Seattle
When marketing and superstision collide
It was announced today that the Seahawks are retiring their lime jerseys. If you don’t follow the Seahawks, live in Seattle, or critique jerseys (uniwatchblog.com) you might not have even realized that these jerseys were actually worn. These jerseys were worn in one game, a humiliating defeat, and have now been put on the shelf [...]
“Over the line!”
18 fire pits may be taken away and it will solve all our problems. Since this article I read last night made it’s way to the Drudge Report today I figured I would put in my two cents. The Seattle Parks Department is thinking about banning camp fires at Seattle’s two popular beaches. Considering I [...]
Seriously Seattle?
Seriously Seattle? Well as I am trying to get to bed I decided to take a look at what the week will bring us as far as weather goes. As you can see, it’s not pretty. I’m getting a little tired of this Seattle weather. I think we’ve had about 7 days where it’s been [...]
Corvallis > Seattle?
Other than Corvallis having a better restaurant (Local Boyz) and a better baseball and football team’s (Oregon State), there’s not to much I would say Corvallis beats Seattle in. However, Fortune has just announced that Corvallis is the 48th best place to “Live and launch a company in 2008.“ I have known some great companies [...]
Is Steve Ballmer Seattle’s new Paul Allen?
Today, I received an email from Steve Ballmer. Yes, it was actually from him and in its entirety it read, “Thanks.” I had a few thoughts about Ballmer when I received the email back. First, I wonder what phone he sent that from? It wouldn’t be a Blackberry or an iPhone, even though Apple is [...]
H&M coming to Seattle
The affordably priced fashion apparel company (known commonly as H&M) has announced that they are coming to Seattle within the year…and coming in force. H&M has announced that they will be opening three stores in the greater Seattle area (U Village, Downtown, and Southcenter which is just outside of the city limits). You’d think a [...]
Howard Schultz is BACK.
I have not made any secrets about Howard Schultz being one of my favorite CEO’s, even though he had not been the CEO of Starbucks for quite a few years, and not while I had been a fan of the company. Well, today Jim Donald stepped down as Starbucks’ CEO and Howard has said that [...]
