Michael’s Vox Blog

Sasha and I were out and about today and she had the brilliant idea that we should go out to Revere Beach.  It had just stopped snowing and the sun was setting.

I'm heading off to Boston in a few minutes to spend the holidays with Sasha!

As this is the first blog enabled Christmas, hopefully this year will bring many pictures and maybe even some video for friends and family.

Wow! We had a serious windstorm here in Seattle last night. I’ve never felt anything quite like it. The closest thing was the windstorm they had in Chicago when I visited there four years ago. My apartment building was shaking in the gusts and I watched, more than a little horrified, as my big window in the living room bowed in and out.

I was lucky, though. I only lost power very briefly and nothing was damaged. Or at least nothing of mine was damaged. There are shingles strewn about outside the building, so I can’t vouch for the roof. Many of my coworkers were still without power this morning.

I put up some more pictures from my trip to San Francisco this Thanksgiving on Flickr.  Pictures from San Francisco start here.  Before long, I'll try to put up a slightly more extensive album on Tapirtype with more description.

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What's your favorite radio station, past or present?

Definitely a tie between the Seattle radio stations KEXP and KUOW depending on whether I want music or information.  I'll continue listening to them over the internet long after I leave this city.

It's so refreshing to listen to KEXP, a hip independent radio station that plays good music and is member supported so you aren't forced to listen to either horrible commercials or lowest common denominator, corporate mandated playlists.  Everyone there clearly loves music, not just hearing themselves talk.  Plus check out their song of the day:  free music, every day.

KUOW is a pretty standard public radio station, but it's one that is done really, really well and with a bit more of an edge than you might expect form public radio.  They've got a good mix of local, national, and international news with some social and arts interests thrown in, and they've got a much more youthful vibe than most other public radio stations that I've listened to (or maybe I'm just getting older).

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

My Vox name is my name...  Having such a common name, I always greedily horde it when I can manage to get it.  Usually every combination of my real name is taken.  That's also why I use my middle name.  Even with my middle name it doesn't narrow things down much.  Basically I'm just not creative enough to come up with a good pseudonym, so I stick with the name I've already got when I can.

I've put up a "Seattle Fall" photo gallery is up at Tapirtype.

I just wrote some stuff about how I think Vox has great potential over at Tapirtype Blog (my main public facing blog).