Here's an alternate access to the photos I took: flickr.com...sets/72157605762978504/.

Here's a link to photos tagged with "20080622capitalcitypride": www.flickr.com/photos/tags/20080622capitalcitypride

p.s. you can add photos to this viewer by uploading them to Flickr and adding this tag: "20080622capitalcitypride". -bert

12 mini-reviews for the short attention span, taken from dark corners of stevenl's video vault:

If you (or your loved one) got pied during the Fremont Solstice Parade, please e-mail me a picture and any thoughts about the experience.

I estimate that I covered 15 faces in 90 minutes, a new record for me!  The idea definitely caught on, and not all of the recipients were so lucky to get one of my customized souvenir towels for all of their post-pie clean-up needs.

Nor did I give my card out to ever person taking a picture.  In fact, I totally forgot about my own cell-phone camera or I'd have a much more accurate record of this year's pied faces.

We're in the neighborhood of 45 faces!  And that's a sticky neighborhood!

My next post will feature the pics of my meeting, at long last, with Extremo the Clown from Portland...

As Olympia ponders the development of the waterfront and the downtown area I thought it might be helpful to review the weather report.

The City of Olympia is already attempting to develop plans for sea level rise of 1 foot, 2 feet, and 3 feet and the planners state that these plans will be useless if the Greenland glacial melt speeds up.  I think the quote from Steve Hall and Mike Mucha on Greenland was that all bets are off if Greenland melts.  We have no plan to respond to a sea level rise of that scale.  

Here is a roundup of some of the latest thinking:

from the scientific journal Nature as covered at Wired Science:

Could Methane Trigger a Climate Doomsday Within a Human Lifespan?

The potential problem here is the release of huge amounts of methane that are currently frozen away.  The arctic melt has potential to release the methane and methane is a potent greenhouse gas.  This is not a knife-edge type change where the impact could go either way, this is a tipping point, a feedback loop, that can reasonably be expected to accelerate and contribute to rising temperature.