September 2007

Weeks later, I’ve finally started going through the nearly 1000 pictures I took at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s annual three-day music and arts festival. I had an incredible t

The Shins need almost no introduction.

Click through the image for more pictures from the show.

Awesome show. I’ve seen The Shins before, at a free concert at Carnegie Mellon a couple of years ago, but this show may actually have been better.

Woot Wine ships their wine packages with these frozen “ketchup packets” full of water in them to keep the wines cool during shipment. They always suggest reusing them, but I never figured out why.

Tonight I figured out that they make an excellent reusable “ice cube” for whiskeys and scotches. Unlike normal cubes, they don’t water down your drink when they melt.

A friend of mine spent a good amount of money for a similar (but more elegant) solution for her father, involving cubes of granite that one would freeze and then put in their glasses of expensive scotch.

Today’s my 26th birthday. Am I old yet?

Well, old or not, I’m off to Bumbershoot to celebrate.