Liquor store sign at 17th and Corcoran NW. Closed on Sunday of course, and someone’s having a yard sale out front. Lots of baby stuff.
(Liquor.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Liquor store sign at 17th and Corcoran NW. Closed on Sunday of course, and someone’s having a yard sale out front. Lots of baby stuff.
(Liquor.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
I got Pandora a new bed to nest in a few weeks ago, a Puffy Bed on clearance at the Cleveland Park PETCO. It’s only now that she’s noticed that it exists:
Here’s a photo of an iPhone showing a photo of an iPhone showing a photo of me. I had to take this meta-snapshot with my N6600 camera because the iPhone photo app lacks any visible bluetooth or infrared send capability, and sending email requires setting up an account. I tried signing into Flickr but all I got was a mess of timeouts, and anyway I’m not sure I would have been able to upload the photo through the Flickr form since I don’t know how local file browsing for photos would have worked. The multi-touch interface is wonderful, but touchscreen keyboard input is a nightmare, and AT&T’s data transfer speeds are a disgrace. iPhone, C+.
Update: I just realized the iPhone has wifi too, so the timeouts might have been from a bandwidth bottleneck at the Apple Store’s network. Still, boo.
(iPhone.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Quick, which one is soy sauce and which one is a Palm Z22? The wrong choice means dipping my sushi in Address Book.
(SoyPalm.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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.)
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.
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.)
It’s one of those days when you can tell my hairline is starting on its way to an inevitable future of recession.
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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.)