epimetheus

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we could have waited it out and gotten other, higher offers. We actually chose to pick one that had a longer closing period (the house we wanted is occupied with people that want their kids to finish the school year), and with a dog and a toddler, the constant viewings were pretty inconvenient, enough so I'm happy at a lower price just to get it over with.

A bit of an anecdote because the article mentions my town specifically - Tacoma:

We put our house on the market Friday, April 8th, a bit below the "redfin estimate" - I saw it had gone live by 11am and we already had an interested party set up a viewing by 12pm. We showed the house 11 times by Monday morning and had 5 offers, some 12k above asking price. We accepted an offer by Tuesday (April 12). My head is still spinning from how fast this was and how many calls we were getting for appointments for viewing. This in a central Tacoma location, not exactly prime location (like the Proctor District or Stadium). We only had 3 other homes as comps in the area (1 mile radius).

Port Orchard / Gig Harbor area is very low on inventory too, which is where we are moving (Port Orchard, we looked in GH though).

There are Americans named, actually, though just not as much in the limelight: http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/americans-including...

It seems that Basalt Fiber has been around since the 20s, according to Wikipedia; how long has it been used for rebar in construction though?

It's probably that, I grew up in the Midwest in a rural school district (outside the school district of a ~100k population city) - we had a 400 or so graduating class though. This was early to mid 90s, and it was pretty standard through the 80s too, at least for me. In the mid 90s I fell into a grunge group and they were a bad influence. Instead of getting bullied about being a nerd, it switched to that, and taunts about blowing my brains out with a shotgun (around the time that happened) were pretty common.

Edit: to add this perspective though, my wife went to school in a relatively small town (Rolla, MO) and also had a 400 or so graduating class, but she claims ignorance of any sort of nerd bullying and thought it was a TV trope only thing too. She graduated in 2002. Maybe something changed between those dates?

A fishing village with over half a million people, and a metro area of nearly 1 million? Around these parts, that'd make it a city.

That almost sounds like you have photographic memory. I do have a good spatial sense, and combined with a fairly decent memory, I can remember where certain things are, but if it's items I've never bought or looked at, I can't just bring it into memory like looking at a picture of it. I don't even really see the shelf, I just go to that spot on the shelf in my memory and think what was there. It's location only, I don't see anything.

When I draw something, I call up a shape from memory (more like a series of explanations of a shape rather than seeing the shape). Probably why I can draw simple things, and not always 100% the same way - I'm not drawing it from a mental image, I'm just thinking about the shape of something.

After reading this though, I'm amazed that people can visualize things so well and am kind of jealous. I've gotten by and other than not having a great drawing ability, it doesn't impact my enjoyment of books or anything like that.

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of this. I think I have a mild case of this condition to be honest. I can imagine away like the rest of people I guess, but when I actually try and visualize something, I don't see it, not like in a dream or anything close to real life. If I close my eyes and imagine a candle with flame, with great effort I can start to see it, but it's faded on the sides (surrounded by darkness) and I can't ever get it to flicker like a real flame. I can "imagine" a candle though, and the flame is flickering, but I don't actually see anything.

Dreams are vivid and nearly real, at least that's my impression of them when I wake up, my imaginings or "Day dreams" are nowhere near as vivid, and I certainly can't see the details of my wife, kid or anything or anybody else on the level of "seeing an image of them."

You should look into a bank that has a good App. I use BECU and they have feature on their app where I can deposit the check with a couple snaps of my camera.

Not GP, but these have worked for me:

L. reuteri ATCC PTA 6475[0]

L. reuteri DSM 17938[0]

Lactobacillus reuteri Protectis[1]

[0]- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AH3RT9Y

[1]- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001XUQNN4

I was taking others too, as well as some prebiotics but I stopped for awhile and been taking these two again for about a week and already feel much better - at least as good as before when I was taking more.

Up to 15,000 dollars of AWS credit for qualifying startups (1-2 years)[0]

[0] - http://aws.amazon.com/activate/

Yeah, I think that's probably a great use case for them. I believe one idea I overheard was using them in our local hospital for maps, location of key rooms (surgery and such) and things like that.

Thanks for referencing Estimote, those look promising.

They collect both, from here[0]:

"First bees have four main items on the collection list: nectar, pollen, saps / waxes, and water"

[0] - https://www.quora.com/Can-honey-bees-collect-nectar-at-the-s...

Yeah, I apologize, I meant to respond to the GP and accidentally responded to you. I don't want to clutter the thread with duplicate posts though, so I'll just leave it as is.

He probably meant Interstates, and 1956 is 60 years ago, which is why I'm guessing that. Interstate 5 (Seattle portion) was only completed in 1969[0] so depending on where you are, it could be significantly less.

[0] - http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&...

