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- Is Congressman Bob Etheridge allowed to do this?
- Photo album: DC Robotfest 2010
Here is the photo album from the DC Robotfest last weekend. Enjoy!
- Photo album: Faith and the Muse - 25 April 2010
Here are the pictures I took at the Faith and the Muse show last weekend. Enjoy! If you're curious about their music, check out some of their videos over here.
- Chaos, robots, and Faith and the Muse - all in DC!
Last Friday evening brought with a second attempt at the Chaos in DC meetup in Silver Spring, Maryland. I'd driven out there straight from work because I wound up leaving
- DCLUG presentation: Tor
I'll be giving a presentation on Tor for the Washington DC Linux Users' Group the evening of 19 May 2010. The LUG meeting will start at 1900 EST5EDT (7:00pm) and run until
- Lost in DC: Navigation Fail that deserves its own Wikipedia page.
Not long after moving to DC I gave up on the concept of going to gathers organized by users of meetup.com for a variety of reasons. Most of them involved never being able
- Snowpocalypse shenanigans.
The DC metroplex is still snowed under, so it's been a pretty slow day for everyone. Around the time that the snowfall slowed to a manageable level (near the end of it, ac
- Visibility? What's that?
A few more shots of Snowpocalypse , these taken just before I got in the shower this morning. Hopefully something other than a blizzard will be happening because I could r
- We're stuck.
Dangerous winter weather conditions have paralyzed the DC metroplex. In other news, this was Baltimore's weather forecast for last Friday . Enjoy. I'm off to take a shower
- One quarter of DC's snow plows are out of commission.
The reasons for DC's generally poor response to Snowpocalypse II and III may have been discovered. WTOP News got hold of a leaked e-mail that seems to describe some of the
- ...another ten to twenty inches???
If you haven't heard by now, the National Weather Service has predicted another blizzard headed for the DC metroplex , this time with up to twenty inches of snow in store
- Snowpocalypse II pictures.
Edited and uploaded at last (the power failure this morning notwithstanding), here are the first round of Snowpocalypse II pictures . While many of the people in our compl
- Misadventures at Shmoocon.
Around 0300 this morning, the skylight of the Wardman Park Marriott downtown collapsed under the weight of the snow . No one was injured, thankfully.
- Snowpocalypse II: Snow Harder
The weather predictions are growing like the tales of Paul Bunyon in the DC metroplex as the second winter storm of the year comes rolling in. They're calling it Snowpocal
- Just when you thought your morning commute couldn't get any worse.
In the DC metroplex it isn't uncommon for people to drive to a Metrorail station (which aren't always just down the block), grab a space somewhere in the daily parking lot
- Now we can watch television while we're shopping?
On my way home after work this afternoon I stopped at the Safeway a couple of blocks from the apartment complex Lyssa and I live at to pick up a few last minute items for
- So, where have I been since Snowpocalypse '09?
Much of the DC metroplex is still digging out from under what has been dubbed Snowpocalypse 2009. At least where I live, the main roads are in pretty good shape, albeit th
- Snowpocalypse 2009.
After my utter failure to get to the store to stock up for the winter storm that I didn't expect would actually happen (cynical cat screwed the pooch this time), Hasufin a
- First snowstorm of the year.
Yesterday morning, the newswires were burning up with winter weather warnings, effective midnight last night for a region of the eastern seaboard as far north as Manhattan
- So much for a night on the town...
A couple of weeks ago, Lyssa and I bought a couple of tickets to see the Australian Pink Floyd Show , a world-renowned Pink Floyd cover band that is widely considered to b
- Life in DC.
Only on the DC beltway can you be doing 70 in a 55 zone and have a little old blue-haired grandmother in a Thunderbird behind you hammering on her horn and pitching a conn
- Ayria, the War Tapes, and VNV Nation at the 9:30 Club.
I got home early Tuesday afternoon after work and after taking care of some lifestyle maintenance (like synching my e-mail, filling out timesheets, and checking the backup
- Crash on the red line of the DC Metro this afternoon.
Around 1700 EST5EDT in the DC metroplex, there was a head-on collision between two trains on the red line. The crash occurred in the vicinity of Takoma Park, Maryland . Re
- An assortment of photographs.
Does anyone else find it amusing that a cast metal and plastic drum is manufactured by a company called Touch the Earth ? This is about as far away from their ideal as you
- I think this is the last batch of wedding pictures.
