Whistler Blackcomb Announces Lift Expansion – Crystal Chair, Harmony Upgrades
Pretty exciting … Whistler Blackcomb is replacing Blackcomb’s Crystal Chair with a high speed quad and upgrading the Harmony Chair to a six pack. The enhanced access to the Crystal terrain should be awesome while the Harmony upgrade will help...
Get Your Shit Together: A Toolkit for Planning Ahead
Update: Chanel and Get Your Shit Together were profiled in the New York Times: A Shocking Death, a Financial Lesson and Help for Others. [youtube url=”http://youtu.be/R9UaJfZCU64″ width=”560″ height=”420″ autohide=”0″ fs=”1″] [margin10]My friend Chanel Reynolds’ husband José Hernando was killed while cycling in...
New York Times on Climate Change: “There’s not a lot of news in this area.”
Today’s Quote of the Day: [pullquote1 quotes=”true” align=”center” textColor=”#000000″]There’s not a lot of news in this area – we’re watching glaciers melting – so there isn’t an urgency to get things into the paper right away[/pullquote1] – Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York...
Mashup Culture: Seattle’s Surveillance Cameraman and Portland’s Armed Men Walking the Streets
What’s more culturally hip than our armed surveillance society? Mashups! Nothing could be more hip than a meetup between the Northwest’s most misguided activists: Seattle’s Creepy Surveillance Cameraman and Portland’s armed, street walking second amendment “educators”. What could possibly go wrong?
New York Times Focus on Corporate Tax Incentives, Washington State and Microsoft
In early December, The New York Times published a series on corporate tax incentives across the country. They also provided a state by state reporting view online (here’s the link for Washington State’s corporate tax incentives). Washington state grants $2.35...
“Love Until Your Heart Leaks”
Run until your legs break. Love until your heart leaks. “American folk band Bon Iver asked people in August to remix the songs from its Grammy-winning album Bon Iver, Bon Iver, giving music makers the necessary web tools and audio...
Snowboarding in Montreal
Really sweet video of snowboarding through the city in Montreal set to sounds by The XX: