Peaboy

Live Photo Gallery is pretty cool and it has a new feature where it can identify that there are people in your photos and you can tag them. Funny thing is also recognizes faces in t-shirts. That little white rectangle on Joelle’s shirt is the software recognizing the face on her shirt, or possibly the app likes boobs… :-)

This is an amazing clock, watch the whole vide where he explains how it works and then think WOW!

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/the_corpus_clock.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

Last night we were having a Condo meeting in our inner courtyard and we could hear Sea Ray's Alarm droning on for about 2 hours. I called Sea Ray today and the woman who answered the phone was very apologetic and said the alarm company was coming out today to work on it. Let's hope this does the trick!

For the past few weeks we've been hearing this alarm go on and on all night. It stops periodically and then just starts up again. I assumed it was a car alarm and that it was set to sensitive but tonight I jumped on the scoot and went looking to see who was the culprit.

Turns out it was Lake Union Sea Ray on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE!!! I was trying to take some pictures to figure out if it was a boat in the yard or if it was the building itself when some guy started yelling at me. He didn't know why the alarm was going off and he didn't respond furhter when I asked him why its been going off all the time and if he realized we could hear it on the other side of Lake Union which is about 1/3 of a mile away. Closer than I thought.

They obviously need to fix their alarm, turn down and re-aim the siren. No one is paying attention to it, there was a moving crew working just next door and no one cared one bit.

There was a Seattle cop hovering around when I left. I hope he's filing a noise complaint.

If you heard it too, feel free to let them know.

Lake Union Sea Ray
3201 Fairview Avenue East
Seattle, Wa 98102 USA
Phone: (206)284-3800

I have been having problems with Trillian staying connected and the UI acting funny. Admittedly I was running the beta version, but it was just not reliable enough so I decided to check out Digsby.

I should backup and let you know that these are both all-in-one IM clients, that is they allow you to login to all your IM services, check your email, etc. Digsby also lets you have multiple twitter accounts which Trillian does not. I have a few different twitter accounts and its nice to be able to post to them, although I love TweetDeck for my main twitter account where I can see all my friends and what's going on. It also lets you check all your email accounts including any pop or imap accounts.

Anyway, if you're looking for an all-in-one IM\Email\Twitter client check out Digsby.

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The Mural Amphitheater used to be one of my favorite places back in the Pain in the Grass days. Now they have weekend movies which I didn't know about till just now and its the last weekend. The Seattle center emails were going in my junk mail, doh!

The line up this weekend is as follows:

Friday - 8 August

• Dusk - The Goonies
  Yes back when Cyndi Lauper and Cpt. Lou Albano were buddies she was in a movie that I don't even think I liked as a kid although I did like Cyndi Lauper's music. Hey, Girls just wanna have fun is a classic and now I know you will have that song stuck in your head all weekend! She doesn't really have anything to do with the film, but for me they both mark the same moment in time.

Saturday  - 9 August

• Dusk - Batman Begins
  The year is 2005, and everyone has realized how stupid it was that Michael Keaton played Batman so they decided to remake the series but now they are gory and the heroines are hotter. I must say, big improvement. Oh yeah the 1989 Batman movie also wasn't making money so they needed to rip off today's HS and College kids who could have just rented the original.
• 11:59 - Rocky Horror Picture Show
  All you need to know about this is Meatloaf rocks and Susan Sarandon is very hot in a sort of innocent girl goes wild kind of way. Oh yeah you also need to bring about 150 different props, dress as your favorite character, memorize the lyrics, the dance, and the lines and the crowd refrains to the lines and then while the movie is on you need to sing and speak over the top of the movie and if you're good act out the whole thing on stage in front of the movie and basically not watch the movie at all. That's the sign of a good movie, when no one watches it for 33 years and yet its still being played every Saturday night at Midnight.

I might have to stop in to check out the crowd for RHPS. I had my high school moments of attending that every weekend back at Shawnee HS in Medford Lakes, NJ... ah the memories... RockyCon2008 is in Atlantic City, NJ, of course!

BTW, whatever DID happen to Saturday night?

