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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 :(

DS, if you are ousted by the Marxists, you are welcome to join our club of small-L libertarians. :)

Remember, in a free market, self-interest creates public good.

Need to Create a Blog? and Looking for IT Blogs?

I guess that's progress.

Metrosexuals should be avoided by discriminating people of all genders and sexual preferences. I had an ex-friend who pretty embodies the metrosexual ethos. Looking back, I wonder how I put up with someone so sketchy for so long (who eventually pissed me off when he cheated on a girl I introduced to him and then had the galls to blame her for his cheating and lying).

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…

I still haven't figured out what's wrong with Costco jeans. Some of them even come pre-ripped giving that $600 high fashion mystique.

I mostly hang out with nerds and nerdy jocks. I've known a couple ex-marines. Fun for an afternoon, but I would suffocate if I was married to someone like that.

Please release my comment from moderation. I spent almost my entire lunch hour doing the research for it! :-)

Phoenix active listings are flying up at an unbeleivable pace. currently passed 50000 homes. I made a seperate search for vacant homes on the mls and that has jumped from 16000 to 18500 in the last 3 months. Sales activity is picking up, march is looking like about 6000 after 4950 in feb, but this is still off about 10% from last year so i assume its just spring buying. Meanwhile i sampled recent expired listings and found 30% are 2005 and later purchases still trying to make a profit. So, fear has not replaced greed yet and the truth of how bad the market is getting is not common knowldege here yet. My prediction: many more homes will come on the rental market later this summer as investors give up on selling, and most areas will have very soft rental markets for quite a while in addition to soft sales markets. Disclosure: I am a realtor, but i started selling my homes in 04, and am down to just 2; both are paid off so I don't really care what happens if it goes up I will the last rental, if the market tanks I will buy foreclosures. Peace everyone!

Jimbo,

Can you repost that document?