Archive for June, 2007
Free Our Streets!
Two weeks ago, we picked up the story of Chip Py, a long time Montgomery County resident who was barred from taking pictures in Downtown Silver Spring. Both outraged and inspired by the incident, we’re organizing a Silver Spring Photo Walk via Free Our Streets to show our support of photography and our annoyance with [...]
More »Get Your iPhone!
Anyone with even the slightest gadget fetish knows the iPhones come out on Friday at 6pm at Apple and AT&T Wireless Stores. Folks in NYC are already lining up outside their stores to get one. Crazy? Sure. But that’s where Metblogs comes in. We went ahead and got the goods on where the iPhones are [...]
More »2007 Metroblogging DC BBQ
What does this photo make you think of? Hopefully the 2007 MBDC BBQ! That’s right, this weekend we will be celebrating three years of Metroblogging DC in the best way possible: food, fun, and pinatas on Sunday, July 1st at 6pm in the MBDC BBQ HQ. Your favorite MBDC authors will be there for witting [...]
More »Cooling Assistance Warms My Heart
The City of Falls Church has a cooling assistance program to help low-income households stay cool in the heat of the summer. Thank goodness we haven’t gotten too hot yet, but the dog days of summer are right around the corner. No doubt it will get hot enough to cook the balls off many a [...]
More »Google Street View is NOT a Crime
To those who wonder if taking picture of people on public streets without their permission is legal, may I present to you a massive street-level photography effort: Google Street View. Google is taking continuous photographs of Washington DC streets for their Google Maps application, photographs that are capturing all kinds of people, places and things, [...]
More »Where’s that streaming audio?
photo courtesy of PhotoCatcher The other call you could make today would be to your congresscritter about the upcoming bump in internet radio royalties. The jump is going to be big enough to drive some organizations out of the market, including WAMU’s BluegrassCountry.org site. You can read about the issue on the Washington Post here, [...]
More »Two Phone Calls You Should Make Today
There are two calls you should really make today. No, it’s not a hallmark holiday, no you don’t need to call the florist to get flowers for your secretary. Really, it’s not Blogger Appreciation day (though, if you want to drop off a bag of unmarked bills for me, I’m sure arrangements could be made…). [...]
More »This Year’s Party Must-Have: The Nokia N95
Nothing livens up a party quite like showing off your way-cool cell phone. Wayan here is showing off his latest DC Metroblog post to his Clockstopping Hottie girlfriend, who is visibly impressed with his dashing genius and Wi-Fi enabled 5MP camera phone. Well, if she wasn’t, at least I was. That phone was sweeter than [...]
More »Yet Another Rush Hour Crowd at Metro Center
Here was the scene this afternoon at Metro Center as I transferred to the Red Line from the Orange at rush hour: delays on the Glenmont side, platform filling to capacity, signs giving no train arrival times, with no announcements over the PA system. After a few minutes of waiting, the train labels changed to [...]
More »Photographer vs. Building Security Stupidity
Stop! Or I’ll say “stop” again! If you think that photographer harassment by private companies only happens in Silver Spring, think again. Bill Adler was harassed yesterday when photographing a building in Chinatown. As Bill tells it: [W]hen I stopped to take a photograph of a building on 7th Street, NW between Eye and K [...]
More »Commercial, no. Discriminatory, okay?
I’m going to be generous and assume that both the advertiser here and the Giant management – who I presume police the board for objectionable and illegal material – are unaware of what a blatant violation of the fair housing laws this is. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the [...]
More »Descent
DC from Air Force Memorial Originally uploaded by matt.herzog. Last night coming into DCA, before the snafu at the luggage carousel, we had the most wonderful descent into the city. Following the Potomac from the north, we coasted over the river, looking down over my adopted home, seeing the residential portion of Northwest blink in [...]
More »Well, okay
While I’m impressed someone managed to get this plate I think it would be more fun if it was being ironic, like on a minivan or something. As it is I think it’s more a contribution from The Department of Redundancy Department. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first [...]
More »Cussing During Interviews
A coworker was recently conducting an interview and I couldn’t help overhearing the candidate using language I sure wouldn’t use when trying to make a good impression on someone. Yes, I go to an actual office a few days each week. Get off my case. It’s part of my socialization plan developed by Wayan, who [...]
More »Photography is Against Our Policies!
That is what these nannies screamed at me when I tried to take a photo of their very cool four-kid stroller, on 19th Street: “Photography is against our polices!” What they, and many others fail to realize is people (including children) on a public street have been found by the courts not to have an [...]
More »Pandemonium in Terminal A
Pandemonium in Terminal A Originally uploaded by tbridge. When we got back from Chicago tonight, we weren’t the only folks flying into DCA tonight. However, the four flights that came into Terminal A in a short span of time ended up all sharing one luggage carousel, leading to a form of Lord of the Flies [...]
More »Arlington County Police Finish First in National Challenge
It’s generally a really good or really bad thing to know a lot of police officers. For instance, I knew quite a number of officers in Durham, NC when I sold computers to the City of Durham a number of years back. I could go visit them, shoot the breeze, make a sale or two [...]
More »Condo Intersection
Would you ever want to live here? These condos are right at the I-395 terminus at New York Avenue in DC. Right where a few thousand cars a day would drive by, or worse, idle. All that exhaust, heat, car tire soot. I know I would not. And I know from experience. I used to [...]
More »Boxy and the Movers in Mt Pleasant
Photo by DC Metroblogger Continuing the musical Mt Pleasant theme, we now have a second band playing tonight. Over at Rebecca’s its Boxy and the Movers kicking up old school rock and roll. Too bad that Don isn’t here because dancing is about to start and he really cuts the rug. Now I have to [...]
More »Cuban Salsa in Mt Pleasant Tonight
Photo by DC Metroblogger Are you in need of a musical retreat today? Maybe a little latin flavor to your Saturday? Then be in Mt Pleasant Square around 6pm as there is going to be a live band cranking out traditional Cuban music. Just be sure you can dance. The Mt Pleasant crew can and [...]
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