What WMATA is really suggesting (fyi 2008) - Greater Greater Washington
(blue line stop in georgetown?)
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maps
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Dec 02
Nov 30
format change today for the Express! (the free dc paper handed out at metro stations)
in: more emphasis on the internet (youtube! cheezburger!) a daily internet directory
out: local news. not a single story regarding dc/md/va crime. not a single story regarding dc/md/va crime. really.
but the main change…the ‘today in history’ section. only three days of history! cut down from six! half the history. gone.
3 historical moments for each day in history X 365 days a year = 1,095 historical moments.
‘today in history’. essentially the only history book i’ve read since 2005.
(not a single story regarding dc/md/va crime)
Nov 29
Just completed Meloy “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”
It’s been awhile since I’ve completed a book. But it’s not for a lack of trying.
FAILED:
Capote ‘In Cold Blood’
Dostoevsky ‘Crime and Punishment’
Power “A Problem From Hell”
Lewis “What Went Wrong?”
Le “The Boat”
I may come back and read these books. They all deserve our attention.
Nov 25
Nov 24
Nov 23
Kaiser ‘go paperless’ sent sacramento to dc. within 3 packages.
It’s official, mom hates the environment.
Nov 22
Nov 19
“ I can safely say that, during his term of office, nothing bad has happened.
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— Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Iraq and so Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento is acting governor of California.
Nov 18
Last month Google dropped Tele Atlas data from its United States maps,choosing to rely instead on government data and other sources, including updates from users.
Faraz Ahmad, a 26-year-old programmer from Pakistan who lives in Glasgow, took one look at the map of India and decided he did not want to see his homeland out-mapped by its traditional rival. When Mr. Ahmad tried to work on the part of Kashmir that is administered by Pakistan, he found that Map Maker wouldn’t allow it. He said his contributions were finally accepted by the Map Maker team, which is led by engineers based in India, but only after a long e-mail exchange. At his request, Google is now preventing further changes to the region, after people in India tried to make it part of their country, Mr. Ahmad said.
A Google spokeswoman, Elaine Filadelfo, said Google sometimes blocked changes to contentious areas “with an eye to avoiding back-and-forth editing.”
Everyman Offers New Directions in Online Maps - NYTimes.com
(The video shows how the map of Bucharest grew quickly from 5 highways to a complete city over a two week period)
“there’s still a lot of work left before they are running up and down H Street and Benning Road.” The city is busy working on laying the tracks for these two lines, but they aren’t expected to be up and running until 2012 at the earliest…
D.C.’s Streetcars Finally Being Shipped from Czech Republic - DCist
Nov 16
Not sure how much longer I’ll be in dc. Maybe a few months more.
Attempting to see as much of the district as possible.
blue = i’ve walked it.
Nov 15
On my bookshelf (and for a very long time now)…
Heston, whose politics are no secret, was invited by the People’s Republic during its most open period, prior to the confrontation in Tiananmen Square. He offers perceptive, intriguing comments on the difficulty of mounting a Chinese-language production and of interpreting a naturalistic drama for people steeped in a nonrealistic theater tradition. Not as substantive or well written as Arthur Miller’s “Salesman” in Beijing, the book is long on charm but short on details about China and the Chinese. Recommended for theater buffs and Heston fans.
-Amazon Review
So, an all Chinese speaking cast and an all Englishing speaking Heston.
I can’t remember who gave this to me, but I don’t think it was meant to be a satirical gift.
Nov 14
