Wed, 08:45: I typed out “sluttiee” as a typo and autocorrect knew to change it to “sluttier”. I’m so proud! ❤️
Wed, 15:38: Select scenes from the Seahawks Victory Parade, as seen from my office. (First shot is from the third-floor terrace above us at Rainier Square.) https://t.co/yrgOVesTMB
Wed, 20:43: Seattle Times offers a fascinating breakdown of what the sources are for the definitely-inflated "1 million" expected crowd number at the Seahawks Victory Parade today, and what is likely to turn out to be much closer to the actual number: Seahawks parade crowd predicted at 1M. Where did that come from?
This article will be blocked for a lot of you by a paywall, so here's a very brief breakdown: the Downtown Seattle Association is expected to do a much more accurate count based on cellphone movement tracking data, but that won't be available for three days. So, writer David Gutman does some of his own math, and to call it "rough math" would be an understatement, but he still arrives at something far more plausible: 408,000. As he notes, that's still a huge crowd. It's just not 1 million (which would be larger than the population of Seattle proper, 1 in 4 people in the Seattle metropolitan area, and 1 in 8 people in the entire state—a stretch on all counts).
Either way, the Victory Parade crowd that occured after the Seahawks win in 2014 was regarded as the largest single gathering in Seattle history (historylink.org/File/10754), and it's probably *not* a stretch to think today broke that record. And for some reason I find that delightful!
