[This is good.]

No, really--will bookmark and peruse often. It's a great resource.

Is Alex your friend? Alex is my friend.

Yeah, I met Alex back in '94 when he was my friend Leslie's roommate. They lived a few blocks from me over near Roosevelt.

I've known Alex since maybe 1996. I helped out with Steelhead some. I probably even know Leslie, not Leslie James, right?

Nope. It was Smith, back then...she married another friend of mine (known as Ty Webb on MeFi) back in '98 or so.
I was at the Steelhead launch party and at the time, I thought the magazine was a little too highfalutin'. I told Alex that sustainability wouldn't really mean much as long as rich people were the only ones concerned with it.
I also told him that I thought it was weird to hear about 'community' from people who only went south of Jackson street for Mariner games...

You didn't happen to go to the Fuse Ball in '02, did you?

I may have been working the door at the Fuse Ball... I assume I was there. I was also at the Steelhead launch party and I remember meeting Ty a million years ago at a MeFi meetup. I told Alex the same thing actually, that it was a grand yuppie endeavor but in a world where half of everyone has never made a phone call, going on and on about where to take your hipster vacation (or whatever it was, I can just barely remember it now) didn't really do it for me.

The Steelhead gang was a band of happy people few of whom had "real jobs" but from that Steelhead group an awful lot of them became real friends of mine, even as the project crumbled and that, I think, was (and is) Alex's real skill. When the magazine folded I still think he owed people some money and I'm not ever sure what happened with all that. The Worldchanging groove seems to suit him an awful lot better.