Monthly Archives: August 2010

And as Danielle moves further northeast, her winds will stop preventing Earl from growing even more powerful. NOAA chart and discussion here. You can never tell with hurricanes, but the storm track suggests things could get interesting around here by next Friday.

Greenwich Time split reporter Neil Vigdor’s interview with our Assessor into two parts. Here’s the second. Waterfront homes held their value, the rest of the residential inventory has been hammered. I’m not surprised by the news that waterfront has held … Continue reading →

The Riverside house with 17 bathrooms, and other fascinating oddities from Greenwich Times interview with the assessor.

That’s the rumor, for around $30 million. A far cry from its first price of $125 million but just about where most of us thought it would sell.

WSJ has the story of Joe Miller, a Tea Party – supported candidate who appears to have upset Alaska’s current senator – they’re still counting absentee ballots. West Point grad, Yale Law School, Bronze Star veteran of the first Gulf … Continue reading →

As kitchens grow to accommodate socializing, we’re losing the efficiency that once was.

I’m no patent lawyer, so I don’t know o to evaluate this patent suit by Microsoft’s co-founder, Paul Allen. He’s basically claiming patent rights to just about everything on the Internet, which seems like overreaching to me, but who knows? … Continue reading →

EPA backs off banning lead bullets. Too close to mid-term elections, apparently.

Castro: Osama Bin Laden a U.S. spy. Everyone knows that, just ask Oliver Stone!

From a reader: I was brought to your blog when googling info on 15 Hycliff Road, and since then have been reading lots of your old posts as well as the new ones. It is really interesting! I went to … Continue reading →

SAC’s Stevie Cohen hosts a Republican fund-raiser at his home on Crown Lane. The linked-to article says that Steve and his pals are switching their allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans. I understand why Wall Street might have chosen … Continue reading →

Good behind-the-scenes look  (co-written by cousin Henry Fountain) in the NYT on the effort to shut down the blown well. One can certainly blame BP for the decisions leading up to the explosion but this story, detailing the arguments and … Continue reading →

Just saying.

15 Dialstone, RVSD Sold for $800,000 in 2003, assessed at $800,00 (est. 70% of market value) in 2005, listed for $995,000 in 2009, sold yesterday for $787,500.   I sold 290 Riverside Avenue, new construction, for $3.8 in 2007 to … Continue reading →

Thanks to Peg from Minnesota, here’s a link to the Harrison Bergeron story. Read the whole thing. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which … Continue reading →

I was furious with the jurors who acquitted OJ, so I have to check my admiration for this woman – maybe it’s some bias on my part – but it seems to me that she lived up to her juror’s … Continue reading →

Ohio: Church tries to shut down strip club, strippers protest. Funny. WARSAW, Ohio (AP) – Strippers dressed in bikinis sunbathe in lawn chairs, their backs turned toward the gray clapboard church where men in ties and women in full-length skirts … Continue reading →

It’s already cost billions in penalties for late delivery and here we go again.

NPR has an interesting article on families stuck with real estate they can’t sell or free themselves from. This logjam affects unemployment – people can’t move to a new job, for instance, and leads to some awful personal situations: one … Continue reading →

It’s not just whacky conservatives who are confused.