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Plus ca change

Posted in Posts, tagged , on October 20, 2009 | Comments Off

I don’t know if you noticed, but last week was All-Kennedy-Assassination-All-The-Time on HIST.  October sweeps, I guess.  Anyhow, I tuned in to some of the programming, and bits of it were quite interesting.  What struck me during one program was how much things changed, security-wise, immediately after that event.  Obvious things, like no more open [...]

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Insert Joke Here

Posted in Posts, tagged , on November 7, 2007 | Comments Off

About the “falafel guy”.  You know.
Anyhow, this is just ridiculous.  I guess I shouldn’t walk down the street to the fancy new falafel cart near my office for lunch anytime soon.  And the burrito guy closed up shop!  Sigh.

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Free the Capitol

Posted in Posts, tagged , on October 24, 2007 | Comments Off

Ugh.  This is too depressing to blog about now.  Will update later.  Ugh.

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bad at math

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on February 13, 2005 | Comments Off

bad at math
catching up on tnr while re-tagging my mp3 collection, i stumble across this bit of really bad math (application/pdf Object):
small enough to fit in a satchel but powerful enough to
devastate six to ten square city blocks, or most of the area
between the Capitol and the White House.
Um… the Capitol is at zero, the [...]

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Speaking of Fake Security…

Posted in Posts, tagged , on February 11, 2005 | Comments Off

Speaking of Security
Well, half-assed security. It occurred to me this morning, once again, that the “security” in my office building is half-assed and stupid. if they are going to have those stupid card-read things in the elevators, why weren’t they installed on both sides of the door? There are floor buttons on [...]

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Catching up with blogs a la mode

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on February 11, 2005 | Comments Off

Catching up with blogs a la mode
(yes, i am desirous of ice cream)
Via NewDonkey.com, a tidbit on the sad, sad, sadness of inauguration day.
(he also had a quote somewhere else about “after the risers come down” which was, at least in front of my building, um — yesterday. DAMN that took a long time. [...]

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Open Society, Open Monuments

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , , on January 4, 2005 | Comments Off

AMEN!
A Pall Over the Mall (washingtonpost.com)
This is what drives me NUTS about living here. One of the main reasons I decided to make the washington area my home was the appeal of the city. For 12 years I have worked in the District, first near the Capitol, then in Georgetown, then near the White House, [...]

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