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Petworth Dog Walk Halloween Photos
Photo by Wayan Last night’s Petworth Dog Walk Halloween was such great fun! Around twenty costumed canines, and a few costumed owners, came out to Domku Restaurant to compete for prizes in three categories: Best Costume Best Trick Best Twin Here we have the Petworth MPD – Metro Police Dog, winner of Best Costume and [...]
More »The Voting Line in DC: 90 Minutes
Photo by Wayan If you are thinking of voting early in DC at One Judiciary Square, be prepared to wait. Lines average 90 minutes at off peak times and easily surpass two hours at lunch or the evenings. And this photo? Thats the head of line 2 of 3 which stretches down and around the [...]
More »Its Spring Planting Time!
While the nip in the air says fall is here and winter is coming, look beyond today and into tomorrow – spring will be here soon enough. So as you unbox the sweaters and take out the coats, be sure to look for bulbs too. Bulbs that will take April showers and make them May [...]
More »Verizon’s Community Hazard
Why is this child playing with a Verizon telephone line box? How come this electrical thing is still hanging at street level in my neighbourhood? How long does it take Verizon to fix what has become a community hazard? Multiple calls to the company have gone unheeded. Stopping Verizon workers in the neighborhood does not [...]
More »Does Giant Compare to Harris Teeter?
Walking through the Bling Bling Giant the other day, I noticed this cheeky little advert. Giant Foods is asking to be compared to Harris Teeter! Now I can understand that the Bling Bling Giant has aspirations, it is swanky new and the center of the Columbia Heights renaissance, but a Harris Teeter? Not so much. [...]
More »Cheap Ass Marriott Centerville
Photo by Wayan This weekend I am exiled to the Centerville Marriott for the wife’s work, and I would be a happy geek except for one small short detail. This 4 Star hotel only offers 6 feet of Ethernet cable in its rooms. No Wifi, just a too short cable that I was the third [...]
More »Bye Bye Abandononed Taxi
When I moved into my house over a year ago, I noticed a taxicab that seemed unused on Upshur Street, just down from the Petworth Eyesore. Since then I paid it no mind, busy with nesting and all. Then recently, I noticed the cab again, mainly because it was now obviously abandoned, what with a [...]
More »Petworth Dog Walk Halloween
Yoda Dog Costume, courtesy of matthamm Those of us on the Petworth Dogs listserv would like to invite all our neighbours to the: Petworth Dog Walk Halloween (flier) a costume celebration of dogs and owners Wednesday, October 29, 7pm @ Domku Contestants – meet at the Clark School @ 6:30pm (7th and Alison) to wear [...]
More »We Love: DC’s Public Charter Schools
While I’ve heard the moaning about the DC Public School System since my first days in DC, I never really cared about it. I was a swinging single and my whole goal was to keep away from anything kid-related, though many would say I acted child-like. But now that I’m soon to be a parent, [...]
More »Worried About Your Job?
Queue for job, courtesy of le Haricot The economy is a mess. Our 401(k)’s are toast. And we’re all stressed. Now the WaPo has quantified our job-loss fears: In September, there were more mass layoffs — instances in which employers slashed 50 or more jobs at one time — than in any month since September [...]
More »Roma Bike Beats SmartBike
I’m walking down a street in Rome, and what do I see? A bicycle rental program that puts SmarkBike to shame. Why can’t SmartBike have these cool wheels? Instead, we have DorkBike DC. Has anybody even tried it yet? So far I’ve not found the want or need. Not even thieves are trying that hard [...]
More »We Love Travel: WAS EQM Mileage Runs
For those that fly often, there is not a sense of envy with the gate agent allows First Class and elite frequent flyers to board the plane first. No, there is only lust for such benefits that are often so close yet so far away at this time of year. See, frequent flyer status is [...]
More »Charging Fort Stevens Fantasies
On a long run recently, I cam across Fort Stevens and was surprised at the National Park Service setup. Here on a hillside in modern DC is a full Civil War fort, compete with cannons looking out over neighbourhoods. Much more detailed, if way smaller than Fort Slocum, it still calls out to the little [...]
More »Your Heat On Yet?
We here at the Wayan homestead are in a fight over the heat. As you can see, Taxi, like I is chilled by these 50 degree freezing(!) nights than only make it to 72 in the day. Yet my hot pregnant wife is refusing to heat the house. While I have no hope of hot [...]
More »Enough with the Adverts!
Walking through the Pentagon City Mall, I am accosted by a new level of visual pollution – they now have flat screen TV’s blaring out advertisements from above. Can we stop the madness?! I am already in the hose of commerce, already on my way to spend, do I need to have yet another advert [...]
More »OLPC News XO Upgrade Errors
Photo by Wayan When upgrading the XO Laptop software while drinking heavily, be warned. The results may be shocking. Expecting a new Sugar interface, we got Windows XO instead. Not what this FOSS crew was looking for at the Looking Glass Lounge. Our lesson learned: be carefull of random Microsoft USB keys. Be the first [...]
More »Caution: Grant Circle Ahead
For all those that are speeding along New Hampshire Avenue NW, caution as you pass Georgia Avenue NW, headed north. Ahead is Grant Circle, and if you are going too fast, you’ll see it up close. About once a month, someone winds up in Grant Circle, with skid marks showing their lack of foresight. This [...]
More »OLPC News 8.2 Update Happy Hour
Do you own an XO laptop? Want to upgrade it to the new Release 8.2.0 – the new software build that will roll out with G1G1 2008? Then you need to join us for an adult XO mesh: OLPC News 8.2.0 Update Happy Hour Thursday, Oct 16 @ 6pm Looking Glass Lounge 3634 Georgia Ave [...]
More »We Love College: 529 Plan Choices
With a Ziggy on the way, I’m now thinking long term. Like 2023, when Ziggy will be tossing a graduation cap into the air. To get there, I’m wondering which 529 College Savings Plan I should be routing all the baby shower festivities towards. Yes, I’m going to be that guy who asks for college [...]
More »Basement Bathrooms are Too Far
Photo by Wayan I am at the District Chophouse and I have found my limit. I like basement bars but I do not like basement bathrooms. Here you have to take an elevator down a floor to relieve yourself. That 3 minute wait matters when you are dancing on one foot. Can there be a [...]
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