Monthly Archives: February 2009

Do you remember GeoCities?

Posted on Friday, 27 February 2009 by David Gorsline

Dollar for dollar, schaden for freude, watching the missteps of Facebook management is more fun than tracking the misadventures of a certain jailbird hotel heiress. Marshall Kilpatrick’s most recent post is titled, “Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality,” … Continue reading →

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I remembered to remember

Posted on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Michael.

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Squeezed in Panama

Posted on Sunday, 22 February 2009 by David Gorsline

Elisabeth Rosenthal reports on the controversial findings of Joe Wright, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, that the rate of secondary rain forest formation (through abandonment of farms via urbanization, and other causes) is outpacing … Continue reading →

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Eurydice

Posted on Monday, 16 February 2009 by David Gorsline

The designers for Round House Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice have produced a masterful solution to the challenge presented by this, shall we say, post-modern Romantic play. It’s a modern retelling of the myth of Orpheus (Adriano Gatto)—the skilled … Continue reading →

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Fairfax Cross County Trail, Occoquan

Posted on Monday, 16 February 2009 by David Gorsline

I walked the southernmost two miles of the Fairfax Cross County Trail, from the marina on the Occoquan River to just beyond the Furnace Road underpass. The trail begins across the river from the picturesque marina and arts town of … Continue reading →

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Now you know

Posted on Saturday, 14 February 2009 by David Gorsline

The word for the day is walkie stacker, via my next recording assignment, Manufacturing Processes: Automation, Materials, and Packaging, 2/e, by J. Barry DuVall and David R. Hillis. You use a walkie stacker like a fork lift truck, but you … Continue reading →

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A short trip

Posted on Friday, 13 February 2009 by David Gorsline

I did a short bird walk this morning with NVBC. Nothing too special, a quick look at a Field Sparrow. The venue was Fort C.F. Smith Park in Arlington, which turns out to be a charming little pocket park overlooking … Continue reading →

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Hell Meets Henry Halfway

Posted on Friday, 13 February 2009 by David Gorsline

The friendly space at 7th and D welcomes a traveling production from Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company of the provocative Hell Meets Henry Halfway, with text by Adriano Shaplin, after a work by Witold Gombrowicz. Gombrowicz, Polish playwright and novelist … Continue reading →

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Upcoming: 15

Posted on Thursday, 12 February 2009 by David Gorsline

Via Missy Frederick of the Washington Business Journal and Amy Cavanaugh of DCist, dates and a venue for Artomatic 2009 have been selected: 29 May through 5 July at 55 M Street, S.E. The host building, still under construction, is … Continue reading →

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Some links: 36

Posted on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 by David Gorsline

I’ve been seeing too much of the TV ads during commercial breaks for hockey games featuring that doofus with the electric guitar, the ads flogging Experian’s so-called free credit report service. The report is free, if your idea of “free” … Continue reading →

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Tell the story

Posted on Monday, 9 February 2009 by David Gorsline

Via ArtsJournal, Melodie Bahan, Director of Communications at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, makes a good case for abandoning the traditional opening night review-oriented newspaper coverage of theater: Does the average newspaper reader even skim—much less read—a review of the … Continue reading →

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Potomac Heritage Trail, northern segment

Posted on Monday, 9 February 2009 by David Gorsline

I did the northernmost 2.5 miles of the Potomac Heritage Trail with a loosely-organized Meetup group. One of the objectives of the event was to assemble as many hikers as possible for a relatively short 4-mile round trip from Turkey … Continue reading →

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A mystery: 4

Posted on Saturday, 7 February 2009 by David Gorsline

How is it that, of the ten volumes of Gilbert Sorrentino on my shelf, there are seven different publishers represented? Dalkey Archive Penguin North Point Press Random House Coffee House Press Fromm Grove Press The funny thing is, everything else … Continue reading →

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Two turkey franks, hold the cheese

Posted on Thursday, 5 February 2009 by David Gorsline

In response to “Burgernomics, indeed,” Leta asked me a good question: What’s the difference between eating chicken from a farm in Delaware and fresh broccoli from California’s Central Valley? (We live on the East Coast.) Isn’t trucking all that foliage … Continue reading →

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I followed you up until “cool”

Posted on Wednesday, 4 February 2009 by David Gorsline

A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS (Link via The Morning News.)

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