[from BEAN] Slow News Day
Seattle

Howard Wu is on the front page of the PI! Congratulations and good luck with the Orange Badge Club.

[from BEAN] Discovery Park
Seattle

Discovery Park is by far the most beautiful and romantic wastewater treatment facility/park combo I have ever been to. Kidding aside, I went there for the first time recently, and it is actually a very nice park there, with about 2.8 miles of trail (about 1 hour walking) through a forest, onto a beach, and overlooking the beach by a cliff. Projecting my own experience upon everybody (that's what a blog is for) I assume this is a relatively unknown park. I think it is worth a looksy for a nice walk or if you are econo-dating. Despite the haze, what little of the sunset I saw was quite striking - pink and blue sky, an orange sun, the hazy blue cascades and ocean was really picturesque. The wastewater treatment facility kinda smells near the lighthouse, but its not the smell you think it is, but everywhere else is foresty fresh. FYI it is on the southside of whatever that canal is that separates Udistrict, fremont and ballard from queen anne and montlake, at the very westerly point jutting into puget sound.

[from BEAN]Travesty of Trump Part I: Alla
TV

Two weeks in a row of crap firings!

I know that microsoft ad was low-rent as-seen-on-tv garbage, but so was the other one! Alla had to put up with sniveling, insecure Felicia who went on and on about how she needs the spotlight and she doesn't want to be shown up. That's all she cared about. Her attitude was: "I want to be the actor, and uh the director, and you can make comments as long as they only serve to inspire my genious."
Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think the notorious "double-standard" showed up here, too. Oooohh Alla's 'too hard to get along with'. She 'can't be led.', or was bossy (actually a coworker said this.) I viewed this as if Alla was a man, she'd be 'tough' or 'strong', but if she's a woman, she's a 'b*tch". Alright I'm not going to write a check to NOW just yet, I'm just mad over a completely unjustified firing and really a less exciting finale.

[from BEAN] Splenda
Science and Technology

I hope that stuff doesn't end up causing cancer. I probably have 15 packs of that stuff a day.

[from BEAN]Travesty of Trump Part II: Adam
TV

I don't think the Team Trump has really strong math skills. Okay this firing wasn't as bad as Alla's. Here is my main objection: Adam's team did the horse carraige advertisements (Adam's idea), which ended up looking really crappy, for 6K. They also had 15 barkers, (Felecia's idea) run up and down the street hawking Shania's perfume for 4K. Randall's team had 60 barkers running around doing it (and no other advertising method), for 10K.

The final score, Randall's team got 900 something call-ins. Adam's team got only 5 less. Adam was fired for the horse carraige idea.

What doesn't make sense to me is that Adam and Felecia had 25% of the barkers, and 99% of the points. Doesn't this mean that the horse carraiges might have actually worked very well despite the crummy appearance? If Felecia could have gotten 1 more barker, they probably would have won. Felecia also got less workers per dollar spent than Randall.
She should have been fired here! NO TALENT ASS CLOWNS!

Oh well. I feel better now. Thanks blog therapy.