Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

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John Harvard's has a bargain happy hour, and the beer beats the pants off Gordon Biersch and Cap City. I like the location, too - a bit hidden and empty on the weekends. And beer on cask.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but the buffalo wings are kind of the worst in the city, totally microwaved bottom-of-the-bag extra small drummies and broken flats. I do a better job butchering wings myself at home!

― TOMBOT, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

The Big Hunt has a 15 cent (or is it 10 cent?) wing night, I think it's on Tuesdays. I was there not too long ago, still a pretty chill place to hang out.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I began a 3-yr relationship at the Big Hunt.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I went to the Crossroads,the Caribbean music club out in Bladensburg, MD near the Peace Cross over the weekend. Not metro-friendly, and the soca band did not come on till 1:35 a.m. but it was fun.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Early-morning soca! But what's the Peace Cross?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

How long do you all think you'll be at the Pharmacy Bar? Is everyone really going to get there at 7:30 or are you likely to not arrive til somewhat later? I think I have to be over on Capitol Hill around 7:30, except maybe I could change that... arrgh.. logistics.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

At the intersection of Bladensburg Road, Route 1, and Md.450 crossing over from D.C. into P.G. County in Maryland is a tall World War I(?) era statue/memorial called the Peace Cross. If any of you were wondering about demographics, the crowd at soca shows is 99% Caribbean immigrants (ranging in ages from 20 to 50). Lots of Trindadian flags being waved.

Have fun at Pharmacy.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

How'd you find out about the soca show?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I guess I should be embarrassed that I don't know anything at all about soca?

I forgot that I can't make it on Thursday because I have an extramarital date that has been in the works for months! My date is also married, but both of our spouses gave the OK. We are going to the Brickskeller for drinks and then to a sexy scientist seminar!

I have not been on a date in years WHAT SHOULD I WEAR???

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

lab coat
...and nothing else!

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Wear something that already smells like smoke and beer and you'll be way ahead of the game!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I can just imagine the look on Mr. Quincie's face as I flounce out the door in a beer- and smoke-scented lab coat with nothing underneath.

I am deeply disappointed (really!) that I am missing the chance to actually meet other DC ilxors, so hopefully there will be another FAP in the near future. Like, at the ZEBRA LOUNGE.

Oh and Brian next time you are drinking at 2 Amy's give me a head's up and I will run around the corner and meet you!

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

"Soca" comes from SOul and CAlypo. It's fast happy dance music that most folks just associate with Carnival. The Crossroads and Zanzibar which both sometimes feature Caribbean groups advertise in the Washington City Paper, on posters on telephone poles on New Hampshire Ave and other streets in Maryland, and at the club's websites. Sometimes there's information in the Post and at Post.com also.

Have fun at the Brickskeller...

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

That's "CAlypso."

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

There's a Nigerian band at the Kenn. Center Millenium stage for free at 6 tonight, and Peter Guralnick is talking about his humongous opus on Sam Cooke at 7 at the Olson's downtown. Alas, I'll be working late instead of music geeking.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I can't make it on Thursday

boo!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

awesome

Exurbanites Occupy an Unsettled Place in Va. Politics

Jamie and Stephan Lechner liked their house in Germantown well enough, but in recent years, they said, the neighborhood began to change in ways that made them feel less comfortable. There were some discipline problems in the school where Jamie taught. There was a shooting in a low-income area not too far from where they lived and other, smaller signs that made them think things were headed downward.

And so, with their twin boys near school age, the Lechners did what they figured anyone of means would: They packed up and moved to a place billed as a retreat from all that: Dominion Valley, a new, gated, golf course community of $700,000 homes on the rural edges of Northern Virginia, a place where the singular issue of traffic dominates and where the last memorable conflict was whether jeans would be allowed in the country club.

"We had conflict," said Jamie Lechner, referring to her old Germantown neighborhood. "And we wanted to move away from that. . . . That's why we're here -- to be sheltered."

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

gross.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

"And we wanted to move away from that....."

May they keep moving.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Ugh Northern Virginia.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

oh, and quincie, what science meeting are you going to??

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

The Carnegie Institution has a public seminar series called "Capital Science Evenings", and tomorrow's lecture is about origins of life. The speaker is a friend of my date (who is a high pressure geophysicist! And hott!) and apparently is a very cool guy. I'm particularly intersted in this topic as my undergrad degree is from Lehigh, home of "Darwin's Black Box" author and big-time intelligent design proponent Mike Behe. Never would have thought that odd little man would have his 15 minutes.

