Not really, we just like the name…
Last night the George Mason University’s men’s basketball team lost to Virginia Commonwealth University in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) championship game. They came close to winning the game and going to the NCAA Tournament again this year, but lost in the final minutes. Not bad for a team that was seeded sixth. And they had to beat the number two and three seeded teams to get to the final.
Every time I think I’ve seen just about everything out there on the net, I run into stuff like this.
If you are a WordPress user, read and heed…
WordPress server hacked, downloads rigged with serious flaw by ZDNet‘s Ryan Naraine — An unknown cracker broke into a server hosting downloads of the popular WordPress blogging software and rigged the file with a remotely exploitable code execution vulnerability. News of the hack comes directly from WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg: “If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was […]
The Leesburg, Virginia Snow Monkey.
Back in the day, the late, great Frank Zappa used to sing “Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow.” Well, we had some snow this past Tuesday. The temperature has been below freezing since then so the ground is still covered with snow. I have two dogs. When I look out on my back yard, it brings back fond memories of the late night “Frank Zappa Festivals” one of the local radio stations used to broadcast every Friday.
That this house is worth $1.2 million? It is a new house and has been on the market now for about six months. There used to be a vintage 1957 one-story rambler on the lot. The rambler was torn down and replaced by this. You can’t see it on the picture, but part of the house sits on the original 50-year old foundation. And, the contractor did not even bother to replace the original driveway. They just patched the sections that were damaged during the construction.
And, although the neighborhood this house is located in is well-kept, guess what? About 99.99% of the surrounding houses are more of those “vintage 1957” one-story ramblers! But the house is within walking distance of the DC Metro station here in Vienna, VA…so maybe that might be worth $1.2 million to somebody.
Here is another view of the house showing where the contractor patched the old driveway rather than pouring a new one.