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Old 03-28-2016, 03:27 PM   #196
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This is my building.

The gate is open today, but should be locked starting Wednesday night. Some Nuclear Summit is being held across the street in the convention center, and multiple foreign delegations and/or heads of state will be in attendance for a couple of days.

I should have some interesting security pics in a couple days.

Last time we had one of these, a woman on a bicycle was run over by an army truck and killed a block from here. I'll need to be alert.

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Old 03-29-2016, 10:55 PM   #197
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Old 03-30-2016, 06:43 AM   #198
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That would be bad.
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Old 03-30-2016, 02:17 PM   #199
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It's hard to get over that kinda thing.
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Old 03-30-2016, 05:03 PM   #200
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Watch out for female suicide bombers on bicycles.
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Old 03-30-2016, 06:44 PM   #201
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Don't over look the fat bottomed girls on bicycles either.
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Old 03-31-2016, 06:14 PM   #202
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Old 04-26-2016, 01:12 PM   #203
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It's been a couple weeks since this area was locked down for security. All the fences are gone, and cops are back to regular numbers. The one thing that remains is the security seals on the manholes.

I've been walking by these for weeks, and decided it was worth further investigation. First of all, there are hundreds of these things (I didn't count them) in a multiple block area around the convention center that hosted international delegations for the nuclear summit.

At a regular walking height, you hardly notice them. If you bend over to look, they look like this:
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When you get closer for a nice shot, they take on some texture:
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If you try to pry one up, you notice immediately that instead of being like a paper or tape label, they are a stretchy rubber. You curl your fingers underneath and keep pulling until the stretching gives way to tearing.
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And they have a little lingering sticky glue on the torn edges, but are otherwise just some flappy rubber sheets with perforations.
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Old 04-26-2016, 01:20 PM   #204
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You start to see a story in some of them.
This manhole shifted since the summit.
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Storm drains, even right next to the summit have no seals at all. That because the gutter part can't be closed off, so why bother with the rest. Plus, if you are small enough, you can crawl in through the storm drains from another neighborhood. Train a racoon and strap a bomb to it.
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This manhole was opened and then resealed.
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And this guy went crazy even taping a water shutoff cover. This wasn't done consistently.
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Old 04-26-2016, 01:20 PM   #205
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Did you know they can get fingerprints from a photograph?

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Old 04-26-2016, 01:22 PM   #206
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And maybe the craziest thing I saw was sealing off light poles to the ground. And in this particular case, doing it while leaving the access hatch to the wiring un-sealed.
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Old 04-26-2016, 01:42 PM   #207
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Just think how much planning and paperwork, recording all those seal numbers which the government will probably keep forever, and not in a jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch, but a top secret high security(expensive) location. I wonder if the seals have RFIDs in them.
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Old 04-26-2016, 02:35 PM   #208
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No RFIDs. Too stretchy. RFIDs would be pulled apart.
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Old 05-27-2016, 06:11 PM   #209
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Small Stories reveals the fascinating tales behind some of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood’s best-loved dollhouses, taking you on a journey through the history of the home, everyday lives, and changing family relationships. The exhibition is traveling worldwide with an exclusive U.S. engagement at the National Building Museum beginning in May 2016.
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Old 06-03-2016, 01:26 PM   #210
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WTF?

Oh yeah. Awesome Con this weekend.

I turn the corner, and yup.
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