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- Hostage situation: Silver Spring, Maryland, Discovery Channel HQ
If you're in Silver Spring, MD near the headquarters of the Discovery Channel, sing out! Everybody okay out there? Live police scanner feeds here .
- A couple of pictures from the Beltway yesterday.
A few pictures taken from my car during the amazing (even for DC) traffic jam on the Beltway yesterday evening. Cars, cars as far as the eye could see in triple-digit temp
- Yeah, it's a little like that.
The DC metroplex is the only place I've seen to date in which the following sequence of events can occur within sixty seconds: A woman with a handicapped parking tag in th
- Pictures from the Amanda Palmer ninja gig, 16 June 2010.
A couple of weeks ago I had a unique opportunity to attend one of Amanda Palmer 's ninja gigs. If you've not heard of them they're rare-ish but growing in notoriety. Basic
- Now that's a crab cake.
That crab cake salad could easily make two or three meals. You have to love working in Maryland sometimes.
- Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, 2 May 2010.
While I don't have a writeup for it, here are the pictures I took at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival last weekend.
- 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
- Restaurant review: Middle Eastern Cuisine
A couple of weeks ago Lyssa and I got together with the House of Leaves for Bronwyn's birthday, much of which we spent at a restaurant in Takoma Park, Maryland called Midd
- 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
- That'd better be some fine cognac.
- Genetic drift always keeps life interesting.
H1N1, the disease that's kept supplies of vaccine low, doctors' offices and emergency rooms packed, and way too many people feeling like crap this season has thrown the me
- Piercings, watermelons in hydraulic presses, and Shakespearean zombies. Oh, my.
Lyssa and I packed up our stuff and set out around 1100 EST5EDT on Saturday morning in the general direction of Rockville to Laurelinde's place, where we picked up Cate an
- Pirates, pants, pets, Python, and Push.
After many months of near misses and scheduling conflicts, Kyrin finally got Lyssa and I to join him for a Friday evening at Piratz Tavern (8402 Georgia Avenue; Silver Spr
- Holy shit.
Taken en route to home just before exit 151 on I-70 east. I really hope that no one got hurt, though the bus appeared to have already been evacuated when we drove past.
- 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
- Seen while on the road.
While en route to Saloncon a few weeks ago, we came across a vending machine which can accept payment via RFID-enabled credit cards . I think we found it at a rest stop no
- One of the gods of goth came to Baltimore.
A couple of weeks ago, it came down the wire that Peter Murphy (best known for his work with the band Bauhaus) was on tour again and would be making a stop in Baltimore, M
- Pictures from the wedding, et al.
Pictures from the wedding of Elwing and Irregular Expression are now online . My .plan file has also been updated. Warning: Some NSFW content.
- Back from Elwing's wedding.
I'm proud to day that the wedding of Elwing and Irregular Expression went amazingly well, and with no major hitches to speak of. Congratulations, you two. After my last po
- No rest for the righteous or the wicked.
Work was work this week, and that's the fairest thing that can be said about it. It wasn't glamourous, it wasn't fun, and it wasn't an adventure, but it wasn't horrible, e
- It seems that I'll be in town for a while, so I'll actually be able to post.
This is week four of my "three weeks out, one week in" work cycle, so I'll have much more constant net.access for at least a couple of days. I may as well take the time to
- Restaurant review: Jerry's Seafood
Last night was another small-group-dinner with the guys from work, meaning that we had a fairly easy time of deciding where to eat. With some trepidation we asked the fron
- Restaurant review: Bombay Masala
Earlier this evening, one of my cow-orkers and I decided to try a restaurant a bit closer to our hotel. Off and on all last week, we kept seeing the Bombay Masala (8825 Gr
- Restaurant review: Bennigan's Grill and Tavern
During my tenure in Maryland while on assignment, I've been given the opportunity to try the cuisine of not a few restaurants in the general area (I don't have much of a c
- Restaurant review: Rip's
Rip's Casual Dining - 3809 North Crain Highway; Bowie, MD 20716; 301-805-5901 While in the field on assignment for work this week, I'm going to be stuck eating out a lot,
- Mark Nicholas, live at the Depot!
On 16 June 2007 Mark Nicholas (formerly known as Cosmicity) will be playing the Depot in Baltimore, Maryland with Red This Ever and The Case of Gretta Conners. Tickets wil
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