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The last two cars of this Blue Line train were dark. Train was running, air conditioning worked, there were people inside, but it was dark up till McPherson Square. Then the lights came on. Quite strange. Later on, I got on a Red Line train and was buzzed by a threatening-looking bee. I killed it, […]
Clouds, buildings, river, flags. Stormy weather passing over us. (Clouds over Rosslyn uploaded by brownpau.)
Nice, they’re done renovating the fountain at Washington Harbour. The planter islands are nice. (Harbour Fountain renovated uploaded by brownpau.)
Today was a cherry blossom day. We had originally planned to wake up at the crack of dawn to catch the blossoms just after sunrise, but that sort of thing doesn’t happen to us on Saturdays, so it was about 11 AM by the time we got to the already-crowded tidal basin. We went against […]
Yesterday, fifth anniversary of the Iraq occupation, was supposed to be a big protest day, though Metro didn’t feel like it. Nothing much showed up on traffic cameras around DC, except for one at McPherson Square, where people seemed to be confronting a police line while a paper-machie bomb with a Strangelove-style Bush effigy atop […]
I’ve been a big fan of Palm for a while, but the last time I wrote in detail about a Palm device was three years ago, when the Zire 31 (to which I downgraded to replace the broken Zire 71) completely died just four months after I got it — and a month past warranty. […]
There’s been a flurry of ISS activity in recent weeks, though it has been a while since STS-120, which featured the delivery of Harmony to the ISS and an astronaut’s daring trip to repair a solar panel. The next mission, STS-122, was repeatedly delayed past its scheduled December launch date due to nagging engine cutoff […]
Reading up on media feedback to the current crop of US presidentiables, I note that the outraged response to McCain’s primary frontrunner status from the Coulter/Malkin/Limbaugh/O’Reilly set isn’t a reflection of McCain’s relative liberalness so much as it is a sign of the increasing marginalization of that particular brand of fiery right-wing, pro-war, anti-immigration, security-radical […]
A quick tip for couples flying coach class on long-haul flights: if you’re riding a 747-400 and you like windows, reserve a pair of seats at the very rear of the plane. The last three rows of seating go from 3-4-3 to 2-4-2 because of the tapering of the fuselage, so you can reserve two […]
(Sorry for the writing gaps. Lingering jet lag plus bronchitis plus unpacking plus general readjustment is making me somewhat zombie-like.) At right, our room at Novotel CityGate Hotel near Hong Kong Airport (HKG). En route from JFK we had a 14 hour overnight layover here before transferring to a separately booked flight on Philippine Airlines […]