Tony

As someone who tried to be an early adopter of AI in the classroom because I thought it would make me a forward thinking and innovative educator preparing students for the future, I can’t express to you how much I’ve backed away from it in recent years in my classroom because of varied concerns.

Loopnet shows the 12k Sq Ft retail bay at Grand Street Commons on Rainier Ave as pending. It was pending a couple years ago for an independent grocer before that appeared to fall through. Hoping they found one again!

I miss the era of Seattle music where they were doing the most creative quintessentially Seattle scenes for live productions. Feels like the Pike Place Market concert series captures a little bit of that magic.

Was sitting in a meeting yesterday and HR said that collective bargaining was collective because it was a shared endeavor between labor and management. That’s never been my understanding about why it’s called collective bargaining. I’ve always seen it as specifically about the collective labor.

The spirit of HR desiring to have a productive relationship with the labor union seems good and all to me, but I tend to not like the sort of corporate speak that attempts to erode the awareness of what it really means to belong to a labor union.

Doing some research on a neighborhood and came across these opening celebration pamphlets for 405 and 167 in Renton.

Meeting with someone tomorrow who might have some perspective on this.

Doing some research on a neighborhood and came across these opening celebration pamphlets for 405 and 167 in Renton.

A question for anyone who might know more obscure local art history… In the old hospital up on Beacon Hill, what work might this 12/4/1931 La Gazzetta article be referring to (translated in Alt Text).

I, too, have a general aesthetic preference for the old brick homes of the last century. But the reality is that this house would approach $1M while the townhomes that replace it will be in the $500s. These monotonous, sore thumb, “Milk Cartons” are people’s homes that they take pride in.

Someone in the replies told me that the townhomes should never be built because teachers can’t afford to live in them. I am a teacher. I live in one. Most of my younger teacher friends who live in Seattle live in townhomes. My neighbors in the adjacent units are nurses, firefighters, and KCM workers

Just got billed $400 for going to a general check up at a new doc I didn’t realize was out of network. Hand up, that’s on me. Wish we had a simpler system, though.

So I spent 6 hours today at a couple different archives researching more about Earlington Flats: Renton’s Little Italy. 4 hours in, I’m about to call it a day and someone stops me and asks me what I’m researching. I tell them. They say BRB. They come back with a memoir manuscript on the exact topic!

It looks like the author also wrote this history after a career as a city engineer.

So I spent 6 hours today at a couple different archives researching more about Earlington Flats: Renton’s Little Italy. 4 hours in, I’m about to call it a day and someone stops me and asks me what I’m researching. I tell them. They say BRB. They come back with a memoir manuscript on the exact topic!

Begging Seattle developers to stop putting kitchen islands in townhomes with very small floor plates. Let residents put a dining table here!

New renderings at 1405 S Bayview? Or Maybe these have been around. Can’t recall.

I, too, have a general aesthetic preference for the old brick homes of the last century. But the reality is that this house would approach $1M while the townhomes that replace it will be in the $500s. These monotonous, sore thumb, “Milk Cartons” are people’s homes that they take pride in.

This year, as my students begin their study through AP U.S. History, I have them writing a modernization of Common Sense against a non-partisan little tyranny that makes their life meaningfully worse. They might write about shrinkflation, AI slop, or any number of things.

I’ve never given this prompt before, but I actually think it’s one of the funner ways that students could approach revolutionary texts and Thomas Paine was a much better guy than many of his contemporaries for students to emulate.