Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
In August of 2005, I wrote that I’d be perfectly happy blogging about any number of things other than politics. Blogging about politics as an end, rather than a means, isn’t just boring, but I’m not sure that it’s particularly productive. So I’ve decided to make an effort to write more about the sort of …
Continue reading “Bad urban planning: Curved intersections.”
Charlottesville readers may want to tune in to WINA (1070 AM) on their drive home today. (Or you may want to make a point of avoiding it entirely, depending on why you read.) I’ll be a guest on Coy Barefoot’s show from 5:00-5:30, talking about local politics, mostly.
It’s that time of year when my thoughts turn away from politics and towards the great outdoors. Most trees remain brown sticks, but some are waking up. At lower altitudes, some trees are sprayed with the greens and yellows and reds of just-appeared buds. Our flowers are beginning to bloom, and Amber’s Dixie-cup vegetable nursery …
In October, on cvillenews.com, I encouraged local businessfolk to take to blogging. I think this might have been a mistake. Several Charlottesville businesses have taken to blogging in the past few weeks whose blogs are just terrible. Others started out promising, but turned out to be lame. These blogs are nothing more but serially-posted advertisements. …
It has has long been an element of faith among some Charlottesville Democrats (myself included) that, as Charlottesville becomes more expensive and Greene County (over)develops, the conservative population of Greene would be diluted with Democrats fleeing C’ville for more affordable pastures. Del. Rob Bell (R), the junior delegate in the 58th District, has a district …
About this time last year, my house was overrun with Asian Lady Beetles. Thousands and thousands of the little buggers were living in our walls, having landed on our east-facing wall en masse one day the previous October, and hundreds emerged each day to bash themselves against the windows, fill our light fixtures with their …
Continue reading “In which I celebrate my defeat of the lady beetles.”
I’m going to be on WINA’s “Charlottesville…Right Now” on Tuesday afternoon, from 5pm until whenever host Coy Barefoot tires of me so…uh…it’ll be brief. The topic will be blogging and politics. Charlottesville-area folks may want to tune into 1070AM then or, alternately, avoid their radios entirely.
Wow. What a day. It’s 64° out at 10am, and going up to 78°. There’s a warm breeze, it’s sunny, and clouds are hauling ass across the sky. (Don’t you just love it when I wax poetic?) The forecast for the foreseeable future is just more of the same. I’ve got the doors wide open, …
I’ve gotten a lot of e-mail in the past few days, since it was announced that Dave Matthews Band will be performing in Charlottesville, from people curious about how to get tickets. Enough people have asked that I figure I should explain it here. Your best shot is Ticketmaster’s website. Tickets for their summer tour …
Our home is on the side of a mountain. It’s just off the road that crosses this particular mountain range, with our lengthy driveway meeting the main road right where it turns from macadam into compacted gravel. Consequently, our driveway is where the school buses stop. A half dozen vehicles idle there each morning, every …