laurel | Shared With: Everyone - 16 days ago | seattle, time
mm, moraine
Quoted: The Cedar River watershed is actually one of six major drinking water systems in the country that doesn’t need to be filtered. Glaciers have left rock, gravel, sand and clay, also known as moraine, which naturally filters the water and adds minerals.
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2008 | seattle, stranger, news
Why all the buildings in Vancouver match
Quoted: A direct relationship exists between the block-long base and the twin-tower design: If developers want a second tower, they are compelled to use a block-long footprint to house the required retail, mechanical needs, and lobby for the buildings. In addition, developers can use essentially duplicate designs for each building, thereby saving expenses paying for architects.
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2008 | blog, seattle
Quoted: Every night in April there will be a FREE 6:00PM performance. 15 minutes or less:
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 08 2008 | travel, seattle
Free companion fare on Amtrak. Have to send a self addressed stamped envelope (what is this, 1998?).
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2008 | seattle, email, computer
Quoted:
Address:
2222 N. Pacific St.
Seattle, WA 98103
See mapDrop-off Hours:
Monday to Friday: 10 - 6
Saturday: 10 - 3
Sunday: closed - laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 25 2008 | food, seattle, news
Quoted: Seattle residents would be able to toss meat and dairy scraps into yard-waste containers and quit separating recyclable materials next year under a plan announced ...
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 11 2008 | seattle, work, photo
Be in an art thing.
Quoted: We’re recruiting 35 participants for Task, a performance by New York-based artist Oliver Herring and organized by the Frye, The Seattle Public Library, On the ...
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 08 2008 | time, work, seattle
Quoted: For example, they could radically reduce ticket prices across the board. Most regional theaters make less than half of their budget from ticket sales—they have ...
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2008 | art, seattle
Quoted: Comparative Religion: Founders Annual Lecture in Comparative Religion and Contemporary Life. Prof. Martin Riesebrodt, UChicago, “Globalization, Religion and the “clash of civilizations”. Kane Hall ...
- laurel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 22 2008 | seattle, book, books
Reading at Elliot Bay tomorrow night
Quoted: The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
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