Archive for October, 2005
Anti-halloween
So, everyone was in a hurry to leave, or shutting down, or just plain gone from the office today. My office, my attorney’s office, my gf’s office, you name it.
My best friends are coming down from Sacramento this weekend for some San Francisco house party at a Twin Peaks mansion, my chick is throwing together [...]
Amazon Text Stats
Have you seen this?
Readability statistics for books included in their Search Inside the Book program (where authors/publishers send Amazon a book to be scanned, after which every darn word can be searched for and sample pages perused). Plus a concordance of the 100 most frequently used words in a book. And a statistically improbable phrases [...]
Interest rates hit a 15 year high this week
Like I’ve been saying for most of the year, the jig is up. The real estate party is just about over.
I hope the speculators all lose just enough so that they sour on real estate for life. No ill will, just anti-bubble sentiment. For all the silly people that for some reason don’t mind paying [...]
