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| 2008/4/25-30 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:49827 Activity:nil |
4/25 Riding your bicycle on THE 10 and THE 405. Further proof that
LA is a total dump full of dimwits on the road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NLmiuyLa98
\_ Huh? How does this video show that LA is full of dimwits? Because
of traffic? Honestly, those bike guys were pulling some pretty
stupid crap. |
| 2008/4/25-5/2 [Transportation/Car] UID:49828 Activity:kinda low |
4/24 Los Angeles is bleeding with foreclosures:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/la-re-zipforclosures-pg,0,3014082.photogallery?index=12
PS Talking to the trashy ppl there I always knew how dumpy
Lancaster and Palmdale were. At foreclosure rate of 1/59 and
1/67, you have to wonder why people there are so irresponsible
with their finances. On the other hand, it's surprising
to me that a city as dumpy as Venice and Santa Monica have much
fewer foreclosures than Lancaster and Palmdale.
\_ These areas also attract people who love MONSTER TRUCK and
NASCAR. I mean, it's always been known that people who live
far from civilization are lower forms of life. The saddest
thing is that people like you and me end up bailing them out
of their misery.
\_ Santa Monica is pretty much the only place in LA I would
consider living in. Maybe Malibu if I was so rich I didn't
have to drive anywhere. -Liberal SF Elitist
\_ Santa Monica is a shithole, but for a while it was more expensive
than Beverly Hills in terms of median price for a SFR. There
are a lot of wealthy people that live there and demand to live there
is high there so it stands to reason foreclosures would be low
compared to poor, undesirable Lancaster and Palmdale.
\_ If it is a shithole, why do so many wealthy people want to
live there?
\_ A lot of people new to LA think it's where they want to live.
Also, the location has close proximity to lots of high-paying
jobs so it's convenient. SM does have some nice areas in
the north, but those houses costs millions and are out of
the north, but those houses cost millions and are out of
reach of most people. Think of SM like Berkeley. Berkeley
is an expensive crime-ridden shithole, but that doesn't
mean there aren't some nice places in the Berkeley Hills.
\_ Where in LA isn't a shithole?
\_ Lots of places including Pacific Palisades, Palos
Verdes, Bel Air, Malibu, most of the canyons, SF
\_ and yet, you still have to drive through the
shithole freeways like the I-10 and I-405.
You can live in a nice home but if it takes
so much effort to get from A to B, it's still
a shithole.
Valley south of Ventura Blvd, La Canada, San
Marino, Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa
Beach. Almost any place near a beach or the
mountains/hills. Lots of Orange County is nice,
\_ yet you still have to deal with LA traffic.
Lots of traffic in Orange County. You're
confusing nice homes and neighbors and nice
quality of living. Traffic and road rage and
congestions and pollution != quality of living.
You may live in the nicest home in Irvine but
you're still in hell. I guess dimwitted
Angelenos will never get it.
\_ I live 8 miles from work and take the street
to get there. Dealing with traffic, whether
in LA, SF, Seattle, or Des Moines, is a
personal choice. I'd say SF is more congested
\_ LA is a really great place if you never have
to drive the same reason why Las Vegas is a
really great place to live as long as you never
have to leave your huge Vegas mansion.
and I dunno about pollution but it's better
than it was in the 1970s which is more than
can be said about most places. I have a
mountain view, experience lots of wildlife,
enjoy the warm weather, and love being near
world-class shopping, entertainment, museums,
and educational institutions. Last weekend I
hiked in the snow and walked along the beach
in the same day. To me, this (California) is
paradise. It's just that LA is a bit warmer
and has a bit more going for it than SF. SF
and San Diego are nice, too, but much more
provincial in comparison. Maybe I'll retire there.
\_ If everyone in LA lived 8 miles from work,
traffic problem would be less of an issue
today. I've lived in LA 1/2 of my life and
MOST ppl there don't have the luxury of living
so close to where they work, or they simply
don't want to live so close to work given
how shady some of the commercial zones are.
In addition the clear commercial/residential
zoning that was in place decades ago really
segmented everyone in LA, though a lot
of positive changes have happened (e.g.
the trend to push for mixed used developments
like the Redevelopment of LA and the Playa
Vista project). If you live 8 miles from where
you work, enjoy your career choices in the
proximity of where you live, it doesn't
matter where you live. Consider yourself
blessed because you're in a much better
position than 90% of the Angelinos. -x-LAer
\_ Proximity to work is a choice we all
make. Some people in the Bay Area work
in SF and live in Livermore. My sister
lives in Walnut Creek and used to
commute to Tiberon. You can make those
choices anywhere. It's more difficult
if you are a two-income family, since
it's harder to live close to two jobs,
but I don't see this as an issue specifically
related to LA. Even if you work in a
sketchy area there is usually a nice
area not too far away. Else, don't
accept a job in that sketchy area.
People like to blame LA for their own
personal lousy choices. I knew a couple
that moved to LA from Colorado. They
lived in Valencia. The guy worked in
Palmdale on the Space Shuttle and his
wife worked as an EE in Irvine. They
hated it here. Could it possibly be
because of the shitty situation they
set up for themselves involving long
commutes and boring suburbs? I'd hate
it, too. They went back to Colorado
within 2 years. Lots of people do
equally stupid things. A lot of my
\_ Valencia and Irvine is a stupid choice
and they would have done better had
they moved to a place with more nearby
related industries. Just as stock brokers
move to NYC or actors move to LA
engineers should move to N Cal.
