Archive for September, 2009
WMATA’s going to clean stuff
‘Shower Head Water Drops 7-26-09 1′
courtesy of ’stevendepolo’
That’s about the long and short of WMATA’s press release today about what they intend to do to deal with the possibility of OMGWTFPIG H1N1 outbreaks this fall. Unfortunately this is reassurance that leaves you less assured than before.
Metro is using an environmentally friendly disinfectant cleaner to wipe [...]
Fixing the AT&T fail
‘hello, gorgeous’
courtesy of ‘erin m’
If you’re one of the AT&T customers not getting your phone calls today because AT&T is sending them to your voicemail (or worse, your voicemail never picks up at all), you can wait out a solution by disabling 3G on your phone. If you’ve got an iPhone (and if you don’t, [...]
Giving Back: A Guide to Volunteering in DC
‘Here’s Art again…’
courtesy of ‘IndyDina with Mr. Wonderful’
Some of us do it because we have to. Some of us do it because our friends do. Some of us do it because it’s how we were raised. And some of us just don’t do it – but we should. Giving back. It’s what makes the world [...]
DC Mythbusting: No One is From DC
‘moving boxes’
courtesy of ‘ilya’
Welcome to another edition of DC Mythbusting. This week we’ll tackle the myth that no one is really from DC. The District has a reputation as a transient city, with young go-getters coming here after college, putting in a few years on the Hill, then moving on to bigger and better things. [...]
Dear Ms Weymouth: One PARADE magazine is enough
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
My enthusiasm for the Washington Post Magazine on Sundays dropped about 15% once I no longer would find Tom Schroder’s column in the front, but the direction Howard Kurtz describes might pretty much stop me from reading it entirely. Kurtz is primarily writing about a story about Lindsay Ess of Richmond…. and [...]
The Lost Symbol Can Now Be Found
Dan Brown’s long awaited book The Lost Symbol hit stores today. The latest in Brown’s series of books involving super sleuth Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) takes place here in D.C., the city we all love so much. According to Wikipedia:
“The book’s story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a [...]
Caps Camp Notes
‘00090436′
courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’
Caps forward Tomas Fleischmann will miss the start of the regular season due to a blood clot in his leg. Team doctors believe the clot formed during his flight back to the Czech Republic at the end of last season. Caps officials have said that Fleischmann, who scored a career-high 19 goals [...]
Capital Chefs: Cooking with Chef Glenn Babcock of Nage Bistro
‘garnish’
courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
WeLoveDC authors Cathy (cooking queen) and Katie (restaurant aficionado) have paired up to bring you a double-hitting feature about great seasonal dishes that chefs at local area restaurants are whipping up this fall. Katie gets insider info about the chef and the restaurant, and Cathy recreates the chef’s recipe at home. Cheers to that.
To [...]
Metro Employee Dies from Injuries
‘metro’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
The Metro employee who was struck by a train between the Braddock Road and National Airport stations last week has died, according to this WMATA press release. The employee, John Moore of Arlington, had opened a door that led to the track right-of-way and was struck by a train on Thursday. Metro and [...]
We may not have Congressional representation, but…
‘Oh, my. Oh, my. Is *that* what they’re doing on Broadway these days?’
courtesy of ‘Ed Yourdon’
When I read this Examiner.com item about how DC’s men have the nation’s largest penises, about 8 different possible jokes I could make appeared, unbidden, in my mind. The problem is that all of them are outrageously inappropriate and offensive, [...]
9/12 Rally Crowd Estimates: Two Million?
(Picture 075 uploaded by DrrDot)
The Glenn Beck/FreedomWorks 9/12 DC Taxpayer Rally was on Saturday, with conservative Tea Party activists congregating in Washington to protest various things like healthcare reform, federal taxation, government deficit spending, and the President being a Stalinist Nazi Fascist Kenyan Hitler. They drew a healthy-sized crowd, by many accounts much larger than [...]
The Lost Symbol: Tomorrow
‘Mona Lisa’
courtesy of ‘Michael_Lehet’
One of the most anticipated books of the fall, a book that could perhaps give declining book sales a legitimate bump, is out tomorrow. It’s Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, which follows the main character of his previous hits The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons through a new mystery, which [...]
McCain aims to de-fund the Metrorail extension
‘the offending photo’
courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’
Streetsblog has the skinny on the highway projects that Senator McCain would like to kill the earmarks for, and among them is the fed money for extending the Metrorail out to Dulles Airport.
Interestingly, this is money that should probably come out of the FHA’s Highway Trust Fund’s mass transit cash, but [...]
Nation’s Tri Recap
‘Nation’s Triathlon’
courtesy of ‘drewsaunders’
You won’t believe me, but triathlons are ridiculously fun. Swimming, biking, and running back to back to back for 32 miles sounds exhausting and painful to the uninitiated, but yesterday at the Nation’s Triathlon I had the time of my life. And let’s put this in perspective, a year ago I could [...]
Nats Park IS on the west bank of the Anacostia
‘Serious’
courtesy of ‘Mel B.’
Without question, the best thing in today’s Washington Post was this piece about a bit of security confusion when a House rep’s assistant wore a green Nats cap on his way back from an overseas trip.
An Israeli airport security guard pointed to the hat with the curly W team logo and demanded [...]
