Jeff’s Blog

I never realized this was the entrance to the bus tunnel

Originally uploaded by decidedlyodd

Last weekend, some friends and I went to Stevenson (about an hour east of Portland on the Columbia River) for an escape from Seattle. We didn’t do much of anything besides eat, lay around and watch lots of Queer as Folk, Sex and the City and plenty of other random movies. It was [...]

I keep forgetting that today is a government holiday to annoying consequences. I’m at work, but doctors offices, stock exchanges, etc. are all closed. Doh.
Everybody on my team was here at work and judging by the parking lots I walked through on the way over, so was everybody else at Microsoft. Yet it’s [...]

Searching for Saarbrücken on youtube…
The most famous thing to ever happen in Saarbrücken in modern times?
This one’s charming too. The images of the downtown make me a little nostalgic

This afternoon I got a wild hair to hook my old 17″ LCD monitor up as a second monitor on my iMac. Unfortunately, there’s no VGA socket on the newer iMacs, so I had to run off to the Apple store in U Village to buy a mini-DVI to DVI adapter. The hope [...]

Over the years, I’ve seen some weird bugs in products I’ve worked on and products I’ve used. However, I’ve been experiencing one in Dreamweaver over the past two days which has to take the cake (at least for now). When I press Shift-I (for example when I want to type the word ‘Igloo’) [...]

At the beginning, the caucus was total mayhem. I arrived at Seattle Central Community College where several precincts on Capitol Hill were having their caucuses. There were many hundreds of people waiting in all sorts of lines and there was nobody directing people on where to go or what to do. Afterwards, [...]

Every once in a while, a slashdot comment comes along that just makes my day. Here’s part of one I just ran across:

Someone over there has finally woken up. I have been teaching Office 2007 and for god’s sake it’s a great product. 90% of the things that have made want to skull fuck [...]

Washington is a caucus state and our caucuses are today at 1pm. I don’t feel particularly strong about any candidate, but I’m curious to see how this whole process plays out. Turnout in other states has been extremely high, so I expect there to be pandemonium over at my caucus site. My [...]

Two things happened this morning:
1. After getting my title from the bank yesterday, I went over to the licensing office in the U District to have the lien holder removed from my car. It costs $10 more (for a grand total of $19) to do this anywhere besides the county building downtown, but it [...]