Archive for February, 2008
Keith "I’ll Kill Ya" Washington: Guilty.
Yeah, the jury didn’t find Washington’s story any more compelling than any of the news accounts have made it look, and found him guilty of six counts related to the shootings that took place in his home. According to WTOP, Washington faces up to 70 years in jail for his crimes.
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Petworth Parking Sign Madness
Wayan’s DC Photos
Check out this parking sign madness on Upshur Street in Petworth – 2 hour parking allowed in a Metro bus zone.
I wonder which one the parking attendant will notice as they write you a ticket? Or which one the judge will agree with if you contest it?
That reminds [...]
"I guess I would have bathed more often if there were females at Episcopal," – John McCain
Imagine my surprise at browsing the National Post last week while in Toronto and finding an article about a school in Alexandria. Episcopal High School is more fleshed out as an institution in this article, and John McCain’s youth at the school. It turns out, for example, that the school is much more than just [...]
More »Post-modern Deconstruction
Post-modern Deconstruction
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
The old building at the corner of Wilson and Highland is all but gone, torn down by a monster claw on a hydraulic arm that looks straight out of a horror movie. It was creepy to watch this evil-looking beastie rip away [...]
More »Only in DC: Fire Mary Peters
I walked off the metro at Navy Yard this weekend and saw these ads throughout the station. They didn’t make any sense to me. Fire Mary Peters? Who’s Mary Peters? Why do these make any sense here at all?
Then I went up the escalators and saw the Department of Transportation. [...]
Taking the Plunge
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photo courtesy of IntangibleArts
In the next few months, my wife and I will be wandering (deliberately) into the Virginia housing morass of a market.
We’re no strangers to home ownership. We had a very nice place in Pennsylvania for many years before we relocated down here. However, the cost differential between Western [...]
The Morning News: Sunshine Edition
Sure it’s grey right now, but the sun’s coming, I can promise you that. This afternoon is expected to be sunny and 50ish, bringing some spring cheer to February’s drear.
Two Planes Clip Wings at IAD
A 737 and an Embraer jet clipped wings last night on the tarmac at Dulles. While no one was [...]
Flusher’s Delight
Flusher’s Creed
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
The Nationals new stadium cleared an important hurdle today, successfully flushing all of the toilets in the new stadium from top to bottom. Each commode was given a number of flushes on 10-15 second intervals to simulate the 7th inning stretch. [...]
More »XO-ing in Style at Nortel DC
Wayan’s DC Photos
This is the scene at the OLPC Learning Club DC meet up at the Nortel HQ.
Swank dual video screens are connecting us with Montreal as we geek out across the street from the Capitol.
With a school server going live in a moment, we are on the green edge [...]
Corner Slice Out of Mediocre Pizza
Local Bethesda pizza joint Corner Slice today shocked customers by reporting to be out of pizza. Actually, they had three slices of pepperoni-sausage pizza left but due to dietary restrictions, I opted to pass on that. 15-20 minutes until the next pizza would be ready, and people were standing in line like it was the [...]
More »Colonials to Christen Nationals Park?
The latest Nationals Park Preview Video suggests that Nationals Park will open with GW’s Baseball Team playing a game there on March 22nd. While the Colonials schedule only reflects a game in Arlington that day, it’s expected that the announcement concerning the opening of the Park will come soon. If you get [...]
More »Pants-Optional Friday Rescheduled
From the Arlington Alert System:
Arlington County Government is OPEN on time, with unscheduled leave. All PANTS-OPTIONAL FRIDAY activities will be rescheduled and may be conducted from home for those who take part in the unscheduled leave.
Arlington County Schools are CLOSED.
You heard it here, folks. It’s more fun in groups, but feel free to stay home [...]
The Morning News: Icy, Yet Not Snowy
Am I the only one wondering today how we’re predicting massive disaster associated with global warming, but we can’t nail down something like a simple weather pattern? The snow predicted for today was mostly deflected north of the city, leaving us with a slushy mess to deal with instead. There was a 1/10th [...]
More »Exciting!
You’d think that this would be front-page news rather than buried inside, but the Washington Post has broken the story that there’s a previously unknown 10th justice on the Supreme Court!
And in Preston v. Ferrer, justices ruled 9 to 1 against Alex Ferrer, a former Florida trial court judge who appears [...]
Maybe not so "private" after all
Berlin Mayo 2007
Originally uploaded by AlÃcia.
DC mom Meredith Massey got rather a shock when she noticed that the photos she had marked “Private” in Flickr had actually been viewed thousands of times. The photos in question were of her children skinny-dipping, and had been marked as [...]
More »The Morning News: Eclipsed Panopticon Edition
Another chilly February morning in DC! What little snow we got was rather resistant this morning to attempts to dislodge it from my car, and it sounds like we’re about to get a few more inches. 1-3″ tonight, before sleet and freezing rain become the dominant form of precip for this particular storm [...]
More »Lunatic
My cheeks are chilled, I’m half-blinded, and more than a little moon-mad (no more than usual, anyway!), but I managed to stay outside and watch some of the lunar eclipse tonight.
Bundled up on my back porch, the light dusting of snow from our earlier non-weather event making everything, well, twinkle – it was almost [...]
Awakening Awoke
Check out the Express today for a photo-log of digging up the Awakening and packing it for movement to Prince George’s. I hate to see it go to a lower profile location, but such is the whim of commerce.
We’ll miss you, old man.
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A visual aid
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My representation of the total snow output resulting from this snow advisory.
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Don’t forget…
…it’s eclipse time tonight.
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