The Future is Now!
March 20th, 2009
Holy smokes, check out this car!!! (or is it a space pod?) that we spotted while walking around Dupont Circle yesterday evening. I’m not sure if I was more surprised by the 3-wheeled vehicle itself or the fact that two grown men, in business suits, were sitting inside of it. I wonder if it has a horn, and what it sounds like. Anyone know what exactly this is? I can’t find anything on Google, because I don’t even know what to search for. I tried ‘outer space car’ and nothing came up.
A Hardcore Fan…
December 4th, 2008
I saw this little gem of a license plate on my way into work this morning. Talk about mobile blogging! (at least I was at a red light…). I hope that car owner does not mind my publishing their plates. Out of curiosity, I did a little Google search to see if it was illegal to post pictures of plates… I didn’t find too much about it, so I’m guessing that it is public domain just like everything else. Go KNATS!
Yellow Love Bugs
November 16th, 2008
Awww, two little yellow bugs. How cute they are sitting right next to each other!
The Who Farm
November 11th, 2008
We saw these guys at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market on Sunday : The Who Farm, or the White House Organic Farm Project. They were collecting signatures on a petition asking president-elect Obama to allow an organic farm to be planted on the grounds of the White House. They do have a pretty cool bus with a garden on top of it — and lots of people were stopping to talk to them.
a grenade. awesome.
October 1st, 2008
My commute was rather long this morning, and I just found out why. There was a grenade found in Rock Creek Park, just off 16th Street. Obviously this picture has nothing to do with it, because I couldn’t get anywhere close to the scene… and also it’s not that autumn-y here yet. But anyways, where does a grenade in the park come from???
(toot toot!)
September 18th, 2008
You could park just about anywhere in the city in this little thing. I hope the horn sounds like a clown car honking.
like mother, like daughter?
September 9th, 2008
Today I have no picture to offer, only a story and a link to what the picture may have looked like had I been calm enough to try and document this experience.
I get into my car yesterday after work, and I’m on my way home, down 16th street, the same way I commute home every day. I’m close to the Carter Baron tennis place for those of you who know where that is. I look over my shoulder to change lanes around a slow car, and then OH HOLY CRAP WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!!!!!!?????
Now I’m swerving off the road, driving forward but still staring into the back seat to make sure it’s not moving towards me. Possibly the most unsafe 30 seconds of driving I’ve ever done in my life, since I usually prefer to look out the front windshield. I throw the car into park and jump out, arms flailing (maybe a slight exaggeration) and leaving the door wide open. I am starting to hyperventilate.
This is the closest picture I can find online to what I was looking at in the back seat, approximately 10 inches from my face. PLUS, it was in a gigantic web that stretched from the back of my headrest all the way to the rear of the back seat.
And so I start frantically looking through my trunk, trying to slow my breathing down, and looking for something like a 12-foot pole to scoot this creature from hell out of the car. At this point, cop #1 rolls by and asks me if I’m ok. I can only guess that he saw my antics flying out of the car and/or was about to give me a ticket for reckless parking lot driving. I tell him, “I’m fine, but there is an enormous spider in my car.” He starts laughing, probably thinking “silly woman” …I tell him to come look at it, and even he is surprised. He radios his other cop buddy, nearby in the park, to come look. They both think it is nasty.
In all honesty, the web might have been the craziest part. I’m desperately hoping that thing wasn’t there when I drove to work in the morning, and that the huge orange spider was working his web-building hiney off all day long to make that thing. Anyways, cop #1 finally whisks it out for me. shudder. All I can think of now is that I wish my friend Lazyeye had been there, because she probably would have thought it was cute and petted it, and then saved it for her bug collection.
Now, I’ll bring you back to the title of the posting for a second because it is actually relevant. My mom used to always tell us the story of when she was driving when she was younger, and a little black spider came down on its string from the front windshield. And she freaked out. And we always made fun of her. But i’ll take it all back now, because I’m guessing that’s where I got my reaction from… And I will say that finding a weird orange spider chillin’ out in your car is scary. I suppose he crawled in from the edge of Rock Creek Park, which I park adjacent to every night. I will be doing thorough spider inspections in my car when I get in from now on…
Itzah C. Kret
August 27th, 2008
I’ve seen this truck a couple of times in the last 2-3 years while driving around the city. In the past the timing was never right, I’d catch a bad light cycle, or be stuck behind someone going a solid 15 mph as the truck would zip down the road, or the truck would turn right when I really needed to go straight, and I was never able to actually read the message in it entirety. The truck had always made me laugh, particularly the signature – so very clever, and intrigued me a bit so you can imagine how pleasant a surprise it was to find the once elusive truck parked over near Metro Center. I don’t know anything about the driver/owner of the vehicle, I don’t know if it is associated with any business (there was a street vendor set up to the side of the truck), and I don’t know what the motive was for the paint job in the first place but I like it.
…annnd it’s August…
August 1st, 2008
Where did July go? ..it’s about that time of year, when you were little, that you started realizing that summer was over and that school would be starting again soon. Dread!
Anyways, this weekend we are headed to Philly where I will be participating in the SheROX Sprint Triathlon . It’s my first, but it will be really good practice for the Olympic one in September. It’ll also be my first chance to really test out the new bike and see what it can do!
*crash*
July 28th, 2008
Totally unrelated to this bizarre-o picture that Matt took, but I did set a new land-speed world record today in the category of my bike-to-work commute from Woodley Park to Silver Bling–first time on the new bike– at 33 minutes and 17 seconds. Usually takes me 38-42 minutes depending on how many cars/dump trucks/homeless people/squirrels get in my way up 16th Street. Thank you very much to my new bike!
