friday night action thread...
watch out now... it appears that i am in this friday evening...
let's see what's going on at the ailounge®
we've got <a href="http://www.eslmusic.com:8080/ramgen/Mike B/Mike B.rm" target="_blank">music</a>...
and
[alcoholic beverages] but i said nothing of the sort... gorgonzola would have my head for saying anyhting of the sort....
what are you up to?
let's see what's going on at the ailounge®
we've got <a href="http://www.eslmusic.com:8080/ramgen/Mike B/Mike B.rm" target="_blank">music</a>...
and
[alcoholic beverages] but i said nothing of the sort... gorgonzola would have my head for saying anyhting of the sort....
what are you up to?
Comments
extreme...boredom...
thank you dc metro cops for making all bars 21+ as of last night, no exceptions...
Haven't decided if I like it or not. Strange film.
Check that. It was pretty cool.
Looking out the window right now and dreading the morning. Shoveling snow in -26C with brutal winds.... should be fun. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
It doesn't even have Julie Newmar!
Jeff
banging minimal techno. i shook a poster off my wall a minute ago.
I watched the Australian Open women's singles final. Didn't care for the final result though. Hingis is a brat, but a better over-all player.
Also, I've got a few DVDs to watch: Red Corner (Richard Gere amusingly enough, it IS a good movie though!), The Pelican Brief and Clear & Present Danger.
Also, I kind of wish AI still had that Java chat thing, I don't have an IRC client to use the new AI IRC channel for one reason: I've yet to find a nice, simple, OS X-friendly IRC client. Does anyone know of a stripped-down, feature-shy, preferably coccoa IRC client?
Edit: Oh my God! That was my 100th post! *runs to get the confetti and balloons*
[ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: Ybot ]</p>
Just out of curiosity, where are you in DC? My guess is a university, but correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm in the wonderful land of Bethesda right now, about to call it a night. (Trying to get back into normal life-scheduling. 2 weeks of exams and projects will throw you off.)
Anyway, it's pretty tough being 20 in DC. You realize just how little you can do on Friday nights, as you've exhausted everything non-alcoholic a while back. Of course, when it comes to a lack of non-alcoholic activities, I'd say central jersey takes the cake.
If you're really bored, and a risk taker, take that M3 up to New Carrolton some night, after the Metros stop running. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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Just out of curiosity, where are you in DC? My guess is a university, but correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm in the wonderful land of Bethesda right now, about to call it a night. (Trying to get back into normal life-scheduling. 2 weeks of exams and projects will throw you off.)
Anyway, it's pretty tough being 20 in DC. You realize just how little you can do on Friday nights, as you've exhausted everything non-alcoholic a while back. Of course, when it comes to a lack of non-alcoholic activities, I'd say central jersey takes the cake.
If you're really bored, and a risk taker, take that M3 up to New Carrolton some night, after the Metros stop running. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Georgetown. yah. don't have the car on campus with me
oh believe me... its incredible how much 'good colleges' are terrible for booze
<strong>I just assumed you were at Georgetown. I don't know why. My wife has a friend there in international somethingorother.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think just about everything here is "international somethingorother"...
It's why I come to AI... everyone here has to be so politically correct that it just is sickening... such is why this place serves as a nice respite, ya know?
<strong>I just assumed you were at Georgetown. I don't know why. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe because under his name for a while it said From: Georgetown?
<strong>DC is a horrible city too IMO. Are the "homeless" still running the streets there?</strong><hr></blockquote>
DC really is misconstrued as much worse of a place than it really is. Having grown up almost all of my life here, it's really a question of where you are, like in any city.
Allow me to introduce a map that I overlayed with red and green to show places that are "good" and "bad" in DC...
Basically, the green areas cover Northwest DC. This is the 'nice' part of town. It's mostly residential, everything from nice apartments to $10+ million homes. the Georgetown area is perhaps one of the nicest: the equivalent of a Toyota Camry around here seems to be a Mercedes, BMW, or Volvo...
Downtown is basically in the center of the screen. It was, until recently, not a very nice area of town. However, the construction of the MCI center and the current construction of the new convention center have very much revitalized this area. Clearly the Mall and Capitol Hill are fine areas, as are Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan. Places where you wouldn't feel threatened walking down the street.
However, the red areas encompass NE and SE; that's where it gets bad. SE is the worst; housing projects, etc. abound. NE is more of a working class community for the most part; it has its pockets of 'bad' but it is, in general, OK. Not necessarily the safest place in the world, but not somewhere where a stranger is going to be immediately shot. It's also, of course, got pockets of very nice areas. I know that there are many developers looking into NE and SE areas that border on the nicer areas for revitilization projects.
However, i was in the Navy Yard area of Southeast the other night very very late at a club (i.e. entering at 1 AM and leaving at 6 AM) and it's not really a bad area, just a dead one. It's possible to get mugged, but... basically, anyone walking around in an abandoned industrial area of any city is taking a bit of a risk
I think that the problem is that the bad areas of DC are played up no end in the media in the rest of the country-- because that's where the newsworthy happenings occur. Basically, NW is a very affluent, safe area... but it doesn't get press, of course.
DC is no worse of a city than, say, Baltimore or New York or LA, in fact, the nice parts of the city are MUCH MUCH nicer than most; it's just a different type of city. Whereas in many cities the nicest areas are high-rise apartments, DC, it's the other way around- green spaces abound and; in many areas, most of the houses have their own yards etc. It's only in the very old areas such as Georgetown and in the commercial areas like downtown that it's a really "CITY" feel...
[ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: Jonathan ]</p>
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just out of curiosity, where is GWU? I know they have 2 campuses, foggy bottom and uhh i forget.... nice areas?? Im applying there...
How can you afford an M3 at your age?!?! <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
<strong>How can you afford an M3 at your age?!?!
How can he afford Georgetown at his age?
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How can he afford Georgetown at his age?</strong><hr></blockquote>
College is an investment, an M3 is a toy. they both cost (close to) the same amount... <img src="confused.gif" border="0">