‘Teddy Wins!’
courtesy of ‘Hoffmann’

Congrats to We Love DC Flickr Pool contributor Hoffman, whose office has gotten into the Washington Post’s Peep Show semifinals for the second year in a row. This year, their Peep diorama features an alternate Peep universe in which Teddy actually wins the Peepsidents’ Race.

Speaking of which, have you gotten your tickets yet for the WeLoveDC.com/LetTeddyWin.com Night at the Ballpark?

Hoffman and his coworkers made the Peep Show semifinals last year with Peep to the Right, which I know has appeared on our site more than once…

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courtesy of ‘erin m’

Local first amendment lawyer Kevin Goldberg was nice enough to give us an interview about defamation issues shortly after Meg of 2Birds1Blog was fired for blogging. He’s since written a piece at his firm’s blog about the issues from the other side of the desk called coping with social media in the workplace.

How many of your employees do you think are looking at their Facebook pages right now?  Good guess. Now walk down the hallways and see if you can catch any of them in the act. Go ahead, we’ll wait. We expect that, unless your guess was “probably all of them”, you were way off.

As you can see, it’s written more with a mind for the employer but it’s good reading for any employee as well, I think. It’s useful to know what kind of mindset your bosses probably have and the things they worry about. Particularly so if your bosses don’t have any policy in place because it might give you some idea of how shocked they’d be if they were confronted with your personal activities.

‘Peanut Butter & Jelly’
courtesy of ‘spcbrass’

DC Public Schools has hired New York restauranteur Jeff Mills to run its school lunch program. Formerly of the Biltmore Room, Mills has been tasked with turning a money-losing function that serves crappy processed food that drives students to turn to pizza and french fries for lunch into a profitable program that serves appealing whole foods to students.

Some critics argue that Mills’ lack of background in school lunch programs is a liability, but DCPS asserts that’s a strength, not a weakness. Personally, I think people with backgrounds in school food haven’t done nearly enough to fix it, so I don’t see how bringing someone in who has actually run a profitable business based on tasty food could possibly make the situation any worse.

‘Gazing out’
courtesy of ‘brianmka’

I was at the National Zoo a couple of weeks ago and noted that the male lion and the two females were kept in separate enclosures, which seemed kind of sad to me. Apparently the Zoo staff agrees, because they’re working through a plan that will allow the male lion Luke (4 years old) to live in the same enclosure with the two females, 6 year old sisters Nababiep and Shera.

What struck me is how the process of acclimating the lions to each other is more or less exactly like introducing a new housecat to your current cat.   Continue reading →