Life In The Pacific Northwest
I’ve long enjoyed the cyberpunk genre. Stumbling upon this video was rather fortuitous. I appreciated diving deeper into cyberpunk’s history and seeing the way different media influenced its growth. One thing I took away: cyberpunk was the first genre where video games were a key part of its evolution.
Below is a playlist of a video series: The Origins of Cyberpunk. I hope you find it as fun as I did.
My good friend Toby Barnett, who lives up in the Lakewood area in Arlington, WA, set up his camera last week was thunderstorms came rolling in. I enjoyed watching them, so I hope you will, too.
I just read over on MLTNews that there’s a Black Lives Matter Silent Walk happening today at 4:00 pm.
Folks are meeting at Mountlake Terrace Elementary. Please follow all the appropriate social distancing protocols.
Today I read a piece by Seattle writer Angela Garbes. It resonated deeply with me, so I wanted to share with you, my friends.
Published in the Seattle Met, “As Seattle Grew, I grew Up” mirrors my own experience. I, too, spent my ‘feral 20s’ wandering Capitol Hill, where I lived the better part of 10 years of my life. Seeking the urban as a cyclist seeking a car-free life, and the vibrancy I imagined coming with concrete. Years making mostly minimum wage, yet able to survive. Gentrification just starting to squeeze. I being able to rise up the wage rungs quickly enough to stay above the flood waters of economic calamity.
My revisits come filled with memories. Oh, “this was here”, and “that was there”. Then “what WAS here”? Memories combine with memory’s absence; strange feelings, ones that I’m not quite used to.
“Cities are meant to change”. Seattle’s changed, quite a bit. Driving home how time has passed, how much older I’ve become. Things I’m not quite ready to accept, so they keep rearing up. Such is the way of things I guess.
I spent my Memorial Day morning catching up on email and reading. The scope of “keeping up” overwhelms me at times. The only solution I found to not letting this stress me? Accepting the lack of a solution, and that I must choose my focus. So, most of the stuff that comes into my inbox gets deleted.
Here are a few things that caught my eye today:
That’s where I find myself this morning. How about you? Anything inspiring and insightful come into view for you?
Murder hornets?
Is this fake or not? I’m not sure anymore.
Stay safe, everyone.
This is part of my morning musical focus. Ambient, triphop, and such are styles I’ve long delighted in. From back in the early days of electronic music. I find the graphics accompanying this to be cool, too.
The Snohomish County Sherrif’s office are trying to find Kenna Harris of Monroe. She’s been missing for a few weeks, so her family is concerned. She suffers from some “mental and physical limitations”, which adds to the concern. He was last seen in Snohomish on a CT bus around 2pm.
Q13 has a post with more details.
Anyway, if you’ve seen her recently or have heard something, call Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound at 800.222.TIPS.
Found this very compelling today. It’s easy to sit back and wait for others to act, to be comfortable with the status quoa. We’re not called to the easy path.
Two Seattle cyclists getting, um, wild…er, mild…
Anyway, it’s kinda fun and only a few minutes long. Go, give it a watch!