Author Archives: William Calvin

About William Calvin

UW prof emeritus brains, human evolution, climate

800 Columbia: the 1st floor pour

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The four neighboring towers arising

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Eliminating “Leap Forward”

5 ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington In my research on daylight saving time, I have found that Americans don’t like it when Congress messes with their clocks. In … Continue reading

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Olympic Tower crane erection

Just a reminder of the URL. The view is better from the Bistro.

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800 Columbia event

It happened about 12:20pm today. That’s the little parking lot across from St-James.

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Seeing Green Lake on the northern horizon

Having sent off the book, finally, my mind wanders to such little projects. The book is EXTREME WEATHER: and what to do about it.

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Skyline West, the Pit

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800 Columbia progress

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The last year for fall color to our north

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Sunset socializing on the 26th floor, plus Fireworks!

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Looking down at 800 Columbia

Missed out on the action? Can’t see down the hole anymore? Try https://app.oxblue.com/open/daniels/800columbia

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The three-rolls-of-film sunset from the 26th floor

One of those occasions when it keeps getting better and better–and it winds up costing $50 for film and processing (corrected for inflation, that was likely $100 back in my grad student days). Fortunately, I was shooting with an iPhone … Continue reading

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The Instant Eyesore on the Much-improved Roof

The 2019 monstrosity could be replaced by something smaller and cheaper (this one costs $10 and would not have taken three men three hours to install)):

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The Annotated Panorama (2019 version)

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Yes, they are too small, as seen below, for the annotations to be legible. But my 11×14 prints line the corridor on the 26th floor leading outdoors (Skyline administrators like them well enough that they are considering a more permanent … Continue reading

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Another new crane in the neighborhood (near Town Hall)

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Shade on the Roof

They installed the shade sail this afternoon. It was quite breezy and it flapped–but without making a sound. Go take a look. It is not as wide as I had wanted; that gap near the wall means about three hours … Continue reading

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The Pilings for 800 Columbia

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707 Terry Twin Towers progress

Here’s the view that you can’t get from a Skyline window. They are still working on six levels of basement parking.

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Shade for the Observation Deck

Only a few more weeks. They installed four anchor bolts last Friday. The sail will cover the chairs along the Rainier Corridor between the Mt.Rainier and Mt.Baker ends.

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800 Columbia drilling pilings on periphery

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Progress in the Pit

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Up and Down on Terry

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Construction on Terry

When I saw this collection of hard hats, with a crane overhead, I naturally wondered what had gone wrong. My telescope revealed a cluster of three pizza boxes.

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The Frye Twins excavation

Noticed the earth-moving at night?  It is just rearranging loose dirt and lifting it up into waiting dump trucks. Here is serious excavation, scraping dirt down away from those long rods they dropped down those holes they drilled all around … Continue reading

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A drone outside the window

And guess where it landed: They carried it inside the cathedral a minute later.  It seems to be the latest in wedding photography.

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