Posted by Josh on November 26, 2009 under Football, Photos | 
GO PACK GO!!
The Packers seem to find themselves in a Thanksgiving Day game fairly often–this will be their 4th appearance in the last nine years and 33rd overall. Most of these appearances have been in Detroit against the Lions, and now I can say I’ve seen where these games are played.
You can’t really tell from this picture, but I’d definitely say it has a much less interesting exterior than Comerica Park, which is just across the street.
Posted by Adrienne on November 20, 2009 under Books |
It’s a fiction book, so it won’t count for the 2009 Book Count. But it’s a steampunk story set in Seattle (with a twist!) so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to review Boneshaker on the blog. Read on for more:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m calling Boneshaker by Cherie Priest an “alternate history” – it reimagines events of the past, so the genre fits – but it is perhaps more properly termed steampunk* because the real focus of the story is not on the fact that the Klondike Gold Rush took place in the 1860s (rather than the 1890s) or that the Civil War did not end in 1865, but instead on inventor Leviticus Blue’s “Boneshaker,” a device that was built to mine for gold under the Alaskan ice, but instead tore a huge ditch through downtown Seattle, and how this disaster impacted the city.
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Posted by Adrienne on November 18, 2009 under Photos, TV & Movies |
It’s like an alien space ship has landed in the Cream City:
This is the new wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Quadracci Pavilion, and it was completed in 2001. We didn’t get to go too far inside (time constraints) but we did spend a good amount of time examining the interesting design of this outer part, and we walked on the pedestrian bridge (in the foreground) that connects the museum to downtown Milwaukee.
And, actually, I’m not the only person to think “alien space ship” upon seeing the distinctive design. In the new ABC sci-fi/drama/remake V, the design of the inside of the aliens’ space ship was inspired by the inside of this very museum. Find out more here.
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Posted by Adrienne on November 17, 2009 under Books |
Lucky book number 13 was an interesting read, with the added bonus of being useful for my new job!
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
We as a society are still making the transition from a physical, hard copy information world, to a digital information world. Not only does this impact our ability to create and access information, but it impacts the way we organize information, and in ways that are fundamentally different from how we have organized in the past.
This is David Weinberger’s theory in the book Everything is Miscellaneous. He does an excellent job of showing the ways that we have internalized the organizing of information in the physical world. It’s become second nature to us to think that information can only have one place where it lives. This is true of a book, or a CD, but it isn’t true of a digital article, or a music track. To Weinberger, the key to maximizing the potential of our new digital information world is to realize that a music track can have multiple places where it lives: “Paperback Writer” by the Beatles can be part of my “Favorites” playlist, my “Beatles” playlist, and my “Exercising” playlist, while being on Josh’s “Oldies” playlist and “Songs I like from Rock Band” playlist. Digital information is extremely flexible and can be organized by different people in different ways, and all of these ways of organizing can add to the value of the information.
As I look at different ways in which I can organize our new electronic archives at work, I’m realizing how true this is, and that I have to keep this in mind as I put together a system that may be used for awhile. If you’re working on organizing any kind of information (or even last summer’s digital vacation photos), pick up Weinberger’s book for some fascinating food for thought.
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Posted by Adrienne on November 16, 2009 under Soccer, Sounders |
What a fantastic first season this was for Seattle Sounders FC. Full stadium for every home game, US Open Cup Champions, a playoff berth and a playoff game at home: all have combined for a memorable season. And we were a big part of it, attending 14 games in total. Of course we were disappointed at the early playoff exit, and too many of the games that we went to were draws, leading to a familiar lament: “Come on, Sounders, score a goal!” But overall, being a Sounders supporter this season has been a fun experience. Read on for a more detailed description of the 14 matches we attended.
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