I'm an engineer and I've gone through
so many companies like IBM and Intel
and now a startup, and I've never had
to move given how close I was to
endless career opportunities. If I
moved to LA, it would be the end of
my career or my home, since I'd have
much less mobility.
coworkers are fresh-outs who move to LA
for work. Where do they invariably
live? The beach. How far is the beach
from work? 37 miles. That's 50 minutes
without traffic. WHY?! They usually move
away in a few years. The people who
stay on long-term are the people who
chose to live close to work (a very
nice area, BTW, just not near the beach).
I'm better off than 90% of Angelenos
because I realize I control my own
commute with the choices I make in
where to work and live and I don't do
stupid things like accept job offers that
pay 10% more but increase my commute by
an hour a day.
\_ where does your wife work? How long
do you plan to stay at your job? How
secure is it?
\_ Because LA is so poorly planned, it is
hard to find homes near jobs. You fail
to see the connection between low density
single use development and long commutes.
SM -> Downtown is 15 miles, btw and there
are other good job centers even closer.
\_ Most of this was already covered above, but yeah,
I guess I cannot in good conscience call any of
those places shitholes, though I would not want
to live in almost any of them, because they are
too far from jobs and shopping and have no good
rapid transit, which would force me to have to
spend hours a day on LAs congested freeways. I
can imagine a situation where it would be okay
(worked at CalTech and lived in San Marino, for
example) but that would be pretty unique. Parts
of Beverley Hills are pretty nice: ironically
I prefer the part that most people think of as
"not as nice" because it is walking distance
to Santa Monica Blvd. And all those places cost
just as much or more than Santa Monica north
of Montana. -SFer
to Santa Monica Blvd. And those places cost
just as much or more than Santa Monica. -SFer
too, if you want to count that as part of LA.
\_ SF still going strong:
http://www.csua.org/u/lcm (WSJ - video)
\_ At the price point I've been paying attention to SF
has dropped a bit.
\_ Which price point is that, if I may ask. I am kind of
curious. |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Uncategorized] UID:49829 Activity:nil |
4/25 All hail "The Uno"!
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/the_uno_a_one_wheeled_mot.html |
| 2008/4/25-5/4 [Industry/Startup] UID:49830 Activity:nil |
4/25 My company wants to buy a Spam appliance, so we're looking at the
Barracuda 300. We don't want to go with Postini because we want to
keep things internal. We'll hit the 50 user limit soon, so that's
why we're considering the 300 model. Any experience, thoughts,
pro's, con's, alternatives? Thanks!
\_ IronPort
\_ A second vote for Ironport.
\_ Is it more time consuming to administer?
\_ http://www.sendio.com <-- my recommendation. mtbb
\_ You can host corporate emails on secured Google mail. It'll
cost a lot less than hosting your own email for a company
that is less than 10K employees.
\_ You get Postini for free if you start hosting your email
through google apps.
\_ Ironport still relies on crappy Symantec Brightmail.
Use proofpoint - more $ - no regrets. Barracuda = crap. |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Recreation/Dating] UID:49831 Activity:nil |
4/25 I saw hot Russian girl on commuter train this morning. Her
breasts were so huge that I could see cute little stretch
marks at the top of her exposed cleavage.
\_ And you did nothing, which means I don't give a crap.
\_ stretch marks would suggest rapid growth from, say, implants.
\_ Or puberty.
\_ Or gravity.
\_ Or pregnancy.
\_ Your cell phone doesn't have a camera?
\- did you tell her you only have one leg? |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Reference/Religion] UID:49832 Activity:nil |
4/25 Nancy Pelosi making up bible verses. (Last paragraph)
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1295
Either that, or she shouldn't be using quotes there. Maybe it's just
poor punctuation and grammer.
\_ That's because she's an evil socialist who hates christians and
is going to feed them all to the lions.
\_ Thank God someone is. It's about time.
\_ "grammar" |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Uncategorized] UID:49833 Activity:nil |
4/25 What exactly is the New World Order?
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order pick one.
\_ As I recall it was a group of good wrestlers gone bad in the 90's.
One of them was Hulk Hogan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(professional_wrestling |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Health/Disease/General, Health/Men] UID:49834 Activity:nil |
4/25 what is downside of vasectomy?
\_ Why would you want a vasectomy? - motd not getting laid guy
\_ why are you still not getting laid? lots of promiscuous
women in the San Diego area:
http://www.courttv.com/trials/sommer/113007_ctv.html
\_ already have 6 kids. -mormon
\_ If you're done having kids, it's a much less invasive procedure
than a woman getting her tubes tied.
\_ A few weeks of discomfort. Not generally reversible.
New studies suggest it may increase chances of senility in old age.
\_ what if you take synthetic testosterones?
\_ A vasectomy doesn't terminate testosterone production. It just
keeps the sperm cells from mixing into the seminal fluid (the
vas deferens, the tube that delivers the sperm cells is
severed, a section removed and the ends sealed), and the cells
are reabsorbed into the body. The going hypothesis about
senility is that sperm cells that can't exit the body are
attacked by the immune system and that the body starts
attacking cells in the brain as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy#Vasectomy-Dementia_Link
\_ how do you explain that everytime I jackoff I feel
so brain dead and do worse on exams?
\_ oh shit! I better start ejaculating more |
| 2008/4/25-30 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:49835 Activity:nil |
4/25 The first black president of the US: Bill Clinton
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_campaignplus/20080425/ap_ca/on_deadline_race |