The charred remains of the small brushfire last night
Still a few whispers of smoke in the ashes …
Trifecta Indeed: Grocery, McMenamins and the Elks
From the Tribune: Two developers are crafting an ambitious plan that could accomplish three goals high on downtown Tacoma’s wish list in a single swoop: restoring the historic but crumbling Elks Temple building, attracting a McMenamins brew pub-hotel and opening a new specialty grocery store in the central city. Tacoma developer Grace Pleasants and development partner Rick Moses of Southern California on Tuesday unveiled plans to buy the 93-year-old former Elks Temple at 565 Broadway and a large tract of undeveloped land north of the temple from Portland developer Williams and Dame. That was what I was going to do Read more…
Brush fire in downtown Tacoma! Here’s my footage of the TFD
Right in my alley!
538 at the poker tables
I love reading fivethirtyeight.com for political statisitcs. And I love playing poker. Interesting to read how Nate Silver is doing at the World Series of Poker (quite well, actually!) From his post: Playing ten hours of poker — with 2+ hours of breaks in between — as I did yesterday, is absolutely exhausting. I’m not sure if that makes poker a “sport”, but it’s closer than you’d think. Physical stamina is more of a consideration in an event like the “Main Event” of World Series of Poker than is generally understood, the eventual winner of which will have played something like Read more…
Cool news from TLT and Northwest Playwrights
This August, Northwest Playwrights Alliance is hosting a festival of new work at TLT. From their email: The festival includes both established and emerging writers with strong ties to the Northwest. At Tacoma Little Theatre, two of the commissioned full-length productions are plays most recently produced by the Working Theatre Collective, a new company based out of Portland, Oregon. The third, Convention, by recent Western Washington University graduate Dan Erickson, was recognized by The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The fourth production during Festival Northwest will be a night of short works written by six separate playwrights. Audiences at TLT will have Read more…
Just installed wifi for Mary’s uncle at their cabin. Q: Is it good or bad I can get online from here:
As soon as it was installed, 4 laptops suddenly came out …
Pride and Prejudice on the Kindle
For all the many classics that showed up on my English Major reading lists, Pride and Prejudice wasn’t ever there. Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility both were, but this was my first encounter with Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Gotta say. I loved it. Maybe it’s the romantic in me, but I really enjoyed it. It makes me want to pick up the rest of Austen. And since P&P was free on the Kindle, I’ll probably try Emma on the Kindle too. This was the first time I used the Kindle dictionary feature while reading. It was really handy to Read more…
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