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SFWoman,

I think BruceB meant the gays who, pre-AIDS cocktail treatment, cashed in their life insurance payment in anticipation of soon dying. Though I could be completely completely wrong.

Mountain View school > St Francis High School has been the best over 3 decades... but thats never been the reason people living there.

Sunnyvale High was closed due to declining enrollment back in 1981.
SHS, Fremont, Cupertino, Homestead... ah home of burnouts/potheads...
Few of us were interested in Math and Sciences... Im one of them.

Space Ace,

Yeah, that's what I was getting to. Reasonably bright kids with supportive parents should be able to succeed in any middling to good school. I don't see the obsession with going to the "best" school.

eburbed-

My daily travel distance 12 miles is the same as back in 1990... 15-20 minutes its unchanged..

I still see traffic today from South San Jose to Mt View using 85 as I did back in 1985....unchanged. St Thomas and Lawrence is unchanged.. Depends on your commute.

Your so rigth astrid...And i went to dopers school... I mean really rough crowd..so glad to leave SHS.

astrid,

Thanks. That makes sense.

StuckInBA - thats totally funny....LOL

CB -
Homes in 1996-7 were fetching arount 110/sq ft... that home was way overpriced in 2001. The sellers were fishing for IPO lotto winners. And yes, as is.. That made me sick of the garbage i saw back in 2001. Thats when I first learned of the Fake Bids realtors were using on buyers. You saw prices double by 2000. 180K to 500K in just 4 years.. now same place is 700K.
Give me a break...

Maybe I should not move to BA AKA Land of Lotus Eaters. If I move there I may never be able to leave again.

I took some Berkeley classes one summer and had my project mates describe Berkeley weather as "too hot for about one month in the summer and too cold the rest of the time". The mind boggles.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/16951941.htm

Enjoy. (Sorry for long URL...)

SJ Merc Headlines.... ( i hope to see)

Cheaploans.com closing doors.
Other also fearing similar faith.

I finally earned my first capitalism 2.0 carryover blog troll from patrick.net. I think it's theOtherside's husband. I especially like the part about me being a metrosexual -- which I had to actually look up being I'm a bit slow and don't watch much tv. I have to say, thinking of myself as that made this month's blogging all worth the effort, lol.

Where I grew up we'd call this person a "choad".

Randy, you clearly have too much time on your hands as a rental-house-bound, stay-at-home modern-day metrosexual. Those "Stickiness" graphs of yours expose you as someone with some real "issues" you might want to explore with a pro and treat with med's, if you aren't already.

Posted by: Rankbull | Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 15:44

I miss trolls. :(

They seem to be having self-esteem issues lately.

I don't think this troll is smart enough to know the definition of metrosexual.

Or it could be the latest iteration of jukubot...

Nice!

Myth #2: Silicon Valley House Prices Never Go Down

http://www.viewfromsiliconvalley.com/id315.html

Or it could be the latest iteration of jukubot…

I don't think an autonomous vacuum cleaner is capable of trolling the site.

Maybe Jukubot is an early version cylon. One day it'll come back as super hot blonds to terrorize us.

I hadn't considered the Jukubot angle. The anger does sorta sound a bit like "The Futurist" and his persistent phobia with "5th Columnists".

Perhaps there have been M&As among trolls.

SFWoman Says:
I haven’t heard of an AIDS insurance policy. It seems that it would be an astoundingly stupid business model.

well... I dunno... there's not much 'moral hazard' that you will deliberately try to get the policy paid out, unlike burning down the business premises. it's more like a life insurance policy which does not exclude AIDS...

This post made me sound like a 5th columnist. :)

Randy, you clearly have too much time on your hands as a rental-house-bound, stay-at-home modern-day metrosexual.

But metrosexuals are the ones, along with homosexuals, who tend to have the most disposable income!

On the other hand, I guess they don't buy in Cupertino... only SoMA...

astrid Says:

> Reasonably bright kids with supportive parents
> should be able to succeed in any middling to good
> school. I don’t see the obsession with going to
> the “best” school.

Almost all kids have a need to “fit in” and it is a lot easier to raise a kid that is trying to “fit in” with the kids in their school who are smart, well dressed, and headed for top colleges than it is to raise a kid who is trying to fit in at a school where the kids are dumb, dress like gang members and are headed for prison…

New thread: Negotiation

Randy H Says:

> I finally earned my first capitalism 2.0 carryover
> blog troll from patrick.net. I think it’s theOtherside’s
> husband.

I wonder if stalking laws apply to trolls?

> I especially like the part about me being a metrosexual
> which I had to actually look up being I’m a bit slow and
> don’t watch much tv. I have to say, thinking of myself as
> that made this month’s blogging all worth the effort, lol.
> Where I grew up we’d call this person a “choad”.

I’ve never thought of Randy H. as the type of guy I would spot drinking a chi tea latte chatting with the girls on Chestnut Street as a young Korean girl rolls up is $600 jeans to start on his pedicure…

Adam Carrola from the Man Show once defined a metrosexual as “a guy who is not ready to leave Straightsville and get on the train to Homotown”…

P.S. I had to look up Choad…

FAB,

That's why I would not suggest sending kids to ghetto schools. I just suggest middling to good schools as opposed to "best" schools. Even average schools tend to have some good students for good kids to fit into.

Just as you don't want your hypothetical child to smoke pot and wear pants that hand around their knees, I don't want my hypothetical child to be think getting 1600 SAT or winning the Westinghouse is the end all be all of existence.

(I know a couple 1600ers, most of them are recovering burnouts; the 1500ers are fun; the 1250-1400 rangers are probably the most ambitious/successful).

On the other hand, if I had kids, I'd send them to boarding school or home school them. I have no intention of sending my kids to public school.

The goal, if you still want a goal in your life, is to make enough money so that you children don’t have to get into the rat race. Whatever they want to do, they should do it out of passion and real interests.

They will have to find their ways themselves, perhaps with the help of an astrology or two.

I tend to think that kids are not necessary. My life goal is to start and run a meaningful foundation.

GC,

If that should be the only goal in life, then what the heck would my kids' goal be if I succeed?

Would your foundation help me buy a nice woman and support my kids through college?

No.

My goal is to eat a lot, travel a lot, lead a happy & lazy life, and weigh less than 200 lbs doing it.

I am now under 190. :)

I am still deciding whether humanistic understanding is more important than technological advancement.

I'm disturbed by the latest Google ads. Everything Gator is evil.

One of these days I want to generate a thread here that attracts the highest web 2.0 ad dollars...I wonder if anyone here can give pointers.

I am maybe ¼ metrosexual... talking to gays for very long tires me out tho...

astrid:

Maybe if you used the phrase 'semantic web' two or three times?

(semantic web - semantic web - semantic web) ... let's just see...

Nope. We get Gene Simmons & family and Meet-aGuy.com. Boolah.

Interesting. How about them semantic web design thingies and web 2.0 and saltine crackers.

The smelly socks marxist in me fights the metrosexual. To metrosexuals I'm a smelly socks marxist, to marxists I'm a metrosexual :(