Went to the Mariners game vs the Yankees last night. Was at Safeco Field, right next to my office.
It was a win-win for me any way, cause I love the Yankees and cause of the NY connection; and of course Mariners are from Seattle! Mariners don’t win often (and this season had not won any yet) – however they command a lot of local support.
Matter of fact, A-Rod was getting booed big time (A-Rod used to play at the start of his career with the Mariners). I was on the handful side of the Yankees supporters, with a Yanks t-shirt and all…
And guess what – Mariners won 3-1… Their yound pitcher Morrow was awesome… read more here.
On the whole – loved it. The atmosphere was awesome… and so was the view of Seattle as a backdrop against the ballpark – with the sunset and everything.
Here are a couple of pics, one before sunset and one at night…
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Bumbershoot is Seattle’s Arts and Music festival. It takes place during the Labor Day weekend (September first weekend usually) every year at the Seattle Center.
Me and Ujwala had gone for day-2, last Sunday… Quite a few shows on. We saw School of Rock (Paul Green) – really amazing how great kids are! School kids rocking with electric guitars, drums and amazing powerful vocals. Loved it!
Heard Paramore from the sidelines and saw a few other things as well.
The other highlight was Offspring – I always wanted to go to one of their concerts. It was fast and good! They even called the fest much bigger than Bumbershoot – it was “BumberSHIT” 
Here’s a pic from the Offspring concert…
taken with the new iPhone! After the win this saturday.
League details here: http://arcl.org/Pages/UI/TeamStats.aspx?team_id=1235&league_id=8&season_id=13
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yay! yay! yay!
My T-mobile contract got over end of July and I finally gave in to the temptation – I got the iPhone 3G today!!! (yes in spite of all the bad things ppl are saying about the battery and Exchange integration). I get 14 days to return it so why not try it!
Only two problems till now:
1) Yahoo mail won’t sync! I figured it was the non alphanumeric characters in my password! So apple could not figure out this advanced piece o technology – people do have passwords with non-alphanumeric characters in them. Well it’s only been, umm, 20 years since this “technology” started!
2) While setting up the phone, it crashed my OS twice. A-ha – Windows XP. So it’s a classic case of Microsoft v. Apple And apple slam-dunked you twice Windows!
But other than that, I love the phone!
So I want to drive from Seattle to NYC. No really I want to do that once. Coast to coast.
Well I’ll leave that dream to come true in another blog. It’s a different topic I wanna talk about right now.
So I wanna start at 6 PM from Seattle, let Google Maps (or some other maps) decide the way for me, AND, AND tell me hows the weather gonna be all the along the way.
Now look at this rad site: http://weatherbonk.com/weather/routeWeather.jsp?
Start from Seattle, at 6 PM today, and reach NYC in 3 days. And it tells me how the weather’s gonna be along the way. Isn’t that cool?
And there are loads of other options! Cool. Now check out their home page: http://weatherbonk.com
I know all this is there in weather.com too but, this is like, presenting all the relevant data in the relevant manner!