Entries from July 2005

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

94 Stewart

this new Bistro at Pike Place Market needs your support This spot opened on April 1st in the old Garlic Tree location. It is somewhat hidden and has had a bit of trouble bringing in a crowd. We had brunch there this morning by ourselves. The service was good, the food is good. The food [...]

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Brasa

consistently good Here is my first completely positive review. For a little while, I’ve avoided posting it, not wanting to give away the secret. Of course, it isn’t a secret, it has been around for a long time and is consistently highly rated everywhere. And now, I’m tossing in my $.02. Brasa is excellent. It [...]

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Welcome to the police state, citizen

The Bush administration is now classifying documents at the rate of 125 per minute, an unprecedented rate. At the same time, the administration is demanding more and more information about its citizens through instruments like the Patriot Act. If information is power, George Bush wants to make sure that he has the power. The purpose [...]

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

iTunes is caching podcasts!

the guys at Dailysonic figured it out link

Friday, July 1st, 2005

doomsday

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is retiring Seattle PI story This sucks. Driving the country into war and into billions of dollars of debt wasn’t enough for this president. Now he’s going to try and ram the scariest, crazy-as-all-get-out right-wing nutcase he can onto the supreme court. Democrats, it is time to “D” up. We need [...]

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Dear USA Today dot com

a plea Dear USAToday.com, if I can’t find an article that was on the front page of your paper after half an hour of trying, do you think I’ll buy the paper? Do you think I’ll visit your website again? (spoiler space) no.