Posted in Automobiles, Business, Government, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics, Science, Science and Technology, Technology, Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago I was critical of Senator John McCain’s proposal for a national “gas tax holiday.”
Now Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a similar idea. Though she has added a twist to the proposal with a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, the idea of a gas tax holiday is still a bad one, regardless of [...]
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So, on our recent tour of colleges in the Baltimore-Virginia-Washington, DC-New York-New Jersey areas we rented a car from Budget. One of the options was the Where2 GPS for another $48 for the week.
What a bargain.
On our trip, rather than struggling with paper maps, we used the Garmin StreetPilot C550-based Where2 GPS. An absolute God-send. [...]
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No college visits today. It’s time to go home. Our companion (well, one of our companions, but more about that later) was a 2008 Ford Fusion SEL like the one pictured above. Acquired temporarily through Budget Rent-A-Car, the Ford Fusion was a worthy mount for our tour of schools in the Washington, DC-Baltimore-Virginia and New [...]
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The final day of the college tour with our oldest daughter. It’s been a long week, but a worthwhile and interesting experience. Our last visit was to Columbia University, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Our trip in from New Jersey was uneventful, but we arrived just barely in time. Columbia seemed in [...]
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College tour fatigue is beginning to set in. We got to Seton Hall University almost an hour before the information session was scheduled to start. At this point, enrollment numbers, acceptance and admission rates, student-faculty ratios, mean SAT scores, campus housing, security, and activity information is beginning to all blur together. We’ve both been taking [...]
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Foregoing the delights of the Waffle House we continued our tour Tuesday with a visit to the University of Mary Washington. Like Johns Hopkins the day before, UMW has a lush green campus and is covered with brick colonnaded buildings (with a few examples of more modern institutional architecture thrown in, like other schools, often not [...]
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Day One (yesterday)
Left about 40 minutes behind schedule this morning. Not bad for us, actually. Stopped at the supermarket to pick up a couple last minute items. And we got to Baltimore only a little later than I expected, allowing for a couple of rest stops.
A few observations about the trip down:
People don’t seem to [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States on April 15. Since then he has been reaching out - to the Catholic faithful, to Catholic youth, to the victims of clergy sex abuse, to our Jewish brothers and sisters, and to the world. On the whole, I have to say I have been very pleased [...]
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Our nation’s roads and bridges are crumbling. Fuel tax revenues have not kept pace with the cost of maintaining our transportation infrastructure. This is because they are charged at a fixed amount per gallon, because overall fleet fuel economy is rising, and lately, demand has begun to slow. And we have a candidate for president who [...]
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Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Health, Health and Wellness, Internet, Life, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology, Wellness on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
As you’ve no doubt been able to tell, I’m not killing myself writing new posts on my blog. Seems there are others who have been, however.
Pity.
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