• Nice leisurely stroll down the canal on a beautiful, sunny day. #
• Oh, Pirate Bay, how fast you are falling. #
• I know I’m going to get flack for this, but I like several tracks off the new Placebo album. #
• My desire for a margaritas is purely photovoltaic… the sunnier it is, the more I want one. :-) #

• Nancy Botwin, you’re nothing but trouble. #
• Well that was a kick in the gut that I didn’t need. #

• I may joke about business networking occasionally, but having honest & competent ally in a complimentary field is a golden asset. #
• I am the content king today.I am on a technical writing roll! #
• Bets on PB stock outperforming Sony/EMI? http://bit.ly/182MgO #
• I ‘m morally obligated NOT to tell you how to use MS Publisher to create websites. Prohibited in the Geneva Convention… somewhere. #
• The magnificently easy, yet eminently tasty veggie “chili” nears completion. I am devoted opportunisaur, but I love this stuff. #
• Sometimes I like to let a Lemon Drop and an Americano fight it out for my wakefulness. #

I’m a huge fan of Gmail, linking several POP accounts and domains to my central Gmail account where I can track, respond, sort and store to my cloud-computing contentment.  I know the Gmail system is all about labels (tagging) email for organization instead of the older folder method that those us of the Outlook, Mac Mail and Thunderbird persuasion are used to, but frankly, sometimes I really like the hierarchy organization of folders.  If you’re like me, you’ve probably realized Google isn’t going to do a 180 on this one, but there is a way you can get the folder effect in Gmail with just a little effort.  Read on for easy instructions.

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• Nothing but love for our Ballard Locks, but this is a cool way to move boats: http://tinyurl.com/kwhgbm #
• If you’re going to make up secret groups for your show, don’t just string together existing groups and hope no one notices. #

• Sir David Attenborough, you are the shit. #
• Whew, three original specs done. Now to write some substantial copy. Thank goodness for fast-paced motivational techno. #
• Very hard writing SEO brief w/o sounding like a madman ranting against Black Hat SEO techniques, esp, when I am said madman. #
• Ok, need a little side-topic break from work, getting goo-brain here. #

• Covet not your neighbor’s orange day lilies: http://www.arcane.org/?p=3357 #
• Maybe I’m not hip enough but I don’t get the hype; Richard Swift album The Atlantic Ocean… nothing, zip, nada, flat, miss. #
• There’s always that old, slow, pokey drive in your array you loathe having to access. One day, I WILL replace you! #
• oDesk is intrusive & security-dubious. Seen malware that’s more appealing. Any gig that required it, I’d turn down out of hand. #
• Das boot! Going sailing shortly! #
• Seriously… police had to break up a 500+ party a few blocks from here? Wow. #

Perhaps one of my favorite flowers, I used to see the Orange Day Lily occasionally on hikes back in Georgia. Its not a native species, so if you saw it in small clusters out in the forest, it could mean that there was a home or settlement in the area in the past.  Occasionally, I’d find some old bricks, bits of metal or, in one case, the core of an old stone fireplace to confirm it.

For a couple weeks I’ve been admiring the effort many locals in Ballard put into their gardens, in particular these amazing examples of Orange Day Lilies on 57th.

Did you know that the flowers, tubers and even young leaves of the Orange Day Lily are edible… not that I condone uprooting a neighbor’s yard to prove the point.  :-)

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(and some other random pics)

• Still waiting for my Google Voice invite.. #
• Contextual advertising engines, do NOT understand sarcasm or irony. :-) #
• Making One-Eyed Jacks for breakfast. #
• Photos and video clips from yesterday’s low tide at Golden Gardens Park, Seattle: http://www.arcane.org/?p=3365 #
• There must be a faster way to cook artichoke. #
• Some movies break the fourth wall. This one appears not to have one at all. And its kind of working. #

We’ve been experiencing some exceptionally low tide in the Seattle area this week, so midday yesterday, I decided to walk down to Golden Gardens Park and do some beach combing with my camera. Apparently, quite a few people had the same idea but it wasn’t too bad.

I was amazed at the difference the super low tide made in the landscape and the amount of sea floor exposed as a result. I kept looking out at the ozean expecting a tsunami to roll in.  The wildlife, on the otherhand, was having a bonanza.  Crows, gulls, herons and other birds were treated to a normally submerged seafood buffet and the tracks of raccoon could be see at the margins of the beach (though I suspect they were there for the picnic refuse in garbage bins too).

Link to photo album and some short video clips after the cut.

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