A bit cold out, but nice enough to walk home tonight. Here’s one of the houses I usually pass by en route. Most of the snow has melted off the lawn.
(WhiteHse.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Red Line appears to be going to Brookland every other train on the Glenmont side. That doesn’t normally happen; isn’t it usually Silver Spring?
(Brooklnd.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Snow covers the terraces within The Bowl, Dupont Circle north escalator. We got a good 1-2″ by the time the snow stopped at twilight. Sadly I will probably not have time to go out and take photos.
(SnowBowl.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Update: Here’s another view.
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Getting some snow in DC today, about a half inch as of 2pm. Small, dry, fluffy flakes. Watch it on NWS radar.
Open Realty Templating
I’m working on a real estate website for a client, using Open Realty for content and listing management — and I’m not liking it too much. (Refer back to my entries on “horrific CMS interfaces.”) It works fine out of the box if you’re okay with the “Trapper Keeper Design for Dummies” gumdrop look, and after removing a few pages of pre-inserted data (mostly introductory copy on Open Realty, in case you didn’t know what it was before you installed it) and a dummy example home listing, specifically the White House.
Said introductory copy claims that templating on O.R. is “easy,” but it took me a while to figure out where one actually goes to change templates (Site Config, second tab is “Templates,” duh, right under my nose), and where the admin main menu says “Templates” it’s actually referring to customization of listing and agent form fields. Then you create a template in the /template directory, based on the default given, dubbed “vertical-menu.” I wanted to see if O.R. had any other templates available, so I went over to the Templates page, where I was greeted with this:
Note the date. It’s been a long wait for some O.R. users, I guess.
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Dupont Circle North Metro escalator, also called ‘The Bowl.’ From below it looks like Jacob’s Ladder.
(Ascent.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
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Greenpeace clipboarder, off-duty, at Union Station. When these guys try to solicit me I usually say No and mention the Rainbow Warrior at Tubbataha. “Outdated maps,” my foot, someone fell asleep at the depth sounder.
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Dolphin balloons at Safeway. They also have bird, bumblebee, and dragon balloons. Not sure what holiday these are for. Lent? Maybe the dolphins signify tuna?
(Balloons.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
Not a Missile on Google Maps
My first reaction on seeing this Google Maps zoomed-in sat photo was “OMG MISSILE OVER UTAH MUST SEND LINK TO EVERYONE” but OKCalvin has set me aright by pointing out that cruise missiles don’t have dual contrails, and that closer examination of the object shows that its wings are dark against the background:
Sure enough, someone on this Airliners.net forum entry is pretty sure it’s a Mesa Air CRJ-900, with dark green wings and tail. I am, as usual, late to the party. (AIM transcript in the comments.)