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Morning Coffee Notes for 9/11/04, on driving in Seattle, and US politics.  
Just took my daily walk with Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. Today he reviews Jon Stewart's audio book about America. He picked a couple of the best parts to excerpt. Adam's radio act is really getting polished, and he's building a good network of users and developers. He'll lead a discussion on this stuff at BloggerCon, November 6, at Stanford Law School.   Sloane Crosley is a "writer living in New York. She likes to keep her ass out of trouble as much as possible." 
Last night driving back from a dinner party in Green Lake, I got my first taste of heavy Seattle rain. It was especially demoralizing, because 8 times out of 10 when I'm driving here, I'm lost. The other day I set out for an eastside Barnes & Noble hoping to buy a detailed map of the Seattle area so I could study it. I ended up 20 miles from my target, or so it seemed, until I turned a corner and found I was at the intersection of 522 and 405, which is where I started the search. Ouch. No city has kicked my butt as thoroughly as Seattle has. I expected to get lost in Boston when I was a newbie, but Seattle? Come on, the streets are a grid. Hah. No they're not, it just seems that way. Anyway, it really rained last night. I sobbed as the traffic on I-5 passed me at high speed while I was going 40 MPH, gripping the steering wheel for dear life as my car almost hydroplaned 18 times. I made it back okay, glad to be in bed as the the rain came down. So far Seattle kicks my ass. Mostly in a good way, but on its own terms, no matter what.
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