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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		My house... Posted on 10/16/2002. Shall be a very very fine house. I just opened escrow on this... 2 bedroom, 1 bath, "Craftsman style" in south Berkeley, near Ashby BART. It's very cute. Not very big, but a good "starter home," as they say. And I only had to offer 3% over asking price to get it. Obviously, there's still a way to go (marching down the 30 Days of Escrow), but I'm on my way to being landed gentry. Which means, yes, I got over that little "no credit" thing. 14 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "In Cambridge, MA this week." Next entry: "Talking Tech." Comments: COMMENT #1 Congratulations! Looks adorable. Welcome in advance to the homeowners' club. - Adina Posted by Adina Levin @ 10/17/2002 12:19 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 Looks lovely! Iet me know when you want to houseswap in london... Posted by Matt @ 10/17/2002 03:38 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 Very good! \ Posted by BJMe @ 10/17/2002 10:15 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 Congratulations! Can't wait to hear about the housewarming party...such a cute house:) Posted by ML @ 10/17/2002 01:15 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #5 Is the next thing to subscribe to American Bungalow magazine? Posted by Anita Rowland @ 10/17/2002 01:18 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #6 Which room is mine? Congrats! I'll make more of an attempt now to come up for thanksgiving. Posted by Joey Merholz @ 10/17/2002 02:48 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #7 I am an absolute sucker for craftsmen cottages. Remember, you were born living in one! When is the physical inspection? Posted by Julie Merholz @ 10/17/2002 03:22 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #8 Beautiful, Peter. Best of luck! And count me in on the remodeling work parties. :) Posted by Dinah @ 10/17/2002 07:17 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #9 Ah, the Berkeley bungalow. Congratulations on a fine house in a fine city. Posted by Chad Thornton @ 10/17/2002 07:24 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #10 Congratulations and welcome to being a new home owner (or soon to be home owner). I would have loved for my first house to be in Berkeley, but I work no where near there. Posted by vanderwal @ 10/17/2002 07:48 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #11 It is a cute house, and congrats!!! looks like it has a basement.. I watch House Hunters on HGTV, soooo, how about a tour with your dig. cam.? All your rooms, back yard, etc... I don't know your area of course, but will a car be the next for you? Posted by Auntie M. @ 10/18/2002 05:15 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #12 Nice! And suitable for some front porch livin', I suspect? May I offer you some help with turning the interior into a shining example of minimalist modernism? We could do a whole "machine for living" thing... DWR is having a 10% off sale this weekend, you know? Posted by Brad Lauster @ 10/19/2002 12:12 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #13 Welcome to the neighborhood! Expect me to drop by just like Lucy Ricardo. "Can you spare a cup of sugar?" Posted by Spidra Webster @ 10/22/2002 11:02 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #14 that's great, peter! congratulations. it looks adorable. Posted by jane @ 10/31/2002 02:00 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.