When we went to Disneyland this past weekend, the crowds were pretty mild (except for literal bumper-to-bumper traffic on the reopened Pirates of the Caribbean ride), but it got me thinking: Surely there were even better days to go to the park.
And that’s what the Internet is for: Average Temperatures and Attendance Trends for Disneyland. Clearly, this is what the Internet is for. (Thanks, Al Gore!)
Going the week after Thanksgiving, or in January, sounds pretty good to me.
From the Associated Press:
MONTGOMERY, N.J. – Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end.
She sent her children through Montgomery’s well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years.
But her property taxes have climbed 56 percent since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year — a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3 percent a year.
“Oh, it’s terrible,” Lehman said.
Despite efforts by governors and lawmakers to do something about it, New Jersey has the highest property taxes in America — a burden that is alarming young couples and retirees alike and deepening public cynicism in a state with a long and rich history of graft and self-dealing.
The average property owner in the Garden State pays about $6,000 a year in property taxes, twice the national average.
Wow, pay a premium rate to live in New Jersey. Awesome.
(And yes, I’ve been there. That’s why it amuses me so much.)
Sure, I could just ask, but I think it might also be fun to track everyone automatically (including those who wouldn’t otherwise respond). The following tracks IP addresses for regions of the world, but doesn’t otherwise identify anyone. All I can tell is that someone from, say, Southern California visited.
For now, it’s just people who see this message. If I like how it works out, I’ll stick it in the sidebar to the left as well.
Click on the graphic to see where visitors to LBY3.com are from.
- Update: Twenty-four hours later, it turns out I have a ton of vistors from Texas and the Northeast United States, which is kind of a surprise, but not as much of a surprise as to see that people in Israel and Japan are visiting. It’s a wacky Internet out there.
This admission will likely get me talked to by the Secret Service, but the first thing I did when I saw Goggles, a flight sim Flash game that lets you fly a little cartoon biplane over a city of your choice, is buzz around over Washington, D.C., since it’s the city I’d have the best chance to recognize from the air.
While trying to find Georgetown so I could buzz the yuppies, I flew over the White House and then went looking for the nearby statue of Einstein. It turns out that, if your plane gets too low, it can crash. Oops. Sorry, Einstein fans.
Some good clean dumb fun.
Beau Yarbrough from this day forward you will also be known as:
President McTwitch
I like the sound of that.
What kind of squirrel are you?
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