Hey mister, what’cha doing?

Published 12:01 am Friday, September 23, 2011

Watching me watching you: The changes are only just beginning for Facebook users. Along with a new service called “Timeline,” which allows users to catalog photos and video by year, Facebook will also soon narrate your life, announcing that “Bill is listening to Green Day,” or “Sarah is running at Golden Gate Park.”.

Or “Jim is paralyzed with fear of what his friends will think when they read that he’s sitting in his underwear eating a pint of ice cream.”

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I’ve been working on the railroad: Mudslides that have frequently blocked freight and passenger rail traffic between Seattle and Everett have earned $16 million in federal money to address the problem.

With that $16 million each passenger on Amtrak and Sounder trains will be given a shovel and asked to clear a path after each slide. And yes, this is what the government meant by “shovel-ready” projects.

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Headbands at the ready: ’80s rock band Duran Duran, whose hits include “Hungry Like the Wolf,” opens its U.S. tour at Everett’s Comcast Arena tonight.

The show, with an opening act by Mr. Mister, is sponsored by the upcoming movie “The Adventures of Tintin,” and by the tourism bureaus of New York, New York; Walla Walla; and Pago Pago and with a special welcome by former U.N. Secretary General Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali.

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