Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Yesth, Ith Isssh A MannnPursth
Personal note; I don't care. It could be affectation, it could be cultural differences, it could be a secret signal to people with Ultra-Gaydar. I don't know, I don't know why anyone cares but here it is. And hey, I got Gaydar. When Suze Orman came out yesterday my reaction was "What? She was in the closet?" That haircut alone. Point being, irellevant to the situation.
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FIRSTHT!!
LOL @ T. Actually, a funny "first."
Damn you, Coté... heh. I post props for myself and then you make a new topic immediately. So I'll re-post because I'm a narcissist like the Casemeister --
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Just wanted to acknowledge the "Casey Serin" post (#10) about "some poor schlub's life". That was me. :)
I couldn't believe he let it through... sadly, he has since removed the Casey avatar, and the name "Casey Serin" has been replaced with "Anonymous".
Still got some good responses though... muahahaha
I think Casey's goal of getting to 165 lbs must still be "0% success."
He looks like a buck 30 to me.
And he took a no assitol pill also.
Anonymous said...
LOL @ T. Actually, a funny "first."
I even cracked myself up with that one. LOL
my gaydar consists soley of using the word "fabulous". I have yet to meet a straight person who uses it consistently in public.
When I saw Suzie Orman the first time, "Young, Fabulous, and Broke", my g-dar went off.
be careful bob dawg, your gaydar may be getting a false signal from a metrosexual weather balloon.
Suze Orman came out yesterday? I can't stand to listen to her talk, so that's the reason I didn't know.
And Suze is definitely strapping it on. I guess she has that in common with Galina because you know Casey takes it there.
Those Uzbeks have strange, strange ways.
Get the illusion of wealth, and next thing you know, you're a regular at "Linda's Lovely Nail Salon" and hiking a man-purse onto your Abercrombie & Fitch clad shoulder. Sipping from a starbucks Latté or Jamba Juice is the mark of success, and driving a german-engineered Über-spôrtif-auto is the pinnacle of amazingdom.
Wow, Casey.. You're AWESOME!
I used to hate Suze Orman, it was as though she came out of nowhere, no pun intended. One day she was nothing, then she had a TV show and gazillion books.
But now I see her as a moderate financial version of Dr. Phil, who I really don't like. It's one thing to give people the smack down when they deserve it (Suze), it's another when that's all you do (Dr. Phil). Or maybe it's because I enjoy hearing all the call-ins of people in massively stupid financial situations, a la Casey.
Suze who?
I agree with king friday: our snowflake is striking the metrosexual pose.
But the body language in the bigger picture is interesting too. Look at how small Casey looks -- he's a pipsqueak -- and how he's on the edge of the group. The men in the huddle doing the serious business; the nervous little boy on the outside looking in.
I can't help thinking that Casey must have been a bit disappointed by how low-key and matter-of-fact the auction was. He was expecting high drama; he got a "laid-back" auctioneer ambling through the routine business of the day. Because of course to Casey the foreclosure is special; to the County, it's just one of thousands.
Homey probably knew the 411 on Suze.
Guys, it's not so much an Uzbek thang, it could be Russian. My friend lives in the heart of Hollywood. I'd say the population is overwhelmingly Russian. A lot of the men wear those backback-ish purse bag things.
It's off topic but if Galina took these pics does that mean she's not at college? Has she dropped out? She needs a sugar daddy...
PMSPMS
She might have only MWF morning classes?
local community schools only meet MW. Let's not get ahead of ourselves and think she's attending Stanford here.
Classes to get your GED are nights around here.
Casey's bacg does set off the Gaydar, just don't get it confused with Jack's Bag.
Not only will is it indestructible but will kill you in the blink of an eye if you cross it.
http://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-Army-Navy-Heavyweight-Messenger/dp/B000IS2BGK/sr=8-1/qid=1172613040/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0894996-9996733?ie=UTF8&s=apparel
::tear of joy for 24::
Yes! I ask, and Rob Dawg delivers! I gotta say--I have a messenger bag myself, but it is much more like a portable briefcase, nothing like this manpurse. I can't believe he wears that in public. It would look better, IMO, if he wore it over both shoulders like those teeny tiny backpacks girls wore in the mid-90s.
