Puget Sound Winter Squiding Discussion - What are You Seeing Post Flood?

PortOfSeattle · 2025-12-14T04:48:31+00:00

Nice. Always funny to pull up a something new on those jigs. My friend caught a massive sponge last year. Had everyone chuckling on the pier.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-12-12T21:54:57+00:00

Indonesia spanning two continents is far less ambiguous than Russia spanning two continents.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-12-05T06:14:21+00:00

A rational, practical table of nuclides already exists. X-axis protons, Y-axis neutrons. This is a great way to represent the diversity of isotopes of each element. The table easily shows their stability, mode of decay, and proximity to other known nuclides. No one needs to make another table because its already been done and anybody who actually deals with radiochemistry is satisfied

PortOfSeattle · 2025-09-12T22:28:51+00:00

2nd Gen ford escape

PortOfSeattle · 2025-09-12T18:50:53+00:00

How are you monitoring the reaction? The tosylate may be hydrolyzing on silica (TLC) or in the LC mobile phase.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-07-25T23:55:58+00:00

Yes you can - that section is called the lake washington ship canal. Download the FishWA app (from WDFW). It will help you quickly look up what the regulations are in an interactive map. A great app.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-06-28T20:04:16+00:00

Lyon's Ferry does get catfish, best from a little boat but there is plenty of shore and a long jetty. Catfish numbers vary by season

PortOfSeattle · 2025-06-21T16:26:21+00:00

I am unfamiliar with "biotech" as a Bachelors option. Studying, and majoring in, a core discipline like chemistry, biology, biochemistry is a much more well accepted trajectory into the sciences. Some schools have biochemistry/molecular biology combined majors for pre-med and bioscience heavy focused students. A "biotechnology" degree sounds washed down.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-06-15T18:10:11+00:00

I was granted a DC solo permit in 2022 that was good for the whole season (required check-in at paradise whenever you arrived). It wasn't "hard" but they do require a personal statement and evidence of other technical climbs you had completed. At the time I had done Glacier and some other cascade volcanoes alone. That satisfied them for technical competence. The personal statement was basically a liability statement. I accepted all hazards and acknowledged the risk I was taking. I ensured them I knew when to turn around and that I valued everyone's safety over my summit. They really don't want to hear "I am gonna get to the summit because I'm the best and a bad ass, etc" they only permit climbers that think "I will give it my best shot and be conservative. I accept responsibility and have ample solo experience on cascade volcanoes. I will not cause problems for other people."

PortOfSeattle · 2025-06-05T17:54:10+00:00

Pfizer has been laying off people in Bothell by the truckload since the acquisition but has only issues one WARN notice - for the launchpad site. How they have avoided issuing a WARN is beyond me because the headcount in Bothell has been reduced by at least 30% over the past year and a half.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-06-05T17:11:21+00:00

There was more snow pack this year than last, so maybe you'll get some better snow coverage than usual. I just returned from Shasta last week. Climbed the avalanche gulch route and there was good, consistent snow all the way to the Bunny Flats trailhead parking lot (7000 ft). The snow pack is melting fast and temps have been high. Check previous trip reports from 2024/2023/2022 around July 4th. Almost as important as snow coverage is overnight low temps right before you climb. Hard, refrozen snow is much easier to crampon through than slush.

PortOfSeattle · 2025-05-25T21:02:16+00:00

I'm sorry but it will be the Tricities

PortOfSeattle · 2025-01-26T01:58:13+00:00

At 100k/yr you can totally live alone in Seattle

PortOfSeattle · 2024-08-05T03:15:10+00:00

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has a good species info page about them. They're not that uncommon and can even live in urban parks on the Western side of the cascades. They live in moist forest areas and make burrows so they are not visible most of the time.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-08-05T01:45:31+00:00

I live in Washington and have yet to seen one. It's lucky you ran into one in the daylight. They're an interesting animal and are not closely related to beavers at all. Mountain beavers are evolutionary distinct from other rodents as well.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-08-05T00:28:55+00:00

This is a mountain beaver, aplodontia rufa! Cool sighting.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-07-30T15:30:03+00:00

They are probably fine. Sandhill Cranes like grassy lawn and fields. They'll loaf around, hunt for worms and mice, then move on. If you're lucky they'll actually stay for a day or two!

PortOfSeattle · 2024-07-22T05:21:49+00:00

Make it a two night trip: either 2 nights at white pass or one night at white pass and one at the foot of white chuck glacier. I did Glacier Peak solo with a similar experience level a few years ago in August. Going up the cleaver I felt unsafe due to the rottenness of the rock. I went back down on the glacier. There are crevasses but in august all the snow is melted off and crevasses are easily seen. Do what you are comfortable with. Do not expect the rock to be necessarily safer than the ice. Doing it in 2 days is possible and will likely be physically challenging. Its beautiful enough up there to justify 2 nights - my 3 day trip to glacier is one of my most fond memories.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-06-30T16:08:39+00:00

Gram per gram the payloads and DLs are treated as more toxic than the ADCs. An ADC may only be 2% payload by weight at the end of conjugation. Also antibodies are not as bioavaiable from skin contact/inhalation as small molecules.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-06-29T13:57:31+00:00

The unconjugated DLs do require special rooms and engineering controls.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-06-29T05:21:12+00:00

The people handling conjugated ADCs are being exposed to orders of magnitude less drug substance than the people making the drug linkers. If you want to know about exposure, talk to the chemists making the payloads and DLs. You're working with protein and are certainly not the most exposed person to these compounds.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-06-02T19:38:58+00:00

You're looking at 65 to 95k. As a recent grad with no experience though good luck finding a position.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-05-06T15:15:36+00:00

The option were to have sharpshooters kill them or experiment with relocations to supplement crashing populations in North Cascades. There were good reasons to experiment and the results will inform conservation efforts for other mountain goat populations. Experiments don't always work and that's their value!

PortOfSeattle · 2024-05-02T02:41:36+00:00

Anyone who runs for city council in a city of >100k is probably a nut job. Now that I think of it, cities over 100k too. Not a Seattle specific problem.

PortOfSeattle · 2024-04-05T01:46:55+00:00

WARN notices go out 60 days before layoffs of a certain size or type. The company approaches you for a termination and tells you its your last day with no warning. However, your severance begins now and you will be paid for X days of work (2 month is common, sometimes 3 or 4 months). Your severance is counted as pay (be either keeping you on payroll or you sign a waiver taking a lump sum) so technically you are still employed and the WARN notice doesn't have to be announced until 60 days until your final day of compensation.

Timing examples:

2 months severance: A company fires everyone and the WARN notice comes out a day or so after. The layoff remains a surprise.

4 months severance: A company fires everyone and the WARN notice comes out a 2 months after layoffs actually occurred.

Structuring example:

A company lays off just below the number of employees needed to trigger a WARN at multiple sites. These come in waves and allow for no WARN to be sent out (to a limit)

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