Monthly Archives: May 2006

Another Sign of the Housing Market Apocalypse

Appar­ently, lenders are get­ting more and more desparate to keep the hous­ing bub­ble alive and have recently begun imple­ment­ing a 50-year adjustable rate mort­gage. Because no one can save but every­one wants a house now, peo­ple cur­rently have this option. The end of the bub­ble is com­ing and peo­ple who have loans like this are

Catproofing Your Computer

I really thought this had to be a par­ody but no, it seems to be real. Clearly, I”ve been set­ting the bar too high on my soft­ware ideas. The real ques­tion is does it BrettProof my com­puter when I pass out on my key­board after play­ing Half Life 2 for 14 straight hours?

The Pussification of American Kids Continues

First they get rid of sodas in schools (to which I say good rid­dance, only because I never had sodas in schools so those lit­tle punks shouldn’t either) and now they’re get­ting rid if swingsets in Port­land. As the arti­cle notes, part of child­hood is tak­ing risks and fig­ur­ing out what you can do and

United 93

I can’t explain how I feel about the movie United 93 any bet­ter than this. ¢â‚¬â„¢m also com­pletely unsure that I can han­dle it prop­erly in a pub­lic space. So, ¢â‚¬â„¢m going to do the absolute min­i­mum and buy a cou­ple of tick­ets online to make sure ¢â‚¬â„¢m vot­ing with my wallet.

Random Thoughts on Bathroom Behavior

Hey Mis­ter Co-Worker, is it really nec­es­sary to flush a per­fectly clean uri­nal BEFORE you even go? What is it that you think you are achiev­ing, exactly? All I can see is that you are achiev­ing my own con­fir­ma­tion that you are weird. There is zero rea­son for that plus it wastes water. And Mr.