"At 1:06 PM, C-Corp Man said...
Guys, it's not so much an Uzbek thang, it could be Russian."
That's what I thought when I saw it - standard affluent male Moscovite accessory (Russians have a rather Italianate sense of style). On the other hand, I wouldn't have known that Casey kept in such close touch with fashion trends in the Rodina.
Jack Bauer's bag:
Ammo, binoculars, c4, etc.
Casey's bag:
Nail polish, JJ gift card, camera, lip gloss, gay porn, vibrating butt plug, etc.
http://www.exile.ru/2006-August-11/extreme_murse-over.html
The beginning of the article:
"All these years, I've been wondering to myself, "What's wrong with Russians? What's with their strange Byzantine ways? And what the fuck is the deal with that murse thing?"
"Murse?" you ask. The stubby little word may sound unfamiliar, but you know what I'm talking about. You've seen everyone from burly former sportsmen to atomic physicists totting murses. Murse: it's the ubiquitous male purse."
Galina probably bought the bag - he's obligated to wear it - not knowing that it's her secret code to the world that her man is an arsepussy.
PMSPMS
"You've seen everyone from burly former sportsmen to atomic physicists totting murses."
FYI, engineers prefer Camelbaks to murses. Well, this one does at any rate.
Word on the street today is Casey blogged he was going long and buying heavy in China. Within an hour....meltdown.
"At 2:24 PM, Anonymous said...
"You've seen everyone from burly former sportsmen to atomic physicists totting murses."
FYI, engineers prefer Camelbaks to murses. Well, this one does at any rate."
I should have made it clear - the quote is from a newspaper published in Moscow by American expatriates - they are discussing **Russian** fashion choices.
@Anon 2:28
Classic!
Specifically he was going to use leverage (read: margin account) and go heavy on stocks of Chinese companies that produce the "murse".
Anon said
"It's off topic but if Galina took these pics does that mean she's not at college? Has she dropped out? She needs a sugar daddy..."
Actually, didn't you hear? In return for allowing Brians S. Nick to post on Casey's site, Galina was able to enroll in his THI university online...that's right, no classes, no books, no grades, no tuition, and just like Brian she gets a diploma even though she doesn't graduate.
@Lawnmower man
"But the body language in the bigger picture is interesting too. Look at how small Casey looks -- he's a pipsqueak -- and how he's on the edge of the group. The men in the huddle doing the serious business; the nervous little boy on the outside looking in."
I actually noticed that from the picture myself, I thought maybe he staged it like that, but he ain't that bright, it's kind of like how people who read classics go on and on about how the author was trying to say this or was using this or that as a symbol for something..no, maybe the author was just trying to sell a book and get something to eat.
We could do an entire psychological profile on Casey with his gay purse, hands in his pockets trying to hide something, the way he stands off, always the outsider, but then again, I don't play amateur psychiologist like Brians S. Prick does.
"He was expecting high drama; he got a "laid-back" auctioneer ambling through the routine business of the day. Because of course to Casey the foreclosure is special; to the County, it's just one of thousands."
I think this says it all, Casey threw himself a party, and nobody came. Face it CAsey, like when you though you would get this huge spike in traffic after you were on tv for 3 minutes(Remember his comment "no spike:-(")..no one besides your dedicated haters really gives a shit about you anymore.
But we won't forget you cAsey, not until you are safely behind bars.
@Anonymous 2:28
I knew it was his fault somehow.
On a hunch, wanted to test the e-mail address galina@serin.us (as a counterpart to Casey's addy). First, I figured I'd send a message to "galunka@serin.us" hoping that the system would return it as undeliverable. But no return message ever came.
Anyone know how to test for an address's validity in a case like this? Galina's e-mail addy would be priceless to this blog's readership. :-)
I would hazard a guess that if Casey owns the @serin.us domain then unless he's specifically set up forwarding for particular addresses, pretty much everything will end up in his own inbox.