Lyssa's finished uploading the final batch of wedding pictures, the pro shots taken by Tara of Green Tara Photography . You can view the two albums here and here .
- Shmoocon 5 pictures are now online.
I've finally put the pictures I took at Shmoocon 5 online. I should note, persuant to the photography policy of Shmoocon, that all people I photographed gave explicit perm
- Winter in DC sneaks up on you.
All day yesterday the weather reports threatened a snowstorm which was predicted to shut down the DC area. As a former resident of Pittsburgh, my attitude toward such thin
- Shmoocon 2009: ...duck!!
It's been six hours since I got back from Shmoocon , and I'm still readjusting to a low information density environment. Shmoocon is DC's premiere hacker con, held early e
- It took long enough to get snowfall out of this winter.
Winter in DC is a funny thing; it's rare to actually get anything other than bitter cold temperatures and the odd gust of wind. Every once in a while we'll get some rain o
- It's just as big as it needs to be.
After running around for much of Friday night running errands (like exchanging a hard drive for a faster model) and getting to bed later than expected, Lyssa and I slept i
- "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!" (take two)
For unknown reasons, I just lost the previous draft of this post, and so have had to start over. That includes a number of edits that made the text more coherent to read.
- The Sisters of Mercy return to DC.
As if there wasn't enough going on right now, last night Lyssa and I had tickets to see The Sisters of Mercy once again at the 9:30 Club in downtown DC. Because Lyssa had
- Still catching up on last week.
Given everything happening in the days since Lyssa and I got married, I'm still catching up on lots of things, most of them work-related though there are a few things rath
- DC Metro starts random searches of travellers.
In my "to post about" queue for a couple of days but certainly not forgotten has been a recent development in Washington, DC which Lyssa pointed out to me not too long ago
- Photos from my bachelor's party.
I've finally made the time to edit the photographs taken from a Segway during my bachelor's party . You can look at the images here .
- Seen on the DC Metro on Tuesday.
Lately, I've been noticing commercials on television (in particular The Food Network ) claiming that high fructose corn syrup is actually good for you, and that you should
- This was potentially the geekieest bachelor's party in recorded history.
I roused myself from bed far earlier than I'm accustomed to on Saturday morning, around 0800 EST5EDT or so, for what is traditionally the most memorable event prior to one
- Better late than never: the weekend in review.
While we didn't get hit by Hurricane Hannah, the DC metroplex certainly felt her wrath late Friday and all day Saturday. I don't want to say that it was raining cats and d
- Engineering and re-engineering over the long weekend.
If you normally browse my website directly (i.e., not using an RSS feed aggregator of some kind) you'll see that I made some major changes to the front page late last nigh
- Slight change of plans this weekend.
Last weekend wound up a bit in the air due to an emergency at the last minute - one of Lyssa's relatives died unexpectedly and the family was hastily reconvened for her fu
- Catching up before I go.
Work's had me running around a bit more than usual lately, which has put a serious crimp in my time to write, let alone keep up with current events. I don't know how much
- Hot, humid, and bored.
One thing about writing posts with Google Docs: You can't divide posts into a header and the part-behind-the-cut with it. With the advent of June in the DC area comes summ
- Pictures, but someone else's.
Remember when Lowmagnet was in town and we wound up at Spellbound? He posted the pictures he took while he was in DC.
- Another weekend in the nation's capital.
Aside from a few bouts of tenderness in the new dental work on Saturday, the pain and infection in that one particular molar are gone. Praise be to the gods of dental medi
- So, you're probably wondering where I've been this week...
...work, work, and more work have been taking up most of my time. By that, I mean that I'm logging anywhere from ten to sixteen hours every day, six days a week on this pr
- State of the Time Lord.
Well, I'm mostly up and around these days. I'm writing this from my office at work, after braving the ice storm that's buried DC under sheets and sheets of the slick, shin
- Sometimes the only thing you can do is look on in horror and hope that the shrapnel doesn't reach you.
It's the last day of the common year 2007, and between the rain and low temperatures (hovering near but not quite at the freezing point as of 0730 EST5EDT) roadways in the
- I would've written something but there was this duck...
The past two weekends have been more or less non-stop running around so I haven't been writing about them lately. To make a long story short, Lyssa and I are fixing up the
- At last, the post you've all been waiting for...
Exoteric life being what it is, I've been waiting for the right time to post about Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on 8 December 2007. The day is just what it sounds lik
- Kite Day 2007, and other things.
