Archive for November, 2006
On the Thanksgiving Train
The feeling of dread at a difficult pre-Thanksgiving trip today grew stronger as the precipitation percentages in the forecast rose ever higher. As the storm swept up the East Coast, I trudged home through the rain, wondering just how delayed and crowded the 8:30 train to NJ would be. The line to the train at [...]
links for 2006-11-22
Wired News: Deal With Turkey Day Disasters (tags: food) Turkeys, as drawn by Penn undergrads in Psychology 1 at the end of their midterm exam. DMD was on copier duty and added “Draw a turkey” to the end of the Psych 1 exam. (tags: fun art) OMG, Turducken. How to cook a Turducken. (tags: food) [...]
links for 2006-11-21
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor May Be at Mission’s End. After ten years in Mars orbit, MGS has succumbed to solar panel problems. (tags: space mars nasa) Blue field entoptic phenomenon. Those squiggly things you see moving in your eyes when you look at large bright fields of view like the sky. They’re actually leukocytes in [...]
links for 2006-11-20
cheap and tiny // Bluetooth Headset for $24.99 (tags: tech mobile bluetooth) cheap and tiny // Cheap 1GB SD and MiniSD Cards (tags: tech) cheap and tiny // Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000, $36.05 (tags: tech webcams) What Monks Can Teach You About Healthy Computing. “Many of us have seen paintings of monks with quill pens diligently [...]
Flagpole Bracket
Taken from a window in the library lobby on the fourth floor of the NMWA. In the background is New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
NMWA
Amy and I spent yesterday afternoon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts — a museum we’ve been meaning to visit for years, but kept putting off because it isn’t free. But the day was open after lunch with Brandon, so we went in, coughed up the $8/adult, and took the plunge. The [...]
Meeting Brandon W
After years of cross-linkage, silver ladles, and other miscellaneous adventures, I finally met up with Brandon today, as he visits DC for an SBL conference. We had an Indian lunch at Mehak near the convention center, and talked about church, weblogs, school, DC, CA, GA, and The Dane. Here is us, post-lunch:
Con Man at Waterfront
White kid, about 25, medium height and build, spiky blond hair and a single earring, wearing jeans and generic university shirt, walking down M St SW across from Waterfront/SEU Metro station. He’s just hanging up a cellphone as he calls to me, “Hey, do you speak English?” “Yeah, what’s up?” “Oh, thank God. I live [...]
links for 2006-11-18
Global Nerdy. New tech and culture weblog, featuring Accordion Guy. (tags: weblogs) instructables : Quick and easy self-watering garden planters. Made from old milk bottles. (tags: plants) VG Cats on PS3 vs Wii. (tags: sony nintendo tech gaming business) Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: The Game. LOL WHAT. (tags: games cults) Machinima.com: “Make Love, [...]
DC Metro Flipbook Ad: Target
A few people have been arriving at my old entry on the DC Metro “flipbook” ads, looking for the newer “Target” ad between Gallery Place and Judiciary Square, on the Red Line. Here’s a video I took of it, a bit dark, but you can see a person floating in what seems to be a [...]