I'd like to take a nice vacation this summer and was thinking it would be fun to tour Seattle. I'd like to sort of "get away from it all" and but also get a good sampling of that great american town. What sorts of sites should I visit? Any particular bus routes I should try to avoid? I'd like to be exposed to "real seattle" at some point. I've heard there can be some salty characters in downtown Seattle

[Edited on March 14, 2009 at 11:56 PM. Reason : s]

3/14/2009 11:55:44 PM

Look, come on, calm down, it wasn't all totally like that
You're over-reacting just a bit, maybe
we can sit down and chat?
It's just you know I had stuff to
do, you know, this and that
Maybe it wasn't so important as you being in the sack
But I had to sort out my pills man, I
needed to stock up my stash
I couldn't do it any other day, I had
to do it then, quick, snap
And you didn't want me there last Sat
so I left you on your jack
And this Saturday I thought it was the same
deal as last Sat at your gaff


I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

3/14/2009 11:57:42 PM

try this thread:
message_topic.aspx?topic=550011

... and the search function.

3/14/2009 11:57:49 PM

^ idiot

3/14/2009 11:58:15 PM

3/14/2009 11:58:29 PM

Why so serious?

3/14/2009 11:59:08 PM

r u stalkin me


j/k... yeah, seattle's fun. come on out here, i'll show you around the "real" seattle. it's a pretty chill place.

the thing is you pay attention to certain neighborhoods. Capital Hill is probably the "hippest" area. hip meaning: punks, homos, junkies, homeless, metro scenesters. Fremont, Wallingford, GreenLake are a bit more upscale, but that's a relative term around here. "upscale" meaning mostly-lacking in junkies and homeless. Queen Anne and Belltown is quentessential seattle, in the shadow of the space needle, but can be a little touristy/trendy for my tastes. Ballard if you want a more blue-collar scandanavian fishing/boating sort of vibe. University District if you want to hang out around UW students and the inevitable parasites that coexist there. West Seattle if you want a sort of "beach" experience similar to a more typical Pacific Coast atmosphere.

nothing really upscale like Cary or South Glenwood. if you want that you need to go Eastside Suburbs like Kirkland and Redmond. not my thing.

you can hit the tourist sites if you want to do that, also. for that you go downtown to Pioneer Square (the original Seattle dating back to the post-frontier era, late-1800's.). I recommend a couple "tourist" attractions: Pike Place Market has to be visited at least once, and the Seattle Underground Tour is fascinating hour-long walking tour through the historic part of seattle that is literally underground, as in: sunk into the ground, abandoned about 100 years ago. the rest of seattle is built on top of what sank. there's other stuff you can do touristy if you have time. things outside town include snoqualmie falls is less than an hour drive to the cascade mountains.







[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:42 AM. Reason : ]

3/15/2009 12:23:35 AM

lol at d7 for finding the one thread that could answer the question, not be too old to bttt, and then getting someone to call him an idiot for it.

never ceases to amaze me.



[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:32 AM. Reason : but srsly-have fun while your'e there!!!!!!!....id love to go there one day.]

3/15/2009 12:30:07 AM

Seattle is not that great of a place

3/15/2009 12:39:22 AM

please don't feel compelled to offer any sort of justification for your comment though. unsuported assertions are the best.

3/15/2009 12:41:06 AM

wow this thread was an epic fail.

was supposed to be a spoof on joe_schmoe's thread where he was bitching about tourists, but here he is promoting tourism:

Quote :

"seattle's fun. come on out here, i'll show you around the "real" seattle. it's a pretty chill place. the thing is you pay attention to certain neighborhoods. Capital Hill is probably the "hippest" area. hip meaning: punks, homos, junkies, homeless, metro scenesters. Fremont, Wallingford, GreenLake are a bit more upscale, but that's a relative term around here. "upscale" meaning mostly-lacking in junkies and homeless. Queen Anne and Belltown is quentessential seattle, in the shadow of the space needle, but can be a little touristy/trendy for my tastes. Ballard if you want a more blue-collar scandanavian fishing/boating sort of vibe. University District if you want to hang out around UW students and the inevitable parasites that coexist there. West Seattle if you want a sort of "beach" experience similar to a more typical Pacific Coast atmosphere. nothing really upscale like Cary or South Glenwood. if you want that you need to go Eastside Suburbs like Kirkland and Redmond. not my thing. you can hit the tourist sites if you want to do that, also. for that you go downtown to Pioneer Square (the original Seattle dating back to the frontier era late 1800's.). I recommend a couple "tourist" attractions: Pike Place Market has to be visited at least once, and the Seattle Underground Tour is fascinating hour-long walking tour through the historic part of seattle that is literally underground, as in: sunk into the ground, abandoned about 100 years ago. the rest of seattle is built on top of what sank. there's other stuff you can do touristy if you have time. things outside town include snoqualmie falls is less than an hour drive to the cascade mountains."

