Toilets.jpg

Toilets.jpg

This is the men’s room at Kuma Restaurant in Tenleytown. Yes, there are two toilets here, one facing the other, without any walls between them. The exact reason for this remains shrouded in mystery.

(Toilets.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

Weather

Being something of an amateur weather enthusiast, I have a folder in my browser bookmark toolbar with links to local weather resources like Capital Weather and NWS Radar: links which I check obsessively about every fifteen seconds or so. Clicking on WXNation for DC yesterday to track approaching rain, I thought to myself, I should totally make my own personal weather center on my website, maybe something like Joelf’s Henchmen’s Helper, but lightweight.

So, I hereby unleash Brownpau Weather, aka “The Evil Overlord Capital Climate Command Center,” upon the internet.

In truth it’s really just a lazily thrown-together collection of crude hotlinks to various generous local and national providers of visual weather data: NWS Radar, Wunderground Radar, NOAA Geostationary Satellites, and city/sky webcams from NPS, WaPo, ABC7, and NBC4. I was also trying to figure out how to fetch and parse live METARS data with PHP before I realized that WeatherPixie already does that with a perfectly fine hotlinkable image for free.

Be sure to try out the annoying image-sizing rollover CSS effect.

It’s all rather amateur, but it satisfies my weather impulses for the time being. Assuming the image sources continue to allow remote linking, a similar solution should work for just about anyone who knows where to dig for the right image URLs.

Me as Simpsons Character

Me as Simpsons Character

It’s not an exact match, but that’s my style of dress almost to a tee. Simpsons archetypes are so fun to project oneself onto. Go to the Simpsons Movie website and look for the "Create an Avatar" feature. Found via Kottke and Megnut. Brilliant film marketing right there: s a bit of postmodern “giving” to the target audience, integrated into the immersive exposition of the the product.

(In related news I’ve just purchased The Big Book of Hell from a clearance shelf at B&N.)

Hairline.jpg

Hairline.jpg

It’s one of those days when you can tell my hairline is starting on its way to an inevitable future of recession.

(Hairline.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Red.jpg

Metro’s deathly red LED platform edge lights have come to Union Station.

(Red.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Whthrst.jpg

Underside of the Whitehurst Freeway over the Georgetown Waterfront, DC’s own version of the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Except the Whitehurst is probably not getting torn down anytime soon.

(Whthrst.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

Darling.jpg

Darling.jpg

They’re Clementine oranges! And they’re called Darling! As a reference to the song “Oh My Darling Clementine!” Isn’t that clever? I think it’s clever!

(Darling.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

Caturday!

Caturday – Round Cat is Round Edition.

Round Cat is Round

As you can see from the light blue geometric overlay, when curled-up and sleeping Pandora is able to form a near-perfect ellipse. That video rocker’s going to need a brushing.

Tinkle.jpg

Tinkle.jpg

Some fresh rhymes from the Trader Joe’s men’s room wall. There were also two pennies on the floor by the toilet. I bet those tinkled.

(Tinkle.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

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Battered.jpg

Pedestrian crossing light at 25th and Mass NW, smashed and turned in the wrong direction though still working.

(Battered.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)