Friends

( A story (tl;dr) )

So, Seattle. In the back of my head I seem to recall something about a Washington State law forbidding grocery stores from with holding sales prices from non club card holders, but ye olde google fails me - memories: naught for two.

Ultimately I would take a club card, but I don't really want one - I just want the fucking sale price.

Tomorrow I will try entering 206 867 5309 and see if Jenny will give me a discount; I will report back.

I need to get a vintage ring resized cause the woman who owned it previously was a mammoth. I havent asked around too many places since its only my first full day of being engaged but I do know that the fredmeyer jeweler next to my house resizes rings but it would take at least a week because they have a guy who comes from outside and is only there every other couple of days and then leaves and comes back with the ring.
I just dont have any experience with jewelry or jewelers so I was hoping for some recommendations.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me a jeweler that actually makes their own jewelry and doesnt use an outside company who is in the north king county or snohomish county area preferably but otherwise is fine too.

Thanks in advance!

I'm looking for the best place to buy cheap(but still good), frozen bags of edamame still in the shell. If there is some place that sells them in bulk that would be great. Do you know where I can get that?

I need some help please!

I am having knee surgery in Fort Worth on the 17th of this month. I am thinking of ways to entertain myself since I tend to get bored easily and I don't feel like having to walk on my crutches or bum a ride to go somewhere. I've bought new computer games, new games for my xbox, but what I really need is some good book recommendations. I checked the memories, but they are all about where to sell books. It needs to be something that I can find online though, because I doubt if any of my relatives from Washington feel like driving around to find a book for me. I have already reread all of the books I currently own. Nobody I know reads except for myself so asking for help is not available. If it helps any, my favorite author is Charlaine Harris. (She wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books used for the HBO show True Blood.) My tastes range and I'm willing to read anything and everything. (Except Twilight PLZ) Thank you for all of your help in advance.

EDIT: Thank you for all of the recommendations! I really appreciate it! Hopefully this lasts me six weeks!

This is a project I've been experimenting with at Techshop Durham. It is a laser cut business card that folds up to create a working caliper. I'll probably make some for myself, Rod-o-Rama, and lintqueen.


The card in "ready to hand out" mode


Card assembled, ready to use. These particular examples were actually cut out of paint chip cards (lintqueen's idea).


After snapping out parts.


Folding over the slide


Next step in assembly.


Assembly completed.


In action, measuring an 8mm hex key. Accuracy and precision are not too bad for something folded out of paper.

It's cut and engraved with the epilog laser cutter at Techshop Durham. Initial design scratched out on paper, transferred to Inkscape, final tweaking in Corel Draw (actualy, lots of tweaking, since it did a horrible job importing the svg).

It still needs some refinements, like better instructions and possibly an illustration or two. I have some minor aesthetic tweaks in mind as well, but this version is mostly complete.

The corel draw source file is here. That file could use some cleanup, and I'd like to get it back into a open format like svg, but that will do for now. Consider it under Creative Commons.


Business Card Caliper by Adrian Likins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.adrianlikins.com.

I'm looking for a place in Seattle (or surrounding) that does laser tattoo removal. Google provides me with names, but I'd like to see personal experiences.

I scanned the archives of this community and saw this post, with no real recommendations.

Are there any places that people have personal experience with? Living in Los Angeles, I went to Dr. Tattoff, and have been generally pleased with the results. However I moved before the removal was complete and now have a 3 year old tattoo that looks as if it's 30 years old, making it even more asinine. Money isn't really an issue, and I definitely don't want to cover it up, so any advice is really appreciated.

Also, I won't post a picture of the tattoo, suffice it to say it's one that could end up on one of those "OMG WTF" tattoo communities.

I'm currently in Amsterdam, at the Moevenpick Hotel not too far from the central station. It's a cool place (that I managed to find a discount on). Lots of glass and polished metal, and interesting touches. One of the things I find kind of neat is that the electricity in the room (lights and AC anyway, is controlled by your card key. You insert it into a box on the wall and everything comes on. It is a potentially good way to keep things running in rooms that aren't occupied. I also like how one knob in the shower controls temperature and the other controls water pressure -- no separate taps for hot and cold.

I could digress into my philosophy on hotels, but that'll keep.

I want to talk about this couple at breakfast. I was sitting there with my coffee, continuing to try to troubleshoot my phone which is staunchly refusing to access any carrier (which makes using my GPS difficult, since it requires a data connection), and I hear the guy at the next table mutter something about gearheads. Shrug, whatever. Then he starts talking about the dog.
Now, he and the woman with him (who I soon determine is his wife) are talking about me and the dog in tones that are clearly not addressed TO me, but are definitely loud enough for me to hear, even though their table is not right next to mine.

I'm debating whether to say something to them, when the woman says loudly to someone, "Good morning! Where's your lovely wife!!!??"

A soft-spoken man says, laughing "We're just friends," but the woman still continues talking about his travel companion as though the two are romantically involved. When she finally is made to understand that he and his travel companion are in no way involved with each other she starts prattling about his single status.

Then the woman asks what he does and he says he's a dentist.

She spends the next TEN MINUTES going on and on about her teeth. How she loves to floss, how she's got good strong, thick teeth, how her husband has terrible teeth, how he has always had cavities, how she is taking calcium supplements to protect her teeth and bones, how she's got a gap in her teeth.

And I'm doing everything I can to keep from laughing. I want so badly to shoot a sympathetic look to quiet-dentist-guy (who is in no way actively participating in this discourse), or to do something to rescue him from these people, or to just say, "For god's sake! He's on VACATION! What's wrong with you?!"

I hope he managed to escape.

