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«These are not so different from crowded apartments that cater to
immigrants. But many tenants are here not so much for the cheap rent —
$40 a night — as for the camaraderie and idea-swapping. And potential
tenants are screened to make sure they will contribute to the mix.
Justin Carden, a 29-year-old software engineer who is staying in
another hostel, in Menlo Park, while working on a biotech start-up,
talks about the place as if it were Stanford. "The intellectual
stimulation you get from being here is unparalleled," Mr. Carden said.
"If you're wanting to do something to change the world and make it a
fundamentally better place, you need to be around the right people." »
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Cheap, at $40 per night? Ha ha, my rent is only $12/night. Hm...
what am I saying? Back at the H-------- it was $11.66, and I had more
space and a generally nicer atmosphere (periodic wafts of second hand
smoke of various sorts notwithstanding). Then that got cut in half
when I split the place with Odette!. $5.83 per night. And I'm STILL
getting cash benefits in the form of my latest Tax Return. Those were
the days... $5.83 per night.

«You want to tell me what this is all about?» -- Michelle Pfeiffer as
LouAnne Johnson, "Gangster's Paradise", intro

«["Dangerous Minds"] pretends to show poor black kids being bribed
into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the
crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the
form of safe words by the two Dylans. What are the chances this movie
could have been made with Michelle Pfeiffer hooking the kids on the
lyrics of Ice Cube or Snoop Doggy Dogg?» -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun
Times, quoted on Wikipedia