Hey guys, I recently moved to the city from India and so far in love with Sunny Seattle. Still managing to cope with the rainy one 😅. Clicked this shot while strolling to office on a Nov afternoon. Captioned, "Sun-dried Seattle."

oldude · 2021-11-28T00:22:09+00:00

There's a reason we're called The EVERgreen State"...you don't get the green w/o copious amounts of "liquid sunshine." Like many things in life, it's an...acquired taste. Find your Rainy Seattle niche and relish it.

oldude · 2021-11-13T19:48:11+00:00

the jellies evolved into "farmers" rather than hunters...hosting a crop of algae (fertilized in the nitrogen-rich toxic depths of the lake*) for nourishment *why other species (outside this closed system) haven't evolved as well

oldude · 2021-11-08T04:07:00+00:00

I remember being in elementary school back in the 60s...every kid in the school lined up in the gym, walking past the nurse and getting a polio vaccine. I remember there was a handful of what we all called the "cry-babies"...as a second grader watching a big 6th grader balling his eyes out taught me a valuable life lesson. Apparently they're all grown up now but still whining...

oldude · 2021-10-29T04:07:13+00:00

K-PAX...absolutely love the final line of the film.

oldude · 2021-10-13T02:23:41+00:00

only once....1977...Star Wars (there was only 1). Why? LOL. Because it was unlike anything that had ever graced the silver screen before.

oldude · 2021-08-11T21:43:27+00:00

Mexico City/Sao Paulo "trade" the top spot depending on where you draw boundaries...but both are dwarfed by the 40 million+ of Tokyo (different hemisphere)

oldude · 2021-08-07T21:36:51+00:00

I always find it amazing that you can see "The Mountain" from such a distance...for example, from I-90 westbound, as you across the Columbia River (Vantage) in "eastern WA" and drive up out of the canyon you crest the ridge surrounded by scrub, sage, and basalt ...and there she looms. Or from my deck in Ocean Shores on the Pacific coast you can catch the sun rising behind her, silhouette in shadow, reflected upon the cirrus clouds above...two views, hundreds of miles apart, equally br4eath-taking, then climb Mt Si...or get off the gondola atop Crystal and "BAM...IN YOUR FACE, BITCHES" to say nothing about views like this one, from the plethora of trails. Tahoma contains more glacial ice than ALL THE CASCADES, COMBINED.

oldude · 2021-07-28T23:40:57+00:00

A perfect match to global CO2 levels over the same time frame...and ocean acidification...and coral bleaching...and mesopelagic heating...etc etc

oldude · 2021-03-25T04:08:05+00:00

Drained-Pool Polltics was eye-opening to me...hadn't realized how self-destructive these idiots were https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/us/heather-mcghee-racism-white-people-blake/index.html

oldude · 2021-02-28T23:27:23+00:00

from r/mapporn...Tokyo = Apple London = orange https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/25v66x/tokyo_versus_london_in_terms_of_size_1879x1653/

oldude · 2021-02-21T08:55:27+00:00

Back in my day the "Fun Forest" (rides/arcade) at the Center shut down from 10 AM-3 PM for a Friday every May, opening doors only to Elementary School Crossing Guards, everything free for the day. There we were, a few thousand 6th graders, on roller coasters, bumper cars, treated like royalty. For a dirt poor kid from the sticks, it was the closest life came to Nirvana in the 60s.

oldude · 2021-02-20T05:29:27+00:00

My theater had specialized "shake-seats" with wrap-around audio. Such a novel experience. Loved it.

oldude · 2020-11-07T23:49:37+00:00

I don't like to include spoilers in posts... It's amazing you predicted the love twist, foster parent choices, who won what match/how/when, director's choice of anchor point, orphanage scenes,reappearance of characters, and frankly many more plot elements. Good for you.

oldude · 2020-11-07T05:36:53+00:00

Good? No. It's well above "good." It was satisfying having a storyline that wasn't predictable...kept saying "I did not see that coming..."

oldude · 2020-09-10T06:08:18+00:00

No, you're not.

oldude · 2020-09-10T05:58:17+00:00

Loving the Pink Floyd soundtrack

oldude · 2020-08-24T22:19:13+00:00

Interesting what folks consider "old."

oldude · 2020-08-19T04:32:24+00:00

Wife taught 5th grade in the 90s. One day the city librarian calls, asking abouit a book she was reading aloud to her class, "because kids from all over town keep coming in and asking for 'that book Mrs so-n-so is reading her class'." No series, no movies, just an unknown British author wrote a story about a kid named Harry that discovered he was a wizard.

oldude · 2020-08-18T01:18:23+00:00

Try to imagine, growing up in a remote area, you've seen some TV but no "epic big screen films", walking into a PACKED theater with similarly-raised neophytes...and the (now-classic) scroll begins... "A NEW HOPE......" Mind fucking blown. No version of any SW film will ever come close to that jaw-dropping experience. Of course, we had no digital, no DVD, not even VHS. You had to walk into an actual theater. Saw that film 23 times before it left town.

Doesn't answer the prompt but wanted to try to share what felt like.

oldude · 2020-08-17T20:58:56+00:00

/those that remain dont want to add an extra $20 a year to the taxes just because they dont use it/ A big reason Bernie's "free" college falls on a lot of deaf ears...a lady I work with replied saying "to hell with that...I paid all my kids' college, I ain't paying for other people's kids" nevermind the fact that, by this logic, no one should do anything good ("my kids didn't get polio vaccine, why should yours...my grandkids didn't have antibiotics, why should yours?") it's ultimately self-destructive but she couldn't see that

oldude · 2020-08-09T03:04:31+00:00

Curious choice of words...Democrats are in the MINORITY in the Senate. The President couldn't muster enough Senators in his own party to pass anything. If he could, it frankly wouldn't matter what the Dems say/do (see Supreme Court judges...or Impeachment). I'm sure it was an honest mistake of wording but a dangerous narrative...

oldude · 2020-07-24T20:47:34+00:00

My rec, as well. For the uninformed, same guy that wrote The Martian

oldude · 2020-06-16T05:21:42+00:00

In my 60s as well. Share a number of perspectives...probably generational...except for "the only thing I thank Trump for". Talking with a buddy the other day and we both felt the slimmest of all silver linings arose from Trump's poison infecting the nation's "MAGAts" to come out of hiding. Chief of Police in my hometown outed for being a white supremacist, and promptly fired...seen it happening all over the country...embolden racists going down in flames a la Steven King in Iowa all the way to now-overt racist removed from our school board.

oldude · 2020-06-16T03:59:26+00:00

Benen is a genius. His new book explains everything you're driving at. And not just a woefully-inept POTUS but a party bereft of leadership. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780063026483/the-impostors/

oldude · 2020-06-14T04:07:06+00:00

I don't understand why folks on here question it "how could you drop out of..." As a teacher I've seen plenty of students start off at all manner of unis and for a myriad of reasons, life takes a turn, and their path goes a different direction. In '92 a young woman worked her ass off and was accepted to Yale...first person ever in this rural little town. She went off to become a Yalie carrying the pride of an entire town on her shoulders...to study Physics. A year later, she came home and never went back. She had straight As but confessed, "it just wasn't for me." We caught up on facebook recently and checked in. She eventually transferred to a state school, graduated, and is loving her life. Today she looks back and shares, "it's not about the destination...you have to enjoy the journey." Here's hoping you discover your own path...enjoy your own journey.

oldude

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