weekend report

As Jeff has reported, this past weekend we had a nice dinner at 701 Restaurant Saturday evening before seeing the adorable and funny Stephen Lynch and the odd and funny Mitch Hedberg at the Warner Theatre. I had left my camera at home, but Jeff brought his and got some nice pictures, including this moody […]

Squared circle: Cinnamon-Apple pie at Cosi

elfintech posted a photo: The cinnamon-apple pie with caramel and whipped cream at the Ballston Cosi. Jeff and I had seen the Lemony Snicket film at Ballston Common, and stopped at Cosi afterwards for dessert.

Squared circle: Cinnamon-Apple pie at Cosi

elfintech posted a photo: The cinnamon-apple pie with caramel and whipped cream at the Ballston Cosi. Jeff and I had seen the Lemony Snicket film at Ballston Common, and stopped at Cosi afterwards for dessert.

Depth of field

elfintech posted a photo: Two views of the snow on the brick skill and gravel outside my office, during our first snow of the year this past Wednesday. The image on the right where the rocks were in focus was flipped in Photoshop and pasted into the image on the left where the snowy sill […]

Steeple against sky

elfintech posted a photo: Monday morning, after dropping Jeff off at the Metro, I took this picture of the church at the end of our street; the clouds that morning looked like they had been painted onto the inside of a blue dome.

carry me away from old virginny

In this still-new legislative season, the Virginia legislature already has introduced a staggering array of anti-gay bills, including the latest introduced yesterday that would ban adoptions by gay people. Apparently in Virginia there’s nothing more serious to worry about–jobs, the economy, poverty, education–than us evil horrible queers. Although there already exist two laws in the […]

snow more

Surprisingly, my agency has decided to close early because of the “inclement weather.” Granted, it’s still snowing even though we’ve already nearly reached the two inches forecast as the maximum, but from the windows here in our offices it doesn’t look that bad (granted, when someone even spits in the street in DC traffic comes […]

a snow job would be poetic justice, after all

Ah, it’s begun to snow here. It’s such a beautiful snow, too. They’re only calling for one to two inches, unfortunately, though I’d love to see a show-stopping blizzard in time for tomorrow’s coronation inauguration.