Show Notes for September 19, 2013

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  • Mortgage rates:
    • were stable for while (under 3% for 15-year-fixed) and started going up in May-June, to hit a new plateau (around 3.5% for 15-year-fixed)
  • "Peninsula school district in hot water over home loan"
    • "San Carlos School District Board is under fire for giving a loan to its superintendent before it was formerly approved"
    • $1.3 million bridge loan 
    • 2.65 %
  • New logos
  • Android 4.4. KitKat
  • Movies
  • Merlin
  • Kopi Luwak "or civet coffee, refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and excreted by the Asian palm civet"
    • "Tim Carman, food writer for the Washington Post reviewed kopi luwak available in the US and concluded "It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless. Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water. I couldn't finish it".
    • "Some critics claim more generally that kopi luwak is simply bad coffee"

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