- New York City isn’t the only place for those closet-sized apartments. Seattle weighs in with a real doozy.
- Am I the only one who finds it both shocking and ominous that 10 seconds is now a long reaction time in stock markets?
- Iowa disbands its team of badge-wearing highwaymen and makes a second payment to a pair of cash-carrying gamblers they stopped and pillaged.
- Clintons: keep your money but stay out of politics. You’ve done enough harm. (Actually, with the collapse of donations and speaking fees, coupled with years of legal expenses ahead, I don’t think America’s First Criminal Family will even be able to keep the money.)
- Yes, those SJWs “know” they’re right — until you try to pin them down on the principles behind their positions.
- I don’t care who you are or what you’ve done. Nobody should go to jail just for being too poor to pay traffic fines. Debtors’ prison was supposed to have been abolished back in some dark century.
- Cold as a witch’s tit around here right now. Seattle may get up to four inches of snow tomorrow. Seattle has hills. Lots of hills. Expect them to look like this if that prediction comes true. (H/T MJR)
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Amazon’s theme for today: Four brawling nerds. 🙂
That means the emphasis is on tech, including a GoPro Camera HERO+, automated iFetch machines (didn’t know your dog could be a nerd, did you?), Lumo activity trackers, kids’ ride-on toys, a Bissell 1132A Symphony Vacuum and Steam Mop … and more.
Sheesh, even Corben Dallas’ apartment was bigger. Al Gore would be so happy.
Seriously, did someone buy up an old jail facility and convert it to “apartments?”
The SJWeasels’ commitment to alleged principle seems to be inversely proportional to the personal danger they might face.
These will be the new Seattle luxury apartments soon;
http://www.honeybucket.com/
Odds are you could find a motel near Seattle where you could cut a deal for a room on a monthly basis for less than $750. I’ve rented decent motel rooms–two rooms, kitchenette–for $40 a night.
High Frequency Trades (HFT) occur in milliseconds. A stock drops a few cents, it’s bought; any rise of a few cents and it’s sold. A gazillion trades per day in this fashion can generate a good bit of money by closing time. However, no great thought or analysis is involved. “Just following orders.”
Easy to see why people in the market look for potential changes in stock values from Trump tweets. And, really, if somebody makes a connection between the tweet and a company evaluation change in only ten seconds, give them credit for rather high-speed analysis.
Trade you the 4 inches of snow for the morning low temp here… -10 degrees. LOL We need the snow!
We’re set to get Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lake effect snow today (12/8) and tomorrow (12/9), a common occurrence until those lakes freeze over in winter.
Well, ML and r_v, I wouldn’t trade our weather for either of yours. But you’re used to it. Your world functions in those conditions. Seattle totally loses it when it gets four inches of snow. It becomes a dangerous place.
Where I am, we’re expecting an ice storm today. Freezing rain coating everything. I’m planning to hunker. Ava won’t like that, but after our morning walk, we’re coming home, huddling by a faux fire, and barely moving.
Watch out for that ice storm! We had one in 1991 that paralyzed Rochester for weeks and wiped out a bunch of trees in our urban forest. I can still remember being awoken at 2am when our tree in the backyard snapped and shook the house when it fell, splitting the kids’ swing set in two, and the sound of cracking and snapping tree limbs for the next 24 hours! I hope your’s isn’t near as bad, Claire!
Rochester: Look back at the Ice Storm of 1991
Seattle with 1-2″ of snow on a steep hill (in city-center yet)–it’s not fun. Don’t think my current car could have handled it, but my manual transmission at the time was able to overcome. I didn’t try it a second time.
In ‘condescending, certain, and incoherent’: “Few things are more deadly to a broad political tendency than a eye-rolling assumption that there is no work to be done.”
Equally deadly to any endeavor. When you reach a point where you have all the answers, you might as well give up.
Yikes, r_v! That 2:00 a.m. sound must be in your catalog of memorable moments.
I don’t think our ice storm is supposed to be that bad. Maybe 1/4-inch coating, they’re saying. A few years back, we dodged the same type of bullet that hit you guys in ’91. I spent the day bitching about the heavy 33-degree rain we were having, not realizing that 30 miles to the north of us, a 31- or 32-degree rain was slapping a coating of ice up to an inch and a half thick on everything, taking down power lines, forests, vehicles, and anything else in its path. Even though the area was mostly rural, the damage was incredible.
“Seattle with 1-2″ of snow on a steep hill (in city-center yet)–it’s not fun.”
Ain’t that the truth? People who live where serious weather is common laugh about west coast wussiness. But I’ve lived in both kinds of places and a couple inches of snow in Seattle or Portland is definitely worse than a couple of feet of snow in Minnesota or Iowa.
I direct everyone’s attention to the Atlanta Ice Storm of three winters ago. Hundreds of road-miles of stranded cars, people caught out for 36hrs and in a few cases longer, the works.
I see the City has taken steps to keep new micro-apartments from being built because other wise confused citizens will be forced at gun point to rent them.
Just got back from interviewing someone. Had to wear a sweater. 🙂
I really hope either Obama or Trump gives Clinton a pardon, just so we don’t have to hear about any trials. Besides, for her the worst punishment would be obscurity.
Tried to walk a couple of blocks to the grocery store after an ice storm when living in Portland some years back–quite a shock. Uneven surfaces make for a far different traverse than a frozen lake. Earlier years (Fairbanks) I used to go out to start the car to warm up in t-shirt and jeans then come back in to finish dressing, with temperatures down to about minus twenty; minus thirty and below required being fully dressed though. These days, my barely freezing night times and forty degree days are brrr!
Larryarnold, a pardon for Hillary is fine as far as it goes, but what you’re missing is that there are dozens of her cronies and sycophants who also committed crimes (not the least of which was destroying evidence under subpoena) and who should be held to account. So even if she gets off (which would set a terrible precedent) we aren’t likely to be spared years of after-shocks. This isn’t going to end soon.
The only part of that article about Hillary that I liked was its conclusion: Stay out of politics! The rest of it was a pro-Hillary rant, disguised with the mildest of criticisms for her criminal conduct and yet more gratuitous shots at Trump (who, so far at least, has done nothing to merit them). But then you consider the source: he is the “John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.” I can’t imagine a more reprehensible collection of titles.
Mr. Perry, that ice storm caught us up here in South Carolina, too. It wasn’t quite as bad here, but it did a lot of damage and paralyzed the region for several days. In a lot of ways ice is worse than snow. Be careful, Claire.
Also, I just saw that there was a 6.5 earthquake of the coast of Northern California. Are there any tsunami warnings? Will that affect your area?
“Also, I just saw that there was a 6.5 earthquake of the coast of Northern California. Are there any tsunami warnings? Will that affect your area?”
You’re really on top of things, Laird; your comment is the first I’ve heard about that. I checked and apparently there were no tsunami warnings at all from that quake. I’m signed up to get warnings if there are any in my area.
I know that wasn’t a subduction-zone quake, but those offshore quakes always make people hereabouts a little nervous …
Here’s a good snow pic. (found on Drudge Report): http://www.fox5ny.com/news/222162787-story
Laird, one expects a terrible precedent during the tenure of a terrible president.