After seeing Seattle Busmonster and a dozen other cool Google mash-ups, I had the brilliant idea of creating a Seattle Happy Hour finder only to find out that it already existed. Unthirsty.com is a happy hour finder for anywhere (including Seattle of course) and as of this writing there are dozens of happy hours posted [...]

A great BoingBoing post about declassified submarine manuals reminded me that visiting the Soviet-era Russian Cobra would have been a good thing to do with my Cold-War-era Dad who’s visiting from Iowa sometime in September. Fortunately, there’s more to satisfy his myopic American history interests in the area, all of which I’ve somehow managed [...]