Anyhow, forget what I said about not making it to FAP; if ya'll plan to park at Pharmacy then I can meet up with you after the lecture, duh--probably nine, nine-thirty-ish. I will do my best not to totally dork out on you all.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

saying he's both a high pressure geophysicist and hott is a bit redundant, no?

i thought totally dorking out was implicit in fapping. have i been doing it wrong?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I bet you guys' definition of totally dorking out is nothing like my definition.

SCENE: A GOVT WORKPLACE FULL OF DUAL-SCREEN WORKSTATIONS WHERE EACH SCREEN IS A 24" WIDE FLATPANEL AND ALL WORKERS HAVE TWO KEYBOARDS AND TWO MICE. TOMBOT IS SEATED AT THE CENTRAL WORKSTATION. ANDYBOT IS SEATED DIRECTLY TO HIS LEFT. STEVEBOT IS STANDING OVER TOM.

TOMBOT: Classified, Expletives, Classified Classified

STEVEBOT: Classified HEY IS THAT THE WORLD MAP FROM SUPER METROID ON YOUR DESKTOP WALLPAPER

TOMBOT: YEAH DUDE

STEVEBOT: I KNEW THAT WAS ONE OF THE METROID MAPS

ANDYBOT: MY COUSIN DOWNLOADED THE SPEED RUN OF THAT WHERE SOME DUDE PLAYED THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME IN AN HOUR AND A HALF

The End.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

carly: hey guys, it's 8:57 pm. that's a prime number!
all: ...
carly: ok who wants to watch buffy now?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Prime numbers are gay. Relatively prime combinations of numbers are where it's at. Where it's at, boom boom, two relatively prime numbers and the multiplicative inverse

Why do you have to be at work at 8:57pm?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I got caught between two book designers going on about paper stock and high-end page varnishes. It was like hearing barflies talk about Johnny Walker Blue.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Scene: quincie forced to attend PIFIT training for an hour and half EVERY FUCKING TUESDAY

QUINCIE (to similarly screwed coworker): I've finished balancing my checkbook and preparing my grocery list. Now what? Oh, I think I will compile a helpful PIFIT glossary.

"Asset"=some sort of document
"Artifact"=some other sort of document
"Configuration Items"=what the fuck, I don't even know
"Incident Investigation"=someone fucked up! Lets pick the most despised person on the project and blame HIM.
"Supplier Agreement Management"=send us our shit, assholes!

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

aww, i'm really sorry i won't be there on thursday to totally dork out with you guys.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

You're extra sorry you don't have two 24" widescreen monitors to stare at 10 hours a day. That's 4.6 million pixels people.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I am just not coming to this event anymore.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Lack of funds and the impending DOOM of the MPRE preclude my attendance. Enjoy the Pharmacy.

(collective sigh of relief from the DC group)

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

big loud mountain ape, your presence is always appreciated when alcohol is being imbibed. that's meant as a compliment.

tombot, that was my impression of me dorking out at the fap, at 8:57. i did in fact do this at work the other morning at 8:57, which led to a flood of vague memories about relative primes and congruences.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Today I am going to a printer's facility to inspect page proof ON PRESS. Words like pica may be used. Hardcore mid-20th-century dorkiness.

I'm hoping there will be ink-stained pressmen named Irv, and scruffy newsies.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Washington Post awesomeness: the 2005 Dining Guide and a bar guide... ON YOUR IPOD

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/entertainmentguide/togo/

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Pica

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

awesome.
now to fashion a rumour about the high rate of pica in the washington dc area...

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

If that includes paste, then my entire third-grade class had it.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm just back from lunch--talk about dorking out, the table of dudes next to me was discussing (I think) FANTASY BASEBALL!

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

mookieproof: hey guys, it's 6:33. in his diary, longtime canadian prime minister william lyon mackenzie king used to keep track of the angle of the clock hands when he woke up--he thought it was an omen.
all: ...
mookieproof: i wonder what he would have done with a digital clock?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

added up all the 90 degree angles?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

oh no we are speaking different dork out languages!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

HOW MANY OF US WILL BE AT FAP I MUST KNOW.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

ALSO WHAT TIME IS IT

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

IT IS 4:13 PM WHAT DID THEY NOT TEACH YOU TO TELL TIME AT DUCK???

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't. I was going to make the 2.5 hour drive to DC yet again to go to some open houses and visit some other places & then stop by the FAP, but I'm just not up to it. I'm so tired. I'm sick of driving. Have to wait for the next one. I slept for like ten hours and I'm still exhausted.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

7:30! 7:30!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! wait. is this tonight?!?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Shut up, you already know it's tomorrow.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

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