Comment: Seattle Travel

Hi,

While in Seattle a couple of days ago, I came across the Pier 86 grain elevator (in the process of loading a ship). It seems that the same sign that you read is still there. Aside from its apparently being 8 years out of date now, the thing that puzzled me was the bit about having loaded a record of just under two million TONS in the previous year and having teh capability of being expanded to a capcity of 4.5 million BUSHELS. 2 million tons is already a lot more than 4.5 million bushels. Is one the conveyor capacity per year, while the other is storage capacity? Inquiring minds want to know, so, on returning home, I googled "Cargill Terminal Seattle" and found your wedsite. It doesn't answer my basic question, but did provide some additonal information and was very interesting. Thanks for takign the time and effort to put up that website.

Richard.

Hey Larry, just read your account of your Seattle trip up in 2003. I am absolutely certain that if you ever visit Kirkland again we could find someplace better to eat. Now I have to run. Seems Eli, who was barely walking when you visited in 2003, still poops in the bath tub once in a while. Fortunately, he now describes these events with a half intelligible "Daddy I go poop in da batdub" and gets out of the tub on his own, instead of playing in it until I notice. We call it progress.

Just read your online story about your June visit to Seattle. I had completely forgotten about the name "Splorktap". Should we have named Paul that? It would've been more distinctive.

Paul had a lot of colic recently, but other than that he's doing great. Despite the colic, Nancy is enjoying her maternity leave. In October she flies down to San Luis Obispo to give her mother another dose of grandmothering. (Have you ever seen grandmothering in action? Charlotte spent a week with us helping out just after Paul was born. She was invaluable! At the end of the week, it was so difficult for her to separate herself from Paul that she sniffled all the way to the airport.)

You've visited Seattle how many times and you don't know about the Kalakala? Check out http://www.kalakala.org/.

Hi,

I came across your site and thought you'd enjoy these pictures I took in Jan. 1986.

Best regards,
Nate

Hi Larry,

Here's three more shots, one from the dock, a view of the gallery from the top of the Head House and one from Magnolia Hill. I know I have several more around here somewhere, I'll pass them on when I locate them. If you have any questions about the elevator, I'd be happy to answer them.

Nate

I discovered that you had posted your Seattle trip and started to read...

Is Sidney Harbor in Victoria? I remember those flower holders from there I think. It was maybe 30 years ago.

We have seen fish hoses. I don't know if you were with us when we visited Standard Fisheries. Before we planted the asparagus, we went to their fish cleaning operation. we brought buckets, a baby bathtub, and other containers and they were willing to let us load up on their garbage: fish bones they had after filleting fresh fish for market. I had read about the Indians planting fish under their corn. I figured it would also be good for asparagus. Standard Fisheries has long since gone. Anyway there were hoses at about eye level for the people doing the filleting. They wore rubber gloves and had sharp knives. The fillets go in one container and the not-wanted parts go into large plastic garbage cans. The hoses are covered with what slop is on the hands of the workers. Everything is wet. We may have gone back for another load. Great recycling no? ...

Hey Larry,

in case you missed it, there's an interesting article in Business Week Online from August 6 of last year that goes into some interesting detail. I keep looking for news of the asshole getting indicted, but it seems the world doesn't work that way.

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looking for a reference to the blade runner quote concerning attack ships on fire, which i was using as a sample on this past summer tour with ohGr ( http://www.ohgr.org ), i instead came across the revCo reference on your web site.. then i navigated to the home page -- saw your picture, thought 'hmmm, i recognize him - isn't that the guy living a couple door down the hallway?', then my eyes did the big 7 degree shift and saw the address to confirm..

odd.. wouldn't have thought you'd heard of revCo... (though the wife apparently would have (though she also thought you worked at ucsf: net score == 0))...

anyway, bored some time? we should chat about nothing, or commonality.

loki
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(the one wearing the arctic parka or the kmfdm parka)

Stumbled across your website looking for dirt on David Thatcher. What do you think about the Critical Path fiasco? Do you think it possible that Thatcher could have been part of a deliberate misrepresentation of earnings? I know you would have no real knowledge, I just wanted to know if this was the kind of thing he might be capable of based on your experience with him at Geoworks.

a new friend of mine did some mild web-stalking on me and said she found pictures i had taken. Something about ice caves. I said yup, sounds like me all right and checked it out. I'd forgotten you'd scanned those in! They look better than I remember.

Thank you for serving as a backup memory system. I'd forgotten about much of that trip.

To repay your kindness I will point out a possible error in your text. I've heard writers like that a lot. Kyle Baker says so at the back of Why I Hate Saturn.

> this end of Queen Anne Street was full of sitdowny restaurants
> whose clientele looked to care more about fashion than palette.

Palate? Or perhaps this was a subtle comment on a hip new fashion trend of focusing on form to the exclusion of chroma?