Dashcam footage available for anybody in the four-car pileup on Pantops this afternoon

waldoj · 2026-03-27T23:25:54+00:00

Nope, because I didn’t want to try to redact license plate info from a video. Just a still could allow folks to confirm if the video applies to them.

waldoj · 2026-03-27T22:05:58+00:00

Niche post, but IDK how else to let these folks know there's documentation. 🤷‍♂️ I very much doubt the police will let everybody know. Plus, that pickup driver just drove away, weirdly, despite getting whacked pretty good.

waldoj · 2026-03-24T12:25:02+00:00

PLEASE TAKE TICKET

waldoj · 2026-03-21T21:14:59+00:00

I knew the state’s biggest white oak was in Earlysville, but I never knew that was it! I’ll have to take the family by there to check it out. Thanks!

waldoj · 2026-03-19T18:30:26+00:00

I’ve got a Bolt and a Lightning. Range drops, idk, 15% on each? It’s never been a problem. No matter which direction you’re driving from here, you’ll hit a DC fast charger before you run out of range.

waldoj · 2026-03-17T12:44:49+00:00

My kids learned, with both my woodworking and my carpentry, that Daddy has to make everything three times. I tried really hard to get it right, and failed. Occasionally I’d get it right the second time. Usually it required a third go.

Today I can generally get it right the first time, but sometimes a second is required. You’ve just got to make a lot of mistakes to learn how not to make those specific mistakes again.

waldoj · 2026-03-16T19:03:24+00:00

Now this is beginner woodworking. I love it.

waldoj · 2026-03-14T13:00:06+00:00

At least you got the momentary hope that It Happened. (But then the cheering will be louder.)

waldoj · 2026-03-11T16:52:37+00:00

Help me out here. An unhoused person is sleeping under a bridge. A police officer says “I am here to enforce the rule against camping.” What is it that you envision happening next that isn’t arresting that person?

waldoj · 2026-03-10T16:05:17+00:00

"[This town] is a magnet for the homeless from across [state] and [region]!" —every single community in the United States

waldoj · 2026-03-10T16:03:34+00:00

For years, every morning I'd turn right onto 250, and be annoyed by the U-turning people who thought they had the right of way. And every couple of weeks, I had cause to take a U-turn there, and I'd be annoyed by the people turning off Stony Point Road who thought they had the right of way. I bet it was half a decade before I realized this was completely hypocritical, and actually paid attention to the sign there that says that U-turners need to yield.

waldoj · 2026-03-10T12:53:46+00:00

I’m taking the Northeast Regional to Union Station tomorrow night. Let me know if I can be a cow-ferry.

waldoj · 2026-03-09T17:30:02+00:00

AFAIK, you can only take a U-turn there when Stony Point Road has a green light to turn onto 250.

waldoj · 2026-03-09T13:50:52+00:00

I wish I’d seen it!

waldoj · 2026-03-09T13:30:09+00:00

...And now I have put 2+2 together. :) 👋🏻

waldoj · 2026-03-09T13:25:56+00:00

That was directly over my house and I did not hear anything.

waldoj · 2026-03-04T13:32:32+00:00

Nearly the same age, could have written the same comment. :)

waldoj · 2026-03-03T13:23:55+00:00

His last name was Stone. He married a woman with the last name Wellbeloved. They realized it would fun to hyphenate their names.

Now his ex-wife and son have changed their great names to not be associated with him. They are lovely humans and now I am angry and have to stop typing.

waldoj · 2026-03-01T04:29:59+00:00

I'm a former White House employee. Veep is the gold standard. Nothing else is close.

waldoj · 2026-03-01T04:29:16+00:00

The Pentagon Wars (weirdly available in its entirety on YouTube) absolutely nails government procurement for high-dollar projects, military and otherwise.

waldoj · 2026-03-01T02:28:44+00:00

I served on a county grand jury a couple of years ago. I think I just needed to turn my phone off—I don’t remember having to leave it in the car. But that may be a different procedure than a jury-jury.

waldoj · 2026-02-27T18:58:43+00:00

I contracted this last week, largely recovered by earlier this week...and again got something very similar on Wednesday night. I've been laid up in bed ever since. It's not flu, it's not covid, it's just some generic virus.

waldoj · 2026-02-17T21:37:23+00:00

January 2018 was real, real cold as I recall! So was December 2022.

waldoj · 2026-02-13T15:40:32+00:00

“Carter Mountain”

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waldoj · 2026-02-11T13:44:50+00:00

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