its perks, there are so many little shops if you need anything food related, and it's pretty much like having a farmer's market everyday, there are gorgeous cheap flowers. There's also really good shopping and dining near by, and it's all pretty expensive.
My new pad is in Capitol Hill, which is probably equivalent to Hillcrest/Northpark in terms of the liveliness and the amount of dining and drinking options offered. It is full of tattooed pierced hipsters, but it is also full of coffee shops and restaurants, plus it is less than a mile away from work. The apartment itself, well, you'll just have to come and visit. It is twice the size of my old apartment, but it is still cozy and full of charm. Plus there's a Stumptown Roaster's around the corner, that's where they make pretty pictures in the foam of your latte.
And holy shit, the coffee in Seattle is so good.
I start work on Monday.
Picture:
Interior of the corporate condo. It is on the 21st floor and really swanky, full furnished, there's a huge walk-in closet, a patio, a bunch of amenities onsite (hello hot tub and sauna), and..
Washer & Dryer. Woo hoo!
Here's the view down:
Seattle Art Museum
Here's the view straight ahead:
Concrete Jungle
Something they sell at Pike Place Market:
Monkfish. Ugly yet delicious
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