By Avelino Maestas on May 5, 2008 in Personal | 5 Comments
My mother has had what we in the scientific community would classify as “poor vision” for a while now. It was especially hard for her to see well at night, and she couldn’t read the cable guide (even on a 27″ TV). When walking somewhere after sundown she needed somebody to help with things like [...]
By Avelino Maestas on May 2, 2008 in Personal | 0 Comments
From a post on superdelegates:
Since we joined with our partners to begin the Superdelegate Transparency Project, we’ve seen a number of proposals on how superdelegates can follow the “will of the people.” DemConWatch characterizes one group of supers who will vote for the “pledged delegate leader” the Pelosi Club, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Representatives [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Apr 29, 2008 in Personal | 2 Comments
I had a great Saturday in D.C. this weekend. An old friend from Silver City is a fellow at the National Academies of Science, and she’s spending four months here in the city. With our busy schedules, of course, it’s been hard getting together, but Saturday the stars aligned.
Being a fellow, she was able to [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Apr 4, 2008 in Personal | 0 Comments
Here’s the cats hanging out on the new chair up at Meredith’s place. The photo is a week old (as most of my cat blogging pictures are) but I was so in love with this shot I wanted to post it for you.
The new furniture was definitely a big hit (see below) with the [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Mar 18, 2008 in Personal, Photography | 2 Comments
So, since I last blogged I went to Brooklyn, saw The Little Mermaid, went to the Natural History Museum, walked across Central Park (again), went to the Met, saw the Guggenheim (wow, oh wow, was this an incredible exhibit), had a slice, went to the UN building, went to the top (well, almost) of [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Mar 14, 2008 in Personal, Photography | 0 Comments
So, yesterday I walked around Manhattan. Like, all of it. You can see the route I took below:
There’s more photos at the Flickr page, but here are a few of my favorites:
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By Avelino Maestas on Mar 12, 2008 in Featured, Personal | 0 Comments
So, I’m heading to New York this morning, to spend four nights in the Greatest City in the World™. I hope you’re all duly impressed. I’ll be doing my best to blog, and you can bet I’ll be snapping photos during the trip, so please stay tuned during the coming week.
Ta ta for now!
By Avelino Maestas on Mar 8, 2008 in Personal | 0 Comments
My favorite political cartoonist, Clay Bennett, has resumed work. He recently left the Christian Science Monitor (where his cartoons garnered a Pulitzer Prize) for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. I’ve long loved his artistic talent, but more than that I love the way he so easily pulls the thrust of a situation into the open. [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 19, 2008 in 2008 Election, Democrats, Personal, Transparency | 3 Comments
No less than four women called me “Mr. Fancy Pants” when I relayed I had been interviewed by the New York Times yesterday. I imagine they must teach this term during girl’s physical education classes in grade school,1 since I don’t remember it on the general curriculum and its use seems confined to the female [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 16, 2008 in Congress, Personal | 4 Comments
It’s not a huge deal or anything, and I’m not a flashy part of the story, but still, kinda cool.
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 9, 2008 in Personal, Poetry | 0 Comments
Last night marked the 30th anniversary of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society’s “Evening of Irish Music and Poetry” in Columbia, MD. We learned about it during Meredith’s recent reading at the launch for the third issue of the Little Patuxent Review (which featured one of her poems).
While Michael Collins, the Irish ambassador to [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Jan 1, 2008 in Personal | 3 Comments
Well, it was an amazing year for me. In 2007 I had my first Digg experience, continued to work on my photography, finished my second year at the Silver City Daily Press (before moving to Washington D.C.), and fell in love. Looking back, and reflecting on the current state of being, I’m pretty much living [...]