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Rick
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Trolley Misses Matildaville
Read more: Trolley Misses MatildavilleA previous post about the Great Falls and Old Dominion trolley line found discrepancies on early 20th century maps of it. The earliest maps routed the trolley through the old Prospect Hill village on Old…
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The Final Ecobee
Read more: The Final EcobeeLast night I installed my third and final Ecobee 3 thermostat in our home. My children will no longer need to freeze/boil in their bedrooms just because the thermostat doesn’t know any better. Like the…
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A Trolley Line Mystery
Read more: A Trolley Line MysteryWhile studying maps of western McLean, Va, where I grew up, I uncovered a mystery. In 1902, magnate John McLean and politician Stephen Elkins started building a trolley line from Washington, DC, to Great Falls Park (photo…
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100 years of my childhood neighborhood
Read more: 100 years of my childhood neighborhoodMy neighborhood went through dramatic changes while I grew up. I was 10 miles from Washington, DC. Changes are even more dramatic since I left, about 40 years ago. I went to the US Geological…
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Gorgeous turn of century color
Read more: Gorgeous turn of century colorThis Baroque fairyland is Berlin circa 1900. The Publisher Taschen has published 2 coffee table books of Photochrom images. These are black and white photos that were colored in for reproduction. The results are gorgeous. The books…
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Mushrooms and Thermostats
Read more: Mushrooms and ThermostatsI’m installing Ecobee 3 thermostats. I really like the one at our lake house (1990s heating plant) so I started installing them in our regular home (1900s heating plant). Things did not go smoothly.…
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Kohl’s doesn’t really do Apple Pay after all, I suppose
Read more: Kohl’s doesn’t really do Apple Pay after all, I suppose[Update: Kohl’s has distributed new credit cards that actually work with Apple Pay]. Kohl’s and Apple have been merrily posting all sorts of stuff about how Apple Pay now works with Kohl’s charge card.…
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