Updated Forecast: In Excess of 8" of Snow, Plus Wind
And Now, 10-20 Inches
Federal Govt. Closed Tuesday
Snowmaggedon 1.0 in Time Lapse
- The internet (and the stock market) is more or less freaking out about Apple CEO Steve Jobs's announcement that he's taking six months of leave due to health reasons.
- A deal is now in place for the city to hand over a vacant lot near the Ft. Totten Metro station to a team of developers who are planning to convert it into an $80 million mixed-use project.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton says she gave out 600 "surprise" tickets to the Inauguration this afternoon to D.C. residents. Know anyone who got one?
- At last, we think we may have found the worst Obama souvenir ever.
- Metro GM John Catoe warns that something is sure to go wrong on Metro on January 20. Duh?
- The water main break near the Verizon Center is still being fixed; we hear it won't be resolved until tomorrow afternoon. Fans attending the Georgetown vs. Syracuse game tonight are strongly encouraged to take Metro.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
i mean, everyone knows steve jobs is going to die someday, right? the man won't be running apple forever. what happens then? sheesh, it's not like he creates all of this stuff himself, people.
Actually, that Obama Paper Plate site is pretty awesome ... I can appreciate someone who can mock the hype and attempt to cash in on it at the same time.
And it's some cold freakin' pranksters that'll tip over one of the handicapped port-a-potties, man.
Yeah, I'd say that you may have found the best Obama souvenir ever.
It might not have been a prank. You see tipped over toilets all the time after open-air concerts. It's usually the result of "toilet surfing" wherein the "surfer" climbs on top of the portolet and attempts to run from roof to roof. Occasionally, the surfer will fall through the roof with hilarious consequences. Kinda like watching NASCAR except with more poo.
I'm pretty sure Apple is going to invent those human head containers from Futurama -- maybe call it the iHead -- and the first one will be used to keep Steve Jobs' head alive forever so he can keep running the company.
“Something will happen on the 20th,” Metro General Manager John Catoe told the Metro Riders Advisory Committee last week. “We cannot operate that many trains and not have something happen.”
Finally, Cantoe's admitting Metro's screwed. I'm still waiting for him to admit the real reason why the trains have been malfunctioning. WMATA delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Föggy-Böttöm. Shadow and flame!
i thought the proper transliteration was "føggy bøttøm"
oh well, the point stands. fly, you fools!
Catoe's setting the expectations bar really low. That way if the 20th is not an unmitigated fustercluck they can declare it a "success." (Then get in line for some of that "emergency disaster designation" federal scratch.)
Are we really that sad of a country that we only have one person with the creativity to make innovative technology products? And maybe is Jobs wasn’t loaded up on coke for most of the 80’s he would be in better health.
I'm pretty sure Jobs has been a notorious health nut for most of his adult life, which makes his illness all the more ironic.
shoulda done more coke. coke kills cancer.
I must have missed the coke binge scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley...
There is a documentary about Apple's early days (I forget the name) and during the high flying days of the 80's Apple’s office life was basically a wild orgy. It got so bad that it became company policy that men and women could not travel together.
To clear things up: The coke binge scene was in the adult film knockoff of that movie, Butt Pirates of Silicon Valley. The scene where Steve "Blow" Jobs snorts a line off that hooker's back side was priceless.
I've never seen so many porto potties! Hopefully they've got more trash and recycle bins on order too, cause I count ten thousand porto potties and less than 100 trash cans.
If Jobs expires, the protective spell he cast will be removed, opening the portal to Hell, and all your Apple hardware will go through a hideous transmogrification and turn into tentacle-whipping, virus-infected PCs running Vista OS. Beware!
I got two of the tickets from Eleanor! So excited and I can't believe my luck.