When it comes to parking a bike in Olympia and what the city council thinks about it, it gets all complicated.
Month: December 2006
Seattle ruining it for the rest of us
Oly School Board member Rich Nafziger makes a great point about how perception and reality are different, and can cause real harm to the rest of us (I’m about two months late on this post, by the way): Between a horribly managed school board meeting where the Seattle School Board President allowed activists to hurl…
Anti-social social network: Democratic Party Builder
The fatal flaw of the Democratic Party’s Party Builder social networking platform is that you can prevent people from finding you. On a list of people registered at Party Builder close to zip code 98501 only three people show up inside Thurston County. On the Thurston County Democrats group that I manage, there are five…
5 things you don’t know about me
Right back atcha. 1. I’ve sustained five concussions. You may know this about me actually, since I usually mention it during the “my worst injury” discussions. But, why not start a “five” list with something that has happened to me five times? 2. I once wrote a book. Not a nanowrimo book, but a honest…
Changing the Democratic Party (in Thurston County)
I posted a couple of ideas (here and here) on some bylaw changes for the Thurston County Democrats. We’re supposed to have a meeting in early January to cover whatever changes we want in the bylaws. The first is pretty substantive, it would give a vote to any paid member who participates at a certain…
Baseball and Japan radio show
They haven’t scheduled a date yet, but Radio Open Source is digging on my idea for a show. Baseball and Japan. Originally miffed that the hated Red Sox were going to get their hands on the primo Japanese pitcher this year, I started reading The Meaning of Ichiro and became even more enthralled. Written by…