http://aringreenwood.com stories, photos, thoughts from time to time Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:49:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just blogged about My Friend Ray's $60,000 diet bet on the CityPaper's blog and the first thing Ray said to me when he saw the blog was, "Man, I wish some gold digger would come along and help me lose some weight so I could treat her right when ... http://aringreenwood.com/2008/12/03/my-friend-ray-is-looking-for-a-gold-digger-i-hear/ the cnmi's first member of congress, enjoying some noodles at raku http://aringreenwood.com/2008/11/18/look-whos-in-town-do-you-know-who-this-is/ new story in the citypaper - about a library report that rather shockingly came right out and said that the older, richer, whiter people in a wealthy part of DC would really prefer there be fewer homeless people in the library.  it's not the sentiment that's shocking - it's a ... http://aringreenwood.com/2008/11/15/new-story/  as someone I (barely) know put it yesterday: they're having YOU write about baseball? well indeed!  baseball and free tickets and scalpers and libertarians in this week's CityPaper. http://aringreenwood.com/2008/10/08/go-nats-go-where/ http://aringreenwood.com/2008/10/07/beautiful-weather/ Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist, who says: There is the possibility of something beautiful and true and new. But to find it requires spending a lot of tedious hours alone working on it. http://aringreenwood.com/2008/09/11/from-the-podcast-big-ideas/ from the complaint that got the DC gun ban case started: "Plaintiff Dick Anthony Heller is a natural person and a citizen of the United States and of the District of Columbia. Mr. Heller resides in a high-crime neighborhood and is a Special Police Officer of defendant District of Columbia. As ... http://aringreenwood.com/2008/09/09/heller-works-at-the-court-dont-know-why-this-matters-but-it-seems-noteworthy/ in case you're looking http://aringreenwood.com/2008/09/02/fsm-legislature-is-looking-for-lawyers/ http://aringreenwood.com/2008/08/29/my-new-gig/ http://aringreenwood.com/2008/08/22/nap-time-near-dupont-circle/