"30-Minute Meals with Woodrow Wilson"

My workplace cafeteria made it into the DCist.

"The corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Ave NW may contain the best lunch value downtown. No, we’re not talking about the the all-too-familiar basement level food court or street vendor. Instead, look up and join the world thought leaders at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars."

"Chunks of fish and clams in a balanced, creamy base make one day's seafood chowder a great value, but let loose a starving intern with a bowl of beef chili onto a full fixins bar, and you'll soon see the value that can be packed into a few square inches."

The clam chowder is good.













Source: http://dcist.com/2008/06/03/30minute_meals.php

RE: FW: FW: ROOFTOP POOL

In a city built on networking, there is one relationship in your 20s and 30s that is particularly important to cultivate, one contact that can help create the definitive summer experience of snatches of sun and weekends of nothingness that nevertheless feel smugly accomplished.

You need a friend who has a rooftop pool.

"Remember, Chrissie used to have one?" says Frederick Oldfield, drinking a beer at a sports bar in the District. "She'd be downstairs cleaning or something and I'd be up there laying out?"

His friend Craig Collins nods. Sigh.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002881.html

OH O'REILLY

shotgun dumplings

Two years ago this week, some friends and I made a short film about a family from Mississippi who decides to move to Prague. It's called "Shotgun Dumplings," and we filmed the majority of it in just one day. So please excuse the sound quality. And the acting, storyline, editing, cinematography, etc. Watch the trailer before you decide whether or not to invest the 30 min, okay?

trailer


part 1


part 2


part 3 (includes music video)

reason #436 why i miss the czech republic

carbon nanotubes = the next asbestos?

A major study published yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes--long, straight multiwalled carbon nanotubes--could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities.

“This study is exactly the kind of strategic, highly focused research needed to ensure the safe and responsible development of nanotechnology,” says Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and a co-author on the paper.

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes are already being used to provide lightweight structural support in a range of commercial products, including baseball bats, tennis rackets, bicycle frames, and automotive parts. Don't inhale those products!

Source: http://www.nanotechproject.org/news/archive/mwcnt/