Blacksburg Town Council has increased the penalty for noise ordance violations: it’s gone from a class 4 misdemeanor to a class 2, which is the difference between a $250 and a $1,000 fine, with the possibility of up to a year in jail. The relevant bit from the ordinance: Section 13-303 [T]he following act…is declared …
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My peers.
After the Virginia Tech victory in a football game a couple of nights ago: An estimated 1,500 people jammed North Main Street in an alcohol-fueled victory party. The crowd flip-flopped between benign “Let’s go Hokies” chants and profanity-laden choruses against Miami for several hours as police quietly allowed the group to celebrate. As the morning …
Westerner.
I just realized that I live, more or less, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains now. I’ve spent my life dividing the weather up based on west of the Blue Ridge and east of the Blue Ridge, with my weather, in Charlottesville, being tamer than just 20 miles west, on the other side of the …
Putting the…um…”draiser” back in “fundraiser.”
Last night, I went to the annual Montgomery County Democrats Dinner, held just down the street from me in Blacksburg. There were about 140 people in attendance, nearly all of whom were old and white, plus the Virginia Tech Young Democrats, who were working at the event. (The president of which actually attended in a …
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Thar she blows.
The Virginia Tech Power Plant just let out a terrible rushing noise. I stuck my head out the window to see that it was shooting up a huge plume of steam, which rose through the cool air at an impressive rate. After perhaps sixty seconds it stopped as abruptly as it had started, and the …
The LaRouchies are coming!
There are LaRouchies all over Blacksburg and throughout the Virginia Tech campus. The nutcases are collecting signatures to get Lyndon LaRouche on the ballot. LaRouche, of course, is completely insane, and a convicted criminal, at that. (Swindling old folks and tax evasion.) Worse than collecting signatures, they’re handing out copies of LaRouche’s paranoid-delusional newspaper, which …
False alarm.
From my bedroom just now, I heard a girl outside, just under my window, shrieking. “Don’t touch me! Help! Somebody help!” I jumped up, grabbed my gun and my phone, and dashed out the door. It turns out some girl was just having a fight with her boyfriend, and she freaked out enough to draw …
I’m a little slow.
I just saw on the news there was a Virginia Tech football game today, which explains all of the fuss today. But more helpfully, the story about the game also showed footage of two F-14 Tomcats flying low, right over the stadium, at the beginning of the game. Which clears up a small mystery for …
What it is ain’t exactly clear.
I don’t know what’s going on, but some sort of an event is obviously happening here in Blacksburg today. There are lots of student-parent types wandering around wearing VT shirts, cars crowding the parking lots, and large, apparently unrelated groups of people all going in common directions at particular times. The cars in the lot …
Roanoke gets WiFi.
I’ve been pushing Charlottesville to set up 802.11x-based wireless Internet access throughout downtown for two years ago. I started off attempting to set it up as a private venture, but it became obvious that it would be difficult to do without cooperation from the city. (Additionally, I knew that it wouldn’t do me any good …