Sorry for the delay gents. In about two hours I got a new toy to play with and one of my more popular websites decided to not work anymore. SO I’VE BEEN A BIT BUSY. Here are the answers to the bonus questions: What percentage of the population is elderly (55+)? 6.3% (129) What percentage [...]
First the answers: What is the average household income? 8,744$ What is the average length of occupancy? 7.1 years How many of the households are a minority? 100% (753) How many households have married parents? 0% (0) How many of the heads of households are female? 92.5% (697) How many households have employment income? 31% [...]
I’m going to ask you a couple questions about the demographics in Gilpin Court. You guess in the comments, and then I will tell the correct answers. If you get win I will mail you one of these two CD’s I got in the mail randomly. No fair if I’ve already told you or if [...]
Oh as an ef-why-eye, I’ve been working closely with FT Rea to launch Richmond’s newest community blog: The Fan District Hub. FDHub is a much grander undertaking than WotBN.net. Think of it more as a ‘zine — which is great since FT has some serious ‘zine experience. Also, I designed FDHub as well as developed [...]
As mentioned previously my randomly assigned topic at the Greater Richmond Challenge II was “Workforce Housing.” Real quick: workforce housing is housing for people that form the backbone of society (think teachers, police, fire, clergy). Workforce housing is different than affordable housing. Affordable housing is for the guy who sells you beer at 7-11. Our [...]
I’m back from the Greater Richmond Challenge II. I had an excellent time and met some pretty awesome people. We traveled all around the the area to each of the three counties and city. We went to Gilpn Court. We went to Winchester Greens on the south side. I’ll be back early next week to [...]
Tomorrow I take part in the Greater Richmond Challenge. Basically I pay the Chamber of Commerce a bunch of money so I can brainstorm ideas to make Richmond a better place to live. I will be there because I am Richmond’s number one fan/cheerleader. NUMBER ONE. There are 95 participants and 5 topics; making two [...]
RMSzero and I picked up our first share of vegetables from the Sprout CSA (community supported agriculture). A share costs you 25$/wk. which we split halvesies. This week only cost 10$ since it was a “smaller” early harvest. I guess. We’ve got (left to right generally) bok choy, spinach, arugala, two types of radishes, turnips, [...]
As Grandmaster Arbiter of the fifth RVA Blog Carnival I can apparently roll however I’d like. Because I’m a nice guy — or a terrible man with a black and evil heart — I’m going give a little more exposure to those lesser known (to me) blogs. Make sure you check the bottom of this [...]
Today is the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech down there at St. John’s Church in Richmond, VA. You know the one, about the liberty and such. If I had to guess, I might predict that there may be a reenactment or something going on there, although that may simply come from spending too much [...]
Now, I don’t normally type headers in all-caps. The woman I’m married to can’t stand it. But if ever a time came when an all-caps title was needed … that time was now (WTF tenses). Seriously, Slaughterama Four. Saturday March 31 on Belle Isle. Slaughterama is the sweetest darn bike festival on the eastern seaboard [...]
We’ve been having an interesting discussion here about Richmond City’s (possibly) unreasonable minimum monthly water bill. To summarize where we are so far: Richmond City residents pay a minimum monthly water bill of 43.55$ regardless of how much water they actually use. The average American uses around 400 cubic feet of water a month (supposedly). [...]
If you missed the show last Wednesday you need to atone, ATONE HARD. While you are thinking of ways to make amends for missing the coolest thing to happen in Richmond this year check out the mp3′s and video: Say it Ain’t So Undone – The Sweater Song
Turns out. If someone is going to mistake me, over here in my Haduken capacities, as a source of press and send me a press release, well, I am going to have to post it. Apparently, and I expect someone more intelligent than I to read the press release and tell me if this is [...]
My good friend the bearded MattWhite, of various fames, is hosting — what some are calling — the bestest event ever to happen ever. Tonight at The Cous his “amalgamation of saxophones, trombones, trumpet, guitar, bass, and drums” called Fight the Big Bull will cover Weezer’s Blue Album from top to bottom. It should be [...]