Overheard on the DC Metro

A conversation between two conservatively-dressed women in their 50s:

"He wants to go out to California"
"Why does he want to go out to California?!"
"It's the place to be" (with extreme sarcasm)
"What a retard."

Well put.

Snow in the City

While I of course enjoyed waging a snowball fight in Tompkins Square yesterday, a thought occurred to me. How much fun would it be if it snowed in a city like San Francisco? Imagine all the sledding opportunities! You could probably race a cable car down California Street.

My Calendar Controls Me

My spiffy Moleskine 2006 day-by-day calendar apparently wants me to take it easy on Sundays. I went to write something down at a particular time, but then I realized there are no times listed on Sundays! On each other page, there's a line for 7, 8, 9, etc...but on Sunday, just a bunch of dots. I thought this may have been a printing error, but each Sunday is like this. This seems like a notebook is giving me advice on how to live.

And I like it.

Reinventing the Avenue @ The Urban Center

I'm excited to go check out the exhibit at the Urban Center to see how this collaboration between Transportation Alternatives, Project for Public Spaces, and The Open Planning Project looks. Knowing that I agree with 99% of what TA and PPS say, and, while I haven't heard of it before, just from the name of The Open Planning Project, I'm sure I'll just eat everything up. Particularly spiffy is the Astor Place project, which reclaims a good amount of underused streetspace for the pedestrian and makes crossing safer for pedestrians. I cross that intersection everyday and it's always a guessing game and I know it can be organized better.

I'll be sure to go check out New York City Streets Renaissance's exhibit at the Urban Center and let ya'll know how it looks.

[via Gothamist]