More free association from Luna Niña, play first, peek later:
Optimist, Pessimist, Engineer
In a recent poll, Code Project asked its readers the following:
Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?
I’m an optimist (everything will work out)
I’m a realist (things break, the world turns)
I’m a pessimist (it’ll never work properly)
I’m a panic merchant (it’ll break and catch on fire)
I’m an engineer (It can only break if the design was poor)
Continue to see how 1,582 of your peers and colleagues voted.
Gardener’s Diary
Good news this week, we have the first wild strawberries, the fairy rose has started to bloom, as is right and proper for June, and the white irises along the picket fence are beautiful this season.
Is It Over Yet?
I agree with the 61% of us who voted “yes” in the online CNN poll: the amount of media coverage of Ronald Reagan’s death was “too much”. Insufferably too much.
And So It Goes
Coincidentally, on the same day that one of my online matches and I had our first serious disagreement, CNN ran a story about the limitations of Internet dating services.
Fond Farewell
The great Ray Charles passed this morning, and we music lovers are the poorer for it.
Back to Normal (Thank Goodness)
Out of the fire and back to normal, that’s how I’m feeling right now about the world of dating and mating.
Farewell to the Great Communicator
I never liked Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Between his preaching small government while tripling the national deficit and her insufferable smugness because she was lucky enough to be born petite, they were not my favorite White House couple.
Property Values Are Hot, Hot, Hot
Here’s an update from the Barnstable County Register of Deeds:
For May 2004, the average sale price of property in Mashpee was $378,800, not taking account of sales over $1,000,000.
That’s a 28 PERCENT increase in individual property sales value from May 2003.
By comparison, for Barnstable County as a whole, the average sale price for properties under $1,000,000 was $367,247, an increase of 14.2% from this time last year.
It Just Gets Worse
In this morning’s New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof reports that one of our soldiers in Guant