Category: People in my neighborhood

  • Facebook is dead to me: long live Facebook!

    So what’s with “People in my neighborhood” anyway?  At first, it was to tell some short stories about interesting people I meet on a regular basis.  And it gave me the opportunity to show off a wonderful new Olympus 45mm 1.8 micro four-thirds portrait lens (for that beautifully shallow depth-of-field as you can see with…

  • People in my neighborhood: thinking big

    I always enjoy passing by the new Gates Foundation campus.  I like the inspired architecture, the central location (in the shadow of the Space Needle and the Experience Music Project).  And I see it as Seattle’s own 21st century United Nations. So it was nice to be invited for the official opening of the new…

  • People in my neighborhood: for love of Cascadia

    I ended my day on the top floor of Trabant Coffee and Chai in the University district.  I had neither coffee, nor chai as I settled into my catch-up conversation with KUOW host (and my former student) Ross Reynolds. I first met Ross before I even knew of the MCDM’s existence when he featured my…

  • People in my neighborhood: Canal St. Coffee

    I have several “remote offices.”  One that I haven’t used in a while is Canal Street Coffee, in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.  But on this day of meetings, it’s where I started.  First I met with Mariana Llamas Cendon, who was in my Narratives & Networks class last quarter (for a great “behind the scenes on…