I had a good laugh when I read over WorldLingo’s translation of Rain City Guide in Russian.
“Interview with John Mudd of Inside Real Estate” became “Interview with John Mudd Real Estate Guts.” There were a bunch of other funny issues with the translation, but that was my favorite.
I’m yet to find a good Russian-to-English translator (or even one that is usable). Anyone out there know of one that works?
Here are the one’s I’m aware of:
[photopress:thor.jpg,thumb,alignright] I like to think that Rain City Guide is constantly growing and evolving… Along those lines, Anna has been doing some growing (and evolving?) of her own lately. (She’s going to kill me for saying that!)
For those that don’t already know, Anna is expecting to have our second child in a little over a month.
So, let’s get down to business… What should we name the child?
Some ground rules:
Beyond that, I just look forward to reading your suggestions!
I don’t mean to brag, but I was just checking my log files and I noticed that someone from the North Pole found my site while searching for real estate on Google.
I imagine the street level up there is pretty high this time of year. I wonder if one of the elves is thinking of getting out of manufacturing and into a more high-tech job?
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Also, if you look closely, you’ll notice that my North Pole visitor had cookies enabled 🙂
It’s well known that things slow down tremendously in the winter… But none the less there have been some rumblings that things are slowing down too fast and that we might be approaching “bubble territory”. Using some pending home sale data from the NW Reporter, I put together the following chart:
It looks like we’re in a pretty typical October slowdown to me… Seattle homeowners: I’d be curious to know if you are concerned when you see this chart?
[photopress:Living_Room_shadow.JPG,thumb,alignright]While we’re thinking $100M huge, here’s a question to lighten the mood up:
What sort of “neat” things and convenience features would you design into your dream home?
This question was recently posted at Ask Metafilter and there have been some wonderful responses. Here are some of my favorite:
It is such a fun question! I found it interesting to see where people focused. Some responses were all about the kitchen… Some all about light… and others all about keeping the bugs out!
Thanks to Fraser at Toronto at Home.
[photopress:greatstory.jpg,thumb,alignright]The PI had a funny story today about a typo on an engraved granite slab for a new park in Ballard’s Bergen Place Park.
The story would not be worth mentioning except Fark picked up the story and there are some pretty funny comments on their site (including this photo with the “a” flipped!).
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David A. Smith, founder of the Affordable Housing Institute, has a great blog that is loaded with articles that are both interesting and informative (is that possible?). In terms of readability, his posts are up there with grow-a-brain except David keeps more focused on real estate.
He posts on a wide variety of topics. Today he gives some lessons on how home owners can learn from haggling in third world contries in the Economics of Haggling. A few days ago he had an article (What destroyed your home first) where he relates the killing of Rasputin to whether or not insurance companies will pay to rebuild homes in New Orleans (read the article and it will make sense!).
All in all, David is a great writer, and if you’re interested in real estate, I highly recommend adding him to your reading list.
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Fremont gives us another wonderful opportunity to celebrate the autumn, hear live music, have a glass of good beer, make some crafts and much more at the Fremont Oktoberfest September 23-25th
Autumn gets ushered in with the Fremont Oktoberfest. Historically, in old Germany, the brewing season began with the fall harvest of barley and hops and any beer left at harvest time had to be consumed before the new beer arrived. September was designated as the time to drink-up all of last season’s beer. It officially became Oktoberfest in 1810, when Ludwig I, the Crown Prince of Bavaria declared a 16-day celebration in commemoration of his wedding.
Gotta love the Onion’s real estate reporting…
