The monthly get together for the organization that I’m the secretary/treasurer of the regional chapter of. If this sort of thing interests you, c’mon by.
Once a month, we get together to have drinks, chat, network, and geek out with fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user experience designers, and other like-minded user-centered professionals and students. It’s open to anyone, so bring a friend — especially those in other local organizations! The format will be casual, but all are encouraged to bring something to discuss — recent work, an interesting topic, or even your resume. This event is organized by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology.
What: Seattle Monthly Information Architecture Meetup
http://ia.meetup.com/57
Where: Elysian Pub, 1221 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA
When: 7-10pm, May 13th (2nd Tuesday of every month)
This and the next several are when the students will come in a big drove most likely, so if you’re looking to hire new grads in the information professions, it’s a good bet.
The last while, I’ve been working on the North Atlantic Bloom 08 Collaboratory Website at UW(ashington) APL. I finished that today (mostly, I imagine requests will continue to come in over time), and the science team is out in the North Atlantic doing science and working with their autonomous instruments as they measure phytoplankton and thus carbon flux.
It’s awesome, check it out.
Last week, we went to rainier vista and had a reception with the Seattle Housing Authority, Ignition NW board members, and a lot of residents of rainier vista and members of other Seattle Communities.
This tree, designed by Seattle’s Iron Monkeys, is the first permanent art piece installed by a grant from Ignition NW. It’s going into Rainier Vista, a mixed income housing project in Seattle that is pretty much ideal as far as neighborhoods go, and right next to public transit.
Our efforts at getting involved in our local community are paying off!
Cory Doctorow will be reading from his recent Little Brother at the ballard branch of SPL on may 19th. I’m planning to be there, the progreff of nature depending.
So, I’ve been doing a lot of research into logging & dispatching recently for one of the volunteer organizations that I’m a lead in. In the course of this, I came across this on http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq73-1.htm
Deck logs are not “Captain’s Logs”
A deck log is not a daily diary written by the ship’s captain. The “captain’s log” was a dramatic device used by the creators of the televison series Star Trek to introduce each episode, and does not exist in the U.S. Navy.
People must have been asking. This is strangely hilarious
