In Seattle

I haven't blogged in a while - busy bringing online a new site and then there's life. Remember life?

I arrived in Seattle late on Tuesday and had a time trying to get around the SeaTac airport, but I finally found the Airporter service tucked away - hidden really - near door 00 (double zero) just beyond nearly 20 baggage claim racks.

I'm here for the IMA conference - a geeky confab of sorts about the intersection of Public Radio and New Media. I feel like Robert Johnson strumming on the guitar at the crossroads. We'll see...

I walked around downtown for a while yesterday with camera in hand. I walked down to the Pier - Pier/Port/Ferry #52 I think it was.

I couldn't help myself. At the Pier was a McDonald's and I was craving a Big Mac so bad. So, I'm sitting in my booth seat there at the ferry when out of the Muzak radio comes "Don't Rock the Boat, Don't Tip the Boat Over" - you know that old standby by the Hues Corp, right? It just seemed like one of those ironic moments. "We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion"...and there was that moment there at the end that I hadn't noticed before "Get on down with your bad self..." No, really. Go listen to it. It's there.



Interesting fact from wikipedia:

The "rainy city" receives an unremarkable 38 inches (970 mm) of precipitation a year, less than most major Eastern Seaboard cities. For example, New York City averages 47.3 inches (1200 mm), but Seattle is cloudy an average of 226 days per year vs. 132 in New York City.

More later, I hope...