Seattle Washington

Please leave this page - there is plenty of software related info on it. Ever fly into Seattle? One of the most software-related cities out there? Think developers might want to know about that?

Seattle technology links:

SeaPig (Python user's group Wiki)
http://zipcon.net/spug/ (Perl user's group)
XpSeattle (Extreme Programming Wiki)
http://www.linuxjournal.com (based in Seattle)
SeattleWireless (Community Wireless Networking Wiki)
http://www.seajug.org (Seattle Java Users Group)
http://www.zenspider.com/seattle.rb (Seattle Ruby Brigade!)

Are there any Seattle-specific Wikis besides the users group Wikis mentioned above?

http://seattlewiki.org (SeattleWiki?, a community wiki site)

Hey, I lived in Seattle for six months. It's also a very nice place. You must check out Pike Place Market if you're ever in town. Also, don't miss local tourist attractions such as the Ban Roll-On building which really really looks like a cylindrical can of roll-on deodorant with the roll-on ball sticking out of the top. The Space Needle is nifty, and most every geek will like Game Works, as it's one of the world's largest coin-op machines arcades.

As mentioned in EuropeVsAmerica?, I don't know who posted the top line, but I'm getting the feeling it's a newspaper headline reading AI (who can't spell). -- ShaeErisson

Seattlites respond ...

Seattle? That's simple, it's home. -- Don Brocha

I'm from the eastside, been here all my life and work in seattle... but the "Ban Roll-On Building"? where is this? -- NiCk?

I believe the proper name is the Second and Seneca Building.

Mountains, volcanoes, glaciers, fjords, forests... and the world's tallest spaceNeedle! -- TiggerTenango

Last time I was there, Game Works didn't have nearly enough pinball tables, meaning it had about two of them.

Ugh, I hate that place! 50 cents for PacMan!?!?! Blasphemy!!!

GameWorks? is a chain, but the original flagship is in Seattle. There's one in Las Vegas, and the one in Tempe has classic games for 25 cents each, as God intended. But many of its other games are more expensive than their counterparts in local arcades like Castles & Coasters in Phoenix, which is built with a medieval sort of motif, and to me has more aesthetic appeal than Game Works anyway. See PhoenixArizona?. -- NickBensema

and the world's tallest space needle!

Well, if you're talking about buildings named "The Space Needle", then yeah. However, there are several buildings of that general design which are taller - Centrepoint Tower in Sydney and the Stratosphere in Las Vegas come to mind, not to mention the CN Tower in Toronto at over 1800 feet (over 550 meters). -- MikeSmith

Does Seattle have its own airport? Or does it share one? Boeing Field is within the Seattle city limits. Boeing Field's traffic is mostly aircraft deliveries/repairs, cargo, and general aviation, not passengers. There is an airline that flies from Lake Union, with seaplanes. Anyway, the major airport for the area is SeaTac? International, which is south of Seattle proper.

Although SeaTac? is short for Seattle-Tacoma, Seatac is now a city itself, which is neither part of Seattle nor Tacoma. I used to live on Angle Lake - which is about one mile from the airport. There was a brief stint where it was called Reagan Airport, but they changed it back due to confusion.

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