Cardinals Win World Series: Baseball fans in Seattle were torn by yesterday’s Cardinals victory in the World Series. On the one hand, the American League team lost. On the other hand, the Rangers totally deserve this for hiring general POS Alex Rodriguez like a decade ago or something.
East Coast Snowpocalypse? Apparently the (other) Washington area has endured quite a battering of inclement weather. Follow it here.
Ravenous Bears: Closer to home, as winter approaches, you should thwart bear invasions by sealing up your garbage. The Everett Herald has a handy guide.
Car Bomb in Kabul: Kills 13 NATO troops.
IAF Strike Kills Jihadists: In southern Gaza, including a Palestinian commander.
SPD Detective Refused Breathalyzer: And was charged yesterday.
Siri to be Included in Apple Television: Apple’s voice command assistant on the new iPhone 4S will be included in a much-speculated high definition TV by Apple. Or so says the New York Times. This will change everything ever—again.
Tech Juxtaposition Fail: Microsoft has a long-term vision for productivity, including 3D workable spaces, possibly like the rebels preparing to assault the Death Star with Admiral Ackbar. Boo.
So Close… The Alaskan Way Viaduct is reopening midday today, a few days early, due to better-than-expected progress this week.
Apologies on the late post; I felt something like this little guy this morning.
Aw, you felt like a primate pet whose keeping is banned in 21 states? A baby capuchin, who can look forward to being unloaded once past the adorable juvenile stage, perhaps after a frustrated owner has removed its teeth?
I’m sorry, Paul. That must have felt very sad indeed.
Once again, when good shit happens in Afghanistan, it’s “America did THIS.” When bad shit happens it’s “NATO forces…” or “soldiers from the ISAF…” Thirteen Americans killed while riding a fucking bus, get out of that goddamn country already.
Squeeee! A baby monkey! Thank you! Now give it back to it’s mommy.
it looked like an old man dying the way it closed its eyes and laid its head back.
Thank heaven they are opening the viaduct.
The relative absence of Doom was making Mayor McGinn’s smell of righteous roses too overwhelming for the departing Gregoire crooks to bear!
I like how Apple could claim to have invented actual speech or perhaps converting protein into muscle mass and fanboys would believe it without a shadow of a doubt.
As pointed out by people Yesterday, it’s been done. It’s currently being done. They are borrowing ideas. It’s okay to admit that. Say it with me “borrow.”
It appears the viaduct was in much better shape than we were lead to believe. The machines used to bring it down are will past an earthquake of 9.0. We were lead to believe it would go down like a similar structure in Oakland. As it turned out there was lots of rebar rods going from the uprights to the horizontal supports and the roadway.
I wonder if the tunnel will be as well build. Remember the tunneling device that got stuck and ended up under water for the Brightwater project. How many tunnel devices will have the sound as their final resting place?
@7 – I think the greatest danger lies in the ground the viaduct is on and the soundness of the structure is second. Though the 6.8 Nisqually quake did do damage to the structure.
Seawall
Shortly after the Nisqually earthquake, a 100-foot-long by 10-foot-wide section of the Alaskan Way surface street settled, raising concerns about the condition of the Elliott Bay seawall. The seawall holds the soil in place along Seattle’s waterfront. The seawall also holds the Alaskan Way surface street and many utilities in place. The viaduct’s foundations are embedded in the soil held back by the seawall. If the seawall were to fail, sections of the viaduct, the Alaskan Way surface street, and adjacent structures and utilities could collapse or become unsafe.
Further investigations were conducted to assess the seawall’s condition. These investigations showed that the seawall’s condition is worse than expected, and it needs to be replaced. The seawall continues to deteriorate despite regular maintenance by the City of Seattle. Soils underneath the roadway moved and liquefied during the Nisqually earthquake. Liquefaction is what can happen to loose, wet soils when shaking motion from an earthquake causes the soil to turn into a quicksand-like condition.
In addition, marine organisms called gribbles have been eating away at the timbers that support the seawall. Inspections have shown that substantial portions of the seawall’s timber support structures have been weakened or destroyed by gribbles.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct…
“thwart off”
Are you simple? How the hell did you get a job in journalism. You either thwart something, or you don’t. You can’t ‘thwart off.’
@8
They also known to get into the quadrotriticale .
@9 Changed. Thanks for pointing out the mistake–I do my best to thwart off simple errors, but sometimes they just happen.
@9: I suppose it could be helpful to correct an intern’s writing, but why do you have to be so snotty about it?