This could be all of us in Ballard pretty soon. Credit: David_Sch/Getty Images
This could be all of us in Ballard pretty soon.
This could be all of us in Ballard pretty soon. David_Sch/Getty Images

The missing link might finally be found: The Burke-Gilman Trail is great except for that harrowing bit in Ballard where it just… stops and then you have to wade into oncoming traffic and hug the parked cars as you pick your way back to wherever the fuck the trail resumes. That’s the missing link. The city voted to construct the part of the trail to fill in that gap 16 years ago. If all goes to plan—aka the appeal against this construction in courts now fails—then we could have a full, complete Burke-Gilman Trail in 2020.

There will be a time and a place to praise the tunnel gods: The SR 99 tunnel will (finally) be opening in 2019. There’s going to be a grand opening event February 2-3. There will be a fun run and a bike ride through the new tunnel and the soon-to-be-dead Alaskan Way Viaduct. The tunnel will open the following week.

A Googler walk-out: The tech industry knows how to protest, too. Employees at Google campuses around the world walked out today to protest Google’s cover-ups of sexual misconduct. A New York Times story this week exposed that Andy Rubin, creator of Android’s software, left Google in 2014 and received a $90 million package. What Google didn’t tell anyone was that Rubin had multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Here’s a scene from Seattle:

And some from San Francisco:

It’s November so now it’s officially time for the War on Christmas: Gosh, we really just steamroll right through fall into winter after Halloween, don’t we? Starbucks will be unveiling their holiday cups tomorrow, Christmas-defenders beware. The secularly festive cups will likely draw the ire of Jesus’s biggest fans since his blood wasn’t used in the red dye. Even though Starbucks didn’t employ the eucharist in their cup creation, they will be handing out free reusable red cups tomorrow only.

Matt Shea is a fucking plague and it’s going viral now: Katie Herzog reported on this yesterday. Rachel Maddow and the rest of the world are picking up on it only now:

Bill and Melinda Gates pull funding from Saudi Arabia charity: The youth charity founded by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was backed by $5 million of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s money. The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi influenced this retraction.

It is winter after all!

EPA allows use of harmful weedkiller: Some farmers love using this weedkiller but its controversial. It has this habit of getting caught by any passing breeze and killing off crops and other vegetation. Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the EPA’s initial approval, according to NPR. The EPA declared it was good-to-go yesterday evening.

Baggage handler gets drunk, takes nap in cargo hold, you can guess the rest: This guy works in Kansas City. He took a little nap after drinkin’ on the job. The nap locale? The belly of an airplane. He woke up in Chicago—500 miles away from home. He got suspended.

Divers in Indonesia recover flight recorder: Earlier this week, a brand new Lion Air jet seemingly fell out of the sky on a flight out of Jakarta. The flight plunged into the Java Sea. There were no survivors. Officials have no idea what happened, it’s like something out of Michael Crichton’s Airframe. Except, divers scouring the Java Sea have recovered a flight recorder. They aren’t sure if it’s the flight recorder but there’s a shot.

Nathalie Graham covers anything she finds fun, weird, or interesting. You can find a lot of that in her column, Play Date. Her work has also appeared around town in The Seattle Times, GeekWire, and the...