Archive for January, 2006
7 Year Old Shot At Daycare
A 7 year old girl was shot at daycare this morning by an eight year old boy who brought a gun in his backpack, for reasons that no one can possibly comprehend. I’m an advocate for gun rights, but stuff like this makes me seriously think twice about the whole thing. Guns don’t belong in [...]
More »Google Transport Spy Eye in the Sky
Need a ride to the airport? How about a taxi in Arlington? Well it’s Google to the rescue! They now have a new fancy-schmancy service for those who wanna see exactly where their ride is: Google Ride Finder for Washington, DC. With location data only for Super Shuttle and Alexandria Yellow Cab, it’s not that [...]
More »One for someone else’s thumb
The Washington, DC area is a popular landing place for members of the Pittsburgh Diaspora- the people who grew up in the Steel City, found that they didn’t particularly want to work in banking/education/medicine/biotech (the major industries that sprung up there after the closure of the steel mills), and left for greener pastures and better [...]
More »DC Singles – Scary
Let’s say you want to try out this whole Internet dating thing. That you’re a little overwhelmed by Match.com and the likes of DCDomme. Then, if you were the shy but somewhat adventurous type, would you, by chance, pick your dating site by cardboard posters stuck in the ground, ala campaign posters? I can see [...]
More »Chinese New Year Preview
According to my trusty international holiday calendar, complete with lunar cycles, this Sunday is the first new moon and therefore the start of the Chinese New Year! 2006 is the Year of the Dog, and the celebration usually lasts for fifteen days. The annual Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown is next Sunday, February 5. [...]
More »Veggie Economy
Apparently we’ve officially morphed from the New Economy to the Fat Economy. Which reminds me of an article I read recently in December’s Self magazine (yes, I admit, I voraciously read women’s magazines. Only in airports though. What else are you going to do waiting around in security lines?). It was their “6th Annual America’s [...]
More »The Intruder
Rat-a-tat-a-tat… rat-a-tat-a-tat… “Hmm, maybe there’s something rolling around on the roof,” I thought, mindlessly online shopping as the noise overhead became more and more insistent. But after ten minutes my ability to ignore and deny no longer worked. The noise was a definite scratching and pawing in the attic crawlspace. I had an intruder trying [...]
More »The Orioles: Trading One Crazy For Another
I was sitting in my hotel room last night, wondering why I was seeing a flurry of activity in my Gmail box, was it catastrophe in DC? Was it mayhem and disaster? Well, only if you’re an Orioles fan…. The O’s traded crazy closer Jorge Julio for crazy Kris Benson and his even craaaazier wife [...]
More »Romance on Ice
What are you doing today? Slacking? Well get off your bum – it’s a great day to get outside and be oh so DC. “How?” you ask? Well, by going ice skating on the National Mall! While not as fun as Kickball on the National Mall, it does excite. Even the Zambezi makes folks giggle [...]
More »If you’re sick of hearing about “Fat Pig”…
… then this ain’t your day to read The Washington Post. Pretty exciting – I’ve never known someone whose picture was above the fold in a big newspaper before. Congrats Kate! I’m not shocked that you’re getting this attention, but I would have thought it would come from a show where you could exibit your [...]
More »Georgetown to Duke: PWNED!
The Hoyas did something today that no one else has been able to do all season: Beat Duke. Awesome. The Hoyas are unranked, but who knows how long that will last after this shocker. They’re 12-4 with this win, the Hoyas are still only in the middle of the Big East, as they’re just 3-2 [...]
More »United to Travel
So you wanna get out of town eh? And you have a bucket of Star Alliance frequent flyer miles you don’t know what to do with? Well United Airlines comes to the rescue! United now has a frequent flyer award page just for you – and check this out: it lists 8 flight destinations from [...]
More »Broken Window
Everyday my bus passes by a slowly crumbling house on 11th Street, between S and R. An interesting house architecturally, it’s from a different era than the others surrounding it. That particular block is a melange of Federal houses, odd 1960′s duplexes, and a few hybrids being rebuilt from a fire that claimed parts of [...]
More »They say “Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder”
I’ve spent most of this week in Los Angeles working a conference with long hours, hard work, and we’re all pretty near exhaustion. I can’t think of one of us who wouldn’t rather be in DC right now, sleeping in our own beds, riding the Metro, getting a half-smoke at one of the ubiquitous downtown [...]
More »Happy Hour Drinking with DCist
It’s Thursday night. It’s late. Maybe even 1am. You are drunk. You have a vague memory of the night. There were women present. None really talked to you, but they were there. You might have given out your card. You did dry heave in the cab. You probably can’t go back to the bar – [...]
More »Washingtonpost.com to readers: Shut up.
I pondered posting earlier in the week about the blogfight going on between the WaPo’s ombudsman and Media Matters but decided it was a little too net-centric for us. I try to err on the side of caution there since I’m a high-order nerd and some of my obsessions are a little rarified. This seems [...]
More »DC’s Central Point
Have you ever wondered what was the geographic center of DC? Where you could stand and be equal distant from all the borders? Did you assume that was under the Capitol Dome, where the four quadrants intersect? I have to admit, I never thought of it, maybe because I have a life, but apparently others [...]
More »Gorge at the trough of LaBute
Earlier this week I waxed poetic about Fat Pig and how much I enjoyed it. If you’re considering listening to my opinion… well, you’d be the first. But on the off chance that you take my advice, this weekend would be a good time to do it. This weekend if you go see the 2pm [...]
More »Net Worth
If the Cincinnati Reds are worth $360M, then what will the Nationals go for? Clearly Cincinnati’s a much smaller city than DC, with less than half our population, and in 2003, they held the crown for most declining city. Meanwhile, with a much larger potential fanbase, a new stadium on the way paid for by [...]
More »Good Morning DC!!
This was the view this morning from my apartment – beautiful, eh? Yep, thanks to the east-facing windows of my living room I get this view every morning. Or well every morning I’m awake at sunrise. And today I wanted to share. Enjoy! This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the [...]
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