There are plenty of choices to get your running shoes. (Thanks, Orchid)
Charlottesville Running Company - Relatively New to the Area, but I’ve heard they are good.
Downtown Athletic - Has tons of sports stuff, but not running focused. Not actually Downtown.
Ragged Mountain Running Shop- The oldest player in town. Very good!
Did I miss anywhere?
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Holy crap, Batman. We just got tipped off by some birdies that Dominion Virginia Power has requested a rate increase in electricity prices of nearly 20%!
Dominion Power’s President, David A. Heacock explained “the market prices of fuel used to run our power stations – coal, natural gas, fuel oil and uranium – have risen by more than 200 percent in some cases since fuel rates were last fully aligned with market conditions in 2004.”
Unfortunately, we live in a world where most of our energy consumption is linked to fossil fuels and other non-renewable sources. If you want to change things, you aren’t going to get it by sitting around waiting for energy companies to make that change for you. You have to conserve and take other initiatives to reduce your energy bill.
While we’ve already seen an increase in food prices, this will put a lot more pressure on local businesses that consume power. Expect businesses to pass on increased energy costs to you later this year.
Dominion explained:
The SCC must approve the fuel rate increase and deferral of additional fuel costs before they can take effect. The proposed fuel rate adjustment would increase the average monthly bill of a typical residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month by $16.61, or 18.3 percent, to $107.20. Without the deferral proposed by Dominion, the requested increase would have been 22.2 percent for the same typical residential customer.
These rate increases would be effective July 1, but still need to be approved in upcoming weeks. Does anyone have any information on how likely this is to be approved?
If you want to read more about the details of the price increase, go here. We also have some informative charts you can read after the break. So much for those presents from Uncle Sam!
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Now that The Upstairs is open as of April 22nd, you can finally check it out.
As always, you have the review floor before we do. Paco was our first taker, but as you check it out come back here and leave us a note. We promise we won’t bite. So, what do you think?
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Perhaps you remember the cartoon shown above and our discussion; or, maybe you remember our critique of the Cavalier Daily when it published an article loosely based on Catholic pseudo-science that claimed having sex around a “natural planning cycle” is more effective than condoms. Let’s not forget the “tear down this wall” column which said the freedom wall was “nothing more than a cheap, interactive platitude.” And finally, take an opinion from the same publication about StreakTheLawn.com (now shut down) which explained that exposing seedier aspects of college life was a “risk” to UVA’s reputation.
Do you see a trend with the Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia’s “independent newspaper?” We do… and so do others.
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Some people eat babies. I love a good dead baby joke. But what’s not funny, is the number of people I know having babies. My sister is pregnant. Two of my coworkers are pregnant. It seems it’s happening to a lot of people. But here’s the thing, all of the pregnant people I know in Charlottesville are in their 30’s. Charlottesville seems to be immune to the “we’re southern, we should get married and have kids while we’re still really young” syndrome.
My wife and I, both grew up just down the road in Richmond. A large majority of our Richmond friends have children already. Some have multiple. They all got married in their early to mid 20’s and started shooting out babies within a few years. When we go home, all people talk about is their kids and when are Gobblette and I planning on having our own? The answer is “back the F off.” There is a lot of unecessary pressure in that town, which was a big reason we decided not to live there.
Before moving here, we lived in NYC, where there’s absolutely no pressure for anyone to get married before the age of 30, or have any children at all. We liked that. There’s a similar laissez-faire attitude about starting a family here, too, I feel. Are we alone in that, or is it just the people I know that make it seem that way?
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Photoshop and/or comment contest. Bonus points for combination with red panties.
Thanks Tuffy, for the image.
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I want to know. I heard she’s coming in town this weekend or next.
I also heard the Secret Service are going to assassinate me.
My guess: Ten, Zo Ca Lo or Enoteca.
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So on my way to Chipotle to check out the new local/chain pork burrito, I see this dude intensely unicycling south on Emmet Street. And this was no mere clown unicycle, but instead appeared to be some sort of home-made industrial version, with a much thicker tire than a normal mountain bike tire and a substantial circumference a la those crazy big wheeled bikes from the Victorian Era. And the dude even had on a helmet, like this is his everyday mode of transportation, how he commutes to work or whatever.
Has anyone else seen this guy or does anyone have “the deets,” or did I totally just fall for the world’s dorkiest environmentalist’s/hobby circus stage hand’s desperate attempt at garnering attention?
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I heard aliens know how to party hard. Because I am an internet addict, I often see some funny trends emerging. I am starting to get a little nervous that either (1) aliens are invading us with drones that look like giant magnifying glasses (THINK: WE ARE ANTS THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY ANT WARS WITH US) or (2) some genius has started the best viral marketing campaign ever (think: Independence Day 2, Mars Attack 3, etc.). Read more about the story here.
Apparently, there is this anonymous believer dude, Isaac, who runs this site where he discloses his whole take on UFOs, his experience at a top secret government laboratory and all that jazz. If you don’t mind reading a huge essay on the internet, it’s quite the story. If, in the least it’s science fiction it’s an amazing story.
Check out the site. Read the story… come back and discuss!
Here is an excerpt:
Their hardware wasn’t operated in quite the same way as ours. In our technology, even today, we have a combination of hardware and software running almost everything on the planet. Software is more abstract than hardware, but ultimately it needs hardware to run it. In other words, there’s no way to write a computer program on a piece of paper, set that piece of paper on a table or something, and expect it to actually do something. The most powerful code in the world still doesn’t actually do anything until a piece of hardware interprets it and translates its commands into actions.
But their technology is different. It really did operate like the magical piece of paper sitting on a table, »Read More
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