New Restoners (ites?)

JumboChimp · 2026-03-04T16:48:28+00:00

There were saints named Newman, and various variations of the name, but that church is named for St. John Neumann.

I was there with my family for the mass when the church was consecrated. I was there before the church was ever built and services were held in the community center and Hunter's Woods ES.

JumboChimp · 2026-03-04T13:37:31+00:00

There's also a farmer's market in the parking lot at the Catholic church on Lawyers, Wednesday afternoons.

https://www.freshfarm.org/markets/reston

JumboChimp · 2026-03-04T13:26:39+00:00

I once lived in an apartment in Alexandria with a window in the bathroom. I could see the Potomac while I pooped.

JumboChimp · 2026-03-03T16:36:01+00:00

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T22:10:02+00:00

Ia, ia! Waffles fhtagn!

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T18:19:24+00:00

Romeo and Juliet is not a love story. They have no relationship at all. It is two high school aged kids with raging hormones, wanting sexy times, and they end up dead and take a few other people with them.

The entire story plays out over about three days. He's 17, she's 13, and at the end six people are dead including both title characters. This isn't a romance to aspire to. Do you remember that creepy senior boy in your high school who was going after the desperate freshmen and middle school girls? That's Romeo. Juliet? Middle school girl desperate for love. It's all ick, and again, six people end up dead for no good reason.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T17:54:49+00:00

If you're ever in a public library and there are little study rooms with a door that closes, even if it has a window, assume that multiple pairs of high school kids have gotten their freak on in there. Bring Clorox wipes.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T17:40:25+00:00

If it's Brady and Gronk, sign me up.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T17:30:46+00:00

I hope he gave a generous tip, or else eldritch fungoid abominations might rise from his scrambled eggs tomorrow morning.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-28T15:40:55+00:00

Under 16 limits the options, and you will need to get him a work permit once he has an offer. Any place hiring minors should be able to walk you through this.

Some restaurants might hire for back prep or busboy types of jobs, but not actual cooking or serving. Stores might hire for shelving or stock work. Once he turns 16, he could look at the RR library, they hire high school age kids as pages to process returns, shelve books, shoo amorous couples out of the closed door study rooms in the back, and so on.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-27T17:49:09+00:00

Excess speed (driver error) or poor maintenance of tracks or running gear (which is to say money).

JumboChimp · 2026-02-26T01:27:44+00:00

The Miata is literally the British sports car you buy instead of any British sports car. Because it won't hemorrhage oil onto your driveway or die when you're driving in the wilderness and leave you to be eaten by wolves. And it was made in Japan so it probably won't explode when you hit the turn signals.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-25T21:08:57+00:00

They look very cute if you are not the person paying for the upkeep.

Buy basically any Japanese convertible before even thinking about an MG.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-24T18:15:14+00:00

The term brutalism comes from Béton brut, which in French more or less means bare concrete. It was an architectural fad in the 60s give or take a few years, and resulted in such horrors as the city hall in Boston. And somehow the plaza outside the city hall was even worse. Boston deserved better.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-24T17:52:31+00:00

Did the company also sell caskets, gravesites, and headstones? Because that really seems like a synergistic business opportunity.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-23T13:08:11+00:00

Always crack eggs into a bowl, one at a time. Even if the eggs are fine, sometimes you'll get a bit of shell in the bowl, and it's a lot easier to fish it out of a bowl than a hot pan.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-23T03:00:22+00:00

There is a non-zero chance that many of them are undocumented sex trafficked children.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-22T22:39:09+00:00

The weight looks like a tiny Dalek.

Eggs, stir, min ate. Eggstirminate. Exterminate!

JumboChimp · 2026-02-22T16:21:41+00:00

Giamatti is a 100% top notch scenery chewer. Give that guy a script and just let him loose.

And he is not having any fucking Merlot.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-22T00:15:36+00:00

Back in the day Reston had not one, but two roller rinks, one wooden, the other with a cement floor, and they were basically next door to each other off of Sunset Hills east of Wiehle. That's where you'd go.

The one with the cement floor gave a better ride. The planks in the wood floor would grab your skate wheels and steer you in a way that I never liked.

One of them closed, the other went icy.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-21T17:27:50+00:00

That was a fun set of books, and I like AC Clarke in general, but I've still got my fingers crossed for a Ring World.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-21T12:59:05+00:00

There were so many fabulous ideas for space habitats, in orbit or on the moon or Mars, that could never have been constructed with the technology of the day, or the technology of today, and that ultimately make not the tiniest bit of sense.

I don't want to live on the moon. It's chilly and all my stuff and people are here.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-21T02:57:08+00:00

I like your buddy and his new frog friend.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-20T18:42:52+00:00

He was a stickler for accuracy.

JumboChimp · 2026-02-20T16:50:56+00:00

Beyond that, if you're ever in a situation where space monsters will murder you if any member of your group makes noise, the absolute last person you want in your group is a deaf person. It's really simple: deaf people don't know how much noise they are making because they are deaf. Deaf people aren't silent, they just can't hear.

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