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MeTa post:
Son of Mass Canoe Rental Meet Up Concept
Protip for fun: combine canoeing and illegality!
For a fact, however, canoeing is not an activity that particularly lends itself to operating in a diminished capacity.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 5:50 PM on June 20, 2008
Are there enough power boats on this lake that you have to worry about traffic?
Quite possibly. Crossing the lake on the route I favor can be problematic if you do not know how to cross a wake. And wakes you will see--as you have to cross a boating lane at some point if you cross over to the Arboretum side. There can be very large wakes crossing in different directions for one short stretch. It is not that hard if you know what you are doing nor... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 6:36 PM on June 20, 2008
If memory serves, you shouldn't actually feed bread to birds.
Oh, for Christ's party pooping sake!
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 6:39 PM on June 20, 2008
Well and good, then. Last time I suggested this, the only person to show up was Sandra Bernhard's big brother and this is how it went.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 6:47 PM on June 20, 2008
Hope that's okay.
Oh, very much so--I was being lazy and mostly recycled last year's post, which itself could have been less obscure.
I am sorry about going on about the diminished capacity part but I have to deal with drunks on a near daily basis where I live, and it is not fun. I have myself canoed under the most diminished of capacities, wearing no life jacket and a half mile from shore--while standing in the canoe pirogue... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:35 PM on June 20, 2008
By the way, since no consensus on date has yet been established, I must note that Thursday would work as well for me. I would kick this down the road a week but then you are looking at the whole 4th of July thingy. So, this being the best of all times as far as being closest to the solstice, especially as the how late you can stay out part, not to mention the impoosible to describe extreme pleasure found in paddling through marshes and observing the teeming birds, frogs, turtles, beaver, nutria... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:36 PM on June 20, 2008
That sounds good to me--I was about to solicit opinions on the matter but then I went to the Solstice parade. Which was just fine. Apart from the fact that my camera's batteries were dead but no never mind there--I actually looked at everything rather than just take pictures. Boy, there were not only naked bicyclists this time but naked roller bladers and pedestrians, too. And giant paper mache puppets galore and that samba dancing troupe at the end. Ah, Fremont Solstice parade...
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 3:32 PM on June 21, 2008
especially if someone has a trunk I can lock my work bag in...
If I recall correctly, there are coin operated lockers at the Waterfront Activity Center, where you could put your bag for something less than a dollar.
I just checked the weather forecast and it's going to be in the mid-70s from mid-week until the weekend. Now, I am open to meeting up at the WAC at 6:30 on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 5:53 PM on June 22, 2008
One thing to think about Saturday is power boats. While there will be power boats out on any nice day, there would be more on Saturday than any other. That would be a factor in cutting across Portage Bay to 520. The less boats with which to deal there, the better.
So, while there is parking fees to consider--and thank you for reminding me about that: I had forgotten to mention that, bike and bus rider that I am--it's not free but it's not the worst rate possible.The fee... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 12:25 AM on June 23, 2008
Well, to confuse matters more, I thought I would point out that Sunday's weather is looking good, too.
I suppose we should come up with a date, so let me suggest Thursday or Sunday. I can do Friday or Saturday as well but I am thinking that Thursday and Sunday are going to be the least busy at the boathouse and easiest to be on the water as far as boat traffic is concerned. So, I am good with Thursday, Sunday, Friday and Saturday in that order.
I suggest... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 5:20 AM on June 24, 2008
Well, that's two for Sunday then. Given his parking considerations, I think Tube will be amenable unless church interfers. Anyone else ?
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:16 AM on June 24, 2008
I don't believe they do charge on Sundays.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 12:54 PM on June 24, 2008
Who wants to put the Official Time and Place post up?
I just did so.
I would not want to go more than two per canoe. And I have some specific opinions to share later on how to sit in a canoe and what you can and cannot do when in a canoe. (Like no standing up and making no sudden leans from side to side, to name the more obvious.) I am sure that mzarquon may have some similar thoughts and suggestions as well.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 5:34 AM on June 25, 2008
For folks who don't want to cross the open water or latecomers... cross the canal and hangout in the arboretum
More specifically, a spot within sight of the bridge by Duck Bay is recommended, as seen on the map from the link above, the legend for which is written in white below and left of the legend there for Foster Island.
