Housing Isn't Bubbly

the new york times has an interesting article on why there isn't a housing bubble and why prices won't drop.

Note to self.. and whoever wants to read it

posted a comment on a blog post about motorcycle pollution and should return and comment again after reading the article.

New House

we did our inspection yesterday. it was fun to see the house pretty much done. they have to do a couple of things (fix the gap between the frame and the front door and the gap between the garage door and floor, and fix the garage door opener and some other little stuff like small grout cracks). but here it is in some sort of glory.

front of house

two shots of the kitchen, 12 inch granite tile, we had to buy a fridge (delivery next friday)

from the dining room looking to living room & front door

family room, gas fireplace, we added a plug and ethernet plug to the wall

view out the window upstairs by the stair well

our bedroom, forgot to get the master bath... will have to get it later and improve this picture it doesn't really show anything... the window is behind where the pic was taken, the door to stairwell is to the right of keith and the door to bath is to the right close to where i was standing

Just a Couple of Mukluks

warning: misuse of the word mukluk ahead. mukluks are in fact a soft boot or sock. i am using it in the sense that mukluk just sounds like a scoundrel... and i suppose one could think of it as something that looks nice on the outside and is fuzzy and warm, but is kinda stinky on the inside.

that's keith and i... the mukluks. we both forgot each other's birthday this year. alodia had a beautiful spiel about her husband kevin. me, i made him pack stuff up for our weekend of house sitting and pick up the renters' check.

at least we are a pair. we do appreciate each other and love each other. we just aren't so good at dates. we have a copy of our wedding invitation on the wall (at least we do when we have our own living quarters) so we know when we are married. otherwise i would just have to guess at sometime in the spring.... uhhh march i think.



btw: the pic is from visitnunavut.com which is a pretty interesting site and makes me want to visit the newest canadian province.

Grace Murray Hopper

today would be Grace Hopper's birthday if she hadn't died (in 1992, born 1906). in computer class in 8th grade my friends and i liked to call her grass hopper in order that we might remember something close to her name for tests. but really i have always admired her. she was a pioneer in programming in many ways.
according to the biography here

Perhaps her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer. She did this, she said, because she was lazy and hoped that "the programmer may return to being a mathematician."

so she's who we have to blame for lazy programmers =).
but seriously she is worth reading about. besides the above short biography below are another couple of links of interest.
gracehopper.org biography
article at wikipedia (also includes a picture of a moth that was in a computer, after removal it was taped into a lab notebook. just awesome record keeping if you ask me.)

Who\What am I?

Taller than an average guy or gal
yet not so tall as to reach the ceiling
I brighten the room without any feeling
Shaped like an I, but not an uncial
Everyone must own one of me, so goes the rationale.