This firetruck just pulled up in front of Union Station, horn and sirens blaring, but I didn’t see a fire. Probably a medical emergency or Mooninites or something.
(WTFire.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Hotdogs and Rice
Some days, you’ve got rice, and all you really need with it is a bit of salty meat. Hence this time-honored Filipino delicacy: hotdogs and rice. (Broccoli optional, can also be served with a fried egg.) This served as lunch because I was too lazy to make a stir fry. That comes tonight.
Cherry Blossoms 2007
Amy and I walked around the Tidal Basin yesterday to admire the Cherry Blossoms, and the whole day was just so bright and lovely and photogenic that it was pretty hard picking photos out of the Cherry Blossoms 2007 photoset to feature here, so I just went with the Flickr Slideshow Embed Trick. Enjoy. Also see the full DC Cherry Blossoms collection, with cherry blossom photosets through the years.
Update: Okay, I think I’ve found my five favorites from yesterday:
Welcome to WWTQ 2.0
Today seems like a good day to make a very important announcement: Welcome to WEB 2.0. (If you’re coming here through a feed reader, you have to go to the home page of my site to get the full impact of this update.) (Okay, redirect fun is over.)
Okay, seriously now, you can stop laughing. What I really meant to announce, apart from the Zombocom-inspired April 1st gag, was that I’ve relaunched What Was The Question, my old repository for digital art projects from my MICA grad school days and onward. Not much new content, but I cleaned up the code, streamlined the design a bit, and chased down hastily-coded renegade pages which hadn’t yet been assimilated into the overall WWTQ style.
Some notable changes: a bar across the top of the site doubles as page header and breadcrumb navigation, the Strangelover and Resemanticizer have been incrementally updated with a somewhat cleaner backend, the LJ Image Feed now has a fresh new look, the Mars Rover Wiggles have a new javascripty interface (but no new wiggles, sorry), and the whole site is now done in Lucida Grande (or Trebuchet MS for those stuck on Windows).
Some day I’ll have time to add new “art” to the site along the lines of the typography and syndication exploration that I once explored as a graduate student mired in liberal postmodernism. I might even beat Kottke to an update.
Ladybug
As we picnicked on the grass under the shade of the cherry blossoms today, Amy pointed out a ladybug lazily crawling through the grass by my leg. I took it upon my finger and let it scuttle about my person for a bit, before it grew tired of my company, opened its wings, and flew off back into the grass.
On a related note, you can buy 1,500 live ladybugs for about $15 with shipping. They eat garden pests without harming your plants.
Capitol and Cherry Blossoms
Got these panoramic photos on my way to an interview yesterday afternoon: blooming Yoshino trees lining the plaza leading from North Capitol and D Streets up to the Capitol itself. This is the weekend of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in DC, so Amy and I will shortly be going over to the Tidal Basin to check out the blossoms and the kites, which were kind enough to time their bloom to coincide with the Festival this year.
Caturday!
I’m happy to announce that the cat’s bathroom behaviors have mostly normalized, and that she is going in the litterbox again, with far fewer mishaps than in the last few rocky months. It helped to remove the overpowering air freshener from the bathroom, change her litterbox to a new one, and switch to unscented litter. She is, however, still banned from the bed, so sadly she will still not be on webcam, but I’m moving apartments soon, and we’ll see if we can position the webcam such that it has a view of whatever spot in the new place she decides to settle in.
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Track work on the Red, Yellow, AND Green Lines. Wow, this Cherry Blossom Festival weekend on the Metro is going to be awesome.
(TrackWrk.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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One of those Star Wars mail boxes sits outside the post office at Union Station. It does not roll around the station, beeping, nor does it project holos of Carrie Fisher, nor does it perform astromech droid functions on Rebel Alliance fighter spacecraft. It will, however, keep your Death Star Plans and other mail safe till the mailman picks it up. More info.
(USPSR2D2.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Looks like there was some kind of disturbance at Union Station, as this was the sight that greeted those emerging from the Metro. No blood or guns or anything, probably just a fight.
(Arrest.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)