Calling things what their logos look like
There’s a cute piece over on Buzzfeed that renames all 32 NFL teams according to what their logos resemble, instead of what the team is actually called. For your enjoyment and discussion purposes, we’ll share the Bay Area entries.
F’rinstance, you may recognize this as the official sigil for the Oakland Raiders. According to Buzzfeed, this is actually the Oakland Swords ‘n’ Severed Heads. They left out that the severed head had an eyeball removed. Sloppy, sloppy.
And this design on the right, which breaks out of grayscale, is for the San Francisco Forty-Niners, right? Not if you name the team starting 
from the logo. Then it’s the San Francisco Abbreviations for San Francisco.
Here’s one more, and also from California. Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together for the San Diego Cartoon Character’s Hair!
I hope you see where this is leading.
Here is the corporate logo for a major tech firm, including a couple of guesses on how the image may evolve. Got any better names for this company than the first thing that pops into your mind? The far-future version looks more like Pac-Man.
Not a Bay Area company, but quite familiar to us. Again, the last three entries are inspired guesses. What is this a logo for, shampoo? Contortionist classes?
This one’s tech-related plus the 21 December meteor strike leads to severe climate change.
Flags getting bricked, vaporized, sliced, englobed, dissolved and now, speaking of flags…
A new logo was announced earlier this year. Here’s the redesigned Greek flag at left, ready for when they leave the European Union. We say it’s a Chanukah present.
Then the corporate parent got a logo update. But when they changed the flag for the whole EU to go with… We call it FourSquare®: A Way To Make You Pay $40 for a Game Court You Could Draw with a Piece of Chalk (ball not included).
Can you identify these tech company logos? More importantly, can you name these tech companies based on what each logo looks like? We get
- 8 purple magnets
- A half-screened green eye
- Red cable-wrapped beachball
- Now landing on red runway 1
Surely you can do better than this. In fact, surely you can do best of all with this one at right. Or discuss anything else you wish in this Open Thread.
September 8th, 2012 at 10:07 am
> Or discuss anything else you wish in this Open Thread.
How about that?
September 8th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Great, now Sunnyvale can become even more grossly overpriced. I wonder if they’ll have to get more shuttles going to SF as well, to support the oodles of 20-something hipsters that wouldn’t be caught dead in the South Bay on the weekend…
September 8th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
>>Great, now Sunnyvale can become even more grossly overpriced.
I dare Madhaus to say her shack still isn’t over a million.
September 8th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
We need a 2012 version of RBA map, since the current map is way outdated. Welcome to the club Fremont, Redwood City, and Santa Clara!
September 8th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Santa Clara is no longer the Real Gray Area?! Horrors.
September 8th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
> Welcome to the club Fremont, Redwood City, and Santa Clara!
Redwood City?!? Now you’re pushing it.
September 8th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
>>Redwood City?!? Now you’re pushing it.
That’s why we need a new map, so people like you can keep up. Do a search for Redwood City under $600K. You’d only find a handful of property these days.
September 8th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
>>Santa Clara is no longer the Real Gray Area?
SC got upgraded 3 months ago. Multiple offers are everywhere in the city.
September 8th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Crapshacks with multiple offers make a place RBA? Las Vegas is IN!
September 8th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
> You’d only find a handful of property these days.
Sure, if you make up the criteria as you go, any place can be RBA.
Look at this one: 1002 Valota Rd. Purchased for $820k in 2006 ($650k in 2003), now a short sale at $588,888 after multiple price reductions.
Note to realtor: the 888 trick does not work in Redwood City.
September 8th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Mercury News, I know of no location in Cupertino that is north of a location in Sunnyvale.
September 8th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
“SC got upgraded 3 months ago. Multiple offers are everywhere in the city.”
Yes, indeed, we need a new RBA map. Many of those PA properties that RE posted about have gone off the market unsold.
RBA2.0 is all about underpricing for ‘overbidding.’
September 8th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Thought only SC CUSD qualified as grey?
In any case, SC can claim RBA status when its “price reduced” $1.2M properties sell and when property crime starts rearing its ugly head. Til then, we’re happy to leave all these robberies and assaults to that $1k/sqf city up north.
But yes that RBA only a matter of time. Local demographics have changed dramatically in the past 5 years. We even see Porsches and Audis parked in front of residences now (gasp) and just this past week two houses within a block of my place started complete teardown. It’s eerie – soon we’ll be looking like Rancho Rinconada
September 9th, 2012 at 12:18 am
The downturn of 5 years ago did a great job of cleansing out unqualified owners. Professionals are definitely gaining a foothold in Santa Clara, and more are trying to get in. This is very evident at Open Houses, which are consistently mobbed. Multiple offers and overbidding is the norm now. By anybody’s definition Santa Clara is a solid member of the RBA. The attractions are several fold. First is location. Santa Clara is dead center in Silicon Valley, and it’s surrounded by employment. Second is price point. It is selling at a discount to Sunnyvale, and it has much of the advantages of Sunnyvale. Third is that it is not San Jose. San Jose is too big and too anonymous of a city, where Santa Clara has more of a small town feel. Prices are rising, so I advise anyone considering home ownership to strongly consider Santa Clara.
