Tron's kind of bar!

This looks perfect for R3k!!


Interactive nightclub to thrill Londoners - Engadget

Anyone want to go for a ride?

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Too much Taxes

Perhaps I'm just cranky about paying my Personal Property Tax bill for Fairfax County, but I'm fed up with too many taxes in general.

So I always like to do a little math from the info sheet FX County gives me.

It says that they plan to collect $3,319,047,284 in FY 2008. The estimated # of households for FX county is 377,600. So that's about $8,790 per household to live here. I'd have to look and see how that compares to other counties but seems like an awful lot to me!!

Now on to education expense. From Wikipedia it says that enrollment in FCPS is at 164,843, now divide that by the amount that goes to schools from the sheet FX County gave me which is $1,734,459,426 and you get $10,521.88 per pupil.

Now I will refer you to UVA, where in state tuition for their engineering school is $3,927 per semester. Assuming two semesters, that would be around $8,000.

Now you tell me, would you rather take a voucher for $10,521 and send your kid to UVA and still have $2,500 left over to spend on books, etc.? Or send them off to a Govt. run monopoly?

Now I know you can't exactly send your 1st grader to UVA, but you get my point here. $10K buys a whole lot better education at a private institution, then at a public one.

Please SOMEBODY try this!!!

I don't eat fish, but I would love to hear the results from my culinary inclined friends of how cooking Salmon in your dishwasher turns out.

The Untapped Bloggers!

Well, Big Al's Friends Blog is no doubt, a bit slow on content generation. Not sure if that is my fault, or my blogger friends. Apparently instead of enlisting Brad as a blogger, I should have enlisted his wife and sister. Melissa's and Lynn's blog, Sugar City Journal seems to be updated much more frequently than this one.

Where are my blog'n buddies these days?

Apple - iPod touch

Although I wasn't big on the iPhone (doesn't beat my Blackberry), I do like my iPod and am game for the new Apple - iPod touch.

***Update*** I take it back. I thought these things had 160 GB of space. With only 16GB forget it. Will have to wait until they upgrade the size on the iPod Touch.