Yesterday afternoon, downtown Washington, DC saw a number of brightly coloured rainbow kites of all shapes and sizes added to it sky for LGBT Kite Day 2007 , the local LGB
- An open letter to the NASCAR-wannabes of Washington, DC.
Dear jackasses drag racing on the highway a fraction of a block away from my hotel: Please stop driving like you're trying out for NASCAR. Yes, you've probably sunk a coup
- Weirdness on the roads of DC last night.
After work last night, the roads of DC were harrowing, to say the least. Lyssa remarked that there would be a goodly amount of asshattery afoot, but I had no idea of just
- New York has fallen! DC is under seige!
I don't know how much time I have to write this.. I can hear them outside, pounding against the brick and steel. The staircase of my apartment building rings with shambing
- Just what this country needs: _Star Wars_ and the US Postal Service working hand-in-hand.
- Weekend in review: Persephone's Ball 2007.
A couple of weeks ago Lyssa and I hooked up with House Eclipse to buy seats at a second table at Persephone's Ball 2007, the annual fundraising dinner held by the Open Hea
- This says a lot about life these days.
A semi-common sight in DC are street musicians, people who stand on street corners or sit just inside the entrances of Metrorail stations and play instruments of one sort
- Snowed in for the second time this month, and this time it's not so bad. (out of order stream of consciousness post)
I knew that something was going to happen when I spoke to my mom, and she mentioned getting ready for an ice storm in Pittsburgh on Saturday night. That meant only one thi
- Post-ice storm vehicle repairs.
In my almost-but-not-quite-there state yesterday, I managed to get the TARDIS down to the dealership for repairs. As I mentioned earlier, in the ice storm in DC last week,
- The Doctor's 829th birthday weekend in a nutshell.
Holy. Cats. Getting to meet Angel Spit. Finally hearing Fiction 8 played down here. The Cruxshadows in concert in DC. Getting to go up on stage and dance. I'm going to bed
- Yeah, it is Valentine's Day, isn't it?
As one would surmise, it's Valentine's Day, so Lyssa and I had planned to go to a local restaurant (the Sweetwater Tavern ) for dinner to celebrate after work tonight. Lit
- It seems that we got very lucky last night
Around 0000 EST/EDT today (just before going to bed) we lost power for a couple of minutes. The UPSes in the apartment took up the slack, but it's always worrisome when it
- You know it's bad when the federal government has a longer delay than the schools.
DC is a winter wonderland - as the title implies, the US government is on a two hour delay following an all-night ice storm that's left everything buried underneath an inc
- The weather today is decidedly sucktacular.
It's cold. It's snowing. It's sleeting. The roads are nasty. I just got home and I'm staying home.
- Neal Stephenson had days like this...
Let me see.. temperatures fell yesterday and it's been snowing pretty constantly all morning. This isn't, in itself, really a bad thing because it's been warmer than it ha
- It's not just (going to) a job, it's an adventure.
The good news is that Lyssa is all right; as I alluded to yesterday, she's been in a considerable amount of pain over the past couple of days. Rialian was nice enough to d
- Winter's finally come to DC...
The rude awakening came this morning as Lyssa and I checked the weather report for the DC area before getting ready for work - 13 degrees Fahrenheit (-4 if you count the w
- Sisters of Mercy Concert - 2006
Pictures from the Sisters Show at the 9:30 club, March 2006. By the way, the picture quality is about what one would expect of a Sisters show, because they use so much fog
- Memorial Day 2004.
Here is a gallery of photographs taken by Lyssa and I in downtown Washington, DC on Memorial Day in 2004.
- They're experimenting with what?
Here's a cloud to find a silver lining in - research into technically nonlethal virobiological weapons . Technically - known side effects were coma and death from brain sw
- Well, the watchword of the day seems to be 'ow', as in "Ow, ow, ow, dammit!"
As part of my New Year's resolution to get in better shape I've started to work out twice a week, and discovered once again that my body isn't as young as I wish it was. I
- Archive: 20070108
Note to self: All the walking in DC is making me go through tennis socks faster than I can replace them. I've blown through six socks in three days because they've ripped
- 1300 on a Thursday - surprise!
Son of a bitch - it's snowing.
- Snow and the premiere of The Dresden Files (review, mild spoilers).
It snowed pretty much all night last night. I made the mistake of going out again for some last minute groceries, a jaunt down the block that wound up taking a solid hour,
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