What's wrong with you?
Thousands of Fairfaxians, Arlingtonese and Montgomery Countish go to work every weekday from 0730 to 1630 to ENSURE YOUR SECURITY.
You non-profit NGO hangers-on should all be ashamed that you aren't helping this great nation defend itself against the evildoers. Look at my striped shirt, fucking look at it, etcetera.
By the way, just to clear the air, the MITRE corporation is a fucking pox on humankind and 90% of their employees can go fuck themselves right in the eye with an awl pike. "FFRDC non-profit" my mom's balls.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
This is like the truest shit ever written, btw.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, MITRE has been instrumental in fucking up this project at nearly every turn since I arrived. So it's just a little personal.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, if you mean established social set as like, one other person, then yeah that's sorta the case but if you mean like several friends, or even two? Then no, I don't believe that's true.
I mean, Tom and I kind of have an established social set, albeit a not-huge one. And like, no one ever wants to do anything. Because like half the time it kind of sucks going to places here and it'd be better to just hang out at home, or in Baltimore. So like I guess basically what carly said, yeah there are probably cool people here, I mean there definitely is but you're going to have problems by and large finding them because of the complete non-existance of the local scene and local custom and social infastructure.
I mean, you could probably go to J Paul's any night of the week and meet 80 trillion people but most of 'em suck.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually have more friends from college and high school living and working in DC than anywhere else. What I find, however, is that the ones living in the outlying suburbs are more willing to hang out with me, but lack any sort of circle within in the city.
On the contrary, I have other friends from college that live in Columbia Heights and China Town, know a lot cool people in the city, but are ridiculously hard to meet up with and sometimes weirdly reluctant introduce me into their world. Normally, I would assume that these people don't actually like me, but I think it's more just a general disconnect between suburban DC-ers' and those in the city.
So, despite all pessimism about DC, I think living in the actual city is the only logical way people of our type (non-twatish) can find a good circle to run with. It makes me want to leave College Park with the quickness.
― Scott H, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Pharmacy BarWonderlandAsylumThe ReefMarx CaféThe Black CatCafé Saint-Ex (on weekdays)Bar PilarGeorgetown BilliardsBedrock BilliardsThe Saloon (U St)Polly'sW DomkuTownhouse TavernThe RavenGalaxy HutThe BrickskellerAromaThe bar at FireflyThe Big Hunt
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
maybe petesmith can explain to you why college park is a wonderful place. i'd do it for him, but i don't really agree.
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
my out of town friends who visited me still talk about the falafel place of dc.
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― allyson coco (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Here, though, since they drive the market, they drive out most of the unorthodox niche joints--bookstores, strange bars, weird art things, whatever--that make a city interesting, and people who like to see something surprising every once in a while are kind of fucked.
It's funny, though, how interesting/okay people tend to cling together once they find each other, and have to look to each other for entertainment. It's like being in an expat community, but without the expensive long distance and dodgy water supply.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Also it's just kind of ugly inside now!
I actually think I might kind of prefer Pharmacy now. Although I'm still pretty sure that my favorite spot on that strip isn't any of those places but Blue Fin instead.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
And to get with Brian's positive vibe: Amsterdam Falafel is excellent, and the all-you-can-stack toppings bar is the starving drunk's friend.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Re: social scene, I feel like it seemed easier just out of college, because everybody I knew was in the same boat, kinda poor and living in grungy apartments and run down group houses where they'd throw parties a lot and we'd go for $2 drinks at the Common Share. And now it's a few years out and people are movin' on up and working more hours and buying places and going to fancy lounges to hang out, except I went back to school and am poorer than I was before.
Re: security, I was so tempted to apply when I saw this job posting, Web Designer and Developer (Baghdad, Iraq)
"Yeah Mom, I landed this awesome gig building websites, uh, it's great experience, but.. it's kind of out of town.."
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't been there since maybe August? Whenever geeta was in town...but that was a weeknight and the crowd isn't quite the same as it used to be, a lot more...uh...Adams Morgany. I mean I dunno, in my very lengthy experience with dive bars and the like, the really grungy ass ones have 10x better crowds than tricked out "THIS IS A DIVE BAR!" designed ones. I mean the Asylum ripped out its innards and had it redone by the dude who did Reef (xpost what Stephen just said). I think they just attract different clientele. This might be due to the yuppification of Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights just as much as it is due to the change of atmosphere. I hold out hopes for Galaxy Hut and really didn't awful mind going there even though I'm not a beer person because it's so munky looking inside!
Granted, buffalo wings are fucking awesome.
Also I just saw a taxi with spinner rims. Point, DC.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
another favorite dc thing: Ask Tom chatshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400577.html
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonian.com/chats/dining.html
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
xp
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Weeknights nxt week are good for me.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
i wouldn't introduce dc cabs into testimony, logos or no, the cab system in the city is really really awful.
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― allyson coco (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I would love to hang out, am out of town again and don't have a place to live yet, but looks like I should have a job so will be settled.. uh.. soonish. You know, by the time the weather gets too bad to go out much.
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost the weather is never too bad to go out. I have climbed 5 ft snowdrifts to get inside of bars. Though if it's raining, that's right the fuck out.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Last DC cab ride I took, the driver was too baked to go over 25, and kept telling meandering stories about his former career as a soccer star in Europe, how he represented Ghana at the 1972 international Boy Scout jamboree, etc. Awesome.
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Tom Sietsema: The one that leaps to mind at the moment: a still-breathing (but stunned from boiling water) fish.
that sounds like a fun cab ride! the cab rides i've had from the bus station to my house at 2 am have been more stressful.
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Pharmacy is alright by me! If it sucks that night we can always hit Asylum and make fun of the D&D decor or go over to the Reef and hope the downstairs is open.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
EMSE 315: Legal Issues for Information Security Managers
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
My last DC cab ride, I had to be at a job interview at 1, and I caught a cab at 12:35 (it was only a five minute ride, Connecticut to Wisconsin Ave) and on the way he picked up some other guy and started heading over to Adams Morgan and I had to talk him out of this so I wouldn't be late.. Then he spent the rest of the ride talking about how people make craploads of money pet sitting and dog walking and such, and how many hours a day he had to drive a cab just to get by..
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― quincie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link