Thanksgiving 2008
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This is too much fun… and dangerous. Just enter a name into this site and get all the possible anagrams from it. My favorites: “A nude porker” – Why I don’t hang out at nudist camps “Poker unread” – Flush or bluff? You’ll never know. “Road nuke rep” – Making frequent trips to the former…
2010 was an incredible year for us. It started with an amazing trip to Europe, which I never quite finished blogging about and Derek never quite finished post-processing pictures of. We had such a wonderful time, but were very happy to come home to our beautiful daughter. On my trip in June to see my…
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
USAToday profiles Buffalo’s housing market, one of the few to remain a steady grower while other areas of the country go POP! While many cities have suffered the effects of subprime mortgages and home foreclosures, Buffalo’s housing market — including suburban areas such as Amherst and Orchard Park — has enjoyed a slow but steady…
A couple years ago, my father-in-law kept talking about going “leak hunting”. That sounded like what we do at the Terminal on rainy Saturdays to find drains that need to be repaired. What I didn’t realize was that he was talking about leeks, not leaks. You may be familiar with leeks that you find at…