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Great Falls Park, a site that is part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, is an 800 acre park located along the Potomac River 14 miles upriver from Washington D.C. The park is known for two things, its scenic beauty at the head of Potomac River fall line and the historic Patowmack Canal.

[ Great Falls Park (National Park Service) ]

Since I can't remember who asked me, this is how you dance like Sailor Moon:

Let me just say that the Ikea in College Park is abso-freakin' huge.

[ KooshMoose : Whodathunkit? ]

Mr. Moose, All Ikea's are huge. It is sort of a hallmark of the Ikea organization.

Kid's play area? What the heck?

[ KM ]

It may surprise you, but I have taken trips to Ikea without looking at any furniture or having any intent to purchase. For quite a few years Iman and I would travel to the Ikea so I could have a pastry and coffee for breakfast, she could have the 99¢ kids breakfast, and then she could play for the maximum time allowed.

If, like me, you had no idea of how bed spreads work these days, there's this "new" system where you buy a quilt and stuff it into a quilt cover. GENIUS!

[ KM ]

You should head back up to the showroom and look for the couches that do the same thing. Mine is the Karlanda. I have the sofa and a "bench" (like the sofa but with no back or sides). Both of them have canvas covers that come off completely, just like the pillows, and all can be tossed in the laundry. No expensive upholstery cleaning, and it all fits in a standard machine, not even requiring a laundry mat's super size machine.

Real banana sauce, coffee Frappuccino base featuring the finest Latin American Coffees, coconut syrup, milk and ice. Topped with whip cream and toasted coconut flakes. Also availbe in light.

[ starbucks beverages ]

Also available in crappy flash. You'd think Starbucks^® would be able to hire better flash guys (or gals...).

And, this season's Black Apron Exclusive™ is a coffee I recognise! Straight outta Toraja, near my wife's hometown, is the new Kopi Kampung (with much better flash, but could use a tweak or two).

Update: Got the Banana Coconut Frappuccino® Blended Coffee, and I think it's yummy!

Cone Pizza!
Originally uploaded by superlocal.

I'm not sure if pizza in a cone is strange, but what toppings! Hawaiian, Hot Spicy Chicken, Bulgogi, and something I can't read in the bottom right... Oh, and of course Supreme Cone!

A picture's worth a thousand words
With contact pictures in Gmail, you can pick ones for yourself, see which ones your friends have chosen, and set certain pictures to show up for specific people in your Gmail account. Best of all, you can even send picture suggestions to your friends. Learn more

We're in the process of rolling this feature out to all users, so keep an eye out for it in your account!

        

[ About Gmail ]

I concocted a scheme where I would subscribe to flickr feeds with enclosures and use the folders that it creates to seed the Microsoft Power Toy Wallpaper Changer with those photos for a fun, constantly changing wallpaper. Clearly I spent too much time thinking about it, and not enough time searching for someone else's application that already does this for me:

John's Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day).

[ John's Adventures: John's Background Switcher ]

Integrated right in the application is:

You can use Flickr (almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world) - you can choose to select pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random and there are a host of options to narrow down the pictures and increase the quality of those chosen. You never know what you're going to get next!

I recommend the Flickr Group Domokun Lovers.

$499

[ How much is too much for a game console? - Games - MSNBC.com ]

After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you. For the impatient, go directly to the download page. For the curious, read the announcement. Happy Vimming!

[ welcome home : vim online ]

Oddly it looks like vim 6.3, but tons of new goodies await:

NEW FEATURES

Vim script enhancements

Spell checking

Omni completion

MzScheme interface

Printing multi-byte text

Tab pages

Undo branches

Extended Unicode support

More highlighting

Translated manual pages

Internal grep

Scroll back in messages

Cursor past end of the line

POSIX compatibility

Debugger support

Remote file explorer

Define an operator

Mapping to an expression

Visual and Select mode mappings

Location list

Various new items

[ :help version7 ]

Though it appears that vimdoc isn't up to date on the v7 help.

Harpers Ferry is a town located in Jefferson County, West Virginia, situated on the banks of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet. The town is surrounded by mountains and is at the bottom of a ravine created by the two rivers. The town is best known historically for John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859. The town was in Virginia at the time of the raid; West Virginia was created in 1863. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 307.

[ Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]

I love Harper's Ferry. I have always had very fond memories, and I think it is a lovely place to visit. Most of the town is a National Historic Park and is a great place to learn more about the Civil War, though there is more to the town than that. Harper's Ferry is located where West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland all meet. One of my favorite hikes is on the Maryland side in Maryland Heights. I'm not sure if I'm as healthy as I once was, and if I should attempt this hike in my current condition, but I hope to make this hike again if only for the stunning view. The view from Jefferson Rock is also quite nice, and that hike I am pretty sure I can make.

The inaugural Fiesta Asia event will take place on May 6, 2006 and is free and open to the public. This kick-off event will feature an exciting array of attractions including an open market filled with an assortment of Asian merchandise, live performances, Pan-Asian cuisine, interactive displays, Manga design competition, and much more. The May 6th event precedes a month-long series of activities in venues located in DC metro area.

[ Fiesta Asia - 2006 National Asian Heritage Festival - Washington, DC ]

Ali went last year and said it was pretty cool.

Update: Then Yaty pointed out that Today was the 6th, not tomorrow as Ali claimed... Perhaps next year.