referral to longer writing
Jun. 15th, 2006 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdIn early April, the Burke-Gilman trail got partly covered in a landslide! It wasn't all that much mass, fortunately, but it took a bit of cleaning up by the city. I didn't get pictures right away, but I took these later in the month:
Hillside--;
One of Many Little Caverns
I don't know if those little caverns were part of the cause, if those filled up with water and eventually the whole thing gave, or what. But there were a bunch of them. Of course, right as I was taking those, the camera batteries said "nuh-UH!" And now it's already kind of overgrown, so that's what you get.
Today's (Thursday's) miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 897
Miles out of Rivendell: 437.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 29.2
Over on her LJ,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firni asked a reasonable question about real estate valuation prospects and the "housing bubble" over on her journal. My reply got kinda, um, long. Long enough that I'm pointing to it; it's about 1500 words, the length of my medium-sized articles for Microsoft. One of the interesting things about it that brought it back into mind today is this commentary today which contains relevant data on the timing of the slowdown in house paper valuations and the surge to revolving credit debt which started up in April. It's too early to call that a trend, but the numbers there certainly seem to line up well with the numbers here, in this separate report.
Meanwhile, Minyanville has some very interesting speculation about a wave of 1990s Japanese-style deflation. I don't think I see how we get there from here - not yet - but savers would do well in that environment.
Taken on Goat Trail Road, on the way to the shops, at the end of April:
Yellow Shaggy
Hillside--;
One of Many Little Caverns
I don't know if those little caverns were part of the cause, if those filled up with water and eventually the whole thing gave, or what. But there were a bunch of them. Of course, right as I was taking those, the camera batteries said "nuh-UH!" And now it's already kind of overgrown, so that's what you get.
Today's (Thursday's) miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 897
Miles out of Rivendell: 437.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 29.2
Over on her LJ,
firni asked a reasonable question about real estate valuation prospects and the "housing bubble" over on her journal. My reply got kinda, um, long. Long enough that I'm pointing to it; it's about 1500 words, the length of my medium-sized articles for Microsoft. One of the interesting things about it that brought it back into mind today is this commentary today which contains relevant data on the timing of the slowdown in house paper valuations and the surge to revolving credit debt which started up in April. It's too early to call that a trend, but the numbers there certainly seem to line up well with the numbers here, in this separate report.Meanwhile, Minyanville has some very interesting speculation about a wave of 1990s Japanese-style deflation. I don't think I see how we get there from here - not yet - but savers would do well in that environment.
Taken on Goat Trail Road, on the way to the shops, at the end of April:
Yellow Shaggy
