Archive for August, 2006
Afraid to Drive the Big Bridge?
Chesapeake Bay Bridge, near Annapolis, Maryland Originally uploaded by bridgepix. This is one of those stories that absolutely boggles my mind. Apparently, if you are afraid to drive your car across the Bay Bridge, the State of Maryland will provide you with a driver, free of charge, for that leg of your trip. Or, rather, [...]
More »Who’s My Neighbor Backing?
We’re 18 days from the DC Mayoral Primary, and chances are, you’re starting to think about who you ought to vote for. Bring on today’s sweet google maps mashup from DC Wannabe: Contributions Mapping for DC for this September’s election. The data is about ten days old at this point, but the message is still [...]
More »They asked what?!
Secret Service: Hey V-DOT, would you mind if we closed down the HOV lanes for six hours on Wednesday? V-DOT: For What? Secret Service: Well, *wink*, I understand that a certain world leader will be travelling that day and might like to make use of it. V-DOT: The President wants to close 395 South’s HOV [...]
More »Master of His Digital Domain
One of my goals in writing for Metroblogging DC is to expose the unexposed raw talent that’s sitting right here in our little state city of Washington DC. There are photographers, and then there are photographers, but some of them take the medium to a new level, a level that approaches “art” status. One of [...]
More »Architecture Week 2006
Architecture nut? Like the cool buildings in DC but want to be able to talk about them a bit more intelligently? The DC Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is putting on its annual Architecture Week celebration starting September 9th. Events include a walking tour of Penn Quarter, tours of architects’ offices, and a [...]
More »A disturbing sight
It’s not a happy feeling to drive by the local hoitsy-toitsy child-care place, Creme de la Creme, and see two ambulances outside with the lights on. Here’s hoping it’s something benign. I’m not sure what causes such a feeling of additional empathy in a case like this. It’s not like I’ve never seen an ambulance [...]
More »Man Earns Ultimate Revenge
Once, he was in an accident so awful, it crushed his hip. Monday night, he detonates the charges that will bring the bridge down. Dan Ruefly was the lucky winner of the contest to blow up the old span of the Wilson Bridge, and his essay was chosen from 312 entries: His toughest commute came [...]
More »CVS is Fully Stocked!
Photo by DC Metroblogger While we’re on the food theme today, if you are like my couch-surfing cousin (who is still ISO housing), you should be ecstatic that the sidewalk outside of CVS @ 15th and K looks like this. You know that this CVS at least is fully stocked with all your food (and [...]
More »Vegetarian Starter Kit
Photo by DC Metroblogger Hello my little green friend. What might you have there? Yes, inside you and just for me. A Vegetarian Starter Kit Hmm, that’s interesting. Why might you be here, on this random street corner in Adams Morgan? Does PETA think they will change hearts and minds here? Or are they hoping [...]
More »The Trouble With Teachers
DC Public Schools is feeling the crunch this morning, having had to rehire all the uncertified teachers they let go over the summer, and add a hundred more, to fill all the vacancies within the District’s school system. Therein lies a siginificant difficult: if you can’t find enough certified teachers, what do you do? You [...]
More »Arlington Blog Documents Parking Infractions
Folks, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “Chances are, there’s a blog for everything.” Today’s example is the newly created Arlington Parking Blog which deals with parking incidents gone terribly awry, but primarily focusing on the illegal parking jobs done by Arlington County employees in Arlington County vehicles. The author generally follows [...]
More »Chicken or egg?
I don’t normally read the Washington Times but someone left it in the bathroom today. I’m glad they did – I’d never have seen this amusing confluence of headline and photo otherwise. Who was cracking wise, I wonder? The editor who wrote the header or the photo editor who picked the shot? This post appeared [...]
More »Metro to Driver: Nuh-uh.
You might have seen the big Style-section story yesterday about a Metrobus Driver who liked to get his passengers involved in politics. Metro, as it turns out, was not amused. They have placed the driver on administrative leave while they sort out their options. Turns out he wasn’t just pushing community-involvedness, but rather his favorite [...]
More »DC Redlight Camera Map
Part of Stop in the Name of National Stop on Red Week, we’re here to provide you with all manner of good information about traffic in DC. Today’s awesome new utility is the Google Maps Mashup with DC-area Photo Enforcement Locations, so you can know where to slow down, and know where to slam on [...]
More »Discrimination Alive and Well in DC
DC-based employment blog Magic Pot of Jobs brings us today’s “boggle and gape” story: Our colleague calls to inform us that this client had asked her branch for a receptionist this morning. They immediately sent their most qualified, available talent- a woman who happens to be a Muslim and wears a hijab. Shortly after the [...]
More »What might you become?
Photo by DC Metroblogger How odd you are, a plywood chrysalis on the lawn of the Kazakhstan Embassy to the United States and Canda. Might you become a Monarc like the sign says on front? Or maybe a Nursultan Nazarbayev, proud of your autocratic rule? Every morning as I pass, I wonder, and I wait. [...]
More »The Delta Tao of National
As we stood in front of Pho 75 on Friday, full from the delicious noodle soup, a plane went screaming overheard at just the wrong angle to freak me out a bit. They’ve changed the flight path of planes from over the river to right through lower Courthouse and upper Rosslyn. Passenger jets streak through [...]
More »Crime Emergency? Not on Dupont!
Okay, who else, beside Circumlocutor saw the article in yesterday’s Post about a beating in Dupont Circle? I’m really pretty horrified that this guy both witnessed a guy getting the crap kicked out of him in the middle of Dupont, and not only was there no response from the Metropolitan Police Department, there was nothing [...]
More »this is Internet withdrawl
Photo by DC Metroblogger I know it is not pretty and probably not healthy, but when a professional Geek loses his Internet connection at work, this is the result. Luckily, my cool Nokia 6682 allows me to post and if I get really desperate, surf, but a 2 inch screen and one finger entry just [...]
More »W&OD Trail to Get Bicycle Cops?
He is NOT the enemy Following the Wash Post’s great alarmist article on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail, Channel 9 jumped on the fear-mongering bandwagon with its own “Trail Rage” news report. While rehashing the same “cyclist are the enemy” line of the Post, but with remarkably less hysteria, Channel 9 did reveal two [...]
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