In addition to the general dearth of housing properties that has been created in the So Cal real estate market over the last five years, there is also the specter of decreasing demand. As the unemployment/underemployment rate in Los Angeles hovers near 20% people are leaving California faster than they are arriving and we mayContinue reading “It’s a renter’s market”
Author Archives: Quantum Tom
Coffee + brass knucles = w1n
In case someone tries to $&%* with you before you’re coffee’s kicked in. Owning this would go bad for me very quickly.
Fake SXSW tweets by @mat = hilarity
Wired’s SXSW: Mat Honan Fake-Twitters South By Southwest Again made me pee a little. It’s a webtwopointoh / dbag / socialmedia mashup.
The “too big to fail” problem
I’m so glad a real writer is thinking about this stuff. Earlier today Techdirt ran an article by Mike Masnick titled, “Why Aren’t We Trying To Solve The Too Big To Fail Problem?” He’s absolutely right in bringing this to the table. Maybe there’s no solution – but we need to do our best toContinue reading “The “too big to fail” problem”
Text-to-Movie: it’s like DIY narration – by a WoW avatar
Just found this funny little service – some of the web 2.0 stuff makes me want to scratch my head more than housing prices circa 2007. This is definitely kinda sorta neat, but I’m not sure how much I’d use this. It’s certainly great to know this app is exposed as a web service, andContinue reading “Text-to-Movie: it’s like DIY narration – by a WoW avatar”
