This is depressing: Shiller: House Prices Still Way Too High
Check out the graph. From another blog:
The "Shiller" part of the index comes from its co-producer Yale Professor Robert Shiller. He has an index of American home prices going back to 1890. According to this index, the housing bubble we just experienced was by orders of magnitude worse than any other we have ever seen in this country. Moreover (you better be sitting) housing prices have a lot further to drop, and I mean a LOT further, before returning to the trend line. He believes we are only halfway back to fair value and usually during a correction we overshoot fair value.
When Will Housing Bottom?
This headline sounds like something I might make up:
Scientists To Tape Magnets To Crocodiles To Confuse Them
(This link is to the HuffPost summary. The actual headline is less fun.)
This is depressing: Shiller: House Prices Still Way Too High
I'm suspect of a one variable index. House sizes have been increasing for one thing. That has to factor in as well. Not to say the bottom has been reached, but I don't know that national median is going fall as much as the chart shows.
Ya gotta love crazy math people....
Hilarious crypto-gibberish
Bruce Schneier's irregular "Doghouse" column features security companies making risible, redonkulous claims about their technology; the latest gang is from Singularics, who sound like unbalanced saucer-cultists who've spent too much time near the math department of their college:
Our advances in Prime Number Theory have led to a new branch of mathematics called Neutronics. Neutronic functions make possible for the first time the ability to analyze regions of mathematics commonly thought to be undefined, such as the point where one is divided by zero. In short, we have developed a new way to analyze the undefined point at the singularity which appears throughout higher mathematics.
This new analytic technique has given us profound insight into the way that prime numbers are distributed throughout the integers. According to RSA's website, there are over 1 billion licensed instances of RSA public-key encryption in use in the world today. Each of these instances of the prime number based RSA algorithm can now be deciphered using Neutronic analysis. Unlike RSA, Neutronic Encryption is not based on two large prime numbers but rather on the Neutronic forces that govern the distribution of the primes themselves. The encryption that results from Singularic's Neutronic public-key algorithm is theoretically impossible to break.
Um... no.
Plus, wtf is up with the name? Are they fans of Jimmy Neutron?
I've never coordinated an office move, but my department has moved twice since I've been here. I second Trudy's suggestion about numbering the rooms and all the stuff.
Mermaid’s Dream Comes True
When she was a child, Nadya Vessey’s legs were amputated below the knee due to illness. One time, another child asked what happened to her legs, and she replied that she was a mermaid.
She couldn’t get the mermaid idea out of her head, so she wrote to the company that created the special effects for the Lord of the Rings movies as well as King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Her request: Will you make me a mermaid tail?
The company, Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, agreed.
Two years later, she now has a fully functioning mermaid tail with an attached suit, making her look like a real mermaid.
Better picture here: Effects shop fulfills amputee's mermaid dream
It's going to be a long night. I just did what msbelle did this morning. Except I'm not terribly congested and don't have a sore throat. Just this tiny drip.
My mother sent me a book called Your Cat's Just Not That Into You. Ha ha. Of course,
my
cat IS that into me!
