Alex Dickson

FFS

@alexgdodds I do remember them. Nightclub downtown -3 floors, retro themed. Open for maybe 5-6 years? I think they filed bankruptcy to avoid a couple lawsuits.

@JMGregorchuk @markasaurus Do you size this for a double, a queen, or a king?

@markasaurus Yea I don't mean the actually murphy part, just the wardrobes on the side and cabinet above

What a detail

In recent years, Paris has transformed from a city whose streets were designed for moving through, to streets designed for spending time. Its School Streets program has been central to this strategy, creating new public space that has tangibly improved the lives of all residents.

@JFKucinich @JBurchDC I'm embarrassed for you.

@JBurchDC I live here. Do you? If you do, boil your water.

Glad Mayor Bowser was at the WH pretending to be a governor tonight.

@MPowersNorrell Oh, we knew he was toxic. Sex in the City was not a guide to life. It wasn't a guidebook on how to live our lives in a healthy way. It was a reflection of our actual dating lives at the time - albeit with better friendships, better shoes, and better jokes.

I am watching #SexAndTheCity for the first time and I stay so mad at “Mr Big” I’m trying to work it into everyday conversations: “Did you follow Carrie and Big? He’s so toxic. How did they not see how toxic he was?!”

@LouRovegno @holz_bau @mateosfo What does it matter? Theoretical exercise does not beat actual exercise.

An “elite cyclist” tried to tell me yesterday that e-bike riders don’t get as much exercise as acoustic cyclists, but the truth is, they very much do. One wild thing about modern life is most people have no idea how their own bodies work.

@MPowersNorrell Hmmmm. Mint can make an excellent ground cover with and excellent scent and white or lilac flowers in summer.

Why would I not plant mint? I can’t make a mojito with these ornamental grasses! 🌿

@_TheDanWarren @tkunsman it's so time consuming

@tkunsman Darn. Guess the best thing to do is drop to ref lines and manually align everything. Yuck.

@eddieoctane88 @STATter911 @OUC_DC @dcfireems Atlanta has 71 streets with the name Peachtree. When you live/work in DC, you know the quadrant matters. It's not that hard.

@STATter911 @OUC_DC @dcfireems DC's street numbers are part of the problem. Normal cities don't have the same numbers on opposite ends of the same street miles today from each other.

NEW: Absolute chaos tonight at DC911/@OUC_DC. About seven minutes were lost when 13 @dcfireems units were dispatched for a reported building fire at 1704 R Street in Northwest. There was no fire at that location. The fire was burning more than six miles away at 1704 R Street in Southeast. But that only partially describes how screwed up it was around 5:45 p.m. at DC 911. Here are some of the things that went wrong: 1. At the same time dispatchers sent units to the Northwest location, DC911 dispatched Engine 19 for a fire alarm at the correct building in Southeast. No dispatchers or supervisors noticed there were two fire calls at the same time for the same street address in two different quadrants of the city and advised that something might be wrong here. 2. The @dcfireems Fire Operations Center (FOC) did notice the two calls and also noted that the 911 caller for the run in Northwest was actually calling from Southeast! That should have been caught by call-takers, dispatchers and supervisors. It took FOC stepping in to alert everyone to the problem. 3. Even with FOC's alert and Engine 19 then arriving on the scene in Southeast to find a working apartment fire, OUC still took about seven minutes to send help. 4. To add to the confusion, when OUC finally sent the right dispatch to the right location they entered two separate responses. This added to the chaos by dispatching 26 fire and EMS companies to the call instead of 13. Once again, FOC and not OUC had to step in to correct this. Besides the fire officers working at FOC, the only thing that saved the day and helped mitigate OUC's huge mistakes was that the building on fire was sprinklered. It kept the fire in check. Without the fire sprinklers, the impact of these errors would have been much greater. These mistakes occur because of poor training, management, and leadership. They also occur because OUC is greatly understaffed putting enormous stress on those who are working. @CMBrookePinto, what has to happen to get the @councilofdc to do what @mayorbowser refuses to do and finally #FixDC911? Who has to die before someone in a leadership position says the status quo isn't working? To fix it, you have to know exactly what the problems are. That will never happen unless you force Director Heather McGaffin to release the data and botched call information she's now obligated by law to release. Question 1 for tonight, how many call-takers, supervisors, and dispatchers were working when OUC went down in flames tonight? @dclinenews @tomsherwood @RealTimeNews10 @ELaserDavies @oliviardiaz @leonardnfleming @RamirezReports @SegravesNBC4 @ANCCostello @CMBrookePinto @CMZParker5 @chenderson @SmithSteiner @johnson4b06 @Evan_Yeats @ANCJonah @MayorBowser @SafeDC @charlesallen @ChmnMendelson @theHillisHome @PoPville @dccrimefacts @abeaujon @SchreiberSara @CapitalJeff @Brightwoodian @ODCA_DC @kpattdc @IAFF36 @dcpoliceunion @BrianneKNadeau

@MPowersNorrell Some of the photos (like the one of the guys eating lunch on beam) where publicity photos for the new building.

@AlexDicksonDC Omg.

Re people who used to work on these sky scrapers and walk around on the beams high in the sky, … how? Did they have a special way of thinking / not thinking about how a simple uncoordinated step or dizziness could fling them to certain death? Were they hypnotized? Serious ask

@realEstateTrent @dblockdotorg If you want to attract other people, it's a good idea to be open minded and curious about things you don't know much about. A person who has already made up their mind about everything is not someone who would be worth having a conversation with let alone go on a date with.

@dblockdotorg Even if you don’t care about art?

A few of my friends are over 40 and single. They’re successful, want families, but things haven’t lined up yet. Most of their friends have kids, they say the dating apps don’t favor men over 40, and neither does the bar scene. What’s the best way for them to meet a partner?

@MPowersNorrell Week after week for a month of 90 hr billable wks (really 95-100 hr in the office) is brutal. A year? woof. Compensaton may or may not show up in your EOY bonus.

My takeaways: (1) Overwork as a badge of honor is toxic and unhealthy; (2) Big Law doesn’t care about an associate’s mental or physical health; (3) At least some Big Law associates are willing to lie about their billing; and (4) Big Law encourages that.

@paytonchung @19eightytwomatt You are correct. The floor to floors dimensions are different than most of the historic precedents (as well as contemporary concrete). There's a lot more wall area and it's a very, very thin flat wall. It doesn't mean it can't be done well. Just that it's a challenge.

@19eightytwomatt @2024dion The conversation of whether 5-over-1 is good or not is so very tired. Yes, it's a perfectly good building type that we can build today, and we should build more.

@19eightytwomatt @2024dion I'm just saying your examples are not wood frame over podium. I am not saying they can't be done well and TGP has good examples of this building type. work in this area. However, there ARE impacts on the appearance of a building with different construction types.

@19eightytwomatt To be fair, none of these are 5 over 1s.

@2024dion @19eightytwomatt They are concrete. Steel is unusual in DC.

@19eightytwomatt Pretty sure all of these are light steel frame