Ok, Hollywood makes movies from books. Hollywood makes movies from musicals. Hollywood has made movies from musicals from movies (The Producers, Hairspray). But now, Hollywood is making movies from musicals from movies from books (Phantom of the Opera). I can’t wait to see the movie from the musical from the movie from the musical from the movie from the book.
more Apple developer badness
Apple distributed a different build of 10.4.10 to those using MacBook Pros to fix a problem with the audio, which in itself is all good. No one wants to have crummy audio on their laptops.
One MAJOR glitch though, since this means that my MBP has essentially a different version of the OS than the desktop machines. Therefore, when I try to build using Rendezvous in X-Code, no machines match my configuration. Therefore, the slowest building machines will build even slower than before.
Sheer freaking genius. Thanks Apple, you’ve now made my builds take about 20 times longer than before. Do you think we’ll see a fix before 10.5? I don’t.
Much of US favors Bush impeachment: poll – Yahoo! News
Much of US favors Bush impeachment: poll – Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday.
The survey by the American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46 percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney.
Seattle housing market tips onto the downward slope
Scales tip in favor of home buyers – Seattle Times
Economists’ predictions have come true. Like most of the rest of the nation, the greater Seattle-area housing market has slowed to the point where buyers have an edge.
Of course, you can’t dampen the outlook of the real estate professionals:
But the fundamentals behind Seattle’s market — particularly its strong job growth and dearth of new housing — mean “our area is going to thrive and grow,” Lones predicted.
“If it’s going to be any kind of a slowdown, I think it’s going to be false slow,” she said. “We’re in a very desirable place to live.”
San Francisco is also a very desirable place to live, but it hasn’t become a city of 20 million people because of the cost of living. Palm Springs doesn’t have 10 million folks. The job growth and desirability of a place cannot erase the problems of a real estate market out-of-whack with financial reality.
Reader Feedback | Seattle Times Newspaper
Reader Feedback | Seattle Times Newspaper
Q:
I am moving from Miami to Seattle. Luckily I sold my house in Miami Beach last year. I plan to rent in Seattle since I believe that this market is behind other metro areas by 9-12 months before prices begin to drop in Seattle. Do you think prices will drop returning to more affordable ratios income vs median house prices? Please do not tell me about the great job market. Places like Boston are just as strong in the tech sector and they have seen prices fall 10% YOY. Thank you.
Mon, May 21, 2007 3:23 pm
andyseattle
A:
We have not seen such drastic decline in values 8 percent in Miami alone for a number of reasons. The biggest of which is that we did not see such rampant speculation by investors/”flippers” boosting prices to extreme levels. Areas that did not increase as much are not likely to decline as much if at all.
Matthew Gardner
Tue, May 22, 2007 12:40 pm
Wow, Matthew Gardner is smoking crack! I don’t know what market he’s looking at, but in my searches for property, at least 50% of properties for sale over the median King Country price were owned for less than two years and had their prices increased 50%-100% which is the mark of the flipper property.
The future looks bright and a little scary
The graphic below points out one scary thing, which is that the kids are just as much against a woman’s right to chose as the rest of the moronic population. The article mentions a second scary thing, which is that they also believe we will win in Iraq. So, I’m not sure I want to call them more liberal as a whole. More open to equality between races, sexes and gender preference, sure. Another way to think of that is enlightenment as opposed to political leanings. It is just showing the maturity in society as a whole. On the other real, liberal with a big L, issues: war, environment, a woman’s right to choose; they are just as conservative as their seniors.
Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds – New York Times
dear nytimes magazine
you sure do have some great articles. However, when I put a bunch of ’em in tabs, Firefox is lighting up like a pinball machine with all the re-loading your pages do for distributing your adverts. That’d be annoying enough, but all those forced pings to you server to grab adverts I’ll never see is running down the battery in my laptop like the dickens. Wake up to the new web technologies, morons.
Interesting post on life at Google vs Microsoft from a individual contributor perspective
Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No†To Google
The comments are freaky. MS folks piling on this person which seems kind of stupid, because this reads like a love letter to life at Microsoft if I ever read one. I’d like to see this person follow up with a second interview in a few years and see how the Microsoft grind changes their perspective. I never worked at Google, but part of the reason that I left MS was because it was starting to feel like management looked at developers as cogs in the machine. Maybe its worse at Google, I don’t know, but this certainly doesn’t compel me to go work there. Especially as a manager. 100 direct reports! That is insane.
wow, I crashed the tivo!
So our tivo decided to stop recognizing our wireless network AGAIN, so I did the stuff I’ve done before to fix it up, unplug the wireless adapter, reboot the tivo, restart the network, change the wireless setting, then finally voila, it connected and then rebooted TWICE! I’m realizing that the plus side to computer as appliance is that it just works, except when it doesn’t and then you are FUCKED.
hey, my band is playing tomorrow night in Seattle
A rare treat, ’cause we are old now and don’t play out as much as we used to.
Transpacific returns live! June 26, 2007! Playing with Moggs (from San Francisco), Colony of Watts and 1-2 12. At the Sunset in Ballard (5433 Ballard Ave NW) starting at 9pm.
transPacific mySpace page (you know, for the kids)