And presumably even if he is forwarding stuff to Galina he's keeping copies.
@ Miguel
Nix my previous post -- I got a "returned as undeliverable" reply e-mail around 20 minutes after I sent it out. Normally such a test takes 10 seconds... :-\
I just sent another e-mail to "galina@serin.us"... if it hasn't come back as invalid in an hour or so, I'll post here... otherwise I give up :)
Why are you people trying to get galina's email addy?
Yeah, isn't that being a smidge stalky?
@T
Well I don't know about the rest of the guys here, but I am going to send her a picture of something sticking out of my pants that she won't be able to say NO to....
yeah that's right, a hundred dollar bill.
@anon
don't you mean "STOCKY"
I can't believe that skank has 11 credit cards. How can you have 11 freakin' credit cards, and have no income?
Why are you people trying to get galina's email addy?
I'm somewhat curious just to see if this particular e-mail address even exists. Plus I'm also wondering if she'd actually reply... for all we know, she could be a snitch eager to rat on the Case-Man.
FWIW, it's been 35 minutes since I sent the "galina@serin.us" email, and I've gotten no "undeliverable" reply..... remember, the Galunka e-mail took only 20 mins to get the "bad address" reply. hmm....
@steph
Those aren't credit cards, they are punch cards, one for each of the guys she services. Like Subway once you've paid for ten (ahem) with her, you get the 11th for free.
I can't believe that skank has 11 credit cards. How can you have 11 freakin' credit cards, and have no income?
Stop hatin' the sweet forward leverage.
Something tells me Galina has a web-based email address none of us will ever figure out. It would be a hell of a lot fo fun to send her pictures of ourselves doing various things like...eating at expensive restaurants, driving nice cars, shopping, pulling big wads of cash out of our wallets, vacationing in exotic locations.
You see to a materialistic little shampoo girl like Galina, a constant reminder of what she HAD, and what she's LOST just might be what's in order to make her stop coddling MR. GOOD THINGS ARE COMING. I can only imagin the look on her face as our delicate soft handed flower realizes the Vdubs has a mangled tire on the way TO THEIR FORECLOSURE and sheepishly looks at her and says "good thing I got the road service plan!"
Well, I've all but confirmed that galina@serin.us is a valid e-mail address.
Message #1: sent to "galunka". Returned undeliverable in 20 minutes.
Message #2: sent to "galina". No response after almost 45 minutes.
Message #3: sent to "gasolina". Returned undeliverable in 1 minute.
Nuff said. Get those fingers typing, people! :-)
I'm sure it all dumps into the same bucket. All you'll do is send Casey a heads up that he can't let Galina use that email address. Save it for when it matters. Just my $0.02
Count me amongst the "a little too stocky" dissenters; but good luck with it.
My guess is that both Rob and TK are right; it'll plop straight into Casey's lap, Galina's real email address will be a letters-and-numbers job at Yahoo or similar.
I suspect Galina has little interest in the internet; unlike Casey, who happily leapt onto Wordpress and Flickr and Del.icio.us and YouTube and whatever else was getting buzz, she seems to have no online footprint for Homey and friends to turn up.
My guess is she spends very little time at a computer; while Casey disappears into the blue-ball office for hours at a time to "work" at the laptop. Reading the fan mail, massaging opportunities, juicing deals. It takes time you know.
My guess is she spends very little time at a computer
Counterpoint -- there was that picture of her using two computers (laptops) at once on Zewg. Someone said she was surfing match.com looking for a new spouse :-)
[Aside to Rob Dawg: any chance you could add a comment feed on EN? Hard to keep up with multiple posts a day. I found a feed at http://exurbannation.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default but it hasn't updated since August -- maybe there's a Blogger setting you could check to turn it on?]
Legion said...
@T
Well I don't know about the rest of the guys here, but I am going to send her a picture of something sticking out of my pants that she won't be able to say NO to....
yeah that's right, a hundred dollar bill.
