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@Steve O 176078 wrote:

Actually, we don’t really have any idea how the teams are derived. It’s a closely hidden secret. This year it is only performing a tad better than random selection.

Genuine question: what statistical test do you use for that? I’m trying to up my quant methods game.

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@cvcalhoun 176532 wrote:

So apparently she isn’t coming back.

Shit, that’s terrible. I don’t suppose there’s anything we can do, but let her know her teammates are thinking of her.

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For what it’s worth, if you calculate team points per capita, that moves us up from 22nd to 19th place. (And CincodeVelo down from 2nd to 7th.)

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@Kitty 176521 wrote:

Just call me “Notorious GBC*”

(*My actual initials)

And me, “Slightly Less Notorious DJG*”

(*The G actually does stand for Ginsberg**)

(**not Ginsburg, in this case)

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Those stickers used to be around everywhere but I don’t know where any of them still are. The artist, Shepard Fairey, was in group shows three times at Irvine Contemporary, though (Street to Studio, Street to Studio 2.0, Regime Change Starts At Home.) Irvine Contemporary is also no longer there, but it was at 1412 14th St NW:

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@jrenaut 175730 wrote:

Bsheehy8 and I will be there with two kids in tow.

How old? Can they and my 7yo entertain one another?

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Plenty of traffic. No signs of trafficking

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I promise you can see them

ETA: This is the view through the chain-link fence at the Washington Canoe Club. I didn’t take a picture from the Key Bridge because I thought I could get closer, but the brush was too thick along the sides of the C&O trail.

According to legend, these rocks mark the point where three sisters drowned attempting to cross the river. In one version of the story, the sisters themselves turned to stone, and that is how the islands came to be.

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Boundary Field, home of the Senators, burned down in 1911. Griffith Stadium was built in the same location, and was demolished in 1965. Howard University Hospital is now located on that site.

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Wikipedia says there’s a plaque inside the hospital that shows where home plate was, but I didn’t try to take my bike inside.

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Oh, huh, I got thrown off the track by these Avengers: http://www.onepercenterbikers.com/avengers-mc-motorcycle-club/

Floyd “Jesse” Moore did once order the killing of these Avengers’ President, but the killing didn’t actually happen, and if it had, I think it would have been in West Virginia.

I do love this game but I won’t be riding Cumberland Gap for it.

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@rcannon100 174498 wrote:

NemaVeze gets the point for the gang battle that took place at what is now Sushi Zen or Duck Donuts in Arlington

I couldn’t find any mention of that gang battle online, but I did find this:

John N. Maggio, an electrical contractor from Alexandria, Va., has admitted asking former Pagans national vice president Floyd “Jesse” Moore for help extorting nearly $30,000 from two business associates.

It looks like John Maggio is the owner/proprietor of Current Contracting on Sharon Chapel Road.

If I had played it straight, I would have taken a picture there. But the Avengers weren’t involved, and I wasn’t up for a ride that long. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Hell’s Bottom, the notorious slum of the late 1800s, located roughly between what I’d think of as Logan Circle and Shaw. In one incident (90 years to the day before I was born) a police officer pursued a man named George Bush (!) into Bob Brown’s saloon, and the ensuing gunfight left them both dead.

Location of the saloon, at 12th & Q Streets NW:

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“Hell’s Bottom” is now the name of a bougie barbershop at 9th St & Rhode Island Ave. Watch gentrification work!

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Ok, I know you’re referring to the motorcycle gangs, but I don’t know the DC connection, so what to photograph?

Then I went to the comic book store

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@josh 174413 wrote:

Most of the regular attendees (FFG, CBGanimal, and myself, at least over the past couple months) were down in Rosslyn for the winter bike to work day.

I didn’t know about Winter Bike to Work Day. How was it? Was there pie?

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I got to Java Shack at 8:00 this morning and there was literally one customer there, and he had not arrived on a bicycle. Where was everyone? I still need my pie!

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Why is the Wright Brothers’ airplane not in the Smithsonian Air & Space?

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Even though their plane worked, one of their early competitors was Samuel Langley, designer of the Langley Aerodrome. He happened to be secretary of the Smithsonian, and his plane was the one displayed in the museum as the first heavier-than-air craft “capable of flight” (even though it didn’t actually fly). So Orville Wright was like

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and donated his plane to the Science Museum of London.

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