Via Keith Garner:
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 90% General American English |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
| 0% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
I’d say moving around as a kid kept me from picking up anything out of the ordinary or anything strongly region specific.
What a quote:
Housing operates Orchard Downs, but we are at the University’s whim about what happens to it. The popular opinion around here is that we’ll find out it’s fate the same way as everyone else, from the newspaper.
Interesting New Yorker article, via BoingBoing.
Oh, and this weeks Grand Rounds is up.
I talk to the @#$%&*@ customers man. You know, the ones that take a loaner laptop on a trip to some far away state and need to give a presentation in 1 hour but have no idea how to log into the laptop.
Coming from someone that’s leaving a job in the financial industry and seems to have a good understanding of how the markets work, he sure seems risk averse.
But, to offer my two cents: The banks are in the business to make money and they are going to try to make the most money possible in the shortest time, interest only products have got to make the balance sheet more attractive. Think about it: customers are choosing to delay payment even more on a huge debt (in this case $211,000), so the total interest paid is much bigger than a traditional mortgage, boosting profits for the bank.
I agree with the post 100%, if you can deal with the risk, take the plunge and flip the property for a profit before you have to pay any principal. But, my pessimistic ways would give me an ulcer if I knew we were going to have our mortgage payment double in 3 years. And, the bottom has to fall out someday, having what equity you gain tied up in the next property you buy when that happens is going to hurt.
I’m not sure how to react to this post on boingboing.
For one, the student did (probably) violate the AUP he (should have) signed at some point. But, if the filtering software really is that bad, can you blame him for trying to bypass it? Judging by what he’s doing now, I’d say he’s on a path to a career in computer support….
I can’t say it any better than Ryan already did.
$179,000? Sure, just let me find my charge card. With metaphors like this:
How could anyone resist? (Via Jalopnik)
This weeks Carnival of the Recipes is up, I’m going to have to try the pickled eggs (pictures of the product) and the meatloaf cake (ugh, UNC sucks, Go Illini!).
Chase says Firefox is dropping the .zip builds. The comments on that post alone ought to be enough to get them to bring them back.
I’ve been using them since I discovered that the unattended/silent install didn’t work as advertised. They claimed to have fixed that bug, but I haven’t had time to look at it yet. I’ve gotten addicted to the easy plugin install method of just copying the contents of the previous plugins folder over to the new install and going on.
I’m handling this update using the low tech method mentioned in the forum thread: Install in new directory on one machine, copy directory to server, treat like a zip build.
That works for now.