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Lake Tahoe Renter Says:

> Just dropping in to say hello, and to say thanks
> again for the informative website.

Glad to have someone from Tahoe on board…

> I am a renter in a very nice neighborhood on the
> South Shore…

Tahoe Keys?

> many of my friends would tell me I should beg borrow
> and steal to get into a house before you get priced out.

I don’t know how long you have lived in Tahoe, but when things slow down in the Bay Area they really slow down in Tahoe. Back in 1996 I knew a realtor (one lady not a firm) that had almost 200 listings with almost 100 under $100K…

> I’m looking forward to prices dropping at least another
> 20 percent and so I can say I TOLD YOU SO.

They will drop way more than 20% in the Tahoe basin before this is over…

> The West Shore is defiantly more desirable than South Lake
> Tahoe, it cracks me up, one time a gentlemen from the
> West Shore actually told me that people from South Lake
> Tahoe are of another breed.

When I was a kid growing up on the Peninsula many of my neighbors had family places on the West Shore that had been in the family for years (and cool pre-war Rivas, Chris-Crafts and Hackers that had never been in any lake except Tahoe). Back then the South Shore was mainly full time residents and rental cabins. As prices on the West Shore (and other prime areas like Sugar Bowl, Squaw Valley, Glenbrook and Lakeshore Blvd. in Incline Village) have gone up a lot more Bay Area people are buying in South Shore (and forcing lots of former full time residents over the hill to Carson City).

Is this the slowest thread ever?

If you get the chance check out the KGW link Patrick provided! Hysterical story of a total idiot going into default on his Oregon home and letting three PIGS live inside! Well I guess that's one way to deal with a default!

It's actually only a few miles from here so I may go check it out? No, I don't think so, I get the idea. This guy is crazy.

New thread Real Estate Roller Coaster

“knows why carbon matters”

Huh? Because silicon steak would taste funny?

It's because of bonding. Silicon can form 4 bonds, but it can't do double or triple bonding easily. I'm pretty sure the triple bond hasn't been discovered outside of some esoteric laboratory reactions. Anyway, the bond angles are very important in the three different types of bonds as they are what give protiens/DNA/RNA a large part of their shape, and the shape of a protien in its active areas is critical. (As are the charges, but carbon doesn't directly affect that.)

When you cook a steak, you break a lot of carbon bonds apart, forming different molecule shapes (and occasionally different molecules as larger ones break apart) which tastebuds on your tongue and, more importantly, scent receptors in your nose can tell apart. Replacing carbon with silicon in a steak (assuming you could) would result in an mostly tasteless steak as you wouldn't be forming many molecules that your taste or smell could detect. Mostly it would taste like oil or butter or whatever you tried to cook it in.

I don't even want to go into how unhappy you'd be several hours after you ate it.

Also, Randy, I have a MS in Biophysics and a BS in Comp Sci. scrubbo at that gmail dot com place would reach me.

SFBB,

I vaguely remembered that carbon was superior to silicon, though I forgot how. 10th grade Chemistry (taught by a man name Formulak) was a long time ago and I don't remember much of it, except being pissed off that he didn't let us burn magnesium ribbons.

SFBB,

I vaguely remembered that carbon was superior to silicon, though I forgot how. 10th grade Chemistry (taught by a man name Formulak) was a long time ago and I don't remember much of it, except being pissed off that the teacher didn't let us burn magnesium ribbons.