Whoa. This is a rest room? Wide open universal washing chamber, with doors to toilet booths. Barrel sinks too. Splashy.
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Looks like something’s up behind GWU Hospital. Intersection cordoned off.
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Canal Cleaning Boat
Here’s how they clean the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal — with a massive waterwheel-driven scoop boat. This photo also features Russell in a special cameo appearance.
(Canal Cleaning Boat uploaded by brownpau.)
Star Trek Poster
Snagged me a Star Trek movie teaser poster #2 from the “free preview stuff” shelf at work. Between the “STAR” and the “TREK” is a line, “Stardate 12.25.08.”
The new movie will be called simply, “Star Trek,” supposedly a prequel set before or early into the Original Series five year mission. Latest news is that Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy will be playing young and old Spock, they’re still looking for someone to cast as young Kirk, and [gasp] William Shatner has not been signed on.
This all makes me very unhappy. Let’s end this “prequel” nonsense. I demand a full retcon of Star Trek: Generations; have Spock on the Enterprise-B, saving Kirk and the ship from the Nexus as they beam the El-Aurians on board — except for Soran. Then Soran gets his cosmic paradise, Enterprise-D never has to go after him and get split in half, the Veridian star system doesn’t blow up, and Kirk gets to not fall off a rock. The balance of the universe is restored.
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Steeple, Church of the Pilgrims, PCUSA, near 22nd and P St NW.
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Canal Boat Ride
As a followup to Georgetown Saturday, I give you this hastily edited video of our C&O Canal boat ride:
(Background music was played live by NPS volunteers with viol and banjo. The boat goes from the Visitor Center between 30th St and Thomas Jefferson St NW, up to Key Bridge, and back — drawn by mules after Lock 3.)
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Education building of First Baptist DC, rear of the church. Amy and I did the lesson and gospel readings today.
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Georgetown Saturday
Amy and I spent today being total tourists in Georgetown, a part of DC which I, until recently, rarely went to. (Well, now I work there, but that still hasn’t afforded me too much of a chance to see the sights in detail.) We said hello to the Lock 2 blue heron, walked around the Old Stone House and adjoining garden, had a Vietnamese lunch, took a C&O Canal boat ride, and watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix down at the Georgetown theater.
Some photos follow, full photoset here, and a short video of the canal boat ride.
Bridge Collapse GIF
The Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse was caught on video by what appears to be a security or traffic camera.
I’ve taken the liberty of converting the footage to an animated GIF, trimming out the extra “woman running by” footage and removing the frame lag. This makes the movement of the disaster run about two or three times faster than it actually happened, giving it a strange and scary fluidity. There are also a few gaps in the footage, which become much more visible with the increased frame rate.
I’ve uploaded the animation to Photobucket and on Tinypic. Mirror freely.
Weekend Recap
It’s been extra-busy lately, so this quick general entry about last weekend comes a bit late.
Amy and I went to the AteneoDC alumni picnic on Saturday, which was more of an indoor potluck, probably due to the heat. Many friends from Ateneo whom I had lost track are suddenly here in the DC area — Colayco Hall pub-roomers, Greenhills carpool buddies, and a grade school classmate — and it was good to get together with them all along with the older folks around a table of rice, lechon, and Mang Tomas Sauce.
On Sunday, I skipped choir at church for the second week in a row to acquaint myself with procedure in the sound booth in case extra people are needed to manage sound during worship. Mixers are awesome.
After church we dropped by the Sackler Gallery to check out Encompassing the Globe, a multi-gallery exhibit on Portugal’s colonial and missionary exploits in the Age of Exploration. We also dropped by the National Gallery to see Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings and Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450-1700.
In a later post, I’ll link to some of the artifacts and artwork that caught my eye at the museums. I’m also working on an entry about the Sackler/Portugal exhibit for DC Metroblogging.