Galina: Excuse me, is that a roll of quarters in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The post here explaining the appearance of the zewg.com searchbar on Casey's site was one of EN's highlights. But, I don't remember seeing Casey address the new 'widget' himself. I would assume others noticed it and, either sincerely or not, asked him about it, yet no such comments were published (that I noticed). Did anyone else notice a post from him on the zewg.com addition?
@T
Quarters?!?!? Quarters?!?!?!?
silver dollars babeeeeeee!!!!
If I had a nickel for every time i was promised silver dollars and got quarters instead I'd be a rich woman.
:)
It'd make a change from Casey's one-dollar-in-dimes endowment...
Maybe try looking for the Babushka's email under her maiden name? On Yahoo and Gmail.
Hey, I know this is a bit off-topic, but since this board is about investing and making millions...here IS a sure thing! If I can only get in on the IPO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-y7rSXJKNM
Sheesh... I was there with my camera. I got a good shot of how gayCasey really looked at the time.
Link to the picture is here:
http://www.frettedfriends.com/corv/caseyStockingsf.jpg
Sheesh.
Legion,
How much did you lose in the market today?
Just Wondering
@anon 4:44
No confirmation, but I read somewhere that the owner of zweg.com agreed to remove the Galina pictures in exchange for search bar placement? Can't remember if this has anything to do with the person hosting his site.
Ratlab - that's right - google "Galina_Serin" and you get some of the picture from whofailedtoday.com. The pics are sort of archived by jjuiceserin but not well. I "just" know that Snowflake has more pics of Girlflake online (I mean could he stop!?) - prol'y in a secret blog or private account... he might even have some adult ones somewhere. I do wish we knew where. Anyone game for social engineering his flikr account password?
PMSPMS
Here...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94588127@N00/386261105/
PMSPMS
You're not putting yourself into her shoes enough--- Galina would probably have something vain and ridiculous like:
Uzbekhottie@blahdeblah.com
or
PrettyKitty@bleebleblah.com
I suspect Casey has tucked his ass in the purse. Otherwise, wtf happened to it?
prol'y in a secret blog or private account... he might even have some adult ones somewhere
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now, I would pay for those pics b/c of WHO she is; not what she looks like.
If they exist, though, Homey would have found them by now.
I bet he's snuck pics of her in the shower or in bed asleep... he's the slimey sort of c...t who would.... but I'm the slimier type who'd beat off to them I s'pose.
PMSPMS
Come on Casey - post them - www.youramateurpr0n.com
also, another question. snowflake claims to have taken the pictures at the auction using his cellphone. What cell phone takes such high resolution photos?
want to buy a phone like that myself.
Well.. one that he bought with a maxed out credit card... but the tag info in flikr shows -
"Taken with a HTC Apache" - whatever the hell that is...
More info...
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Date and Time: 2007:02:26 10:32:47
Artist Name: sercasey.phone
Date and Time (Original): 2007:02:26 10:32:47
Image Width: 1024 pixels
Image Height: 1280 pixels
PMSPMS
Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Apache
Googled "HTC Apache", and some of the pics look like Snowflake's phone.
Here's Snowflake's phone.
http://search.vzw.com/?market=94531&q=XV6700
The Wiki article says it's XV700 when used by a Verizon user. So this is the device he moderates from. I have never seen someone with so little need for such a device (particularly in his current state of affairs).
But he's a "gotta have it" kinda guy! Wonder how long of a contract he signed?
Still at the end of the day, I used a Samsung pocket PC for a year and a half (my job actually required it) and the pics it took were total shite. Man have they improved that technology.
Who is going to foot the bill on his BS expenditures? Who is going to foot the on many other BS expenditures?
I am real mad.
And when I get mad I tend to skip words...
Asian markets continue to decline. Does anyone care? If not, maybe you should.
A vacant mind
is open to all
suggestion as a hollow building
echoes all sounds.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Not the cry, but the
flight of the wild duck,
leads the flock
to fly and follow.
"Asian markets continue to decline. Does anyone care? If not, maybe you should."
Here are some questions. I won't even pretend to know the answers just yet.
