The most tempting salmon

[lordofthemark]

Coming off the 14th street bridge from Virginia to the Jefferson memorial sidewalk heading towards downtown – it seems almost everyone scoots in the street to the first south facing curb cut, rather than try to make one of the 90 degree right turns instead. Even though thats actually a south bound lane. Usually not much traffic there by the Memorial, at least in the AM. But it still makes me nervous.

Has this been discussed? I assume no NPS plans for a fix.

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[jrenaut]

I like Linux because I actually hate operating systems. Windows and Apple OS prance around yelling “Look at me, I’m an operating system, I poop rainbows!”. Crunchbang just shuts up and gets out of the way so I can actually do what I want. Sometimes I hate gears and adjustments and fancy brakes and that’s why I think of fixed gears as like Linux. But I get your point.

[Rockford10]

@baiskeli 96093 wrote:

There you go Macsplaining again.

Dang it! I just got here to see if someone could mansplain how to Bing Hains Point on Google.

[jrenaut]

@Rockford10 96097 wrote:

Dang it! I just got here to see if someone could mansplain how to Bing Hains Point on Google.

You forgot the extraneous ‘e’ in ‘Hains’.

[baiskeli]

@Rockford10 96097 wrote:

Dang it! I just got here to see if someone could mansplain how to Bing Hains Point on Google.

I can’t do that, but I could mansplain how to grill a nice hunk of wild Atlantic salmon.

[dkel]

@baiskeli 96101 wrote:

I can’t do that, but I could mansplain how to grill a nice hunk of wild Atlantic salmon.

That was a pretty feeble attempt to bring this thread back on topic. Or are you hitting on my wife?

[baiskeli]

@dkel 96109 wrote:

That was a pretty feeble attempt to bring this thread back on topic. Or are you hitting on my wife?

If I wanted to hit on your wife, I’d use sexy talk about computer operating systems, not boring, unappealing things like delicious, expertly prepared gourmet salmon.

[Toonces]

Salmon, we don’t need no stinkin’ salmon – we have this! I want to thank you all for the most entertaining thread.
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[dkel]

@baiskeli 96111 wrote:

If I wanted to hit on your wife, I’d use sexy talk about computer operating systems, not boring, unappealing things like delicious, expertly prepared gourmet salmon.

I don’t think either would work. And I’ve learned that talking about bikes isn’t much of a turn-on for her either, sadly.

[baiskeli]

@dkel 96123 wrote:

I don’t think either would work. And I’ve learned that talking about bikes isn’t much of a turn-on for her either, sadly.

Well, then, I’m not interested anyway.

Excuse me while I cook my wife some salmon, if you know what I mean.

[Steve O]

I know you will all hate me for re-hijacking the thread back to bicycling.
Long before rationalizing the curb cuts by Jefferson, the approach to the 14th St. bridge needs to be fixed. Is there any sort of a plan to widen it, flatten it and get rid of the poles that are in the way? This century?

[cyclingfool]

@Steve O 96152 wrote:

I know you will all hate me for re-hijacking the thread back to bicycling.
Long before rationalizing the curb cuts by Jefferson, the approach to the 14th St. bridge needs to be fixed. Is there any sort of a plan to widen it, flatten it and get rid of the poles that are in the way? This century?

How dare you? I thought it was well established that this thread was for fish you prefer Linux OSes.

Seriously, though, there are plans to deal with that area. I don’t know how far along any of this is at this point. I don’t have my finger on the pulse of this as much as I used to, but maybe someone else knows more details. dbb?

I can share this little nugget, from a May Washcycle post.

2. On the DC side of the 14th Street Bridges there is a grant already approved to deal with “the pole.” If you bike across the George Mason Bridge, you know what I’m talking about. Apparently moving this pole away from the trail to remove a pinchpoint is not easy, but work will begin soon to deal with this. Another grant will widen the trail in the area and make improvements along East Basin Drive (the road in front of the Lincoln Memorial).

IOW, something’s being done. I can’t say whether or not it’ll be @Steve O 96152 wrote:

This century

[Raymo853]

Are there any os’es named after types of fish?

[jrenaut]

@Raymo853 96164 wrote:

Are there any os’es named after types of fish?

I think a version or two of Ubuntu might be.

[cyclingfool]

Given his apparent ability to overcook fish (see earlier in thread) I propose that baiskeli’s Linux OS distro name should be Sear Salmon in the great alliterative wildlife tradition of Ubuntu version names.

[PotomacCyclist]

I found this:

http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/#38.88365,-77.03299000000004,38.880585825688605,-77.03556406095879,38.87999000000001,-77.03962999999999,0.8048125000000228,72.65625

[Probably not viewable on a smartphone or older computer.]

Takes about a minute to load and may cause dizziness for some viewers.

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