Go across the Montlake Cut and under the footbridge between Montlake and Marsh Island and then turn... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:01 AM on June 25, 2008
And here is a map for the WAC as linked above. The route I have in mind will go north in the inside passage, take a right by the baseball field and then on to an undisclosed location in Union Bay from where we will cut across the lake, going under 520 by the SAM IS COMING graffito--which dates from around 1968, by the way--and going down the slough by the Broadmoor golf course to little old Duck Bay and on to and through the Arboretum.
The advantage to this route is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 12:59 PM on June 25, 2008
I don't know who Sam was but I have often wondered. SAM IS COMING is far older than the era of hip hop tagging and wholesale graffiti. It's underneath a bridge, the classic and just about only location back in the day. It's nearly always in the shade and yet still has faded--I seem to recall that it was there when I first rented a canoe in the late 60s. Which would make it forty some years old.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 7:44 AM on June 26, 2008
Lay off the coach, dude.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:25 AM on June 29, 2008
Wait, the QFC is gone?
And here is what will replace it. The whole block came down--QFC, Taco Bell, APaprtment building and two houses. It will be a six story 295 unit building to match Brix, whihc was built on the old Safeway site on Mercer and Broadway. When Brix reopens, there will be a new Safeway and the indoors cafe for Vivace at the ground floor.
Because the old Vivace is going down, along with two whole blocks of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:54 AM on June 30, 2008
By the way, the meetup was me, Tube, Slarty Bartfast--whose handle my friend Vera was once convinced was Farty Blortfast, don't you know--and blasdelf, who turned out to be the most technically qualified online, and on the water, being a canoeist and white water kayaker and all and evidently having been on the internet since the parchment scrioll emails sent down pneumatic tube days, of the whole crew. Heh, and I called shotgun before I found out either of those things....... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 9:10 AM on June 30, 2008
MeTa post:
The Little House in Ballard is now empty.
I think they should turn it into a medical marijuana grow house and put an old Ford pick up with a volunteer fireman sticker on the bumper up on blocks out in front of it.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:39 AM on June 18, 2008
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Please, for the love of all that's holy
I say we change the default name for Dave Faris to Special Dave Faris.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:54 AM on May 29, 2008
Cortex and I are both half-Jew actually, so that's like one whole Jew mod!
So, I can hear the parody of the Adam Sandler Chanukah Song right now:
Jessamyn's half-Jewish, Cortex is half too. Put them together, what a fine lookin' Jew!
And then mention Miguel and you could work amberglow in there, too...
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:48 AM on May 29, 2008
5. Life is too short to be so wedded to your partisan views in such a way that you feel the need to compartmentalize the world into teams and then hate and rage against the other team. That is so rich coming from the insinuating weasel worder who in memory yet green did play being against the war is being a traitor card:Interesting that the paper suggests that a significant reason would be because of a lack of political will. Perhaps that thesis gives credence to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:01 AM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Clinton Obama Filter redux
You know what I think is cool--the Phoenix Lander landed safely on target on Mars--the equivalent of hitting a golf ball in New Yrok City and having it make a hole in one in Sydney, Australia, or so they said on NPR--and the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment onMars Orbiter took a photograph of it on the way down. Now, how cool is that ?
Derail aside, I must admit that I am of no fixed opinion in regards to this matter and on a very low horse about it as well.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:37 PM on May 26, 2008
MeTa post:
BragFilter
In no particular order,
Dark Was The Night--Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson
Gone to Croatan -- Hi, Iconomy!
Sappho: Poem of Jealousy (26 Translations)
The Minstrel Show 2.0: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter
y2karl's 78 RPM jukebox-o-rama
Ragtime, Cakewalks, Coon Songs and Vaudeville, Barbershop Quartets & etc.
Rilke, quintessential poet of love, and The History of Romantic Love. Yeah...... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:05 AM on May 23, 2008
MeTa post:
What gives?
So does that make me misogynist? Racist? Chauvinist? WcityMikist? PinkSuperheroist? DaveFarist?
y2karlmarxist.
