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Welcome to the new Jefferson blog! After working out some issues with our original, we are up and running on the internet again. Hoo-ray!

So, this will be a blog about Jefferson – the residents, the staff, the building, and any random thing I find interesting and can connect to Jefferson somehow. The plan is to update this often, so I hope you all will read it.

Enjoy the snow day!

Visit local sites as a club – Belmont (nice hiking & birdwatching on the grounds too) – Chatham – Rising Sun Tavern – Apothecary Shop – we could do a walking tour of downtown Fred really easily!

Great local hikes: Alum Spring Park, St. Claire Brooks & Pratt Park

A bit further away: Caledon natural area, Prince William Forest Park – Westmoreland State Park, or Stratford Hall – history, culture and physical geography!!

Or anywhere much further, we’d just have to rent a van – Shenandoah, Luray Caverns, etc.

We could also arrange a trip to Richmond – lots to do there.

Geographers look at the world in a slightly different way from anyone else; What other kinds of activities do you think you’d like to do with other geographers?

Thanks everyone for listening. The playlist is as follows. Most of these song, being older, don’t have any official videos, but you can find all of them on youtube.com.  Tune in next week for another trip through the world of music. Flop Eared Mule – Andy Griffith Drive my Car – The Beatles (request) Car Song – Woody Guthrie [...]

This Washington Post article from Sunday Jan 31 2010 tells how Open Street Map – the ‘wikipedia’ of street maps – began in 2004, and how Mapping DC – a related but newer group that physically gets together to map features around our nation’s capital – works.

Most interesting to me is that people in different cities emphasize different features – the article says that Atlanta has most of its storm drains mapped, while Denver has the trails and bike routes…  I’ve searched 22401 and looked at the UMW campus in OSM – buildings are odd shapes, Custis is labeled Curtis, many other buildings are not labeled, don’t see any footpaths..!  We’re going to be doing some OSM in Mobile GIS & GPS this fall; looks like there will be plenty to do!!

Flop Eared Mule – Andy Griffith Drive My Car – The Beatles Car Song – Woody Guthrie Beep Beep – The Playmates Cars Hiss by My Window – The Doors I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash Dragula – Rob Zombie Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourn Truckin’ – Grateful Dead Two miles an hour – Ludacris Radar Love – Golden Earring Truck Drivin’ Song – Weird Al [...]

This week, Cheap Seats will be showing The Men Who Stare at Goats and New Moon. Come join us on the following dates and times:

Thursday 2/4

7 pm: The Men Who Stare at Goats (members sitting: Lauren Kim)

Friday 2/5

7 pm: New Moon (members sitting: Taryn Tashner, Sara Krechel)

1o pm: The Men Who Stare at Goats (members sitting: Timothy Eden)

Saturday 2/6

7 pm: The Men Who Stare at Goats (members sitting: Lauren Guzinski)

10 pm: New Moon

All showings will be in Lee 411!

Law Abiding Citizen and Zombieland will be showing this week at the following times:

Thursday 1/28

7 pm – Law Abiding Citizen

Friday 1/29

7 pm – Law Abiding Citizen (members sitting: Anna Smith, Lauren Gomez)

10 pm – Zombieland

Saturday 1/30

7 pm – Zombieland

10 pm – Law Abiding Citizen (members sitting: Timothy Eden)

All showings will be in Lee 411!

There is a lot of excellent common sense advice in this Washington Post article – which I have physically posted on the board in the Annex B lobby. We have been told by alumni that they don’t give interviews to potential candidates who include typographical errors in their basic emails! The message is to pay attention to details…

Hey, just wanted to let everybody know that the link to listen to WMWC has been updated for a higher quality listening experience. You’re welcome.

Successful first show of the year for me!  Had listeners, had requests from as far away as Denver and managed not to break anything!  Good warm up/refresher show for me, but no actual theme.  That’ll come next week. Here’s the playlist, with a couple links for all you happy listeners out there.  While many songs can [...]