| ChinnoDog | hello | 19:02 |
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| maco | howdy | 19:06 |
| ChinnoDog | some of you peeps look awfully familliar. Who here is actually in DC? | 19:27 |
| dtchen | most of us are. Presently I am not. | 19:27 |
| maco | atm, i'm in columbia, md | 19:29 |
| maco | when im at home, i'm only about 50 feet into i-can-have-a-senator territory | 19:29 |
| maco | (i live on the dc border) | 19:29 |
| * ChinnoDog googles Columbia | 19:31 | |
| ChinnoDog | maco: Isn't that a long commute? | 19:32 |
| dtchen | depends on time of day and direction | 19:33 |
| dtchen | it's rarely a long commute for me, but I'm almost always going against the flow of traffic | 19:33 |
| maco | ChinnoDog: 25 minutes | 19:33 |
| dtchen | (I also take the train to/from work most days, so I don't drive) | 19:34 |
| maco | i tried taking the train home from work before i got a car. a coworker was about to drop me off at a rally shady MARC station when we found a decapitated dog and decided against that | 19:34 |
| maco | *really shady | 19:34 |
| maco | it was just a bus-stop-like hut next to some tracks and a sign warning to be careful when crossing the tracks to get to the hut | 19:35 |
| dtchen | hmm, the one on the camden line? | 19:35 |
| maco | no building, nothing to buy a ticket...just the backend of a parking lot for a bunch of warehouses | 19:35 |
| ChinnoDog | creepy | 19:35 |
| dtchen | heh, that sounds like most marc stations :-) | 19:35 |
| maco | totally not like the marc station chuck picked me up at for CALUG meetings! | 19:36 |
| maco | that had a building with benches and stuff | 19:36 |
| dtchen | odenton? yeah, I go there | 19:36 |
| maco | yeah odenton sounds right | 19:36 |
| dtchen | <3 public transportation benefit | 19:36 |
| dtchen | unlimited metro and marc for $230 not out of my pocket | 19:37 |
| maco | oh yeah i heard your car got totalled | 19:37 |
| maco | the guy at peregrine mentioned it | 19:37 |
| dtchen | yep, that was lovely | 19:37 |
| dtchen | at least DC DMV dismissed the citation, towing and storage fees | 19:38 |
| dtchen | I wasn't about to pony up $3400 + damage | 19:38 |
| maco | er, not the guy that works there that was babysitting it. the guy who uses linux and went to Wooten | 19:38 |
| dtchen | (yeah, Cliff) | 19:38 |
| ChinnoDog | With some luck I will be in the DC area soon. | 19:51 |
| dtchen | ChinnoDog: neat. Might you be in DC proper or "just" in the metro area? | 19:52 |
| ChinnoDog | Metro area. Virginia on the orange line. | 19:54 |
| dtchen | cool | 19:54 |
| dtchen | I'm in NW DC, but work is (roughly) in Baltimore. | 19:55 |
| maco | ChinnoDog: GMU? | 20:01 |
| ChinnoDog | uh.. lets see.. where is that.. | 20:03 |
| ChinnoDog | No, further west. Dunn Loring. | 20:03 |
| dtchen | well, at least you wouldn't be too far from a MicroCenter | 20:04 |
| maco | oh yeah, one metro stop and a 10 minute walk | 20:05 |
| ChinnoDog | I noticed that! | 20:05 |
| ChinnoDog | <3 Microcenter | 20:05 |
| ncweber | Oh man, I am so glad they put one in Rockville. I was getting tired of having to go all the way out to Vienna. :P | 20:29 |
| dtchen | the funny thing is that I haven't had a need to go to MicroCenter in ages; my laptop is working (FSVOI), and I just popped 8 GB RAM into it | 20:31 |
| dtchen | there's a lot of sand and dust in this thing, but that goes with the territory | 20:31 |
| ncweber | I do have to say, I am not loving the chicklet style keyboard on my new netbook. I kind like to feel where my keys are. | 20:32 |
| dtchen | I'd love a real Model M in a laptop :-) | 20:34 |
| ncweber | Model M? | 20:34 |
| dtchen | the greatest keyboard | 20:35 |
| ncweber | Ah, not familiar with it. | 20:35 |
| maco | ncweber: big clicky ibm keyboard from the 80s | 20:35 |
| ncweber | Ohhhh, those things. :) | 20:36 |
| maco | use it to knock on a steel firedoor with it, and you'll the dent the door but leave the keyboard unharmed | 20:36 |
| ncweber | I remember them. Yikes, I was accidentally hit in the head with one. You don't forget an embarrassing injury like that. | 20:37 |
| ChinnoDog | There is a company that makes those for the nostalgic. | 20:45 |
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