Worried about reading GritCity at work because of all the talk about crack and hookers?

Me too. (Seriously, what happened there?)

But you have a choice. You can read GritCity and other not-quite SFW content without anybody who writes your paycheck getting their undies in a bunch.

Direct your Firefox browser here. Type in our address. Hit the button that says "Is this good for the company?" (It is. You know it is and I know it is.)

Voila. A page comes up that looks like a Microsoft Word document but reads like the crack-addled blog you love.

What if Mr. or Ms. Man peeps over your shoulder? Mouse over the "boss button" and watch the page transform yet again, into a useful anti-procrastination page.

Cue Kip Dynamite: "I love technology. But not as much as you, you see. But I still love technology. Always and forever."

*Disclaimer: You should definitely work the amount of hours in a day that you write on your time sheet. I don't want you to get fired and lose your Internet connection, dearie!

**Note: Yes, I know this site is not new. And no, I don't care.

Here are some before and after pictures of a tree on Sixth Ave. and Tacoma.

Photos by Brett Santhuff. Photo on left from 2006.

I don't know why it was chopped. Maybe the tree had shallow roots and city officials were afraid any amount of rain would cause it to topple. Maybe they'll cut the whole thing down and it'll make a nice banister in someone's home, and generations of children will slide down it. Or maybe they got confused about pruning...

Whatever the reason, it seems a little sad. I like big green trees, and this one in particular looks like something I'd like to climb.