] In 2003, a typical home in Hawaii cost 6.50 times the
] annual family income of its occupants, versus 8.08 in San
] Francisco and 8.05 in New York City and some of its
] suburbs. Hawaii's current number -- 7.08 -- isn't all
] that far from the peak of 7.86, hit in 1991

Begin my links to the state of housing...

StockTalk: The Residential Real Estate Crash Index (#19777/19802)

] Many companies are quickly coming to realize this, as you
] can see from the impressive customer list on MySQL's
] website. I'm sure that most readers have used the Yahoo!
] (Nasdaq: YHOO) Finance site on many occasions (like
] perhaps this one), but would probably be surprised to
] learn that even Yahoo!'s massive source of data is fed
] from MySQL databases.

Things I did not know.

Fool.com: MySQL Makes Waves [Motley Fool Take] April 23, 2004

] BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- People who wear low-slung pants
] that expose skin or "intimate clothing" would face a fine
] of up to $500 and possible jail time under a bill filed
] by a Jefferson Parish lawmaker.
]
] State Rep. Derrick Shepherd said he filed the bill
] because he was tired of catching glimpses of boxer shorts
] and G-strings over the lowered belt lines of young
] adults.

It is a good thing Fay is getting her trip to Lousiana today, not when this passes. And that Mary got out of there. Because I know that life for them would not be worth living without lowcut pants.

Salon.com Life | Louisiana may ban low-slung pants

Cleaning, eh?

Mirror.co.uk - CLEAN & DIRTY

] Keep your eye on Pennsylvania's primary next Tuesday, it
] could weigh big-time on the presidential election.

And before it just looked sort of pointless. Still isn't terribly important for us on the west coast.

The specter in Pennsylvania

] The "page 23, sentence 5" meme (hereafter referred to as
] p23s5) caught my attention due to its pandemic spread
] through the blog community, and its relative virulence
] among my own little, largely meme resistant affinity
] group

Autopsy of a meme

LaughingMeme: page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy

] "We're moving closer and closer to the disposable car,"
] says Dan Bailey, an executive vice president at Carstar,
] the largest auto-body repair franchise in the United
] States.

Fascinating. What I have been suspecting, anyway. I pay a lot for my comprehensive, because I know there is very little I could break on my car that would cost anywhere near the deductable.

New cars are getting too expensive to fix | csmonitor.com

Wow. A porn star biography I might actually consider reading... she sounds coherent, neither completely ditzy nor with a room-filling ego.

Nerve.com Screening Room

] The difference between God and Larry Ellison is that on
] Monday afternoon and again last night, Ellison caught
] Barry Bonds' historic 660th and his 661st home run.

Right. Because Larry Ellison needed giveaways from the Giants.

Amusing, though, that he got them by camping in the cove in a kayak. He's pretty intense, whatever you think of him.

Rugged Elegance: San Francisco: Giant Barry Bonds Tells 660 Home Run Catcher, Larry Ellison

Hmmm. Big Brand Valuations.

Forbes.com