How to walk like Vincent Orange

With the possibility that tomorrow's D.C. election could produce a majority-white city council, Vincent Orange, who is African-American, took his election campaign to Ward 8, which is 94 percent African-American, to hand out fliers saying: "He walks like us. He talks like us."

If I vote tomorrow based on this criteria, I'll need to see some video of the candidates to see their walking style. Walking like me means:

• Completely spacing out
• Achieving a state of obliviousness to celebrities or family members who walk by
• Laughing to something completely unrelated to the surrounding world
  

No more same-sex Kiss Cam

Last season, the Washington Nationals began the season with the Handshake Cam, rather than the more intimate Kiss Cam. After all, the Kiss Cam has become controversial. For instance, they don't use it in WNBA to avoid having to show two women kissing.

For awhile, the Washington Wizards took the opposite approach to the same-sex Kiss Cam: they purposely target two people of the same gender.

To create maximum embarrassment for the players in a league that has not ever had an active player who has publicly admitted to being gay (out of the 3,600 players in the history of the NBA), the camera focuses on two players of the opposing team.

However, the Wizards will not use the same-sex Kiss Cam next year, reports Kyle Weidie.

Tweets from @LeavittDC

• USA Today is giving page-view bonuses to writers. v.zite.com/fKeAmY Get ready for an entire paper about tiger blood and Sarah Palin.
• Texas is upping the speed limit to 85 mph. I guess it's true that everything is bigger in Texas — including the number of traffic accidents.

Tweets from @LeavittDC

• Why did Moses lead the Jewish people to the one place in the Middle East without oil? It turns out he didn't: ht.ly/4uImX
• I miss the days when I had a Commodore 64. nyti.ms/dG7fEN But that doesn't mean I miss the actual Commodore 64.
• Esquire named Katrina Bowden of #30Rock the Sexiest Woman Alive. Oh and Tina Fey is pregnant. I wonder if this will become a season 6 plot.

Tweets from @LeavittDC

• Alec Baldwin says next season will be #30Rock's last. ht.ly/4un7H But what about the future of "Queen of Jordan"?

Tweets from @LeavittDC

• Ballpark beer vendors wander up and down the aisles seeing who wants a beer. Is there a better way? ht.ly/4sPUN (via @ErikaFishy)
• James Franco says "social media is dead." v.zite.com/ifcLDN I guess that means this is my last tweet.
• RT @wssocialimpact: If 75 percent of smartphones are not iPhones, why do marketers give them so much attention? weber.ly/ecpcha

iBama

Last year, President Obama said he doesn't know how to work an iPod. He added that he hasn't "made the switch" from Blackberry to iPhone.

I don't know if that situation has changed, but in the above video, filmed at a school in Columbia Heights last week, the president told Univision host Jorge Ramos that he now has an iPad. When Ramos asked if he has his own computer, Obama responded: "I mean, Jorge, I'm the president of the United States. You think I've got to go borrow somebody's computer?"

Tweets from LeavittDC

• Marnie and I planted a Kwanzan Cherry Tree today in our yard. I just hope there's enough parking on our block for the hordes of tourists.
• "Statistics is the sexiest subject around," reports the NYT: nyti.ms/gni0fh Sorry about the demotion, Beyonce. #wsli
• I'm tempted to buy this docking station to rest my iPad at night. v.zite.com/idEcxs
• Nats tickets are $5 off for fans carrying the Washington Post: usat.ly/ebl3gs What a winning combo, the #Nats and print media.

Tweets from LeavittDC

• Ouch for Obama. Good visualization of the differences between #Iraq and #Libya: http://t.co/N3mJb01 (via @LucyKafanov @RedState)
• Most nonprofits struggle with finances, but the NYT found the ones that are shutting down due to their success:http://nyti.ms/i1T69W #wsli
• Whole Foods calls food "local" if it travels fewer than 7 hours on a truck. http://usat.ly/eVzJJg I hope they're avoiding rush hour in DC.
• James Franco says "the Tasmanian Devil would appear stoned standing next to Ann Hathaway." http://usat.ly/dTOVmX Is that a denial? #Oscars
• Fewer people use Craigslist now than in 2009. Why hasn't anyone built a better Craigslist yet? http://t.co/7dIGAEu
• Borders is shutting down and its outgoing employees know why. Hilarious photo. http://t.co/4ByC41e (via @benholschuh@CityofChicago)
• Players in the Madden video game can no longer return if they have a concussion. http://nyti.ms/hJpXML Finally, concern for avatar safety.

Computer domination

Computers are getting pretty good at mimicking human reasoning. A little too good, perhaps. Judging by the recent developments, it won't be long before computers have far surprised our own human decision-making capabilities:

• Computers can tell us, two years in advance and with 98 percent accuracy, when a couple is going to divorce.
• Computers are replacing lawyers. And doing a good job.
• As if journalism jobs aren't hard enough to come by, it turns out that computers are beginning to replace sports writers.
• As a way to improve personalized medicine, computers may become the best general practitioners we have.
• A computer beat our planet's best Jeopardy contestants.

Clearly, they're going after our high-paying jobs (doctors, lawyers, game-show winners) and our fun jobs (sports writing).

Maybe we need to get Watson and the other famous computers to do more menial work. Cleaning toilets, perhaps?

The rich get richer

I didn't fly enough last year to maintain my Delta Gold Medallion status. (I've been bumped down to Silver Medallion Status, which is nowhere near as good.)

This loss of status is especially painful because of everything the airline does to give its elite members an advantage over regular fliers.

For instance, the day trip I took to New York (click the image above if it's too small to read), which was a 500-mile trip, earned me 4,500 miles.