A Drive Across America
Wow. I just drove from Las Vegas to Washington DC, a three and a half day, 2,500 mile odyssey across America with only one Applebee’s stop.
As much helping my friend Sam move here from San Diego, as seeing another part of America, the flyovers, it was just quite an interesting trip. Unlike when I did a similar but wandering American tour with my parents, we did this trip as a straight, almost nonstop sprint, for I had a job to get back to and Sam has a DC life to start.
Happy Anniversary DC Metblog!
You know how I can’t stop yapping about life in DC? How I am an
unrepentant city-snob? And have the hyperbole to go with that gift
of gab? Well it seems others have recognized this um, skill, and now
I’m writing all my loves and hates for a cool DC-centric website
http://dc.metblogs.com/
2005 New York City Olympic Triathlon
A sight I welcomed as I got ready to start the 2005 New York City Triathlon. Olympic distance as in I was about to start a race that requires me to swim 1,500 meters (almost mile) in the Hudson River, bicycle 40 kilometers (almost 25 miles) on the Henry Hudson Parkway to the Bronx and back, and run 10 kilometers (just over 6 miles) through Central Park.
Read MoreDo I look like Ben M Gautheir to you?
Okay folks at Front Page, just who do you think I am? I know I was drunk when I left on Friday night, those six or eight Coronas kicking in hard, but I was a nice guy. I tipped you well, I kept to my crew, I even make sure one guy readjusted his beer goggles before it was too late.
Read MoreGoogle’s Spy Eye in the Sky
Oh my God is this hot!
Google just launched its Google Earth application and if you download it you can see amazingly detailed satellite images of everything from the Mall to your house. Images so detailed, you can see cars on the street, or if you look at Beijing, even people!
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