Gray concrete blocks as far as the eye can see, all unaffordable to the average person (looking in that direction -- northwest).
Twitter Trend Down Day
Here's the three minute chart for Twitter ... I see one "obvious" spot to get short just after noon ... interested to know how day traders who were short this played it. It was liquid enough to draw a very clean chart even down on the one minute, where a short spot appeared a bit earlier (at 11:35 or so). Drop me a line if you made money shorting this one intraday.
Slow Boat Brewery's Sea Anchor Imperial Vanilla Stout
This is another beer I favor at Slow Boat ... at 8% you only need a pint of this on an empty tummy to get an edge on, not a buzz, just a vaguely happy feeling. Bitterness at 28 and those faint vanilla notes make it very pleasing. At 55元 (US$8.83) a pint it's their most expensive beer, but as I said, you really only need one to feel good.
Trading idea for Tue. May 6, 2014 | CarMax (KMX)
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"It's dynamite grass."
Mad Men S07 E04
Poor old Roger down on the farm with daughter Marigold ... a world away from brunch at the Plaza.
80-82 Teeter Road
Ithaca Property Sales of Note #1
I follow the real estate market in the Ithaca area pretty closely and will post about sales I find noteworthy.
Price History
Date Event Price $/sqft
02/18/14 Sold $735,000 $269
12/09/13 Listing removed $785,000 $288
11/15/13 Pending sale $785,000 $288
06/05/13 Listed for sale $785,000 $288
11/18/11 Listing removed $897,000 $329
02/24/11 Listed for sale $897,000 $329
We can see from Zillow that it was originally listed in February 2011 at $897,000 and finally sold in February 2014 for $735,000. So it was on the market for around 1090 days and sold for 18% below the original asking price. The house was built in 1985, sat on a 2.92 acre lot with lake views, and was assessed at $690,000. It was owned by David S. Yeh who worked at Cornell but moved to Saudi Arabia in July 2009.
Skyr (Pronounced Skeer)
Learned about this yoghurt from reading Tiffany Shi's post on her visit to Iceland. Apparently you can find it at The Fresh Market, assuming you have enough money to live near one.
Small Spaces
One of a number of dramatic photos taken by the Hong Kong-based Society for Community Organisation. We lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years after the handover and I loved living there, but we had a decent-sized apartment.
Unresponsive Screen Testing
Quirktools has a really cool thing called Screenfly to test how your website looks on different devices with different screen sizes. In the old days when I did maoxian.com myself with my extensive knowledge of HTML (this is a joke), it always looked like hell on everything except my own screen... thus limiting the audience to a dozen hard-core lunatics. Now with this slick new design I expect my following to at least double to 24.
Slow Boat Brewery's North Star Anise Stout
Big fan of this beer from Slow Boat Brewery ... it has been renamed North Star Liquorice Stout for the boobs who don't know what star anise is, thus ruining the wordplay ... anyway, at 6.2% with a bitterness rating (IBU) of 30, I can drink these all night long... waistline expanding in real-time. Beijing has a pretty active craft beer scene, for which I'm thankful. 30元 (US$4.80) a pint.