This didn't go down how I had planned

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:42 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 12:42:00 AM

you faggot

i just missed you and thought you were coming to visit me





[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:48 AM. Reason : ]

3/15/2009 12:43:54 AM

I know, I meant for you to get all pissed off and bitch some more about tourists but instead it got real awkward and sentimental and I started feeling weird

This is surely a night to remember. I don't fail often and I admit it even less. But, I'm going to have to go ahead and stamp this thread with a big fat FAIL.



[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 12:44:58 AM

look, a few things you need to understand:

(1) i hate all tourists except the ones i know.

(2) i hate people who move here from the East Coast. Seattle should not allow anyone from the East Coast or Southern California to move here, because they ruin the "Seattle Vibe" and try to make this place look like whatever East Coast or So. Cal suburban shithole they moved here from. the only exceptions to this are myself (of course) and people who i know.

(3) I've always secretly loved you.




[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:49 AM. Reason : ]

3/15/2009 12:48:41 AM

3/15/2009 12:51:56 AM

3/15/2009 12:52:40 AM

3/15/2009 12:53:49 AM

3/15/2009 12:54:48 AM

3/15/2009 12:55:07 AM

that's it.

i'm officially "unfriending" him from my Facebook.

homie dont play that shit.

3/15/2009 12:56:52 AM

I'm experiencing a rollercoaster of emotion.

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 12:58 AM. Reason : make that lollercoaster]

3/15/2009 12:57:51 AM

3/15/2009 12:59:39 AM

oh wait.... i dont have a Facebook account.

well.... if i *DID* ... he would be unfriended.

and i mean it.

just like that.

srsly

3/15/2009 1:03:58 AM

the only cool thing about seattle is seeing mt. ranier from the air as you fly in.

3/15/2009 1:05:31 AM

well, even that's not cool, becasue its always cloudy and rainy so you can't see shit.

3/15/2009 1:06:37 AM

Quote :

"I don't fail often"

you sho bout dat?

3/15/2009 1:08:48 AM

yes, in fact.

feel free to rez any old beef u might not have felt was settled betwixt u and me since this thread is now "free thread"

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 1:13 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 1:10:03 AM

LIKE OUR LOVE, THIS THREAD SHALL NEVER DIE

3/15/2009 1:14:10 AM

0xDEADBEEF even

3/15/2009 1:15:07 AM

rain

3/15/2009 1:17:46 AM

ha.

i used that DEADBEEF flag in some embedded code at my previous job, and nobody had ever heard that before. my boss was like "dead beef? where do you get this stuff from????"

3/15/2009 1:17:49 AM

LOL I GET IT FROM 0xMYFATASS

3/15/2009 1:18:40 AM

if you use base64 ascii armored code, then yeah, i guess you do.

3/15/2009 1:23:12 AM

i always had a hard time retrieving anything from 0xMYFATASS and it seemed like anything I sent there was lost forever


[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 1:25 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 1:24:59 AM

ahaha oh lawd

i prefer 0xDEFEC8ED

lulz were had the first time my boss noticed i used that

3/15/2009 1:28:26 AM

that sounds highly unprofessional

addresses aren't license plates

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 1:30 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 1:29:00 AM

It's been so long that it seems like I've never been to the San Juans.

3/15/2009 1:29:20 AM

a lot of rain

3/15/2009 1:30:04 AM

^^^tell that to Sun

first place i ever saw it was in a core dump from solaris

3/15/2009 1:30:18 AM

an apropos address for a situation such as that.

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM. Reason : s]

3/15/2009 1:31:38 AM

oh, i only use it at appropriate times

namely when something basically shits itself

3/15/2009 1:34:18 AM

someone did some sort of study analysing the number of obscenities found in FOSS applications' source code.

i forget the details, but apparently theres a lot of foul stuff in comments and variable names.

3/15/2009 1:34:45 AM

that does not surprise me in the least

3/15/2009 1:35:55 AM

the Linux kernel is especially noteworthy.

IIRC, the % of obscenities as a function of total word count increases linearly with each successive revision.





[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 1:41 AM. Reason : ]

3/15/2009 1:40:26 AM

could you please comment on where the inflection point occurs?

3/15/2009 1:41:04 AM

in your moms sphincter is a major inflection point.

3/15/2009 1:41:42 AM

3/15/2009 1:42:54 AM

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

3/15/2009 1:43:05 AM

I was going to add Rainier Beer, but it seems to have gone away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-WuLQz_ns

3/15/2009 9:45:04 AM

set em up

3/17/2009 11:14:07 AM