I always get a picture of how someone might look (age, style, gender, etc.) in my head simply from reading posts and it's always funny to see if they match up or are WAY off when I actually meet someone or see their profile picture!  Do other people do that or am I just way weird?

The nicotine habit is harder to break than caffeine, right? Especially for dogs.

But these little specks cannot go to waste. What can they create if we connect them?

Remove the grid lines, and we have a scatterplot of fine coffee grounds, waiting to be swept up the Starbucks floor. Little tiny particles that escaped and will not contribute to the habit of the caffeine addict.

UMLs for this round: 023, 061, 065, 316, 318, 336, 373, 403, 446, 490, 498, 514, 558, 614, 637, 677, 705, 712, 798, 816, 824, 842, 895, 933, 966, 984-985.

I was a passenger in a vehicle that was in the drive-through line at the Tumwater Capital Blvd. Starbucks, and UML 373 was directly in front of us. The driver of 373, to our surprise, picked up the tab for our coffee (actually, I didn't have any, I was just along for the ride. Drive-through lines are my idea of an exciting excursion).

So, thanks UML 373, whoever you are.

There's been quite a bit of discussion today on OlyBlog about the events of last night. Most of the posts have been helpful and contributed to our understanding of what happened. You can check out those threads:

• First hand accounts of Evergreen last night (comments closed)
• Incident at Evergreen State College
• What's the protocol
• Riot at Evergreen connections to Port Protests

You can use this thread to add more observations or context to our collective knowledge about what happened. The more information we have, the better we'll understand the situation.

Nothing interesting on the agenda this week (good lord, could they cram any more public works crap into one week?), so, I'm going to write about public financing of campaigns.

Public financing was legal in Washington as a local option until the early 90s when seemingly by mistake, it was written off the books by the initiative that created the Public Disclosure Commission. Seattle had a pretty robust program at the time.

The short of it is that public financing puts candidates on equal footing, regardless of their ability to raise large sums of money. More information here, here and here.

Anyway, it looks like the local option is back on the table, with the passage of SB 5278 onto the governor. This will allow local governments, through initiative, to create public financing programs.

So, who wants to get an initiative campaign going in Olympia?

Here is a short list of needs for a campaign:

Maybe I'll drink something at Headquarters - I mean - The Brotherhood tonight.