i must say i'm a florida girl for life! i love my state even though at times it seems like it's all just one big scam, everyone is out to get over on someone but i guess high gas prices makes people hustle harder for their money.. i cant stand living in a town that opperates on who you know (Belle glade,Fl) its like you have to know the right people in oder to get a simple job at a radio shack or wendy's, because if you dont they give you the run around for about a week or two, then dey tell you...

Mortgage rates ended the week on a positive note. Following Thursday's sell off which forced lenders to reprce worse multiple times, Friday we got rebound. After the release of a very disappointing Retail Sales Report, mortgage backed securities rallied to recapture most of the prior day's losses. Then we got Consumer Sentiment which indicated the US consumer was more optimistic than thought which led to stocks rallying which usually pulls money away from MBS. That didn't happen as MBS managed...

In 2010 :
Lo : 75 °
Hi : 97 °
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2009 :
Lo : 67 °
Hi : 88 °
Rainfall : 0.01 “

In 2008 :
Lo : 67 °
Hi : 89 °
Rainfall : 2.42 ” ** Record Wettest

In 2007 :
Lo : 66 ° Normal
Hi : 92 °
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2006 :
Lo : 59 °
Hi : 83 °
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2005 :...

I chiseled away at the marble slab that I am slowly shaping into my dissertation. Just a little more progress, that really is all I can ask. I feel slightly bad that my latest progress reports to you are essentially the same each day. I've often daydreamed, during my early grad school years, about a hit TV-series called "Grad School," where, like this blog, it chronicles the lives of an incoming class of grad students. As any great Dramady, my first year was riddled with fun,...

Internet Jones, one of the world's most renowned internet archaeologists, was responsible Sunday morning for digging up a thread which died early on in the City-Data Empire's rise to power. Dating back to nearly four years ago, it is one of the oldest threads to have resurfaced at this time.

Titled, "What should the Bush Administration do about 'No Child Left Behind?'" the thread was thought to have been lost to history forever after the inauguration of President Obama nearly...