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Why.I.Hate.DC details the essentials on Baseball in DC. Having the Nationals would be great, but I don’t think any of us in DC (with the exception of “Bowtie”) want it so much that we’ll spend $600M of our taxes on baseball, at no cost to MLB. After last night, MLB will likely pull baseball out […]
Post-Reformed, Not Post-Reformed: Tim decides to leave the label behind him, while Aaron expounds on Compassionate Calvinism. I wish Brian at Barukatash were still around with permalinks so I could reference the entry where he says he’s not out to “stab people with his five points.” (Aaron’s post, by the way, includes an excellent quote […]
Same as last year, I’m about to get on a train heading north to New Jersey, to spend Thanksgiving and the long weekend with Amy and her folks; wonderful people, all of them. I’ve set up Flickr to post mobile photos to here, so stay tuned for snapshots. (Too bad they still don’t set categories […]
Collision on the Red Line. An empty train rolled back into a populated one on the Red Line at Woodley Park station. Four people injured, the station and track are a mess, and a large portion of the Red Line is closed. How do you do that, WMATA? How does an empty train lose power […]
Usability and design guru Jeff Veen is looking for a better open source content management system, after demoing the selection available at OpenSourceCMS.com: “What I experienced was obtuse and complex software that was packed with gratuitous features at the expense of usability and user experience.” I share his frustration, having gone through Mambo, phpWS, Xoops, […]
The remnants of Hurricane Ivan (now just a tropical depression) are passing through the DC/VA/MD area, spawning tornadoes out in the suburbs and dumping rain on Washington. News on TV is saying this is the most damaging hurricane to hit the US in five years. I’m trying to compare the destruction in the Southeast with […]
I’m supposed to be in bed, but I caught Amazing Race on TV, and they were in the Philippines. The only thing more amazing than the race itself is the amazing kabastusan (Tagalog for “rudeness”) with which some of these contestants treated their Filipino drivers, quite fulfilling the stereotype of the obnoxious ex-colonizer. To be […]
Today was the DC Primary, where registered members of the political parties vote for their representatives to the November General Election, and for various party and local council positions. I had to select a candidate for a Delegate to the House, a candidate for “Shadow” Representative, (both non-voting positions, since DC sadly remains unrepresented), an […]
I’ve been having some problems with Blogshares lately. (Link goes to a brief history of Blogshares’ troubles last year, as described by StupidEvilBastard.com) Apparently they saw fit to add Mobrownpau to trading, without so much as a by-your-leave or even a note by email. I only found out about the unauthorized listing when Blogshares profile […]
Six new GMail invites. Considering that everyone and their mother has GMail, nowadays it’s becoming more of a status symbol not to have any invites in your account, on the basis that you’ve found enough people to give them away to.