Since I am suffering from extreme writer’s block, I will take this moment in unintelligibleness to gloat about Seattle.

Because everything relevant, annoying or significant in the world seems to originate from there.

For instance…

• The object of everyone’s ire and envy, Microsoft
• Boeing airplanes everyone flies on
• The origin of the “i’ll just buy it online” school of shopping philosophy, Amazon.com
• The addiction and object of everyone’s distaste and envy, Starbucks
• The lesser known, lesser evil coffee addition peddler, Tully’s
• By extension, the entire post-modern international caffeine addiction.
• Bill Gates
• Paul Allen
• Me
• Nirvana
• Origin of the entire relevant music scene of the 1990s
• Eddie Bauer
• The company that originally made Sonicare toothbrushes.
• The player no one uses, RealPlayer
• Mario Batali
• The most overrated unknown player in the MLB, Willie Bloomquist
• Geoducks
• The Internet sensation known as Lolcats
• Jimi Hendrix
• Ray Charles started his career here
• Paramedics (all of them, really)
• Half-Life and the entire Valve family
• A good chunk of the current economic crisis (Washington Mutual)
• Costco
• Nintendo in America
• A half a ton of bioengineering and medicine firms.

Did I miss anything?