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Monday, Dec 31, 2007 :: Houses, houses, and more houses

Holly and I were looking around Newport News this afternoon after we went to the gym to workout and found it: closed. Sad, as we went to a mexican, all-you-can-eat buffet with with the single proviso that we were to exercise...today. With all the issues of selling my house, I found this neighborhood, called "Port Warwick," with it's never-ending rows of cookie-cutter houses. They seemed to stretch forever into the distance. This photo does not do justice to the nightmarish feeling that we were standing on the corner of Lucifer St and Beelsabub Lane. You be the judge.

Here's a satillite view so you know I'm not photoshop'ing this view. This neighborhood exists, I promise:


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Nevertheless, Happy New Year!

December 17, 2007 :: Titanic-DNA Watch | Uncrate

Titanic-DNA Watch | Uncrate: "titanic-dna-watch.jpg"

Thankfully, this is one Titanic that doesn't involve Celine Dion. The Titanic-DNA Watch ($TBA) is a limited-edition timepiece made using materials recovered from the sunken oceanliner. Available in several different versions, our favorite is the "extreme rusted steel," with its bezel forged with authentic Titanic parts, titanium and blackened steel casing, black dial integrating recovered coal from the ship, and La Joux-Perret movement.

I don't know if there's such a thing as bad karma, but I would imagine this would bring it to you. What's next, Hindenburg watches and World Trade Center necklaces?

October 21, 2007 :: Snow in Denver

 

It's snowing. I looked out the window and thought that the moonlight was awful bright to make the ground glow so much at 7am, but then, i looked again... it's snowing...

"Hey baby, guess what?"

"groan... what?"

"it's snowing..."

"that's crazy"

"i know. i'm going to take a picture :)"

Four hours later...

October 20, 2007 :: Metroblogging DC: Reassuring

I liked this metroblogging dc article:

Metroblogging DC: Reassuring: posted by Don Whiteside at 11:00 AM on October 19, 2007

It's easy to be cynical about people in this city, whether because they have a wide stance, like to chat up the wrong people online, or just in general seem selfish in their behavior. I'm finding that taking mass transit is instead exposing me to people's little courtesies and kindnesses, and they put my day off to a good start. Maybe they'll improve yours.
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Plus, once you move to denver, co, and see that people are strangely MORE detached than the masses of DC, and more oblivious to others, but with an air of pretentiously, and topically feel 'small town' country but 'big city' character, a person realizes just how great the people of DC are, after all...
Posted by: mark at October 20, 2007 07:17 AM

rusty Casket in a pick up truck...don't see that every day

October 6, 2007 :: Climbing Castlewood Canyon

 

good couples' climbing photo, huh? a successful (but short) trad lead climb, and two other medium routes for three people and a warm, sunny, windy afternoon.

I knew i'd need the .4 c4 camalot! it perfectly fits a "normal" fingercrack... i knew it :)