I think 10 years is just a bit optimistic. I think it'll take about 10 years from the time we have the software/hardware at a point where it is ready. I think that could be 5 years. I think it'll be another 15-20 years after that where the majority of cars on the road are self driving. Baring any crazy legislation, which I don't think would happen, in the US anyway.

http://longbets.org/ would help facilitate this, though the minimum is 200 dollars.

I pretty much only had a handful of friends before I moved 2000+ miles away, but honestly, the one and only one that I still talk to was the only one that was really my friend. The rest were more close acquaintances, past roommates, etc.

Some are still on the 'real' friend list, but have lives that kept us from hanging out, even when there wasn't distance. Business, etc.

After moving my wife and I have picked up some couple 'friends,' but they are more playdate type (kids near same age), and party type acquaintances. I don't meet up with either of them individually (and they are socialites, so are always doing stuff with groups of people, I don't know that they have any friends that they just hang out together with, other than in a group).

My closest friend still hangs out with us once a year. We chat and email weekly if not daily, and we both fly to each other's cities to visit, or we meet somewhere and hang out, vacation-like.

I deal with Drupal (7.x) on a daily basis, so that's why you'll probably detect bitterness from me. Personally there are a myriad of reasons why Drupal rubs me the wrong way, most are Developer issues though (Such as their annoying comment form API, and arrays, arrays everywhere).

There are better CMSs out there, IMO, but we have to use Drupal because it's the only one that has a Certification of Networthiness (I work in the DOD) - and to make things worse for us, we have to use Drupal on IIS with MSSQL (for now). Why can't we just go with Umbraco (.Net)!?

Canada has the most lakes in the world too. I recall reading that they have more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

PHP isn't that slow[0] by itself. Notice it's 10th on the list (Php5-raw), it outperforms Nodejs, Python, RoR and many others.

Drupal, on the other hand, is so slow because it has a terrible architecture.

[0] - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

I was going to suggest daterange, but it didn't work for me (haven't used it in awhile), however, I think this tool replaced it, you can even set custom ranges with that.

Yeah, this works for me by just clicking "Search Instead for Amazone" - it even remembers it next time for me - I also was easily able to strip out Amazon results by adding -Amazon to the query.

That's a good point. I'm terrible at this kind of negotiation though, do you usually come in with a particular price or do they have a set amount if it's cash? I think I'd like to get better at negotiating, I usually end up paying full price for a car because of my lack of such skill.

Though I'm not who you responded to, I'd like to say that I certainly did see warning signs. Sometimes we fought over it, sometimes it made me seem petty (she'd tell me all about her day, but when she asked it seemed more of a token, and she'd get that 10,000 yard stare and eventually tell me she didn't need that kind of detail - and I'm not a long talker). In one instance she left me abandoned at school (frozen door at school), she wouldn't risk the 2 mile or so drive and told me to walk instead (situations being reversed she would have probably left me and I'd have been ostracized for abandoning her). There were many others, but the signs were all there, I think I just ignored them hoping things would get better, etc.

Actually, a lot of places constantly run "Zero Interest If Paid Off In 12 Months" deals all the time. Lowes, Furniture stores, and even some Credit cards.

We've paid off Couches, A refrigerator, a new Sewer Drain, and several other things (a nice Kitchen Table most recently) this way. It's not as good as saving for it, and getting a few dollars of interest, but that's a marginal gain anyway.

Yeah, that makes sense, and can totally empathize with them for that. I love independent women though, and love a career oriented woman, so I can't complain. I had just hoped it was going to be equal, she'd consider the situation and help out a bit. It's not entirely her fault though, I add to the entropy of our marriage just as much, if not more.

Or even if you have money and are sexually unfulfilled. I'm pretty sure for myself, a libido mismatch was a contributing factor for some of our issues. We do fine, not in the 1%, but certainly in the 5-6% (household income ~140k in a not terrible cost of living area).

Our times of interest were even wonky. I get tired at night and lose interest, that's when she wanted it. I liked it in the morning (after brushing the teeth), she likes to sleep in as much as possible (After a kid, that means until he/she wakes up).

And she was quick to reach (sorry if this is TMI, lol), while I took a bit longer, and she was extra sensitive after and... uh, dried up so it became painful for her after she got hers.

After awhile, sex become uninteresting if you are the one not getting fulfilled, and the marriage suffers. No amount of money fixes that.

>Unless you're celibate

Pretty much, rough marriage, sex with each other isn't something they want even if you do. Needless to say, more than 12 months go by between 'action.'

Right now we are together for finances and the kiddo. But I still have to deal with all of the negatives. I might hook up with others once everything is normal, but really the primary motivator isn't sex or a better mate, it's just freedom to better my career and myself. Right now it's all about her career and me dealing with the kid.