Archive for March, 2007
Coultonie Goodness
photo courtesy of JoCo Hey, you got your Coulton in my Annapolis! Hey, you got your Annapolis in my Coulton! Okay, so they can’t all be gems. Jonathan Coulton will be performing tomorrow at the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis at 1pm. Bob & Storm will be there as well, just like the show they [...]
More »Virgin Festival Lineup: The Police, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins
The Virgin Festival‘s second trip to the DC area will happen at the Pimlico track just outside of Baltimore this August 4th and 5th, and will feature headliners The Police, The Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins, providing an awesome base on which to sell tickets and get people in the doors. Last year’s festival featured [...]
More »Do I Look Like A DC Homeowner To You?
Photo by DC Metroblogger Late last night I got the call. My bid on a home in Petworth was accepted and I am now on the fast track to homesteading. And a $450,000 mortgage. This morning both those realities hit me and you can see the result: crazy fear. Fear of many things, rational, irrational, [...]
More »We’re drinkin at Dukes!
I don’t know where the hell that is, but post-OLPC talk that’s where we’re heading. Ignore the timestamp above – it’s about 8:25pm. So if you’re in Alexandria, c’mon by. I lied – we’re at Joe Theissmans. Oops, lying again – at Segars at the King St Hilton. Hmm, starting to see the possible benefits [...]
More »a new job, a light at the end of the tunnel
I’ve been quiet lately, primarily because my once-beloved job had taken a turn for the torturous and soul-sucking, so pretty much my entire experience of DC was reduced to trudging the few blocks between my office and my garage, thinking, “oh god, another day of this,” and then drinking heavily with the other Metrobloggers. Not [...]
More »Wanna be a “Sin-A-Man” today?
Photo by DC Metroblogger The latest entrant to the caffeine beverage wars is out in force today. Chic Energy Supplinent free samples are going fast as heartbeats at 15th and K. Grab one for yourself if you like overly sweet (sugar free!) caffeine + taurine and inositol water. Who knows what those last two chemicals [...]
More »Unexpected name changes
Apparently the Washington Post (both in print and in the online edition) has decided to spontaneously rename Penn&Teller’s Showtime series “Bullshit!” I wonder if they bothered to tell the producers? I don’t have access here to the Chicago Manual of Style (which I believe the Post purports to follow) so I don’t know what the [...]
More »Good looking out
photo courtesy of RoadKillBuddha Jenn F wrote about a disconcerting experience she had over in the Eastern Market area a week ago and I wanted to bring it to your attention. Call me nuts – or just a person with low expectations – but I find it a somewhat uplifting story. Jenn took the time [...]
More »Go give blood
photo courtesy of the Red Cross The supply is critically low and the Red Cross has been smacking their speed-dial button to my number like a monkey lookin for a heroin pellet. So go donate – why should I be the only one to suffer? The addresses and service times of permanent donation centers can [...]
More »OLPC XO Design Environment @ Refresh DC
OLPC Children’s Machine XO Have you heard of the One Laptop Per Child program? Nicholas Negroponte’s efforts to create a “$100 laptop” for children in the developing world? If you are international development, technology, or education, you should. I have, and I write about it daily on OLPC News, a website I started to track [...]
More »Uh, what?
I’m looking forward to seeing The Pillowman this Friday night at Studio, and while I had by no means forgotten that my season tix were for that night I certainly appreciate the helpfulness of Studio sending out a message reminding me. “Dear Patron, This is your courtesy reminder that on Friday, March 23, 2007 at [...]
More »Respect. Give It. Get It.
I’m sure those of us who regularly ride the Metro have seen them: playful teenagers who engage in rough and vocal horseplay on the train after school, to the general amusement and/or dismay of passengers in the immediate vicinity. Why, just a few nights ago on the Green Line I had the privilege of watching [...]
More »Fenty Giving State of the District Address Live Now
Check out Mayor Fenty’s State of the District speech going on live now. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »VA Hybrids Get Another Year of HOV
In a move that surprised exactly no one, Tim Kaine & the Virginia Legislature have extended the HOV exemption for Hybrids on I-66 and the DTR until the middle of next year. The Hybrid Exemption is a bit oddly composed in Virginia: if you’ve owned your hybrid since before June 1st of 2006, you can [...]
More »Metro Sued for $100M in Wrongful Death
Gregory Schoenborn, husband of a woman fatally struck by a Metrobus, is suing the transit agency for $100 Million in damages. With the driver up on charges of negligent homicide, and witnesses at the scene saying that the driver was too busy staring at the cabs instead of looking at the road, it looks like [...]
More »A Sure Sign of Spring: Class Field Trips to DC
Photo by DC Metroblogger Welcome to DC, my new school friends from Oregon! Welcome to an education in government and group-effect traveling. Obey your “Core Knowledge School” headmaster and the haggard parents chaperoning you. Be focused on the sights before you. The White House, which you are on your way to see today, the Capitol [...]
More »The Circus Comes to Town
The Circus is in Town! No, no, not that circus, I mean the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey, who marched their elephants down E Street today, from Union Station to Verizon Center, for the Greatest Show on Earth. (No, no, not those elephants, I mean these elephants.) I managed to grab some fuzzy video [...]
More »Well, that’s one approach
More effective than “please don’t tailgate” I suppose… This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Sometimes It’s All About What You Can’t See
When it comes to photography, there is a natural tendency for your eye to line up your subject in such a way that it’s framed perfectly in the center, or perhaps off to the side a bit using the rule of thirds. You try to capture as much of your subject as possible, or at [...]
More »A Third of DC Can’t Read This…
A full third of DC is listed as functionally illiterate according to a recent survey conducted by the State Education Agency. Functionally illiterate means unable to read maps, bus schedules or fill out job applications, according to the WJZ article. The Post’s article is far more complete and includes the figure of $107M in lost [...]
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