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Maybe should rethink the practice of eating raw salmon sushi. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/health/salmon-tapeworm-food-study/ http://time.com/4633801/salmon-tapeworm-raw-sushi/ the neurologic problems which can be caused by tapeworm infections spreading to the brain (while rare) are no joke.

The name changes, but the persona and writing style are unmistakable.

The superstition about money is ridiculous. However, from the practicality standpoint of not wanting headlights shining into your house, I understand why being at a T intersection is not desirable. Not to mention the small chance of crazy drivers losing control and crashing into your house or...

Just what I was thinking. I bet it was deliberate to plan the street grid like that. You don't want all that cut through traffic on a residential street. Otherwise, you end up getting a situation like all those houses lining Irvine Blvd in Tustin, between Irvine and the 55. So many people use it...

I'm Chinese. I think Capital Seafood is overrated and 85C as well. I avoid that plaza due to overcrowding and rude drivers. Last time I was there was over 2 years ago. You've already called me a "fake" Asian in the past (oh, only I speak Mandarin so well that most Chinese people assume I'm a...

Sorry, I wouldn't know about those--I never go there. I was referring to all the TIC owned plazas being tightly regulated with regards to their appearance.

Irvine is never going to look like GG or Westminster, even if population did become 80% asian.  The HOAs are too strong here, the housing stock is way different from those boxy post war single story houses you see in north OC, and the utilities are buried. Even the shopping plazas are regulated...

yeah, I agree. that's the big thing that's keeping me in Irvine. The central location and best commute compromise for two spouses. Also, the shopping and proximity to kids activities is very convenient. Otherwise, I'd probably be down in coastal South County like San Clemente, Dana Point...

Do you need transportation from the school to the center? If none of the centers near Westpark Elementary have openings, you could also consider hiring an after school sitter to pick the kids up, watch them at home and supervise homework, give them a snack, etc. Depending on the number of kids...

the insulation is worth it, because otherwise you will hear every door close, every toilet flush, every footstep.

we are exactly the same. never use the tub. we put a drying rack in it. Its a pain to get in to clean. Also, free standing tubs with no ledge are horribly impractical, making it necessary to buy a separate free standing towel/toiletry rack to place next to it. Its an "upgrade" that is actually...

I'm no Trump supporter, but this country seriously needs to get rid of birthright citizenship.

I've almost never seen modern architecture age well. mediterranean is a california classic--it comes back time and again and just fits in our climate. look at classic older neighborhoods in pasadena, santa ana floral park, LA like los feliz,  hancock park, etc. they all have examples of...

I wish we could all just let go of these racial identity politics. The best way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to...stop discriminating on the basis of race, as John Roberts once said. You have to look separately at Asian American voting patterns from Asian immigrant voting...

I must hate my job too much. I can think of plenty of things I'd rather do than work for pay at my current day job. It sounds wonderful to have a job that you love so much that you can't imagine retiring because you would do it for fun.

Yes, I agree. You want to keep in mind who is going to buy your house from you when its time to move on. If you get an excessively grand house, you are really limiting your pool of potential buyers and will take longer to sell. I see  some of my older co-workers now nearing retirement age...

If I don't have bags with me, I just take it out directly in the cart (haven't got any pushback from cashiers on that) and place the stuff into crates I have in my trunk. Just because you don't have bags with you in the store doesn't mean you should have to buy theirs.

Wow, those houses and that development looks identical to Irvine new builds. Its all about location, location, location.

These houseplan trends are fads and I believe are cyclical. If I had the time and energy to do a complete overhaul of an older classic house with a large lot, I would have preferred to do that, because you can never change your lot/location and arguably, the older neighborhoods are in the better...

gee. I wonder who you voted for. Your post makes it sound like only old white people are the ones paying the taxes, and only people of color and immigrants are "takers" of government benefits. But of course, you didn't actually mean to imply that, did you? Not when social security and medicare...