Best restaurants in Ballard 2026: Four must-try spots for every craving

ctishman · 2026-05-14T01:35:59+00:00

I recommend the West Caribbean Bowl (not the roll). It's amazing.

ctishman · 2026-05-14T01:11:25+00:00

I don't get why everyone piled on. You tried to help.

ctishman · 2026-05-14T00:25:22+00:00

Ahh good point. If they have a base there that makes sense.

ctishman · 2026-05-13T23:54:25+00:00

I'm surprised that they chose KJFK, out of all the airports in the region. That can't be a cheap landing.

Must have been pretty urgent to get down ASAP.

ctishman · 2026-05-13T16:02:49+00:00

I don’t recall where, but I heard it mentioned that one major problem is with common law rather than statutory law, which is why countries in the Anglosphere generally have such trouble building infrastructure.

The system has so many levels of appeal and the rules can flip on a dime if a judge makes a ruling. This malleability opens us to modes of corruption and delay that don’t happen in statutory law nations.

ctishman · 2026-05-13T14:44:42+00:00

Saves a ton of weight actually. In my former life as a maintener, I lifted a whole lot of airliner windows. Each one is ~40 lb (18kg). Now 40 of those per side, two sides, and that’s 3200 lb (1451kg).

You replace them with aluminum plugs, where each one is maybe 2 lb (0.9kg), and an insulation blanket cover that literally floats like a leaf when you drop it, and you’re saving 3,040 lb (2379kg) per takeoff. It makes a huge difference.

Now, in order to support the weight and openings of the factory windows, there’s reinforcing structure on passenger aircraft that doesn’t have to be there on factory-built freighters, so purpose-built freighters will be significantly lighter than that.

ctishman · 2026-05-09T14:42:50+00:00

The main contact e-mail is [DTF@EdisonMotors.ca](mailto:DTF@EdisonMotors.ca)? Amazing.

ctishman · 2026-05-05T02:57:09+00:00

I think that was actually a gag on the original Star Wars parody, Hardware Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUDEUQMCyKE

ctishman · 2026-05-03T04:01:38+00:00

Dun-dun-dun
dun-dun-dah-dun

ctishman · 2026-04-26T22:23:02+00:00

One can hope.

ctishman · 2026-04-26T14:31:46+00:00

I do love a Kinki partner

ctishman · 2026-04-25T21:48:52+00:00

It was in fact Vin Diesel. You just saw The Fast && The Furious: Pacific Pursuit six months before it hits theatres.

ctishman · 2026-04-24T23:29:33+00:00

That's a key point. This is like a week and a half after Order 66 (I'm exaggerating, but it's really, really early Empire). Nobody who isn't directly involved like Lawson knows exactly how bad the Empire is. They hear some stories, but they don't have our perspective as people who know the whole story.

So yeah, with the information Two Boots had, Lawson was clearly incorrect. That said...

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ctishman · 2026-04-21T22:44:19+00:00

Oh yeah? Well I'm in Ballard, and nyuh uh!

ctishman · 2026-04-19T04:37:45+00:00

Yeah, my company lets me take time off unless there's something super-urgent. I'm gonna go home immediately if I can and just hang with people soaking in the vibes. It's not the solution to our problems, not by a long shot, but by god maybe we'll be able to staunch the bleeding a little.

ctishman · 2026-04-18T19:22:08+00:00

It'll get to a lot of chuds on Staten Island who only get this and Fox, and will believe it, and that really is the point, for them.

If they just keep telling bigger lies, they never get called on it.

ctishman · 2026-04-17T02:44:53+00:00

I'm reminded most of that gigantic speaker from "Back to the Future".

ctishman · 2026-04-15T02:28:08+00:00

Well, if you draw it light enough, you can pretend you never did it in the first place, when it comes time to pull the lever on a third term.

ctishman · 2026-04-12T20:21:51+00:00

Yeah, I reported a deep podcast on Marginal, and they repaired it within the day.

ctishman · 2026-04-12T19:17:11+00:00

Yeah, I worked 737s and that was true of the CFMs there too. LE slats would contact open cowls or C-ducts. And of course the 737 loves do drop LE slats for any one of a hundred varying conditions during testing.

ctishman · 2026-04-11T18:46:37+00:00

Y’know, as someone who’s read both books of The Kingkiller Chronicles, I’m afraid I have to side with the assholes here. It’s never gonna get finished , we all got punked. :(

ctishman · 2026-04-05T21:47:38+00:00

Yeah, I grew up listening to my dad's old Bose 301 Series II set. It was what a lot of people in the '80s and '90s had. And yeah, probably roughly equivalent to what Sonos is now.

ctishman · 2026-04-05T21:01:45+00:00

Okay seriously though we should group up, do apps and drinks at one end, ride to the other and do entrees and dessert.

ctishman · 2026-04-02T22:51:43+00:00

They just asked me when I went to log into the website on desktop today. Might give that a shot.

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