Tuesday, February 11, 2014

McGinn's folly?


News recently that an ambitious urban road tunnel project in Seattle has come to a grinding halt is singing the tune of its detractors. Frustrating, because many voices went unheeded. Seattle has a fascination wanting things to disappear or not happen at all. Why not look again for something we aesthetically embrace and marvel like we seem to do with the Ferris Wheel. Before this all went down, no pun intended, the Contrarian proposed a high land bridge (prior the Elliot Bay Bridge proposal) as being better way to describe our city than a tunnel or road...and it still may be.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Doppelgangermorph?

 
Well...when I opened this thing I wanted to comment on a variety of issues or observations, this might be a bit of a stretch. When the changing of the guard at Microsoft hit the airwaves, interviews with new boss Satya Nadella sounded eerily familiar...without seeing any image, his verbal inflections sounded (o.k. to me) very much like Mr. Gates with an Indian accent.  Then I see a picture in the Times (above) and I could not get out of my head how much he looks like a morph of both Ballmer and Mr. Gates. This is probably just minor synapse failure on the part of the author...or not.

YO SEAHAWKS