James M. Thresher/The Washington Post
There were a couple stories worth reading over the weekend, all found in – gasp! – mainstream newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The first is this story by the Post on popping the question – the prom question. I liked it because this kid sacraficed some Dacron for a date. It was not his Dacron, of course, but still pretty clever.
Then there was the story on the $4 bilion National Harbor development right outside Washington DC. I've been curious about this one, because I sail by it all the time on the Potomac. According to the Post, the first guests to stay there were welcomed by a virus and some rats in their rooms. Yeah, welcome to Washington.
Politics, Rocky Start Cloud Promise of National Harbor
Interactive Map of National Harbor
This one ran a while back, but I read it just recently, when a colleague turned me onto it. It is a very New York Times take on the sailing vocabulary (perhaps chardonay and writing do not mix). Only read this if you plan to make fun of the author.
Ving, Vang, Vong. Or, the Pleasures of a New Vocabulary.
