Archive for September, 2006
Row, Row, Row Your Boat…
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Dad, I wanna paddle!
No, I wanna paddle, you paddled on the way up here.
Okay kids, stop fighting, you both can paddle.
Wait, what about me, Dad? Can I drop the rock anchor?
No, little miss, let your brothers paddle. You navigate.
I what?
Just tell the boys to paddle downstream, [...]
No-Rules School
In my day-to-day work I have found myself at some of the more elite private schools in the DC area and, in working with the students, have found that one trend among private schools nowadays is to have few rules and to allow the kids to call the teachers by their first names.
Okay – the [...]
Road Rage Champion
There’s not a lot to say about this Virginia plate, spotted on Route 1 during rush hour tonight, other than the guy driving it was a real douchebag. The subwoofers on his tiny Civic were rattling his plastic, windows down. He caught me taking the photo and nearly caused an accident to pull [...]
More »What Does This Box Do?
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Location: 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, right outside what used to be Riggs Bank
When I see a utility box like this, open and exposed to all, I have an odd urge to flip some switches.
I haven’t of course, I don’t wanna get shot by the [...]
Crouching Meter, Hidden Parking Ticket
Crouching Meter, Hidden Parking Ticket
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
Spotted on Wilson Blvd in Arlington near Whitlow’s today. If you can’t spy the meter, you’re not the only one. The meter, hidden amongst the newspaper boxes, was cause for a ticket when I walked by. The [...]
More »Neil Gaiman not coming to Politics&Prose on Friday
photo courtesy of NeilGaiman.com
… they’ve moved the event to a larger venue since interest has been so high.
I’m so getting hatemail from Sandman fans… Please stop throwing your lit clove cigarettes at me!
If you’re interested in hearing the most excellent Mr Gaiman speak, or want to get [...]
Not What It Looks Like
Photo by DC Metroblogger
The caption to this photo was going to be something cheeky about how DC MPD can arrogantly park in front of fire hydrants, while if us mere residents did, we’d get tickets.
I was gonna say that even in my most crazy parking days, when I would wedge my [...]
Sure sign of fall
Falling leaves? Cold winds? New television programming? No. Calendar kiosks everywhere are the sign of fall truly being upon us. Every year the pestilence falls upon us all, eager to tempt us with cute puppies, kittens, lighthouses, Hooters waitresses, scenic vistas of faraway places we hope we’ll get to next year. All [...]
More »DC Tag Confusion
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While I’m not known for my tag recognition abilities, that would be for Tom, Don and Mik to duel over, I do sometimes wonder about them.
Like this license plate seen on K Street today. What might this mean? “UZMELRD”? My guesses: You’ze Mellerd? Use [...]
Where’s the media?
Tom pointed out to me this morning that there didn’t seem to be a single bit of mainstream media news about Friday night’s Crystal City armed standoff. This isn’t 100% true – it made the 11pm channel 4 news that night, but there’s no sign of it on NBC4.com Similarly there’s no mention on washingtonpost.com [...]
More »Infraredible
I’ve never played around with infrared photography (and probably never will), but every once in a while I see a shot that looks amazing. The usual effect of taking an infrared shot is that the trees and grass turn white and it looks like you just stepped through the wrong peep hole in wonderland [...]
More »Strange Sights…
Hummer with Sat
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
I came out of the Clarendom Metro on Friday morning, on the way to my office away from home, when I spotted this wonder. It’s a Hummer H3, complete with a satellite dish mounted to the cargo rack. Took me [...]
More »“I Saw You” Too
You know you check them. You know, every so often, you can’t resist looking. You check the Washington City Paper’s “I Saw You” column in its Matches section. You may even browse the cornucopia of Craig’s List “Missed Connections“.
I’d admit that I do, especially after a chance encounter with a potential supermodel. [...]
Watch for falling books
Okay, probably not what they meant by Fall for the Book but how do you pun about a pun? This Wednesday kicks off the eight day event at noon and follows it up with a smorgasbord of events.
You can’t start a festival on a campus without drumming poets of course (no official word on [...]
What Washington is Wearing: Vol. 1
“Jenn, you never write about Fashion and Fantasy Shopping anymore! What gives? We want the glamour back!!”
I hear you, moved and seconded. So I’m inaugurating what I hope will be my continuing series on, yes, what Washington is wearing. Here’s the first installation, enjoy!
Sitting in Darpino’s Nemesis Maul, a.k.a the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, [...]
Bye Bye Motorcade
Photo by DC Metroblogger
And there goes a motorcade through Rock Creek Park.
Not sure which diplomat that was but he got the full Presidental treatment, including the chase ambulance.
I was only sad it wasn’t Bush out for a afternoon run.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Did you see the sign?
Photo by DC Metroblogger
This is the sign that used to be at the intersection of 15th and I Streets NW, if you were on 15th Street going north.
Can you figure out which lane does what?
Now that the sign is gone, every morning I watch motorists trying to figure out which lane [...]
Smoke Free DC – 100 Days To Go!
Oh it is so close I can taste it. I can smell the cig free air and the smoke free cloths, feel the phlegm free lungs.
In only 100 days, we will be Smoke Free DC. Only 14 more weekends of ashtrays indoors, of stinky clothes, of deadly air.
Then we can breathe deeply, we [...]
Flag Corps To the Rescue
Remember last week when a crack addict crashed his SUV through the Capitol Building security perimeter and then ran into the Capitol Building? Well its seems he wasn’t actually caught by the Capitol Police.
Carlos Greene was caught by the Flag Corps.
Yes, you read that right, those high school rejects, they weren’t even cool at [...]
Puff puff….. scrap
Long-time sufferers readers have read both Wayan and Stacey’s takes on the ‘puffer’ explosives detectors in place in our airports, so I thought I’d point out the Post’s story that the machines are apparently headed for the great scrap-heap in the sky, victims of the War on Liquids and their tendency to get clogged up [...]
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