FBCedu.jpg

2007-08-05.

Education building of First Baptist DC, rear of the church. Amy and I did the lesson and gospel readings today.

Georgetown Saturday

2007-08-04.

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

2007-08-02.

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

2007-08-02.

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.

GrnPnk.jpg

2007-08-01.

First thought on seeing this neon green and pink color combination: Bubble Yum Watermelon.

(GrnPnk.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

LockMaid.jpg

2007-08-01.

C&O Canal crew in period costume unlocks a lock for the tourist boat.

(LockMaid.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

Heron.jpg

2007-08-01.

There’s that heron again, assuming it’s the same one I saw rooting around Rock Creek. This time it’s sitting idly in Lock 2 of the canal. Another blurry mobile capture.