Adam Stone
We Want “The Real World: Washington!”
So I happened along this fascinating Washington Post article discussing how the median age of viewers of TV shows based in Washington, D.C., are, well, the highest of any show on the network. I’m not sure if my explanation above made any sense, so read the article. The median age of ABC’s “Commander in Chief” [...]
Hell And High Water
Oh. My. God. Are several of you still trying to make it to the office this morning? I knew I really shouldn’t have slept in a little this morning, but at the same time, I’m kind of glad I did. You probably know by now that the Archives-Navy Memorial and Federal Triangle stations were closed [...]
Why Aren’t My High School Friends On Facebook?
So I was having a discussion with my friend last night about how his old high school classmates had found him on his new MySpace account. I knew he had already been using Facebook for almost two years. I asked, “Why didn’t they just find you on Facebook?” “Because none of my high school classmates [...]
Weekend Getaways?
So I’m off to a beachfront condo rental in Ocean City, Delaware for the weekend. As a kid who grew up one mile from the Pacific Ocean all his life, I’m very excited to see what the other coast has to offer. I hear it’s full of nonexistent waves, warm ocean water, something called a [...]
Revenge Is Sweet
I’m sure some of you have misplaced your precious pager–whether that’s a Blackberry, a Wyndtell, or a Sidekick. Or a Motorola T-900 Walkabout. Or an Ogo (it’s okay, you can admit that you owned one…we’ll try not to laugh). One person left his Sidekick II in a Manhattan taxicab. This is his resulting story: How [...]
Wishing And Hoping For Metered Taxis
Oh! Good news! The D.C. Taxicab Commission is considering dropping the zoned fare system in favor of a metered fare scheme. Pah. How many of you have successfully deciphered the zone map? I consider myself well-versed in cartolology (the study of maps), but I am just stumped by the zone map. I blame this inability [...]
The Most Hilarious Deaf Videos Ever
There’s been so much discussion of supposed “divisions” within the deaf community lately (oral vs. ASL, educated vs. grassroots etc.) that it’s all gone into sheer absurdity. Filmmaker Wayne Betts, Jr., apparently agrees, and developed three knee-slappin’-funny videos illustrating excellent caricatures of pretty much all of these “divisions.” As a friend said, they’re “genius-funny.” Need [...]
They Are Out Of Touch
No, not Gallaudet. The government. I’ve now become convinced that it’s not only the President that has a warped sense of law and order. The behavior by several Congressional leaders in response to the FBI raid on the office of Representative Jefferson (D-LA) has been appalling. Rep. Jefferson, via a wiretap, was caught taking bribes [...]
The Arlington Horror
For D.C. residents like me, going to Virginia is just weird. Suddenly you’re surrounded by much-wider streets with names, brand-name superstores that you had all but forgot, and Metro station posts that have just one color band. Maryland is equally strange. Past Bethesda and Silver Spring, I am immediately thrust into resplendent pastures of startlingly [...]
VRS In Jeopardy?
You love VRS, don’t you? It’s nearly achieved, for hundreds of thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing people, what the ADA calls “functional equivalency.” That term means that the deaf person’s calling experience should be as similar as realistically possible to a hearing person picking up the phone, dialing, and speaking into the handset. We just [...]