Off to Virginia!

Four days without good pizza, Italian bread and Jersey attitude. The good news? I get to see Harper, our new granddaughter, I pick up a VCU decal for the MINI...
... and the Mets are on a one-game winning streak!
Back by Tuesday.

Jaxonia ongoing mysteries

Jaxonia has a rudimentary page counter apparatus, which shows the most popular articles and readers. The most popular article, predictably enough, is Fios vs. Optimum -- it has been updated several times, and tries to render an impartial comparison of the two cable tv services.

After that, however, the rationale for popularity gets more difficult to comprehend. The second most popular article is one about pumpkins! Who knew?

And it gets stranger. Folks seem to like, in descending order,  articles  about bread, sin, skyscrapers, and the Facel Vega automobile. During basketball March Madness, Jaxonia took on almost mythic status when it predicted the extended run of dark horse VCU; the popularity of several articles about the team was gratifying.

It is also gratifying to check out Jaxonia's geographic footprint. People from all over the world have clicked on for one reason or another; India, Australia, Mongolia, even!
But the most inexplicable visitor of all time hails from  the tiny fishing village of York, Quebec, whose URL has logged in for extended visits pretty much daily for the past few years. He/she/they connect through a Canadian commercial portal, and often spend upwards of a hour surfing through the archives. More time than the blogmaster!
If anyone out there can explain any of this, please comment!

Remember Nuna 5? It's on again, baby!

Will there be a Nuna 6? Another Eleanor? Click here for the original Nuna 5 story and update in Jaxonia, then click on the headline for the 2011 story. The race begins on October 16.*




* private asterisk

Is it real or is it Memorex?

(Original video and illustrations removed by webmaster - some kind of You Tube problem)

Back in the 80s a tv commercial featuring singer/legend Ella Fitzgerald touted the reproduction quality of Memorex recording tape, defying the viewer to distinguish between Ella 'live' and Ella on tape.

Fast forward to the present, where fantasy and reality blend seamlessly together in an endless supply of spoofs, satires, cgi creations and photo shop forgeries.

 Look at the article attached here.  Jaxonia could not verify either its authenticity or its hoaxability. The proof, however, may be on its way: Volkswagen has scheduled a '21st Century Beetle' unveiling for April 18, in Shanghai. It's at 7:30 PM; read about it here. In the meantime, read the article and check out the pictures.

While the original comment was posted to a forum in August 2009, Australian CarAdvice.com in March 2010 indicated �Volkswagon Introduces World�s Most Economical Car� that while they don�t have a great deal of information available at the stage of reporting that they do know however, that Volkswagen is set to reveal the world�s most economical non-hybrid car to shareholders attending the 42nd annual general meeting of Volkswagen AG in Hamburg. When is not mentioned. The single-seater is supposed to be capable of 0.91 litres per 100km (or 258mpg in the old measure) and can manage a top speed of 123km/h.

With a weight heavier than a motor cycle, this �behemoth� can do 258 miles to the gallon? A bit hard to swallow. As is the price $600! Is this believable? Even some handheld consumer electronic products costs the same and more!