From: Dave Aitel (daveimmunitysec.com)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2004 - 12:59:40 CST

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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 18:06, Dave Aitel wrote:
| On the plane over to seattle I read william gibson's new book,
| "pattern recognition". Lately I've been reading a lot of books by
| historians and natural scientists, or simply second rate writers,
| so it was fairly shocking how good gibson's flow is. The story
| itself is about a woman who has an alergy to corporate logos. I
| don't want to go too deep into it, but suffice it to say that it
| doesn't falter at any point. And it takes a writer with real talent
| to work sep 11 into their story and not seem like a big cheese
| monster.
|
| Anyways, everyone go pick it up. It's in the harbor news shops that
| have a monopoly on airport bookstores here in the us.
|
| Seattle is so laid back. I'm feeling more culture shock here than
| in tokyo, possibly because its so similar to nyc, and yet warm. I
| was jaywalking across the street and a car stopped to let me pass.
| Wtf is that all about?

dude, that's because NO ONE and I mean NO ONE jay walks in seattle.

i lived in seattle for many years at the peak of the scene and i swear
to GOD
people would be staggering raving drunk around the streets of
broadway/capitol hill at 2am and they wouldn't jay walk. they'd dutifully
stay at the "Don't Walk" light until it said "Walk".

it was weird if you were hanging with a native seattlite at like the croc
(http://www.thecrocodile.com/) and wanted to haul ass down to pioneer
square
at midnight. (we had to walk. yeah, it's a ways. but no money for taxi,
just beer.)

the native wouldn't jay walk. no cars in sight. dead empty roads. 34
degrees. raining. like 15 blocks to go. standing on a street corner
waiting
for the fucking light to turn. we invariably left them in the dust...

i don't get the whole no jaywalking thing...

~ (anonymized)
- -dave
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