I stumbled across Alan Gutierrez’ blog this evening thanks to the aggregator over at ArborBlogs. Alan seems like one of those kindred spirits that I knew existed in this town, but often kept to themselves out of fear of “a tirade against a red-state,” as Alan puts it. That post isn’t what made me write […]
Ever since some one crammed a (dangerously simple) battery into an Altoids tin as a backup power supply for his iPod, the Me-Too crowds have been saturating the blog world with their contributions. We have the battery in a deck of playing cards, the battery in a yet-smaller Altoids case (for your mini, of course), […]
In the latest hit to the West Michigan area, the most recognizable name in business (aside from Amway/Van Andel) is closing up shop. Roger’s department store announced today that, after over 50 years in the same location, they are closing down. Roger’s is one of those places that servers a community touch point. It’s target […]
This is just something for future reference. You know, just in case. [Via Engadget]
I was wrong; housing in Ann Arbor is affordable. Just look at this chart from Consumer Reports. Ann Arbor gets a “Fair Value” rating, with only an 8% differential between what’s affordable and what the market price is. Oh, except that in the first three quarters of last year, the rate at which prices increased […]
I’m quickly approaching the parity point on this, but one more. We have cats. Here are pictures on those cats.
Classifying this as Made Me Laugh is actually telling, since this photoshopped image actually does make me laugh when I see it, and I made the damn thing. I’m such a nerd.
So, I’m not an intentional Ludite, but sometimes I’m very, very slow on the uptake. I think it might have something to do with controlled substances in my past, but I don’t like that line of thinking. Anyway, I finally signed up for a Flickr account. I really don’t have a reason to do so, […]
So, J– and I have been looking for a house for about a month now. We’ve learned a few things: Basements in this area effin’ blow. Whatever crap some ice flow left in this hole thousands of years ago is begging for the next ice age, just to remove the apparent seventeen miles of clay […]
I could only hope to do something like this. Some guy (based on the URL, I assume his name is Paul Rademacher), wrote a scraper that maps all the listing from Craiglist with Google Maps. The results are freakin’ amazing. Link