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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kathy A - Feb 26, 2009 5:00:58 pm PST #8482 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Cute house!

But, I just saw this and feel I should pass it on to anyone who's thinking about buying a house right now. There's a really interesting chart there that shows how the historical stats of housing prices, housing costs, population, and interest rates have trended in the past 100 years. The huge jump since 1995 is startling, and the subsequent fall shows we're nowhere near getting back to the basepoint that has been rather consistently hewn to in the past century.

This guy is predicting general housing prices in the country will fall another fifty percent (!!) before they hit bottom.


sarameg - Feb 26, 2009 5:04:04 pm PST #8483 of 30000

What vintage is your friend's? There are 40s rowhouses and some yellow brick places opposite (bless google streetview) that look more like your floorplan (which I'd love but suspect is out of my reach.) I just don't want similar sq footage to what I have (7something) in 2 bedrooms.


dcp - Feb 26, 2009 5:08:47 pm PST #8484 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I can hear sound at both links, at the second one starting between 22 and 21. It reminds me of part of the Dr. Who theme music.


lisah - Feb 26, 2009 5:17:24 pm PST #8485 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

What vintage is your friend's?

I don't actually know. I was just thinking about that the other day. Her's is also a two-bedroom. I'll have to look at the streetview too!


DavidS - Feb 26, 2009 5:21:48 pm PST #8486 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Emmett could hear the teenage sound at 21. I didn't hear it until 14.


sarameg - Feb 26, 2009 5:27:45 pm PST #8487 of 30000

I could hear the teen sound. But I've always heard ambient electronic noise. And had a hard time with ambient people noise and understanding speech. Stand on my right, please. I figure it is a brain thing.


megan walker - Feb 26, 2009 5:47:55 pm PST #8488 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Emmett could hear the teenage sound at 21. I didn't hear it until 14.

I just listened to it at home and now it hear it right away. Except it sounds more "wavy" (for lack of a better term) than a gradual steady increase.


DavidS - Feb 26, 2009 6:01:20 pm PST #8489 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I just listened to it at home and now it hear it right away.

Bear in mind, I'm not only older but my first concert was Black Sabbath with Van Halen opening.


Liese S. - Feb 26, 2009 6:09:33 pm PST #8490 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I think if it's wavy it's not working correctly. Check the link about aliasing.

When Dave & I did our own testing earlier, my range was in the 20s, so I need to check again that way to see if it's something with my speakers. But if not, I've declined significantly in the past few years, along with increased tinnitus. Which, okay, is possible what with all the literal cacophony in my life these days.


sarameg - Feb 26, 2009 6:12:49 pm PST #8491 of 30000

Loki is batshit crazy tonight. I needed that. He's hilarious, random and not reality based. He's batting at a bemused Devi's ass and just craxy. It's heartening ( the ass batting.)