The Forgotten Seattle Pics

Here are more photos, from my last trip to Seattle, which I neglected to post:

Where the @#$% is Matt?

I first saw his dancing around the world video, probably a predecessor of this one...gosh...a couple of years ago, maybe. Such a fun concept, and I enjoy things that shrink the world a bit.





And for extra fun, here's a video explaining how he addressed rumors that the video was a hoax by giving a tongue-in-cheek presentation at a conference, pretending to reveal how it was a hoax, going so far as to say the team created an army of animatronic dancers, and some people reported it as if he had "come clean" and admitted it was actually a hoax. The skeptics turned out to be the most gullible of all. Funny stuff:

Fighting Zombies With Ned and Chuck

I dreamed last night of a few things. I dreamed Jason L. had become an entrepreneur in Moscow, Idaho, running a moving company there with vans with cartoonish logos on them. I dreamed I visited Tracy and Brian at their home on Juniper Street while escaping from zombies, and they had three kids but lost two of them while I was there, so we went to the Olive Garden on Juniper, where I asked for an application because it was so close to home I was sure I'd be able to get to work on time regularly.

But the highlight was the whole zombie thing I mentioned. Night had fallen, and I was out walking through my old neighborhood with my friends, Ned and "Chuck" (Charlotte) from Pushing Daisies, and it got really creepy, and any yard enclosure was home to zombies, and we ran around defeating zombies and trying to escape the haunted neighborhood. The big piles of snow that acted like tractor beams were no help. We'd try to run away, but the snow piles tried to suck us in. One particularly nasty one outside the duplex on Tamarack by the intersection with Juniper was so strong, we just ran in place as the pile elongated while trying to draw us in and grew trying to engulf us as zombies appeared from the corner of the yard. Don't worry--we got away. Somehow, it was all a big, fun game. Ned and Chuck make life fun.

Unflattering

Ha, I know the picture I have up right now isn't the most flattering. Sometimes, I think I have the tendency to only post the most flattering pics of myself, and truth be told, I think the unflattering ones are how I look most of the time, if the number of unflattering pics versus flattering ones are any indication. I have a bump in my somewhat large nose. I have angular features that don't look great in some light. I have a long, thin face. I have bad skin (though I do doctor that up a bit). So I thought I'd post a pic that didn't disguise all of that. I'm just playing fair. *wink*

...but I'm planning on changing it before long, along with a blog redesign I like much better than this temporary blandness.

I Heart Pandora

I'm finally getting around to really using Pandora. I think I'll have it on a lot. It's basically customizable online music radio. You pick the artists you like, and it plays music based on your preferences. It's a great way to hear music you love and find new artists. Most of you know this, yes, but though I set up an account long ago, I'm just now really using it. And loving it. I made a really mish-mashed station out of all of my preferences thus far (but you have to have an account to hear it). OK, back to more productive endeavors...