
Despite it’s many problems, Metro is still an architectural masterpiece.

Despite it’s many problems, Metro is still an architectural masterpiece.
I've been in California for a full year now, but I haven't taken advantage of it -- I kept thinking when I moved here that I'd be running around to all the things to see, the mountains and beaches and whatnot.
For the 5th day in a row, the cute UPS guy just stopped by to deliver a package. I don’t know how I managed to space out my deliveries so neatly, giving me a chance to gaze upon some eye candy consistently this [more...]
Is it so wrong that, as I was watching a Today show report from Baghdad, I was not paying any attention to the story… I was more interested in the cute reporter telling it? I think Richard Engel is going on my top [more...]
It’s too bad they had to install those sound baffles in most of the coffers. And the stains from leakage are unfortunate. And of course they ran out of money and had to switch to a less-expensive architecture than the wonderful coffers for the newer, outlying underground stations…
But nothing is as annoying as the fact that most of the escalators are broken on my route on any given day. Farragut West 17th street exit always has at least one down escalator. It looks like they are taking the Washington Posts’s suggestion and turning them off and calling them ‘stairs.’