I'd gone to this museum probably 5-6 times and every time it was amazing. Grateful to have the opportunity but I'm so saddened that it'll be closing for good. I wish Gates, Bezos, or any rich tech billionaire would've stepped in and tried to buy it out.
It's a fucking disgrace that none of the tech giants in our city care enough to support such a legendary museum. They will blow billions on game study acquisitions, AI deals and sports arenas, but won't keep their own history alive.
Has anyone tried this yet? I'm tempted to convert my physical card over but I'm worried about my phone dying, etc.
Update: I bought an additional card (Wallet only) and it's working well so far for the light rail. I also added in a multi ride ferry pass and it correctly** handled that as well. Pretty happy about this so far, aside from being so very late.
** The screen on the turnstile says there's an error, but it correctly deducts from the pass and lets me through. The wallet app doesn't actually list pass uses remaining but myorca does.
I've loaded cash to my phone but still haven't actually used it yet. I'm going to carry the card as backup just in case but tbh how many times has your phone died on you just as you were boarding the teianor whatever? I feel like it's probably fine to just go full digital
Did the switchover this morning & I will note that it also works if you have a RRFP (Regional Reduced Fare Permit). I've been using the My ORCA app on my phone since it first became publicly available, so having the card in digitized form is just icing on the cake for me. I'll also add that there's an option in Google Wallet to store your digital card in your Google account temporarily if you're in the process of upgrading your device... it can be found by tapping the Details button at the top after tapping on the entry for your digital ORCA card.
As the article mentions, I applud efforts to up-armor existing bike lanes to make them safer against car and truck intrusions.
But we should be pushing a lot harder for more bike lanes that are protected by concrete barriers AND more connections to things like south Seattle, west seattle, and greenlake.
It's really frustrating to watch massive roads go into places like the waterfront that are just going to ferry cars between North and South seattle. That money could have been spent better elsewhere, building out a staggering number of bike lanes at a much lower cost.
@pruwybn Already planning that my next date night, we're going to go to Scarecrow and each find a movie we've never seen, or ideally even heard of, and rent it based solely on the cover. Given the size of their collection, I think the hardest part will be picking only one thing at a time.
Maybe not enough people around the city know about Scarecrow, and what an amazing archive it is. Scarecrow is where you can go when the movie you're looking for isn't streaming, isn't available anywhere else. Access to the history of the movies is what they offer, with maybe more movies in their collection than not.
It's not frickin' Blockbuster, it's important. Anyone who loves movies and has some money should pitch in. SIFF should pitch in; they'd be a good match.
They're trying to raise 1.8 mil to keep a single blockbuster open. Physical media isn't profitable anymore. Though I guess they're trying to preserve that rather than the movies themselves.
Have you been to scarecrow? Every time I go, I get a vivid sense of the scope of cinema as an art form. It's humbling and tantalising, like I'm crawling through a dragons hoard looking for just the right treasure.
You wouldn't call it "a blockbuster" if you'd been there.
I appreciate that it's not literally like a blockbuster, but they're running a giant physical media rental archive. The only ones that can really participate are locals, and it's up to the locals to prop them up. Now if they solicited donations to digitize and make available their collection for archival purposes? That'd turn heads.
I'm not against digitisation and preservation, but their collection is by no means solely in the realm of public domain works. They keep current, and cast a wide net. Getting digital streaming rights to everything they've got would be a legal-logistical nightmare even for a startup with billions in venture capital.
There was a free speech fight in the courts about the right for women two wear swimsuits, many of them bikinis, while serving coffee in the Seattle area. Since then the popularized alliterative term 'bikini barista' has stuck to refer to all servers that sell hot drinks while in swimwear.
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