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Author Archives: Jim deMaine
US student helps reinvent 300-year-old cello with 3D printing, lands offer on Shark Tank
Thanks to Bob P. The instrument can be printed, assembled and fine-tuned in under 24 hours. A young engineering student in the US has helped turn a high-school experiment into a new business by blending 3D printing and modern materials … Continue reading
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Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
Ed note: Although I dislike giving the President more notoriety, the piece by a conservative columnist highlights the depths of Trump’s pathologic personality disorder. The questions is this. How can others not question Trump’s sanity? By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist Though … Continue reading
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Seattle’s Scooter and Bike Rentals Program Needs Fixing
From Feet First (thanks to Mary M.) At Feet First we have watched with growing concern as “micromobility” scooters have proliferated on Seattle’s streets. And, more importantly from a pedestrian point of view, on our sidewalks. Shared scooters and bikes … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Communication, In the Neighborhood, Transportation
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The Hero We Need Now
Andy Borowitz (thanks to Mary Jane F. and Pam P.) One of the great joys of publishing TBR is the time I spend each day in the comments section reading what you have to say. Last week, this comment from … Continue reading
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America for sale – $1M gets you in
By Danny Westneat – Seattle Times columnist When the Trump administration plastered his name on signs in Seattle taking credit for an infrastructure project he had fought bitterly against, I called it a “sign of the shameless times” and “a new level of Orwellian.” … Continue reading
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The Glue
Thanks to Pam P. by Donna Ashworth Perhaps, this world is broken on fire, doomed to expire but right this second, somewhere someone has flowers in their hair to bring the light, and someone sits awake, all night just to … Continue reading
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Elder abuse and the Seahawks
Thanks to John R. If the Colts win this game, I will get a tattoo of Phillip Rivers on my neck! I cannot believe this game hasn’t been flexed to Sunday Night Football. This is the MOST EXCITED I’ve been … Continue reading
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Even AI can’t believe it!
Thanks to Mary Jane F. When G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact-check an article for him yesterday, the chatbot couldn’t get its head around modern America. It told him there were “multiple factual impossibilities” in his article, … Continue reading
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Town Hall honoring the late Wier Harman and Skyline resident David Brewster
Kate Nagle-Caraluzzo, Executive Director, Town Hall Seattle (thanks to Mary M.) It’s been two years since Wier Harman, our friend and former Executive Director of 17 years, passed away, and I’ve been thinking about the ways his presence still lives … Continue reading
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How many can you solve?
Thanks to John R. (will post answers in a few days)
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Maybe he should stick with the Tacos
Thanks to John R.
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They want to make me ….
Thanks to Mary Jane F.
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Seattle Girls Choir at Skyline’s Performance Hall
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One more
Thanks to my friend John R. who used to do the hokey-pokey but now he’s turned himself around
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Groan, a pleasing PUNishment?
Thanks to Mike Ca. Ed note from AI: “Groaning types of jokes” typically refer to jokes that are so bad, obvious, or unoriginal that the listener’s response is an audible groan rather than a laugh. These are generally known as dad jokes, puns, corny jokes, … Continue reading
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How to Live to 100, According to Dick Van Dyke
The star of “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” still hits the gym and touches his toes. By Jancee Dunn in the NYT (thanks to Mary Jane F.) When I learned that Dick Van Dyke — the singing, dancing star … Continue reading
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Restoring Confidence in Public Health
in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine – thanks to Ed M.
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The way the Welch would spell it
Thanks to John R.
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What is Charity?
“Charity (love for others) is like springtime or summertime warmth, which makes grain, grasses, and trees grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.” from Emanuel Swedenborg
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