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I do not see shows like “Shinny Yellow Metal” or “Flip That Gold Coin” yet.

Listen to more AM radio. Dumb money is going in. You can hear the gold-investment-expert right before the bigfoot sightings guy.

You can hear the gold-investment-expert right before the bigfoot sightings guy.

But I have not heard statements like "gold always goes up in value" or "last opportunity to buy this 1oz gold coin for only $1000".

If I were Bernanke I'd keep an 8-ball on my desk an consult it for answers to the stupider questions.

"Are you going to stop raising rates?"
"I'd like to direct that to our honorary committee member here... Outlook not so good, he says."

s/an/and/

...and there go my English skills.

vi user.

You say that like an you're an emacs user.

I like vi. Saves me having to use my nose to type those ctrl-alt-meta-hyper-shift combinations.

Requiem,

I am mistaken. I do not know how to use emacs. I never learned emacs. It is too fancy for my taste. I like simple things because I am a simple man.

My only code editor is vi. VI is the first editor I learned to use and I've stuck to it all my life (which is not very short). Occasionally I use MSFT VS, when I had to write fucking GUI code. But my preference is always VI. When people see me firing up vi to edit code or paper (TEX), they are always surprised.

Well damn, there goes my chance to revive one of the older wars.

I've been drinking this Odwalla shit from the cafeteria. I think I am getting sick of it, although it's supposed to be good for me, especially since I rarely eat vegie when I cook. What is your favorite flavor of Odwalla?

Requiem,

We are on the same side.

BTW, is that M's Requiem?

I like Parisienne life. Life in US is too harsh, too rushed, too unpleasant. In Paris, right now, I can sit in the cafe, actually the weather should start to be nice, so I sit outside, sipping wine, watching people coming back (woops, slipping away) from work, checking out cute girls, eating healthy snacks and fruits, relaxing, debating philosophie and contemplating meaning of life, planning suicide, blah, blah, blah.

Yep, is Wolfgang's.

I rotate Odwallas. I go through the tangerine, grapefruit, and orange juice jugs for the fridge, and use the single-serving containers of "wellness" when I think I might be getting sick. The smoothies are also ok, but I avoid the green, purple, or protein flavors.

The protein flavor of smoothie is really disgusting. I tried once. It tasted like medicine.

test test again

I really wonder: Does anyone really take himself seriously, despite his appearance of doing so?

"Priced to sell...$788,000...Square Feet: 1,647...Lot Size: N/A...Year Built: 1973...On Market: 153 days..."

Ha, ha!

Now isn't that precious?

Michael,

Is that a northern Arizona listing?

No, that's the Fremont address above.

I grew up in San Jose, moved to Pheonix seven years ago.

Even so, those figures look zany! I can picture the house: your average, nothing much, '70s suburban house.

Simply wacky for the common working man to pay so much for so little!

Bork
Thank you

But you must agree that I did make some contributions other than these outrageous comments.

Also, some people take themselves too seriously.

If one takes himself too seriously, he is susceptible to manipulation (by people close to him, by the media, by the government, by anything).

requiem Says:
Well damn, there goes my chance to revive one of the older wars.

That war is over. All sane people now use VI. The more sane of the lot use (G)VIM in particular.

Now if that goes unanswered, the war is really over !

emacs in vi mode

FB = Fvcked Buyer.

emacs in vi mode
Uh... burn the heretic?

Softest, since technically you could eventually pay off the loan, "renting the money" doesn't feel quite right. (But I use it anyway.)

Assuming the property is sold, it's closer to renting the house from the bank, combined with an enforced savings account. Eventually, if you've saved enough, you can use that account to buy the house.

dual flush toilets are mandatory here as a building standard -- there are 2 buttons -- 3 litres and 6 litres... so the concept works well enough when you have 2 choices...

and water is so scarce they are giving away low flow showerheads... but they fail to recycle stormwater at all, they modelled the whole system on european ideas where there's so much rain the aim is to get it out to sea asap.

dual flush toilets are mandatory here as a building standard — there are 2 buttons — 3 litres and 6 litres… so the concept works well enough when you have 2 choices…

That is perhaps a good idea. It is confusing though. How about pulling up for 3L and pushing down for 6L?

they are usually designed now with two different sized buttons, in a stylish interlocked design or whatever -- the equal sized ones will have a logo with a half circle and a full circle or similar...

to say nothing of composting toilets and waterless urinals...
http://www.watersave.com.au/Uridan/default.asp

I like Parisienne life. Life in US is too harsh, too rushed, too unpleasant. In Paris, right now, I can sit in the cafe, debating philosophy and contemplating meaning of life

probably not advisable doing that in here, cheetah... the nation of shopkeepers has morphed into a bigger nation of bigger shopkeepers...

D.S.,

here = ?

D.S.,

because I remember seeing somewhere that England was called the nation of shopkeepers.

slyly oblique reference, hee hee. but i have lived and worked in UK and Oz, and have dual citizenship. currently in Oz...

I despise those low flow showerheads though. They must only work on the bald. I would consider a great showerhead with an on/off valve for times of drought.

alternatively, they were also giving away electronic timers for 3 minute showers, heh

maybe the bald could get away with the revolutionary new waterless showers...

maybe the bald could get away with the revolutionary new waterless showers…

That's bad, 'cuz when he goes to his barber his head is going to stink.

GC
Your posts are showing not just a moodiness but a genuine and disturbong imbalance and inability to hold a train of thought.
Have you gone off your lithium?

Meanwhile, my Opinel is now incredibly sharp and ready to do damage on some Fuji apples...

Linda,

Yum, lithium. I can chase that with a vodka tonic and some Nick Drake :)

I think perhaps that GC has proven himself to be the worst kind of troll. His blatherings have engaged some badinage, however all in all, he has derailed several of our threads and offended some of our lurkers and posters(ie Bork). His meandering mind is dangerous to the integrity and reputation of Patrick.net.
For the longevity of this site,
I vote that he is banned.
Honestly, this blog has degraded somewhat thanks to Gentle Cheetah and his multiple alter egos. I have to skip a lot of comments originated by/in reply to GC. It started with homosexual fantasies, turned into pedophilia topic and now it seems to be taking a “suicide” turn.

BTW- Polished concrete sinks...MMMMM

Anybody?
Or are you just too tired to think?

Linda,

It's really best to ignore him and erase on an comment by comment basis. He just throws a lot of random stuff out. But honestly, I can see where he's coming from, even though I don't happen to agree with that perspective.

Here's a song for you:

http://www.candlerecords.com.au/candle/bin/candlebands.cfm?bandName=han#

go down and click on "I wish I was beautiful for you"