November 24th, 2008

When you’re walking around a city, you usually forget to look up

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

When you’re walking around a city, you usually forget to look up. It takes a landmark building to prompt you to admire anything above the ground floor.

For those in the Seattle area, the Seattle Times included a brief walking tour of Seattle architecture. The article doesn’t mention one of my favorites: The roll-on deodorant building on the corner of Seneca and Second. The effect is most striking if you if you stand on Second and Union and look southeast at night. (Sadly, under the dome is just a roomful of machines.)

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Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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