After a prolonged absence, my Maryland and Virginia Winery Map is back up and running. It’s a little clunky at the moment because I didn’t keep pace with Ruby on Rails’ blistering build-test-release-breakeverything cycle. Soon I’ll have it up running with Passenger and Capistrano and blah blah geek nerd geek snooze…. If you’re interested in [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user goopymart I posted this on OWC but it fell on deaf ears. Maybe I didn’t mention Twitter enough. Anyway, I know of some smarty-pants people that read this blog so I thought I’d throw out a 100-point-toss-up… We have cellar management, community tasting notes, price comparisons, scores, professional [...]
Pinot Law went into a great in-depth post about where underage kids get their alcohol. I ramble on and blowhard about things from time to time, but it’s nice to see people actually doing the legwork and producing actual numbers. Regarding the data, Pinot Law asserts: Although the chart identifies the numerous ways in which [...]
Grades are getting better. Are our nation’s school kids getting smarter? Maybe. Are grades getting higher? No doubt. Kids are coming out of high school with a 4.3 GPA, a meaningless number when paired up with the GPA of a kid coming out of a school with unweighted classes. The number means nothing out of [...]
