The Seattle Freeze is a hundred years old
Crosscut editor-at-large Knute Berger shared evidence that the infamous Seattle Freeze — our reputation for keeping everyone at arm’s length — has been with Seattle for a while.
…while researching the pandemic of 1918-1920, Ben Helle, the ever-sharp-eyed archivist at the Washington State Archives, came across a Seattle Times clipping that suggested conversation about Seattle’s frigid nature as far back as the spring of 1920.
It can be frustrating, but the Freeze has its good points. Less pressure for small talk and social obligations. Plus when we’ve decided we like you, you can’t get rid of us.
2020-04-27: Oops. Helps if I show the link I had sitting in the file. Thanks, @tedder!
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 00:29
Random-ass bedtime #drawing
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 08:29
She’s forcing me to eat. What a bully.
Twitter: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:03
Pondering the cost in productivity of emergency hotline workers being obligated to find nice ways of saying the president is an idiot and one should never ever listen to him.
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:36
Good citiz— well, better citizens anyways. Mrs Geek and I in the latest hackers.town fashions!
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:48
@thegibson @IamMrsGeek looks good, and snug without suffocating. I’m quite pleased!
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:50
@thegibson @IamMrsGeek “Better than nothing” is very important when combined with “Something I’d actually use on the regular”
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:52
@thegibson plus, @IamMrsGeek got us some proper masks which we could wear under for important occasions. I just didn’t want to shave my beard.
her notifications are gonna be hell when she logs in again
Twitter: 2020-04-24 Fri 12:54
we have not made the focaccia
https://twitter.com/AllezLesBoulez/status/1253369055815315456
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 15:57
Seemed topically appropriate to drink this in today.
#NowPlaying
Nirvana - “Bleach”
https://album.link/us/i/669728060
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 16:21
Sharing a tweet because I’m taking part.
Because a friend said “I want a reading party but I don’t want to organize it” I organized a reading party of Twelfth Night!
Tomorrow (24/04) starting around 7:30PM Pacific time. Come and watch us stumble through it, and heckle us silently in the chat!
#nobirb
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 16:31
Installing Zoom. I hope my friends appreciate this.
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 22:06
I have been learned. An episode of Shakespeare is much longer than an episode of Blackadder.
hackers.town: 2020-04-24 Fri 22:12
That was fun. We conclude Shakespeare’s 12th Night, or Horny On Main, next week!
Twitter: 2020-04-24 Fri 22:24
That was enjoyable. I highly recommend reading Shakespeare with friends.
https://twitter.com/Heronymus/status/1253917223606870016