A Person-Sized Gap Needs Filling

I'm moving out in the near future, which means someone else ought to move in!

This is one room in a house; four people are allowed by lease to live there. Currently this includes metahacker, his wife galaneia, and hfcougar. They are three post-college professionals who generally live fairly quiet lives -- pay no attention to the motorcycle out front, they're really rather quiet sorts who enjoy being casually social.

Rent+utils is roughly $650, ballooning to $750 in the winter months; a security deposit equal to a month's rent is due up front. This is for a modest sized room and sharing of the rest of the house. It's a single family home with a nice back yard and a front yard and everything. The driveway holds four cars. It's in a quiet Waltham neighborhood one block from a bus stop, three blocks from the main drag (route 20), half a mile from the commuter rail stop, and about five minutes' drive from 128 or eight minutes from 90.

Groceries and meals are shared; when someone wants to cook they cook, and perhaps if you want some you could do the dishes or something; which should give a general idea of how the house runs. Deal breakers: no smokers, sorry, not even if you go outside to smoke; unfortunately the lease doesn't allow free-range pets; no wild party types. More along the 'relaxed and groovy' lines is really what we're looking for...

As always, paw through people's journals to get a sense of the sort of folks we are.

A Person-Sized Gap Needs Filling

I'm moving out in the near future, which means someone else ought to move in!

This is one room in a house; four people are allowed by lease to live there. Currently this includes metahacker, his wife galaneia, and hfcougar. They are three post-college professionals who generally live fairly quiet lives -- pay no attention to the motorcycle out front, they're really rather quiet sorts who enjoy being casually social.

Rent+utils is roughly $650, ballooning to $750 in the winter months; a security deposit equal to a month's rent is due up front. This is for a modest sized room and sharing of the rest of the house. It's a single family home with a nice back yard and a front yard and everything. The driveway holds four cars. It's in a quiet Waltham neighborhood one block from a bus stop, three blocks from the main drag (route 20), half a mile from the commuter rail stop, and about five minutes' drive from 128 or eight minutes from 90.

Groceries and meals are shared; when someone wants to cook they cook, and perhaps if you want some you could do the dishes or something; which should give a general idea of how the house runs. Deal breakers: no smokers, sorry, not even if you go outside to smoke; unfortunately the lease doesn't allow free-range pets; no wild party types. More along the 'relaxed and groovy' lines is really what we're looking for...

As always, paw through people's journals to get a sense of the sort of folks we are.

What I Learned Today

The thing that prevent SARS from becoming a pandemic, from infecting a single-digit fraction of the world's population and killing millions if not hundreds of millions of people, was not advanced medical treatment. It was not any number of incredible doctors or a sophisticated emergency response system.

It was web-crawlers.

Welcome to the future.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/58

What I Learned Today

The thing that prevent SARS from becoming a pandemic, from infecting a single-digit fraction of the world's population and killing millions if not hundreds of millions of people, was not advanced medical treatment. It was not any number of incredible doctors or a sophisticated emergency response system.

It was web-crawlers.

Welcome to the future.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/58