Lobowolf

Speak of the devil...Nc4 looks like a blunder by Anand on move 54...

Sick RRN vs. QN ending....looking like Anand is just about polishing him off, but looks can be deceiving, especially in time pressure.

I would assume that even current interest rates, you wouldn't be looking for an ARM anyway. For sure, go fixed. If you're buying a first property, and you're going to live there, it's probably FHA eligible, too, which gives you some flexibility on the down payment (I think 4 units or less is treated as residential, but maybe there's a disqualfier on income property; dunno, but my guess would be that FHA is a possibility if desired). One way the housing collapse can work to your benefit is that it created another class of renters - stable, reliable working families who lost their houses when their adjustable rate mortgages went through the roof - they have good jobs and income streams, but don't have the lump sum currently required for another purchase, yet they don't want to live in an apartment. Good target, if you can find them.

Lee Van Cleef made a great "The Bad" in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. That one's on my short list. Two kinds of people in this world. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. (tosses Tuco a shovel). You dig.

El Mariachi, apparently. iIn a bottle, guey!

Post of the Year nominee.

Not sure what "someone like you" is, but it sounds like you've been doing some homework, and it's a good time to get a low interest fixed-rate loan, and you have a job that's conducive to putting the work in. I'd think you'd be really well-situated to this.

No experience, but I was intrigued by the same idea after reading the following: http://www.amazon.com/Investing-Duplexes-T...73114645&sr=8-1 Sounds like maybe you already read it, but if not, you might want to check it out in addition to your other references.

It might get out of hand...should it really be full-blown like that?! Maybe 10 people, 10 questions...see how it goes?

Stop, you guys are making me blush. I'm not the wolf who was in Pulp Fiction, of course...that was WINSTON Wolf...my illegitimate son with Winston?! Nahhhhhhhhhhhh. Good memory, Phil...magic helps my average HCP at shuffle/deal/play events.

Ungodly at chess, but expertly (low 2100s). In this case, it is readily explained by a misspent youth. The year I turned 17, I was the 8th most active USCF member.

Aside from a 4-game rated match a few years ago, the most recent chess event I played in was the U.S. Amateur Team West (4-person teams, average team rating must be <2200), on a team comprised of all bridge players.

Colts fan?

Alan "Cameron" Ruck was 29 years old when Ferris Beuller's Day Off was filmed.

casts more doubts on the truthfulness of the entire post-morten examination than it says about miracles. While I agree with your beliefs on the subject, this notion is sort of emblematic of a catch-22. If it's consistent with our beliefs about the physical world, it's not miraculous; if it's not, it probably didn't happen.

I like Geoffrey Rush and all, but Billy Bob Thornton was robbed. Bad Santa rofl I'm on my @#$% lunch break, lady!!

I suspect opener is mistakenly willing to play 4♠ or 5♣. 3♥ over 2NT should mean, "I don't care about your suits; I want to play in hearts." Doubling 2NT asks partner to compete in his second suit.

I like Geoffrey Rush and all, but Billy Bob Thornton was robbed.

And don't look too relieved when the A♠ holds...partner will be sad if he thinks you don't trust him to remember 3/5 leads.

I wouldn't look at it as a pure dichotomy, though; part of answering the question "Do I want my partner to continue the suit led?" involves an awareness of what partner will likely do if he DOESN'T continue. The Granovetters took the principle to the nth degree, and created a scheme of rules addressing situations in which the "obvious shift" isn't so obvious, but the basic obvious shift principle preceded the publication of A Switch in Time.

I'm pretty sure my gardener works harder than my doctor, or darn close to it, but if they charged the same amount, I wouldn't want anything to do with one of them, if not both.

Polo!

Very good. That will deter spammers while having no effect on honest use of email. When spam is outlawed, only outlaws will use spam.

Please, do not litter the landscape with facts and rational conclusions - Liz Cheney Perhaps, in the words of Officer Tom Hansen, they could issue "a stern warning."

hmm I worry if you keep watching darko over and over and over and over.... or the thing for that matter... geez really guys.... you cant stop watching....ugggggggg Frank says you're bad.