Archive for July, 2008
Going “Clear” at Dulles
Security lines suck. There is just no other way to describe it. Imagine any other location where you are dragging luggage behind you, trying to juggle papers, and then have to take your shoes off to get somewhere. If Metro started enforcing rules like that, there would be a riot in most of DC. The [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Update
Photo by Wayan Walking by the Foggy Bottom metro station this morning, I see WMATA has a response to the escalator hassles: a Metrorail guide directing those that enter to walk down the right side of the stopped escalator. Question is: Does it help? . Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Booze at Columbia Heights Target?
Photo by Wayan Now this is an odd place for an Alcohol Beverage Control board hearing notice – the new Target store in Columbia Heights. I guess there are a few folks who want to go drunk shopping too. And for those that wonder, We Love DC suggests there is only one shopping beverage of [...]
More »Lookout Below!
Pumpkin in the cedar.Originally uploaded by tbridge What started as sidewalk squash has now turned into a squash infestation of the cedar tree along the front walk. This 8-10lb beauty hangs about six feet off the ground inside the central core of the cedar. I figure it’ll make a kickin’ jack-o-lantern come October. Be the [...]
More »A Schooling for The House
The E.L. Haynes Public Charter School at 3600 Georgia Avenue NW, currently serves Pre-K to 5th grade students in the Petworth neighborhood. They hope to add a grade each year until they are serving students through grade twelve. From this angle, you can see their new five-story school soaring over the existing Georgia Avenue businesses. [...]
More »Featured Photo
Sunflower Sunset by Mark Anderson Some of you may know that I like flower photos. You may also know that I like sunset photos. So it may come as no surprise that I fell in love with this shot as soon as I saw it, not only because it involves flowers and a sunset, but [...]
More »What Car Talk knows that WMATA doesn’t
Paulo’s video of the elevator debacle yesterday reminded me of a Car Talk puzzler from a few years ago that made me think about WMATA and their seemingly endless escalator problems. Sadly my thoughts haven’t changed much since I heard this in 2004… The puzzler, which Tom and Ray credit to Irving Biggio, goes like [...]
More »District Mixtape: Bottles/Cans
Bottles/Cans are performing at the Black Cat Tuesday night. We caught up with them between their stops in Minneapolis and New York to talk about making music here in Washington – even when it means falling through a stage. A live recording of Bottles/Cans’ song “Everybody Knows,” is introduced by letting the crowd know that [...]
More »That took 11 days longer than I expected
A legal challenge has been officially filed today that challenges the District’s ban on self-loading pistols and requirement that weapons be stored unloaded or trigger locked. The petitioners are Mr Heller himself as well as two others. WaPo quotes AG Nickels as saying “This is going to be a long fight.” Sadly he lacks the [...]
More »Use your bike… with cars to protect you.
Use your bikeOriginally uploaded by tiffany bridge I haven’t been able to track down any information about who organized this demonstration, but I was chatting with a coworker today when we heard the sound of music and chanting passing by our window. From the fourth floor, we couldn’t quite make out who was organizing this [...]
More »Good deals and dopey decisions
There’s a 50% off deal going on at online vendor Fathead’s website where you can get the Nationals logo in a 4-foot by 3 foot removable wall-sticker when you buy some other full-priced Fathead thing. (Okay, you can get any MLB logo but why would you want any of the others?) Their website has kind [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Mess
Big mess at Foggy Bottom this morning. Watch this video: Foggy Bottom is the singularly worst-designed Metro station I’ve used in the system: only one exit, twin escalators going up together from platform to mezzanine, and just a single escalator going down to the platform, no stairs, traffic bottlenecks all over the place. The situation [...]
More »Thunderstorm Timelapse
A line of thunderstorms swept over the Metro area around 1PM this afternoon; we got home from church just as the darkening sky let loose its first drops of rain. While it stormed, I ran wget on the ABC 7/News Channel 8 webcam and got this time lapse video. Watch for the two bolts of [...]
More »Florida Avenue Cafe Dropoff
Photo by Wayan This would be the backdoor moat at the famous Florida Avenue Grill. Now I’m not sure why there’s a five foot deep moat – dine and dash catcher? rat deterrent? summer swimming hole? – but its there, and I bet after today’s rain, waist deep with water too. Good luck digging that [...]
More »Black Rain Man: Geographic Savant
As Tom and I left Proof the other night after a We Love DC writers meetup, we were approached by a young man who introduced himself thus: “Young man, young lady, I’m Black Rain Man. Name a country. Name any country on God’s earth. Young lady, name a country.” Amused, I responded, “Djibouti.” Be the [...]
More »WaPo guest blogs Monumental
Well, not really. Tom’s second in our ongoing feature on the monuments in our city goes live at 2p today (see the first – about Farragut Square – here), but today’s Washington Post Weekend section contains a story called 10 memorable memorials. They’re some interesting picks, and worth suffering through the bad interface on the [...]
More »Monumental: GAR Stephenson Memorial
While the Grand Army of the Republic might seem like something out of a bad pulp science fiction story, it’s also something that’s fairly real to American History. The monument to it, and its founder, stand just off Pennsylvania Avenue in Penn Quarter. The Grand Army was a fraternal organization established in 1866 for retired [...]
More »DC Tomato Crop Check – Ripe?
Photo by Wayan Rolling with the WashPost article on the area’s tomato crop, I went and checked on my backyard garden this morning. The verdict: I got great gobs of green tomatoes popping out, but not a ripe one in sight. I do have crazy big basil from all the rain, but no ripe love [...]
More »Last Minute: Systems Administrator Day
Gigabit Originally uploaded by Ben Stanfield Today’s the day to do a little something nice for that nerd in the dark office staring at the computer screen all day. It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day, and to show a token of your appreciation for the guys and gals who keep your computer running, your blackberry going, [...]
More »Great Noise Ensemble at Capital Fringe
great noise ensemble uploaded by hirshhorn I want to like the Great Noise Ensemble. I really do. They are a plucky bunch of kids, fighting the good fight of aesthetic diversity, they play that post-minimalist, rock/chamber fusion that’s all the rage with the kids, they’ve won WAMMIES two years in a row, and they have [...]
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