What does your zip code say about you?

By Johnine Larsen | October 23, 2014

  Age? Check. Income? Check. Neighborhood? Check. Overall lifestyle? Check.     It’s creepy, but once you get past the creepiness, it’s actually a useful tool for house-hunting and neighborhood-shopping, and, in a spying-on-the-Jonses way… it’s fun. Esri released an interactive map that analyzes your zip code information. You can zoom into Seattle and see…

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Beat the Seattle Commute

By Johnine Larsen | October 14, 2014

The commute, the dreaded commute! Bumper-to-bumper for miles, moving down I-5 slower than you backed out of your driveway. Wait, wait, wait—move forward ten feet and wait some more. Watch the minutes pile up. You should think about this when you pick a house. Map potential routes and test them. Imagine driving from that potential…

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Of Parks and Pianos

By Johnine Larsen | July 29, 2014

Seattle is known for many things. Music, coffee, rain. Good scenery and great parks. And this summer, you can combine all of it. How? Pianos in the Parks. From July 17 to August 17, twenty pianos will occupy twenty King County parks. Anyone can play them. It doesn’t matter if you’re tone-deaf or classically trained,…

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World Travelers & Impossible Obstacles

By Johnine Larsen | May 29, 2014

Part 1: Lose the Shackles Kim and Brian have traveled the world. We’ll admit it—we’re jealous. They work in cancer research and software engineering, respectively, but back when they first started traveling, Kim and Brian were fresh UW grads on a ten-week backpacking trip. They fell further in love with each other during that trip, and they also fell…

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