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Kinko’s, 16th St and K St NW. My brother, freshly arrived from Chicago, is sending a quick fax. As he attends to the task, my cellphone rings.
“Paulo, this is your aunt. Where are you?”
“We’re at Kinko’s.”
“Good. Come over to the Embassy at 17th and Massachussets right now.”
“What’s happening?”
“We’re at a book launching. Free dinner.”
We were there in five minutes. Mmmm, book launching.
Francis, previously seen here, will be visiting Washington DC from now until Tuesday. He just called from the airport in Chicago to say that he is about to board the plane, but forgot to bring extra money. So, what can a guy do in DC for five days with a budget of $4?
One reason unsolicited bulk email is getting worse and worse is because of people who answer spam, whether to buy, complain, or “unsubscribe.” Replying to spam only creates more spam.
Wiki for the CSS-discuss mailing list. I dislike mailing lists, so I’m thankful that the vast CSS-Discuss knowledge repository is available in an open and consolidated wiki format which needs no email subscription. This is something I’ll be returning to a lot.
(Stumbled upon while hunting for tips on clearing CSS floats. More important info on that from Eric Meyer’s “Containing Floats.”)
So Raffy’s dirty secret is out: he’s a mime.
But if one can look past the horror of mimeness, more important is the fact that he’s a movie reviewer, and a pretty good one at that. Even back in our Omnipost days, when we worked together as tender, young, wide-eyed associates in the back-breaking world of video post-production, he had already begun to apply his sharpened wit — and his considerable design skills — to the task of critiquing film: Behold. He’s a regular Pinoy SMC.
One of the mysterious Toynbee Tiles, baked into the asphalt near Archives/Navy Memorial, 7th St.
Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
New photo album up, from August, when I visited my brother and attended a reunion: Chicago and Wisconsin Dells.
In the tradition of Ready.gov parodies such as this and this, the Curt Jester has made use of anti-terror clipart in his Liturgy for Ignoramuses. (Caveat: Oman-Ray Atholic-Cay! That’s Latin, dear.)
