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New Dance Studio in Kingstowne

If you are near Kingstowne/Franconia/Alexandria Virginia, and you are interested in ballroom dance, check out An Evening of Dance run by a friend and fantastic dance teacher. His rates are very good, and I wish we were a little closer to his new studio. Tell Darrick I sent you and perhaps I can come visit […]

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Virginia Primary June 9th

The state of Virginia has it’s statewide general election on November 3rd, 2009; it’s an opportunity to select our next Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Delegates to every house seat in the state, and roughly 1/3rd the state senators. Most localities also hold their county and city elections at the same time. Aside from the […]

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Rasmus.com auction of Ruckus gear is almost over

I am stunned at some of the prices a few of these old pieces of gear are fetching… $700+ for old dual G5 XServes!? $1000 for old Dell Poweredge servers!? nearly $500 each for Dell Latitude D630 laptops!? On the other hand, $851 for a Sun V440 with four processors and 16GB of memory is […]

15″ MacBook Pro for sale

Erci has a 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB memory (2 sticks of 1GB DDR2 memory at 667MHz), ATI Radeon X1600 graphics (128MB VRAM), 112GB SATA drive, and Mac OS X 10.5 cleanly installed. Her machine is pretty mint, having never really traveled outside the family room. She’d love to hear from […]

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Be very careful out there

I went out to sweep aside the two inches of fluffy powder we had last night before Erci packed any of it down with her car and was a bit disturbed to find that the 2 inches of fluffy powder sits on top of 3/16 of an inch of sheet ice. Uh, folks; that will […]

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Company selling off old Sun servers

Update: too late, resellers have picked up all the old Sun gear, and everything else as well. =========== If you are interested in picking up some Sun server gear, contact me before we send it all to a reseller: Four SunFire V440 servers (4u) two servers have 4 drives (72GB, 10,000 rpm); two processors, 4GB […]

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Reminder to Fairfax County Voters

There is a second special election for all of Fairfax County to elect a new Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. This one is scheduled for February 3rd, and turnout should be a little better. According to the Fairfax county board of elections, the ballot will look like: Sharon Bulova Patrick Herrity Carey Campbell Christopher […]

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Excellent discovery

So La Belle is half-way through it’s annual Winter Gathering at my house and we made an excellent discovery. La Grange Meritage, 2005, is fantastic. We are a large group this year (18 adults and several children) and the two bottles we had on hand were not enough. Yum! It is a bloody good thing […]

Amusing personal

I love the writing for this listing: craigslist.org/nva/fuo/991160393.html Damn – some fool had the ad removed, here is the text for the fun of it: What a shame – I will grab the text from the buffer on my browser – it’s just a funny ad for a loveseat… Congratulations on clicking the best link […]

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Special Elections in Fairfax County and Alexandria

Sorry this is such short notice, but for those of you who live in the 46th House of Delegates District (Skyline area of Fairfax County, and Western City of Alexandria), you have a special election tomorrow, January 13th, to replace Delegate Brian Moran who is running for Governor. Your ballot will be: Charniele Herring (D) […]

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