Nick Licata replied to me last week about the bag fee and styrofoam ban.

Thank you for writing me about the 20 cent bag fee, and styrofoam container ban.

Although I was out of town during the final Council vote, I supported the Council’s action since I was successful in having language included in the legislation that required Seattle Public Utilities to report back to the Council by November 25 for ensuring access and deployment of reusable bags to low-income people, including those living in Seattle Housing Authority housing and other low-income and senior housing facilities.

Sincerely,

Nick Licata

When your knee hurts and you are having a hard time getting around you feel like you took a knee to groin because you realize maybe you're not 20 anymore. You'd think being closer to 40 than 20 I would have figured this out already, but Peas have anti-aging properties that make that impossible. Most notably we have no concept of time or time order so I can remember something from when I was 10 like they just happened and frequently I can't remember just happened. :-)

So back to the knee.... This passed week my knee has been bad enough that I worked from home one day and moved up my doctor's appointment 6 days to get it looked at. I prefer a Naturopathic Doctor but I hadn't had a permanent doctor since I changed jobs so I went to the Bastyr clinic and hooked up with an ND there. He looked over me knee and said what everyone (yes you too Dawn) has told me that I have some tendinitis, maybe a strain around the point at which my IT Band attaches to my knee (see pic at left from AAFP site). That's good news because it means its nothing major and I don't need surgery or anything drastic. We're basically going to be doing a heat\ice regimen and I have a follow-up with a more specialized ND to look at what physical therapy I should be doing. I also went to an acupuncturist yesterday as well for the knee, that was a great experience.

While the ND was a graduated board certified doctor, I went to the teaching clinic for my acupuncture because I wanted to get in that day. Once they did the routine new patient stuff I put on a gown and laid down on a table. They elected to do needles and cupping. The cupping was to help loosen my IT Band and I think to increase flow into the area. To be honest I don't quite understand it. I've heard of it and I'm pretty open to trying things so why not. The pic on the left is of the bruises after the cupping procedure. They don't hurt or anything they're like hickeys more than bruises. (more on cupping)

I also had acupuncture done at the same time I think I had about 15 to 20 needles in me. That was very cool. I have piercings and I've done temporary piercings so needles don't bother me at all (Gary just feinted). These needles are VERY small and I barely felt them go in at all. They then rotate them a bit and adjust the depth to hit the right spot. I'm being purposefully vague because I don't have the right lingo. I need to read up on this. I can tell you they place some around my knee, one both my feet, in the webbing between my thumb and forefinger on my left had and then around my right arm in various (6-10) places. The theory as they explained it to me is that the right arm and elbow are connected to the left leg and knee. I'm not sure about all this, but I can tell you that they were palpating (touching) my right arm and they found places that hurt almost exactly in the same kind of places as my knee. They only told me about the connection afterwards. I don't have any pics of this I'll ask them to take some next time.

Today I certainly don't feel healed but the intensity of the pain is decreased quite a bit. I am still favoring my good leg, but I'm not getting the shooting pains anymore. I call that success!

I'll let you know more about the knee after next weeks ND\PT and Acupuncture appointments.

Richard replied, he's a sponsor so he's on our side for sure.

Thank you very much for your support for my legislation banning styrofoam and placing a fee on disposable bags. I developed this idea as part of my Zero Waste initiative a year ago, and it is great to see that it has caught on and now has overwhelming support in the community!

The Environment, Emergency Management, and Utilities committee will vote both ordinances out of committee on July 22 and I anticipate a vote in full Council on July 28. Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of people like you, I believe that both the foam and bag ordinances will not only pass, but do so unanimously. Congratulations to you for your part in this victory for a clean and healthy environment and a sustainable Seattle!

In the coming months, Seattle Public Utility will refine their plans for implementation. One of my primary objectives in this process is to ensure that this proposal not place a significant burden on seniors and other people on fixed incomes, food bank customers, and other recipients of direct assistance.

Although the transition to new practices will undoubtedly take some time for grocery stores, restaurants, and consumers to adjust to the new system, we are confident that the program will be a success.

Thanks again for your support.

Sincerely,

Richard Conlin