"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
08/03/2018 at 12:08 • Filed to: None
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"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
08/03/2018 at 12:08 • Filed to: None | 0
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Figured I’d combine these posts, since they are directly related. We took a quickie 2 day vacation down to DC, Saw the monuments and a good bit of the Smithsonian. Before we went down, my dad changed the oil on the escape. Advance was running a promotion that gave a free pair of hoonigan branded “speed socks” with purchase, that my dad promptly gave me:
notice a distinct lack of feature that one might want in a sock for high performance driving (or really any that aren’t typical of regular socks)?
They aren’t fire retardant. What is the point then? Free socks I guess. Wow. Now I can show all my friends that I am a dumbass corporate schill, and think high performance socks make me a better driver.
So, the trip then. We stayed at a hotel near downtown so we could walk/take the metro around. Nice, but the best part was the area.
Just on the block the hotel was on, was the embassies of micronesia, trinidad and tobago, uzbekistan, and columbia (complete with 1980s drug money aesthetic):
The other part was we picked the hotel because they allowed pets. which means hotel doggo:
My thoughts and some pics: DC (downtown anyway) is incredibly beautiful. we couldn’t find an ugly building down there. Guess that’s what money gets you. Saw some nice cars, but wasn’t really down there for that, so no pics. I never knew that with DC, unlike alot of cities, almost all the landmarks are in one spot. Kind of a sensory overload thing going on.
The smithsonian was also cool, if not kind of odd. It definitely made me appreciate just how nice the Carnegie museums are in pittsburgh. They had alot more.... expensive/famous things but the quality was on par. What was really weird was how some stuff at the smithsonian was a big deal (such as the hope diamond with it’s own room) but other stuff was no big deal (Lucy’s skeleton, van goh paintings) and weird emphasis was put on certain things like Gene Kranz’s vest in the air and space museum. It had it’s own special display case, opposite this bad mofo:
You know, something that actually matters. S ome interesting pics for oppos first:
The GPS exhibit was a little.... out of date. couldn’t they just throw a garmin Nuvi in there?
I need this boat plane.
Really interesting design. These fiber pieces like the outside was made out of matchsticks.
That is the biggest biplane I have ever seen.
Wampa bampa its the future
Now on to the monuments
a very underappreciated building.
kanadanmajava1
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 12:27 |
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Dusty Ventures
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 12:32 |
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Not sure why you're making a big deal of the socks thing. They're just supposed to be fun decorative socks. Like any of the million blipshift shirts you probably have in your closet.
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> Dusty Ventures
08/03/2018 at 12:42 |
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I just find it amusing. Hoonigan is mainstream now.
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> kanadanmajava1
08/03/2018 at 12:43 |
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Even your pit crew needs gucci’d out these days.
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Dusty Ventures
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 12:48 |
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Well Ken Block was a clothing mogul long before he ever drove a race car so...
Textured Soy Protein
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 12:50 |
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One of the things I love about living in the DC area is all the trees everywhere. I grew up here but moved to Wisconsin for college and ended up staying for 18 years before moving back to DC. It took me a few years away from DC to realize, “oh wait, I know what’s different, the trees!”
My sister-in-law and her husband visited us from Wisconsin recently. We picked them up at the airport and as soon as we got on the GW Parkway to head home he was like, “whoa there’s trees everywhere!”
It’s expensive , and traffic is pervasive (although my drive to work in the morning is usually fine, just the evening sucks), and sometimes you get a little sick of having to try to find a parking space even out in the burbs, but I love it.
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> Textured Soy Protein
08/03/2018 at 12:59 |
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Just being there made me feel fancy. I can definitely see the appeal.
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Textured Soy Protein
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 13:04 |
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It’s also blown up with development in the last 20 or so years. Up through the mid-late 90s there were huge parts of town that were not exactly abandoned, but neglected. A s the local economy has continued to outpace the country (thanks, both political parties, for always spending more money!) it keeps getting more and more developed.
You know how in a lot of places, a sports team tries to get the government to pay for a new venue, with the promise of economic development, but that development never quite lives up to the promises? Here, it actually worked, twice. Capital One Arena (formerly MCI Center & Verizon Center) where the Wizards & Capitals play was built in Chinatown when Chinatown was basically a couple museums and a bunch of old Chinese restaurants, and the area totally blew up. Nationals Park was built on the waterfront, which in spite of being on the water, was kind of an industrial, run-down area nobody wanted to live, and it’s similarly blown up. It’s crazy.
There are still relatively affordable parts of town, and it’s not completely fancy everywhere, but it’s pretty fancy.
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Textured Soy Protein
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 13:04 |
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It’s also blown up with development in the last 20 or so years. Up through the mid-late 90s there were huge parts of town that were not exactly abandoned, but neglected. A s the local economy has continued to outpace the country (thanks, both political parties, for always spending more money!) it keeps getting more and more developed.
You know how in a lot of places, a sports team tries to get the government to pay for a new venue, with the promise of economic development, but that development never quite lives up to the promises? Here, it actually worked, twice. Capital One Arena (formerly MCI Center & Verizon Center) where the Wizards & Capitals play was built in Chinatown when Chinatown was basically a couple museums and a bunch of old Chinese restaurants, and the area totally blew up. Nationals Park was built on the waterfront, which in spite of being on the water, was kind of an industrial, run-down area nobody wanted to live, and it’s similarly blown up. It’s crazy.
There are still relatively affordable parts of town, and it’s not completely fancy everywhere, but it’s pretty fancy.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> My bird IS the word
08/03/2018 at 14:26 |
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I have some sets of very thick ankle-height black and white socks that I call “racing socks” because I was told to buy them by my friends since all the top R/C racers wear them on the stand (along with a certain style of shoe, which I also mimicked) . I gained like 1/10th of a second per lap from those socks alone and then some more over time.
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> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/03/2018 at 18:31 |
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I think with these socks I might be good enough to try rally racing like ken block.