But you know it is kind of cool that we have a presidential candidate with a Cardassian first name.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:08 PM on May 16, 2008
MeTa post:
iPoutine and iTakeout
I am so sorry I missed this. I was so tired and I just spaced it out. That Sunday I was whupped. As to why, had I made it, I could have regaled you all with talesabout the full Fellini meets Bukowski Monty of it for hours. That preceding Saturday Night was definitely a massace. And so I missed out talking to interesting nice normal abnormal people. Oh, man, wish I was there. Dang.
But I was thinking this morning that I am going to push for another multiple canoe meet... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 7:44 AM on May 15, 2008
Well, as the summer wears on, the algae blooms, the milfoil explodes and the oxygen gets sucked out of the water. It can get funky, stinky and skanky out there and the paddling can get labor intensive. Still, canoeing in around the Arboretum and Portage Bay is worth doing anytime one can rent a canoe but, for a fact, from now to the summer solstice is the best time of all to do so.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 11:38 AM on May 15, 2008
MeTa post:
MehCain.
So, if Osama wears boxers and Hillary wears panties, what does McCain wear ?
Depends!
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 7:30 AM on May 14, 2008
The difference is the willingness to consider the issues, against the memory of the taste of blood in your mouth, and heartbeats skipped as your jet falls towards a carrier deck.
Mission Accomplished, then, eh ?
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 1:11 AM on May 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Just a curious question
More than fan club discipline?
The first rule of moderator fan club is you don't talk about moderator fan club. You just write the most insipid sycophantic suck up posts and kiss ass comments of which you can possibly think--
Oh, I just don't know how you do it! Thanks a million zillion gabillion!! We are so not worthy!!!
Or so the craven evidence would suggest....
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 12:17 PM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Should or shouldn't
So, what I was wondering last night while watching TV was which came first: the original MetaFilter We're All in This Together slogan or this We're All In This Together song by that Ozzie actor dude Ben Lee, as featured in the recent Kohl ad. How old is that song, anyway ? Inert minds wand to know.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 9:20 AM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Suffer the complainers in MeTa.
No jail¿ Was the sentence so light he's out or never went to jail for his crimes¿ What's going on with the justice system down there¿
¿¿¿ ???
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:41 AM on April 9, 2008
MeTa post:
The Sun Is Here Seattle, Let's Have A Meetup!
The Sunset Bowl closes for forever on April 19. I think that we need to get one more bowling meet up in there before then. This would be the meet up.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 5:36 AM on March 18, 2008
I just checked--Sunday is league night and there are no lanes available then.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:32 AM on March 18, 2008
That is, there are no lanes availabe from 5:30 PM until 9:00 PM on Sunday--which is also true for Monday through Thursday. I would suggest that Saturday the 29th is the ideal date for a Sunset meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 8:35 AM on March 18, 2008
When in doubt, BYOV
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 6:55 PM on March 18, 2008
Sunset Bowl also serves food.
A vegetarian might have better luck at the Sunset. Also, they have a lounge with karaoke. Where, I understand, one Jessamyn tore it up at a meeting long ago.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 7:00 PM on March 18, 2008
I am sorry that I had to call it an evening so early but it was nice to see so many people. I should have guessed that getting a lane these days would be hopeless but, on the other hand, it was nice to see an article suggesting the Sunset's demise is not yet carved in stone.
And Ballard, Jesus Christ, I had not been up on Market in months--that is development Denver style, housing bubble on meth and steroids. You could see, in any given 180° turn, close to a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:43 PM on March 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
There's a neighborhood in my city called "Gaywood". Seriously. Gaywood.
The bowling alley just outside my hometown in Idaho was at a crossroads named the Gay-Way Junction and was hence named Gay-Way Bowl. I learned to bowl at the Gay-Way Bowl.
Johnny Carson once mentioned the place on the Tonight Show and they sent him Christmas cards every year thereafter.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 2:02 PM on March 28, 2008
MeTa post:
pathetic insensitive
... Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping
downstairs by the furnace
while birdies are cheeping.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 12:31 PM on March 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Use someone else's words
Dancing Santas or direct_retinal_tattooing_via_laser_beams would be good sock puppet names.
Just sayin'
But then, so would be Just Sayin'...
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl
at 10:17 AM on March 28, 2008
