Dirty Black Summer

Above: Curbside Suicide
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What do you call it after two days of rain in Seattle?

Monday.
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Shades of cool gray are starting to fade into the fecal-brown tints of Pacific Northwest spring. There is something about this place that feels home, and yet it oozes awkwardness in almost every nook of culture here. It isn't helping that its now well into april, and the high daytime temp hasn't broken 59 deg F yet. It kinda brings out the worst in people. Then again, the usual increase in daylight has resulted in the expected hightened libidos of seattle-ites. An attractive coworker naively commented that she has been getting a lot of 'boy' attention in last couple weeks, and that conveniently, she has been especially horny. I put a damper on things when I simply said, 'well yeah, its April.' Apparently she didn't know that "spring fever" was a real phenomenon, with biological purpose and all. Think about it... spring break doesn't have a reputation because of it being sunny, especially since most of the partying goes on in places that were sunny all year anyway (Florida, Mexico, Hawaii, Caribean, etc). Sometimes there is more to a story than you think. And sometimes... there's not.

The title of this post is the title of a Danzig song, a hat-tip for reasons I'll let you figure out.

And on a different note....

Below is the apparatus used to "oil" slides for our scanner, also fondly known as the "dirk-diggler apparatus" or "long-john silver". The phallic nature extends beyond its form , as its main function is to squirt oil on a slide when you push its button. No, I'm not kidding. And we are shipping three more to customers soon (although the commercial version will have a more benign form factor). For the winner of the most phallic building (some random contest), see the "brick dick" (somewhere in Michigan).


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