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
Crap, crap, CRAP! The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie is bad. Really bad. You just won’t believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made […]
If you visit this page via a browser, you’ll see a new design today. It’s not huge, just some color tweaks in the CSS and a banner image instead of the default MT stuff. Tweaking may continue, or I could just forget about it for another few months. I’m not designer, so bumping content around […]