Friends of mine consistently complain about the diet ads they receive on their facebook page. I have not been receiving those ads, but I did get this one today:
Designing Pharma Labs?
Containment solutions for OELII to IV Nanoparticles & potent powder we contain to 0.1[mu]/m^3.

Wonder how many click-thrus that gets?

Coriander and I brought in our Christmas tree last night. During the year, Theodore, the dwarf balsam fir we purchased last year to be our forever-tree suns himself on the balcony. In December, however, we bring him indoors, throw a bunch of lights and ornaments on him, and pile our gifts around the base. He's a small tree, of course, because the ( Read more... )

For the inauguration the Creative Coalition rented out the Harman Center for the Arts - the place we go to for our Shakespeare tickets. The lowest cost ticket price: $10,000. Amazingly, this is a sold-out party.

And Sting is headlining it. Le sigh.

No one on the internet has used the phrase "I have a crush on Nate Silver". Pity. I'm personally currently running regressions in order to determine then likelihood of my relationship with Coriander ending in the next few months; then, in the scenarios where that happens, I'm running a secondary regression to determine the chances that I end up ( Read more... )

You know you're a political staffer when ( Read more... )

Two things I like about the dating scene in DC, written by someone who has admittedly been out of it for so long, she might be poorly informed:

Men believe in looking nice. I love Austin, but when I lived there, I found the disparity between the efforts men and women went to in order to impress each other a bit appalling. While my female friends ( Read more... )

The Washington Post started an article in their City Guide section with the following:The personal radius. Home, work, supermarket and all crucial stops in between. It's trod so often you could navigate it with your eyes closed ( Read more... )

Many metro escalators squeal and groan arrhythmically as they carry passengers into or out of the subway rabbit holes.

Coriander thinks that they aspire to John Coltrain style jazz. This makes me strangely fond of the noisy escalators.

As much as I wish I had a shorter commute, for various important reasons, it's highly unlikely that I'll ever move into the District. The trade offs are overall positive, I think, especially since it means that I get Congressional representation ( Read more... )

I told my mother what kind of of birthday cake I wanted for my birthday. I told her that I wanted a white chocolate brie cheesecake with hazelnut praline and raspberry coulis ( Read more... )