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Into the fire?
Flickr: Don NunnBeen a cool summer so far in Seattle, but I’ll be stepping directly into the lovely dry heat in Salt Lake City this weekend.

• Official Google Mobile Blog: My Location in your Palm
  Centro can use the location function, Treo can’t (figures), but other improvements to search and directions (almost) make up for Treo’s shortcomings
  (tags: google maps googlemaps mobile palm palmos treo applications)
• TSA: Black Diamond Self-Select Lanes
  Tomorrow when I fly to SLC, I can be a self-selected “Expert” traveler and possibly be annoyed for a shorter period of time
  (tags: travel airports sea seattletacomainternationalairport tsa security government insanity wtf bwahahaha)

Beautiful Mustang
Flickr: Don NunnClassic cars (and several hydroplanes, out of view on the right) on display on Seattle’s Pier 66.

It's right side up after a few tastes
Flickr: Don NunnDirectional challenge at the Washington Brewers Festival

Beer bottles wandering the grounds
Flickr: Don NunnReasonably sure these are actually there, because I’m not drinking today

Kat: How are you today?
Don: I’m good, though I just ate half a sammich before I noticed the bread was penicillin-laden :-\
Kat: ewwww
Don: But hey, it’ll make me sick and get me well at the same time!
Kat: that’s nasty

• Local News | Seattle weather: Colder than Siberia! | Seattle Times Newspaper
  “It doesn’t seem fair, but it’s the cold, hard truth — accent on cold: While Seattle hasn’t seen a 70-degree day in more than two weeks, Fairbanks, Alaska, has had six of them in the past 10 days.”
  (tags: weather seattle alaska siberia absurd crazy news seattletimes)

Don (13:04:18): I’ve realized what it is here that I find so curious and irritating.
Don (13:04:45): You’ve heard the stories, I’m sure, about how groups of women, like say students in a dorm, will end up with their menstrual cycles syncing up over a period of months?
B (13:04:53): Yep?
Don (13:05:16): Here at Don’s Work World HQ, that same thing happens, but it’s the stupid cycle. And it’s not gender-specific.
B (13:05:24): ROFL!
Don (13:05:48): I think this month marked the first fully synced cycle. ;x
B (13:05:52): Oy. ;x

School bus in the ’hood
Flickr: Don NunnParked here last night, no idea whose it is.

Gone! Drove away a couple weeks later, never did see the owner(s).

I turned on my iPod yesterday at 22:45, turned it off when I finished dressing about 09:15 today. Here’s what played in that time.

Song — Artist, Album

• Nation & World | 7 people arrested for cheering at S.C. high-school graduations | Seattle Times Newspaper
  “When Rock Hill school officials tell commencement crowds to hold their applause until the end, they mean it — police arrested seven people after they were accused of loud cheering during the ceremonies.”
  (tags: wtf news graduation southcarolina sc seattletimes ap associatedpress cheering arrests stupid silly)

Bath time
Flickr: Don NunnFlexie performing his ablutions at the foot of my bed

• Local News | Orca pod returns to San Juan Islands with baby | Seattle Times Newspaper
  The Center for Whale Research at Friday Harbor reports members of the K and L pods were sighted Tuesday at the south end of San Juan Island. Researchers also spotted the new calf.
  (tags: whales killerwhales orcas pugetsound kpod lpod seattletimes sanjuanislands news science nature)

• SensibleUnits.com
  I am 37 AA batteries tall.
  (tags: fun amusing tools conversions webapp)

• The Big Picture - Boston.com
  News stories told with larger-format photos and imagery to take advantage of larger screens and faster data pipes many users now have
  (tags: boston news images photos photography photojournalism)
• Google LatLong: A virtual visit to where dreams come true
  “Disney included significant amounts of real-world objects such as a monorail, picnic tables, benches, streetlights, signs, and trees. LOTS of trees. As in thousands of them!”
  (tags: googleearth google maps disneyworld waltdisneyworld wdw)