83 deg F in College Park.
11.03.2026 19:02
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83 deg F in College Park.
NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."
Sounds like, yes.
There are frogs calling in a little wetland in College Park.
The Bodleian Map Room Blog looks at a specific kind of map of imaginary places, “designed to be a guide to cartographers by showing how to portray certain features, or for the map reader to… More
On a related note, the administration fired Todd Inman from the NTSB. wtop.com/national/202...
This is extraordinary: a Sea King from Marine Helicopter Squadron One, flying up to Camp David and now landing at the Naval Observatory, with its transponder on. (Just passed overhead.)
Since the Fisk map is circulating again, I want to highlight a very good and probably underappreciated* paper by Aslan and Autin on how soils develop in this setting, through the interaction of pedogenic processes, sedimentation, and hydrology. doi.org/10.1130/0016...
*like so many good soils papers
The CFA encourages "evergreen plantings to screen the southeast and southwest corners of the addition." I note that there are species of Mid-Atlantic native pines that grow quickly and will reach heights of 40–80 ft.
Fog and pond
Fog and trucke
Foggy ricer
Fog and trail
Northwest Branch at Hyattsville in the fog.
Maryland's state wildlife plan conceives of the state's dry/upland areas as entirely forest habitat, aside from a few areas of exceptional geology like serpentine barrens. There are 4.5 pages on "managed grasslands" and "roadsides and utility rights of way." It is bizarre.
The National Capital Planning Commission has received over 32,000 comments about its current controversial case, the Epstein Ballroom, overwhelming opposed. Has to be a record, though AFAICT the article does not confirm this. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
I think reach is key, yes.
…and addictive.
I wonder if there’s a difference in effect between true crime and the like and NextDoor and it’s ilk, which frame incidents as immediate, proximate, and actionable.
Just subscribed!
I've been around enough intro design students that I first understood this image as someone's literal understanding of how the world works rather than an act of translation.
(Some) residents are performatively angry after Takoma Park's mayor bars applause during a public meeting. Reminds me of how in my neighborhood, older, reactionary folks are angry that they can't see the names/faces of other attendees in online meetings, bc they can't bully them. wapo.st/4aQtzPr
On the plus side, it looks as if the Army’s new counter-drone laser can in fact shoot down drones and not just party balloons. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bike racks are an unusual object; I’d posit that they’ve reached their highest form in the staple/U and cannot be improved on.
Had to skip a lunch-and-learn w a bike rack vendor because most of their products suck and should not exist, and I just couldn’t be in that room. The average cyclist knows better than the average planner, architect, LA, or engineer.
It is freshwater Friday, so a good time to flag our recent open access article with @floodplainmead.bsky.social on using a historic landscape approach to identify former meadow habitats with origins in the early medieval period: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Better to knit into a town, or surround a commercial street.
Was trying to find eyedrops this morning. Sprawling university campuses, where the only retail is contracted-out fast food, are lacking in services. Quality is terrible. Whole categories are missing. There’s a drugstore at the edge of campus but that’s a mile away.
book w photos
book w translucent paper
book w translucent paper
book w cyanotype
My MFA thesis was a book that I printed myself, where the paper choices and their format were inseparable from the message and its delivery. That was two decades ago—I think that we were the last cohort of RISD GD grads that mostly produced their own books.
I note that my institution's thesis specifications doc does not actually state a page size. Wondering if I can get away with running the doc, which will be a PDF read only on screen, in a horizontal format so it isn't stupidly difficult to use.
“Another train coming”
Railroad crossing signal
At College Park, the Purple Line signals are live and the railroad crossing lights appear to be under test.
