By The Tim on July 29, 2009
Okay this is just too funny not to post. Over in my favorite forum thread Detrimental Listing Photos Everett_Tom spotted this gem [update: the listing photo has since been changed—original screenshot here], where the (presumably) brown grass in the listing photo has been extremely poorly painted over in bright green in the only photo [...]
Posted in Humor | Tagged bad-photos, forum, listings
By The Tim on June 13, 2007
Aubrey Cohen is on a roll, reporting the uncomfortable truth about the local housing market (granted, with a slight sugar-coating). The latest report is on the ever-increasing number of foreclosures in the Seattle area, another fact that is conveniently ignored by Elizabeth Rhodes at the Seattle Times.
The Seattle area continued to follow the national [...]
| Tagged Cohen, foreclosures, forum, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on May 2, 2007
Thanks to the cessation of daily open thread posts during and after my recent vacation, participation in the forums has really taken off. However, when I announced on Monday that I would cease posting open threads for the foreseeable future, a number of you protested.
While I am certainly glad to see the forums well-utilized, [...]
| Tagged forum, open_thread
By The Tim on April 30, 2007
Looks like I didn’t miss too much Seattle housing news while I was gone. I’m looking forward to seeing the April numbers next week. Here’s a summary of what I noticed while clearing my inbox:
Seattle, Portland, and Dallas are the only cities of the 20 tracked by the Case-Shiller / S&P Index in [...]
| Tagged Case-Shiller, Cohen, forum, link_roundup, Rhodes, Seattle_is_special, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on February 23, 2007
There are lots of great conversations going on over at the Seattle Bubble Forums, why don’t you join in too? Here’s a sampling of what’s going on over there:
Alan offers some perspective on half-million-dollar homes.
A couple of threads toss out predictions for 2007
Matthew points out that stocks may be headed for a big fall.
Shack [...]
| Tagged forum
Seattle Bubble Commenters: Thank You!
By The Tim on November 5, 2009 | 69 Responses
Seattle Bubble hit a geeky milestone yesterday, with the posting of its 0×10000th comment! That’s hexadecimal—base 16—65,536 for you non-geeks out there. The 0×10000th comment was posted by Flying Ape.
In commemoration of this geeky occasion, here are a few statistics relating to the comments on Seattle Bubble.
As of the 0×10000th comment, 65,536 comments [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged comments, forum | 69 Responses