Hot Fudge Miscellaneous

[Shark]

Jackson said last week, "Many times when you make fact-based decisions that are in the best interest of the city, some people are graceful and respectful. Others are vicious, vindictive and downright childish."

http://www.freep.com/article/20110925/BUSINESS06/109250420/DEGC-s-Jackson-development-man?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[guest]

Jackson said last week, "Many times when you make fact-based decisions that are in the best interest of the city, some people are graceful and respectful. Others are vicious, vindictive and downright childish."

http://www.freep.com/article/20110925/BUSINESS06/109250420/DEGC-s-Jackson-development-man?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

translation: fuck Jeff Wattrick and the horse he rode in on

[Random Douchebag]

Jackson said last week, "Many times when you make fact-based decisions that are in the best interest of the city, some people are graceful and respectful. Others are vicious, vindictive and downright childish."

http://www.freep.com/article/20110925/BUSINESS06/109250420/DEGC-s-Jackson-development-man?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

translation: fuck Jeff Wattrick and the horse he rode in on

Horse? Looks more like a mule from here.

[Mulligan]

Michigan and West Virginia are the only states that have not suffered a natural disaster this year.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110927/POL ... z1Z9Ac6tqx

So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.

[Andy]

Michigan and West Virginia are the only states that have not suffered a natural disaster this year.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110927/POL ... z1Z9Ac6tqx

So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.

Jinx.

[Ya Mar]

Grabbed this from a certain Grosse Pointer's Facebook page...Love it:

[The Beav]

Grabbed this from a certain Grosse Pointer's Facebook page...Love it:

Old joke, but in HS you could always tell who the druggies were since they understood the metric system.

Ok. Not really a joke.

[Ya Mar]

Grabbed this from a certain Grosse Pointer's Facebook page...Love it:

Old joke, but in HS you could always tell who the druggies were since they understood the metric system.

Ok. Not really a joke.

did you know that 3.5 is 1/8th of 28?

[Mulligan]

If anyone sees a woman wearing a pony tail, please contact the Novi police.

Woman tries to cash in on gifts shopper mistakenly left in wrong car at 12 Oaks

3:03 PM, Dec. 21, 2011

By Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki

Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Hope that someone would return the presents she accidentally placed in the wrong car trunk died Tuesday when Linda Gipson learned someone had tried to return her lost gifts for cash.

It was the Grinch, not one of Santa’s elves, who had the gifts.

“I was kind of excited when she told me that someone came in to bring the gifts,” said Gipson, of Ypsilanti. “But when she went on with the story, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, I can’t believe someone would do such a thing!’” Gipson said. 

Gipson said she received a call from the Arden B store in Twelve Oaks mall saying someone was trying to return the two sweaters Gipson had purchased for her daughters. 

When the manager rang up the return, she noticed it came up with Gipson’s daughter Crystal’s rewards card. Linda Gipson said. The manager also noticed the shopper had a bag from H&M, another store where the family had purchased some of the lost presents.

After questioning the shopper returning the gifts, the manager told her these were the missing presents locked in the wrong trunk, Linda said. At that point, the shopper took the bags and left, dropping the bag with the sweaters by the door on her way out. The manager described the shopper as a woman, probably in her early 20s and wearing a pony tail, Gipson said.

At least she got the sweaters back. But that doesn’t make up for the lost Christmas gifts.

“It just really crushed me to find out that someone would do such a thing,” Gipson said. 

The gifts went missing last Thursday afternoon. The Gipsons were Christmas shopping at Twelve Oaks mall and had a load of gifts — two sweaters, knee high boots, perfume and two “surprises” for Gipson from her husband, worth about $700. Linda went out to her daughter’s 2003 silver Ford Focus to put the gifts they’d bought in the trunk of the car.

The key was sticky, but then so is the trunk key of Gipson’s 2010 Nissan Ultima. She simply kept working the key, as she does with her Nissan, and eventually the trunk opened. Linda dumped in the gifts and then rejoined her family in the mall to continue shopping. 

It wasn’t until the family finished shopping and went back to the parking lot and found her daughter’s car in almost exactly the same spot, only across the aisle, that Gipson realized she had put the gifts in the wrong car – and that car was gone.

[Mulligan]

The annual Notice of Assessment, Taxable Valuation, and Property Classification came in the mail: My crib's assessed value for 2011 is 30% of what it was in 2007, and 74% of what it was in 1996 when I bought the place. Very soon I will be able to pay my property taxes with change I find in the couch cushions.

Rock bottom might still be a ways off. Now the assessed value is at 25% of those heady days of 2007.

Other things that peaked in '07 and, like my equity, are now dearly departed:

[Amadeus]

Policy News & Tips

Social Security Number randomization

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is changing the way Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are issued. This change is referred to as "randomization." The SSA is developing this new method to help protect the integrity of the SSN. Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide.

SSN randomization will affect the SSN assignment process in the following ways:

It will eliminate the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN, currently referred to as the area number, by no longer allocating the area numbers for assignment to individuals in specific states.

It will eliminate the significance of the highest group number and, as a result, the High Group List will be frozen in time and can be used for validation of SSNs issued prior to the randomization implementation date.

Previously unassigned area numbers will be introduced for assignment, excluding area numbers 000, 666 and 900-999.

I'm so not looking forward to the outcry.

[David Hall]

Stumbled onto a facebook page called "brush up brush park" where the top story was a group of people bemoaning the Mayor's plan to tear down the Brewster projects, arguing the buildings should be turned into skylofts.

Glad to see Sean of Detroit is still an active preservationist.

[middle aged female]

There needs to be an "IhateIheart" thread

[frank - up in grand blanc]

Policy News & Tips

Social Security Number randomization

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is changing the way Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are issued. This change is referred to as "randomization." The SSA is developing this new method to help protect the integrity of the SSN. Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide.

SSN randomization will affect the SSN assignment process in the following ways:

It will eliminate the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN, currently referred to as the area number, by no longer allocating the area numbers for assignment to individuals in specific states.

It will eliminate the significance of the highest group number and, as a result, the High Group List will be frozen in time and can be used for validation of SSNs issued prior to the randomization implementation date.

Previously unassigned area numbers will be introduced for assignment, excluding area numbers 000, 666 and 900-999.

I'm so not looking forward to the outcry.

The 666 thing will stir people up, for sure, but as I understand things it's important to change up the way that social security numbers are generated and assigned. How exactly it's done I don't know, but I know enough about predicative analytics to appreciate that a predictable system (numbers assigned by date and geography, and maybe others) can be broken. In my shop we predict future behavior with surprising accuracy using garbage for data. Cracking something fixed, like a SSN, may be rocket science, but desktop comupting and some training makes possible what recently seemed to be impossible.

Example of the problem: I have a (distressingly) large sample of recently assigned SSNs in my household. The geography is common, and the space between assignments is (again, distressingly) close. Numbers for those kids are so close together it is spooky, and it is only the last handful of positions in the numbers which vary.

[guest]

Occupy protest anniversary ends with police sweep

...New York Police Det. Brian Sessa said the tipping point came when the protesters started breaking the park rules.

"They set up tents. They had sleeping bags," he said. Electrical boxes also were tampered with and there was evidence of graffiti.

blah blah blah

"I didn't see any sleeping bags," she said. "There was a banner hung between two trees and a tarp thrown over it … It wasn't a tent. It was an erect thing, if that's what you want to call it."

cross to HFD That's What She Said