Archive for January, 2008
Virginia ABC strikes again
Sangria Originally uploaded by rabataller. It came as rather a surprise to the Alexandria location of La Tasca when they were cited last year for serving… sangria. Virginia outlawed the serving of beverages that mix beer or wine with spirits 75 years ago, and upon being informed of the La Tasca citation, Jaleo changed its [...]
More »Great Grates – Not Afraid to Die
I don’t know about you, but I get nervous as hell when traversing grates like this. What’s strange, though, is that my fear has nothing to do with dying. I figure that if I fall 25 feet and am impaled on a piece of pipe or maybe fall even farther and have my femurs splinter [...]
More »The Internet Is For Porn. But Not At Work, Perverts!
the booby dance Originally uploaded by matt duke. Mayor Fenty announced this afternoon that the District Government fired 9 people today for extensive porn viewing at the workplace. But, that’s not the fun part. The fun part is this: “Each of the nine employees clicked on porn sites more than 19,000 times last year, according [...]
More »Oh even better
The Eagle View Elementary staff listing A commenter in the WaPo story pointed out that Candy Tistadt is listed as a Fairfax County School Systems employee! So as if it wasn’t bad enough that she, as a spouse, picked up the phone and castigated a student who left a (by all accounts) polite message at [...]
More »The voicemail in all its… errr… glory
If, like me, you read the article Tom mentioned and though “but where’s the audio?!” well, here you go. Because I don’t want you to have to spend the sixty seconds on Google that I did. Seriously, what’s wrong with this woman? You call a teenager to castigate them for leaving a phone message, and [...]
More »The Noon News: Because Sometimes, Sleeping In is the Right Choice
Virginia House Repeals Driver Fees The Virginia House of Delegates voted 95-2 yesterday to repeal Virginia’s Bad Driver Fees. Smart, boys, smart. Get on it, Virginia Senate! Supreme Court to Hear Gun Ban Oral Arguments on 18 March Mark your calendars, in about 8 weeks, the Supreme Court will hear the Oral Arguments in D.C. [...]
More »Jonny Goldstein’s Weekly Par-tay
Check out what local Internet video revolutionary Jonny Goldstein has in store for us this week: This week, we’re proud to Par-tay with whygosolo.com and thedcconcierge.com. whygosolo.com is an area startup which helps people “use the web to enable the finding of exciting and new things and people but, get OFF the web and go [...]
More »John McCain’s "Smokes for Kids" Program Started in Alexandria
This started with me looking for pictures of Dupont Circle rats on Flickr. You know how the web is. One thing leads to another and before long you are reading about John McCain giving a five-year-old a cigarette while a student at Episcopal High School in Alexandria. At first I just chuckled but read on. [...]
More »Coyote Crossing in Petworth
Best varmint hunter ever My next door neighbour, Joe Martin, was up early last week and noticed Petworth’s newest resident; an urban coyote: If you were up early this morning as I was, you would have had the opportunity to see a coyote walking down Varnum Street NW towards Grant Circle… The coyote was gallantly [...]
More »The Morning News: Wintry Mix Edition
Today on the roads is going to be a lot of fun. There are rolling street closures downtown near the March for Life, oh and by the way, wintry mix will start late this morning and continue as sleet and rain this afternoon. Don’t drive today unless you have to. Maryland Commutes Awful Today If [...]
More »Comcast bringing more HD to DC?
After we hit Rocklands on Saturday night with our friends, it was back to their place for a watching of The Godfather on A&E. Our friend Steph had never seen it, and it was well past time that she did. We sat through all the commercials, but learned some valuable things. Jon was quick to [...]
More »Colbert Institutionalized?
Hello! I’m being given a trial run by the Powers Who Control Metroblogging, so forgive me if I get all geekified. I figured I’d just jump right on in here… So a few weeks after the flap about W. Richard West, Jr’s self-commissioned portrait and possible inappropriate spending – which followed on last year’s major [...]
More »Washington Post Adds News Meter Calculator
If you frequent those crazy bastards who drive cabs in this town, you might want to check out the Post’s new Fare calculator. It’s a fully featured little Google Maps Application complete with the old taxi cab zones, as well as the new fares, plus traffic estimates and a full list of extras. This fare [...]
More »Rocklands Arlington (Re)Opens
Barbeque. It’s a controversial subject in these parts, and you need to look no further than Wikipedia’s entry on regional barbeque to see all manner of subtle protest of one state’s traditions over another. Some people prefer St. Louis-style ribs with a heavy tomato-based sauce. Others prefer North Carolina-style ribs with a good solid dry [...]
More »your tax dollars at work (finally!)
Little girl in a park with Union Station in the background, Washington, D.C. (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has been hard at work putting thousands of images from its collection online…and hosting them at Flickr. Lots of cool stuff in here. Seems like the kind of thing I [...]
More »A Holiday for Nutjobs
Well, I’m working from home due to the bomb scare at the World Bank today. However, it may have been a good day for everybody to stay home. It’s been reported via WUSA, that a well-armed nut job made his way on to the capitol grounds armed with a tactical vest (probably bullet-proof and loaded [...]
More »The bumps along the way
Well, I showed you the visitor to our birdfeeder. However along the way we had a bit of an adventure with some other critters that like birdseed. Or, really, damned near anything. When my mother sent us the birdfeeder she included $10 with the explanation that it wasn’t practical to ship birdseed. Fair enough. So [...]
More »The cause of big flakes
image courtesy of Alan Light The always excellent Capital Weather gang has a neat post up about what causes big flakes. I might have made the connection if I’d ever thought about it, but they spell it out: as neat looking as they are, large snowflakes are actually a bad sign if you’re a snow [...]
More »What we were aiming for
I’m gonna violate the rules of basic suspense and just show you the end result here. The road that got us here I’ll post a little later – it’s more involved. This is one of the Christmas gifts my darling girlfriend and I got this year. We’ve really enjoyed all the wildlife that’s showed up [...]
More »The Morning News: Sloth is Next
It’s like a snow hangover here. I’m just not moving at full-speed today for whatever reason. More snow tomorrow, probably, and cold on Sunday. Get ready to deal. If You Left Your 2 Year Old at Deanwood Metro Last Night… …the Police would like a word with you. In addition, you might want to get [...]
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