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here's the list of shared rooms i got the values from: http://seattle.craigslist.org/search/roo?maxAsk=400 most of the shared housing type arrangements there include electricity, water, garbage and ...

i think an important thing to note is that increasing the benefit by $180 a month is very significant when compared to the very small initial amount. subtract $180 from the rough budget i whipped up ...

$620 a month? hm. craigslist has a fair amount of shared housing options at $250. let's budget $320 for that, to provide a little flexibility in terms of location, leaving $300. monthly puget pass f...

i kind of like seeing the freighters close. they look more interesting than the cruise ships, and you can still view the olympics very well from other places in the city. that said, if a lot of peopl...

er, Orbiter....

but then, maybe if the Smithsonian gets one MoF would get Enterprise, the full sized aerodynamic testing model that they launched into the air off a specialized 747. in some ways that's actually more...

As COMTE points out, two of the three are essentially spoken for. I think that JSC in Houston has to be a favourite for the third, and if all things are equal regarding the financial commitments, I'd...

cutting water-contaminant testing? now there's a genius idea. what could possibly go wrong by cutting that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_Tragedy...

i guess it comes down to whether the city wants to create new development around the streetcar on 12th, or better serve all the existing development on broadway....

serving 12th has some strengths. certainly sending the streetcar up 12th could allow 12th to develop into an interesting, more subdued alternative to the congestion that rules broadway. i don't think...

"Just saying that the most ideal mode of mass transit N/S is Rail." that's going to be Sound Transit, which all these streetcar lines will ultimately link up with downtown. a university/ballard line...

is he really THAT bad in this? i'm kind of interested in the film for all the positive qualities mentioned here, and yet .. Cruise. you don't see much of his performance in the trailer so there isn'...

the 44/43 route from U district to ballard would be the next most obvious place to put in a street car, after building the current proposals. there's some problems you'd run into with that, though. ...

"Outside of the Park, there are crosstown roads everywhere (and some in the Park as well" well, if you are saying that manhattan = nyc, i'd agree. otherwise there are many choke points when trying to...

"The best streetcars can offer is institutionalizing mistakes made in laying out the bus routes?" the current bus routes aren't mistakes. getting across town is difficult because lake union is longer...