Footnote: I gave this exact advice [...] about 1 year ago, so I’m being very consistent. [...] Again, I described this exact strategy at least 3 years ago. This is how you do real estate. Don’t [... stay] in the same shack forever.
Edited out unnecessary call-outs of third parties. Welcome back to always-on moderation! –ed.
September 9th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Also don’t be [...] trying to pay off your loan. Owning real estate without leverage when interest rate is at record low is plain stupid!
Removed call-out of third party. This user is going back in time-out. Congrats! –ed.
September 9th, 2012 at 9:17 am
I gave this exact advice [...] about 1 year ago, so I’m being very consistent.
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Well, if anything is “consistent” about you, that is releasing “right/perfect/great/best time to buy now” farts every month – SINCE 2008. Hence there is nothing special about the advice “1 year ago” – because that’s just one of those 50 or 100 farts. Examples:
2008:
2009:
A broken clock could be right twice a day. That’s not proof of being “consistent”. It’s proof of broken state.
So I would repeat what DreamT said sometime back: no sense of shame whatsoever.
September 9th, 2012 at 11:45 am
More B.S. from Pralay. Completely wrong topic. “Exact” advice as in advice to buy into Santa Clara [...] as opposed to looking at quantum leap into the improbable.
Regardless, 2008 was indeed a great time to pick up bargains in the wake of the financial crisis. No broken clock here. Clock has constantly kept pace with the pulse of the market. The only person left behind is the guy who looked up 100 postings on FB thread when he could have been looking up open houses.
Edited for needless personal commentary. –ed
September 9th, 2012 at 6:02 pm
My landlord raised my rent by 20%, and it’s impossible to find another place to rent in this market. Right time or not, I have to buy now or else I’m screwed!
Hi there, Nilish. Do you know Sanjay? You should. You’re sharing an IP address. In San Diego. Oops! –ed.
September 9th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Hi there, Nilish. Do you know Sanjay? You should. You’re sharing an IP address. In San Diego.
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Looks like while moving from Seattle, Sanjay fell in sleep on his U-Haul truck and reached San Diego.
September 9th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Was there a URL attached to those comments? Sheesh.
Although, I do know when I moved last, I ended up with a new IP address that was banned at several of my favorite blogs. x-x
September 9th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
No way man. Just because I’m Indian doesn’t mean I share IP address. I may be a renter, but I’m not cheap like you man.
September 9th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Crissa, the guy is probably smoking something. don’t see IP posted, do you?
September 9th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Was there a URL attached to those comments?
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Come on Crissa. Every comment has some basic source information consisting multiple elements. And IP number is just one of those elements.
September 9th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Facebook Investor has the same IP as Sunnyvale Kim, and also the same stinking manner.
September 9th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
September 9th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Whoops. #24 broke character. Socks tumbling around in the dryer.
This is a good time to remind everyone to argue about ideas, concepts, trends and listings, not about personal failings.
That’s my job.
September 9th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
I have been here for some time, and always talked real estate until the convesation gets hijacked by the same guy over and over again.
September 9th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Where is our IP expert? Show us that I am a sock.
September 9th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Dirty socks in my RBA?
September 10th, 2012 at 1:02 am
#27, you’re whining. That shows you’re a sock.
You’re welcome.
September 10th, 2012 at 1:07 am
Getting back to Real Estate, recently one of the regulars (Crissa?) mentioned that Zillow had retroactively changed the Zestimates on properties.
I can confirm this happened with my property as well. The peak Zestimate was for September, 2008. The new Zestimate for 2008 is now 10% lower than it was a few months ago. Meanwhile my Zestimate is climbing, almost to 9/2008 levels. Restated 9/2008 levels.
September 10th, 2012 at 6:32 am
Oh yeah, you stop whining about socks!
September 10th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Still having problems trying to spend your $2M? So sad.
September 10th, 2012 at 8:32 am
April 6, 2011, like 17 months ago, Banker East suggested, “My family will be moving from New York to the Bay Area in about 2 months. We’ll be looking for a place close to the Silicon Valley area. Our budget is around $2M. What can we get, and which areas do you recommend we look into?”
September 10th, 2012 at 8:46 am
That was different Banker East with different email id.
September 10th, 2012 at 8:53 am
Correct link