1) Will the markets (DJIA/Asian/etc.) recover in the near future, or will it keep dropping?
2) If they recover, will it be a dead cat bounce, or will today's drop prove to be just a blip of noise?
I've been expecting a consumer-based recession for a while, but I haven't seen a massive credit contraction which I thought would be the trigger.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/~sercasey
shows a profile (no data). No suprise now flikr and yahoo are linked I guess?
PMSPMS
Still working on the Girlflake's email addy... I have visions of spreading those arse cheeks...
@Just wondering
256 dollars, I had pulled most of my cash out of stocks last Friday. It got to the point where good news on earnings would send the stock down on some, while bad news would make some stocks rise. I was like..what the hell..how do you stay in something like that without realizing it's just gambling. If I wanted to do that, I would have bought houses like Casey or just gone to a Casino.
@Precious Roy
I expect the market to be watched carefully in the morning, especially by those people who missed what was happening during the day but found out when they got home. I have been tracking about 20 stocks, and for the first time ever....ALL of them were in the red today. That is not a good sign. I expect that a lot of people will be watching to see what happens in the first hour or so, if it looks like it is dropping again, expect a run as people attempt to hold on to some profit. People in the market have been expecting a correction of about 10% for some time. Usually the bulls will run for like 3-4 years followed by the bears for about a year. We have overextended by about a year...the bear is expected.
I think I am going to pull what's left of my cash out of my one stock tomorrow and get me a murse, maybe a pedicure and manicure, some highlights and a facial..
If the U.S. Postal Service continues considering a "forever" stamp, I would say there's a serious problem.
I prefer a do it yourself option.
F
Precious Roy,
All questions require answer. Sometime it is not there.
Anyone missing tree for forest miss forest for tree.
anymore fortune cookie writers?
"Fortune smiles upon you! They won't find the bodies"
"Help, I'm being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory"
If man owe bank 10,000 dolla, man in trouble
If man owe bank 10 million dolla, bank get first dib in kicking man's ass...
C'mon guys, if you want to find Galina, you have to think like a 20-something female in Sacramento, CA.
The places you need to mine are the social sites - FaceBook, MySpace, LiveJournal, find out her high school and see if there's leads there. I know a lot of mid-20's women, and ALL of them use one or more of the above sites -sometimes with more than one account (gotta have the account for the current boy, another to find a new to keep ready for when the current one goes sour).
I would laugh my ass off twice if I were to see her mug on Match.com, or one of the "Christian" dating sites.
Nude pics? I don't see L'il Casey as being kinky like that, I doubt he's much in the sack anyway, he probably avoids sex because it musses his perfect-yet-tousled hair. He's too "organic" to have any serious kinks or perversions, besides him being a closeted gay.
No, I think there's a monster waiting to be unleashed in little Galina, once a real man opens her sexuality up, a voracious sexual being who will from that point only feel disdain and disgust at the boy she foolishly married as a child.
If you're that into her, go to her campus and find her - she's ripe for the picking. Just be careful, that fruit could be spoiled...
legion, others. check this article out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_bi_ge/world_markets
The last line..."If your target is gains by the end of 2007, this is a good chance to buy," said Credit Suisse's Ichikawa. "But if it's the end of March, I can't say that."
I'm not so sure that now is a good time to buy to make gains even by the end of the year. Maybe after another 5-10% shave or wait it out as the market is going to be quite volatile for a while. Of course if you know what you're doing that is when alot of gains can be had albeit I don't have that confidence in myself.
I lost a pile of cash yesterday, but I can console myself in the fact that the portfolio has done pretty well in the past year, and that yesterday's bloodletting is still dwarfed by the amount of wealth Snowflake managed to destroy on a monthly basis over said year.
Also, our investment time horizon is still measured in decades, and we don't have a goal of making $5K in passive income by 4Q 2007. This shall pass.
If you click on one of casey's auction photos, then the back to flickr photo page link , then the foreclosure tag, you can still see the infamous bank statment with the Jamba juice overdraft.
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