Now then, I have a city to explore.

(Cross-posted from my blog…)

Last night, my girlfriend Prairie and I went out to see Jason Webley’s Elevanniversary show, our first Webley show in a few years. We’d been skipping them lately, but between this being his eleventh anniversary show, having it at Seattle’s Town Hall (a venue we really like), and the guest list he’d lined up, we decided this was one we wanted to see. In the end, while it wasn’t our all-time favorite Webley show, it was still good, (mostly) a lot of fun, and we’re glad we went. I took a few pictures during the course of the night, and they’ll be up eventually, but as we sat towards the back and I was more interested in just enjoying the show, it won’t be among my most comprehensive sets of Webley documentation. I’m sure you’ll all survive. :)

( The rest of my babbling is in here, LJ-cut for consideration. No pictures from me yet, but I'll get them up soon as I can, and I'm sure many others have already beat me to it )

Happy Elevanniversary, Jason. We’re glad we could be there.

Saturday, July 4th - Carcrash Set the return of Hana Solo!!


A private club for members and guests. 21+ w/id.

the amazing Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is raising money for homeless pets in the Tacoma Humane Society's Dog-a-Thon Walk.

Help them reach 15 squillion!

Every so often, I'll post an abbreviated menu to Facebook, usually while in a state of self-satisfied repletion. But this recipe is what it says up there on the tin. In honor of picnics in honor of the Fourth, here's the best deviled egg recipe I've ever made, by far:

DEVA'D EGGS

12 eggs, hard-boiled, halved, yolks separated

6 TBSP mayonnaise
1 1/2 TSP curry powder (we're dangerously low on Penzey's Maharajah blend, and I may have to devote an afternoon to cloning it. Or break down and buy another jar)
3/4 TSP garlic paste
1/3 TSP celery salt

1/2 TSP salt (or more to taste)
1/4 TSP fresh ground black pepper (or more to taste)
1/2 TSP lemon juice (or more to taste)

Dump your yolks in a big glass bowl, and mix in the next four ingredients. Then comes the slightly tricky bit with the salt and pepper -- don't over-salt the things; over-peppering them is more forgivable because the curry powder will give you some breathing room there. Once you've got the saltiness where you want it (or just a little below that, ideally), add lemon juice to brighten the flavor -- there will be a kind of hole in the top notes that slowly adding lemon juice will fill. If you over-lemon it, you can add another TSP or so of mayo to smooth it back out in the middle register.

Then take your little spoon and moosh the filling back into the hard-boiled whites, making sure to accidentally split one or three of them so that you have to eat the failures. (I usually have mollpeartree do this part -- only the willpower of someone who's quit smoking is up to the task of filling deviled eggs. If it were me doing it, this dozen egg recipe would result in about five eggs left over for company.)

One could, I suspect, make a slightly lighter version of this with olive oil in for the mayo, though you'd want to cut the amount by half or more, and you'd risk making it too sweet -- maybe some chili pepper would cut through that, but by now, you're talking about a whole different recipe, really. So I'd just stick with the mayo, myself.

My husband and I decided to celebrate our 8th year together with some Indian food last night. Every thing was perfect. Outdoor seating, wonderful food, a nice cold beer, and about 800 zombies yelling, "BRAINS!" and "NAAN!" at us. Only in Fremont, eh? Maybe next time I go out I should bring a chainsaw. This was an anniversary to remember. :)

Of possible interest to Etsy sellers in the Seattle area.

* Who: Maria (Etsy.com CEO), Matt and Anda (Etsy Admins) will be in Seattle for one night to visit, talk a bit and answer questions!
* What: Etsy Summer Tour '09 Seattle
* When: Monday, July 13, 2009
* Where: Greenwood Collective, 8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1, Seattle, WA 98103
* Time: 6:00pm to 8pm (open to the general public also!)


Here is a Google map link

This event is Open to the General Public.

Looking for something to do this Fourth of July? Might I suggest a scenic drive or four?

Seattle Northwest - http://www.dolari.net/pub/seattlenw.pdf
Seattle Northeast - http://www.dolari.net/pub/seattlene.pdf
Seattle Southwest - http://www.dolari.net/pub/seattlesw.pdf
Seattle Southeast - http://www.dolari.net/pub/seattlese.pdf

All four trips are based on the 1962 World's Fair Scenic Routes, and are adapted for changes in traffic patterns since the sixties (well, as best as I remember them, so don't sue if you can't make a left turn, drive off a cliff, or smash into pedestrians walking around Green Lake). I've driven all four of them, and I'm a big fan of the Northwest and Southwest trips, but I'm a sucker for water.

Hey!
Does anyone know of a place where I can rent a big cake for someone to jump out of?

A couple questions for y'all:

1 - If you wanted to donate a decently sized collection of comics, where would you start? Children's Hospital? Some charity?

2 - If you wanted to take a friend somewhere in Seattle to begin teaching them how to drive, where would you recommend?

Snark will be graded on a scale of 1-10.

michael jackson last rehearsal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ6Hf6xek1c

New creepy wombtech. (I'd link to the source but they don't have much actual info there.)

I still want to fabricate a model of jinian's skull from the NMRI data she has of her head, so that she can keep it on her desk in the approved academic fashion (drippy candle optional), but she is not as enthusiastic about this idea.

Hydrogen has been touted as the fuel of the future since...well, since at least when I was a kid and I'm almost 40.  But now chicken feathers may help hydrogen become a reality.  And BTW, that's an article from the Economist, not something like the Enquirer.

Jason Webley - 11 year Anniversary Extravaganza 8pm, 8th & Sencea

One ticket, paid 11$

You want?