• -Cruising online car forums and listening to BBC Radio One’s Essential Mix… from the patio. #
• -Danielle’s cat Ferris is apparently terrified of ice cubes. That could be useful later… #
• -A house caught fire nearby and there’s ash in the air. Spontaneous combustion? #
• -My bedroom is currently 96 degrees – guess i’m sleeping in the basement tonight! #
• -Driving my truck today, happy for Infiniti’s luxury-class air conditioning. #
• -I LOVE this weather! Life in Seattle this week is like LA without all the crazy. #
• -Just rode back from Redmond – it’s a very hot day to be straddling a running engine on the 520 bridge in a black jacket. Fun, but hot. #
• -Oh, it’s going to be one of *those* days, is it Outlook? I see how you are. #
• -Listening to Easy E while I’m getting ready for work. #
• -Gin and tonics on the patio in the shade. If that sounds good to you, come over – i’ve got one for you, too. #
• -Driving around aimlessly, working on my tan. #
• -No electricity in the neighborhood due to maintenance, but it’s still too hot to sleep. What to do? #
• -Good friends are all you really need in life; the rest is just gravy. #
• -Making copies with my headphones on, remembering how satisfying work could be when responsibility was low and productivity was high. #
• -Not in the mood today to do a lot of work and accomplish nothing, but that’s how it’s shaping up anyway. #

Some brilliant scientist has finally solved the “how do I keep all my cyborg implants’ batteries charged” problem with a power cell that is fueled on blood glucose – much the same way the bodys’ cells are – and has demonstrated an under-the-skin touch screen interface with infinite use time (as long as your heart’s still beating, basically) and a bluetooth link to, say, my Nokia smartphone. Hopefully this same concept is also being applied to a bluetooth headset that goes right in my ear and never needs to be charged, either. I’m ready for the cyborg revolution – I welcome our new human-robot-hybrid overlords!

Via physorg: Electronic tattoo display runs on blood.

• -I’m just a regular everyday normal guy… if you wanna mess with me, I think you probably can. #
• -The best way to end a stressful day is with Austin kicking my ass in the gym and a sunny drive home with the system up. #
• -Firing up the grill for homemade burgers and another summer evening on the patio. #
• -Using mobile phone tethering in my living room because my home internet connection is THAT BAD. #
• -Peeling and cutting apples before work so Mom can bake a pie. #
• -Buying salumi salami and hard cheeses, headed to the park. #
• -Admitting it’s really summer, taking the extra blanket off my bed. #
• -Cheese is candy that comes from cows. Candy for grown-ups. #
• -Home early, opening a beer and heading to the pool with the girls. #

• -Mom is in the house! She’s here for the weekend. #
• -Meant to clean the house tonight but stayed up late setting up Comcast internet instead. #
• -Between the gold card, the duetto visa, and all the gift cards, half the cards in my wallet have a Starbucks logo. #
• -Guess the weather forecast is coming true after all. Go outside everyone! #
• -Walking exactly a block north of the solid wall of San Fran style fog that has the stadium district socked in. #
• -Is it a holiday and nobody told me? Cause there’s no one on the road today. #
• -Washing the road grime off my bike in preparation for riding it to work the next few days. #
• -System up with the top down, got the city on lock down, drive by in the low ride, hands high when we fly by. #
• -Taking an employee survey in one browser, shopping for underwear in the other. #
• -Why is there a reality show to help every jerk, slut and dumbass find someone but the nice people have to do it the hard way? #
• -Taking advantage of even small opportunities to fight the man. #
• -Getting ready to eat my second meal of the day in the same conference room where I ate the first. #
• -Listening to Sir Mixalot and driving thru Fife on our way home from Ocean Shores. Is your posse on Broadway? #
• -Chilling with the girls in our oceanfront chalet over a case of bud light lime and cracking ourselves up. #
• -Sunshine in Aberdeen? Is the universe broken? #
• -Headed to a meeting, working on my day off. What else is new? #

A walk around Seattle’s central shopping district and the Pike Place Market neighborhood with my buddy and fellow photographer Alex early on a Friday morning in June. We didn’t have a particular agenda, just to get on the street, feel the pulse of the city, and hopefully capture a few meaningful moments on (digital) film. Like the inefficient digital photographer I am, I shot several hundred frames and culled them down to the 41 shots in this gallery.

Gallery slideshow here.