Archive for July, 2007
Creative Bamboozling Idea #87: Grape Trellis
Grape Leaf byCarl Weaver Photography
I feel like a panhandler. “Hey man, can I hold a dollar?” Except instead of a dollar, what I am panhandling for is some specific size bamboo. Need your bamboo field cleared? Have the pandas finally grazed over to your neighbor’s yard? I can certainly help you clear some of that [...]
What to do with a 15-year-old girl
What can I do with a 15-year-old girl? No, put that part of your mind away. This is my niece we’re talking about!
My niece will be visiting next week. I haven’t been 15 in so long that I really don’t know what the young people like to do nowadays. One person suggested taking her to [...]
New Nuclear?
Constellation Power has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to put a new nuclear reactor in Calvert county, the fourth to be applied for, nationwide, this year. There hasn’t been a new nuclear reactor built in the US since the Three Mile Island disaster, but with new tax incentives for power providers who get [...]
More »“Riding the Whirlwind”
A distributor’s worst nightmare, I’ve given in to the home theater phenomenon when it comes to the movie experience. When I watch movies I want to be transported, and I can’t get into it properly with all the inane audiences yapping and texting. So I’ve curtailed my movie theater outings to special events, films that [...]
More »Don’t Be A Slacker, Inspect Early
Cars Lined Up
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
I realized on Friday that I had forgotten to get my state inspection done for my car, and knowing that Friday was going to be a disaster, I scheduled it for yesterday, only to have my day be interrupted by client needs. [...]
More »Why not free?
photo courtesy of PsychoRatDog
After Joe LeBlanc commented on a post yesterday I clicked through to look at his site. Right at the top was a post he’d made about an Alternet article that, in essence, asked one simple question: Why isn’t all mass transportation free?
Joe isn’t convinced, [...]
Holy Identity Fraud, Batman
Now, I’ve heard of using someone else’s identity to get a credit card, or maybe even a car loan, but using it to get an entire house in Springfield?!?! That’s some chutzpah right there. With Jose Lara’s stolen wallet, Elizabeth Cabrera-Rivera got a $419,000 townhouse in Springfield with his documentation, then deeded it [...]
More »From Rags to Riches
You know you’re looking at an incredible photograph when something as simple as a washing machine catches your eye for more than five seconds. Hoffman’s 14th Street washing machines, as filthy as they are, are a sensory treat for me. His use of black and white is essential here, as a color version [...]
More »Fighting Homelessness in Fairfax County
Every time I look at the Fairfax County web page, I see a link titled “Ending Homelessness.” I never looked at it until now, figuring it was another community essentially saying that “someone needs to do something.” I have heard this before – a mix of vague instruction and diffusion of responsibility. It makes me [...]
More »Snubbed again!
image courtesy of Google
What the hell, Google? First you don’t include our fair city in your first round of street photos (you could have spotted Libby!) and now we’re slighted on the new transit tool. Fooey!
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Fixing the Nationals?
We’re about 27 hours from the MLB Trading Deadline for the season, and it’s time to ask: What can the Nationals do before 4pm on Tuesday to help themselves? It’s not like we’re heading to the Playoffs this year, hell, I think it’ll be a struggle to come up with 70 wins. Looking [...]
More »Orange Line: Woman Struck by Train
Heads up, Metro riders on the Orange Line: a woman was struck by a Metro train at Ballston station at 9:38 AM. Ballston and Virginia Square stations are closed now, with shuttles running between East Falls Church and Clarendon stations.
More from WaPo, NBC4, WJLA, and WTOP. Watch the Metrorail advisories for updates.
Update: Service alert for [...]
Lima on K
Lima
Originally uploaded by tiffany bridge.
It was 5:15pm, and I was sitting at my desk, pondering packing it in for the day. Then the IM came from a friend”
“Hey, where’s your office?”
I told him.
“Perfect. Come have a mojito. We’re at Lima at 1401 K.”
“Uh, what’s [...]
Darkness at the Dawn of My Day
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Could this electrical meter be at fault? Is the power transformer above it guilty?
Exactly what blew up with a loud “POP!” this morning and put my whole block in the dark?
Pepco was quickly called but not in time for my Monday morning shave. Into the office with stubble [...]
Dead Birds Bring Metro Mess
Sunday was not a fun day to be on Metro. I descended into the Red Line that morning to see a “RESIDUAL DELAYS” notice warning of single tracking between Gallery Place and Rhode Island Avenue. Now, generally single tracking between so many stations means these delays are anything but “residual,” and when the “minutes left” [...]
More »Fringe: Fini
With today, the second annual DC Fringe Festival draws to a close. I’ve got a backlog of shows to tell you about, primarily ones that I saw today or at their last showing, reducing my pressure to get a writeup out to you. You can look forward to (or [...]
More »Backed Up Like a Cheap Commode
Were you on I-95 north heading home from the beach? Were you one of the guys who blocked me from moving into the next lane? I feel I must thank you for helping me practice my patience and meditation on the long ride home from Manteo, NC.
If you were on I-95 today, you have my [...]
Fringe: Super Secret Awesomeness
The first of my three Fringe outings yesterday was the Super Secret Show at Noon, which was, as the narrator said, “possibly the earliest burlesque performance ever… I’m still asleep. So I’ll just be phoning it in.” Maybe true, but his phoning was about a million times more entertaining [...]
More »DC’s Movie Theaters
All cities have their different flavors of movie theaters. The nice ones, the not so nice ones, the old ones, the new ones, the one that shows “artsy fartsy” movies, the one that shows blockbusters, the one with the giant screen, the one with the dollhouse sized screens. Here’s my breakdown of the [...]
More »Bump
Saw this heartbreaking sight on my way to the Foggy Bottom Trader Joe’s yesterday afternoon. There isn’t even a note on the windshield, so whoever snagged onto this poor guy’s bumper must have run off. Our deepest condolences.
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