I don't know exactly what's happening on campus now but during the early/mid 90s, there was definite frat/soro presence, particularly black fraternities and sororities (and, lol, Sigma Xi, who seemed to be a lot more about throwing parties than scientific research). There was a lot of partnering with MIT chapters as a result.
At least a quarter of the black students I knew in the Quad were in a frat.
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
my wife was asked to be in a finals club for GURLS but when she saw the financial commitment she basically laughed her ass off and said "um yeah, not happening"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
The Bee! Does it still exist?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
According to Wikipedia it does
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
A new store in Manhattan's trendy East Village neighborhood is selling New York City filtered tap water back to city residents. For a few extra dollars customers can add vitamins and herbal infusions to their filtered water.
Not just any tap water, insist the owners of Molecule. They say the water streams through a $25,000 filtering machine that uses ultraviolet rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmosis in a seven-stage processing treatment to create what they call pure H<sub>2</sub>0.
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444330904577535100599492544.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection">Wall Stret Journal</a>
― mick signals, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I meant
To counteract critics, Molecule is planning a weekly naming ceremony to imbue its water with personality and Sunday blessings involving religious figures from all faiths, including Tibetan monks and pagan worshipers.
― mick signals, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
bottled water is such a con job
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
no way that store sounds great
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
"I mean it's subtle, but if you have a sensitive palate you can totally tell" the difference, said co-owner Adam Ruhf.
yo DO have a subtle palate dont you
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol shakey
― goole, Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
fluffy, velvety water
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
not much agony here I guess, except for the reader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fashion/wythe-avenue-in-williamsburg-is-heating-up.html
Upstairs, a D.J. who resembled Jesus Christ played dub reggae, and when the sun crept below the jaw-dropping Manhattan skyline, it seemed to activate everyone’s internal Instagram clock. A sea of iPhones shot up to capture the blazing pink hues (#nofilter), as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert.
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
Since Wythe refuses to do bottle service, determined drinkers (including a group of Swedes who kept barking orders for rosé wine) were forced to bring their own ice buckets to the outdoor tables. This is what passes for V.I.P. in the land of D.I.Y.
BYOIB
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
a) impressed that one can get that published in the nytb) kind of want to kill myself now
xp
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7582/quojapanesejesusds1.jpg
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x230/justoj/DJ_Jesus_by_DeathKlown.jpg
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert.
hipsterfanfiction.tumblr.com
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/quiddities-agonies.jpg
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 20 July 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw I just ate at the restaurant in the Wythe Hotel, the one on the ground floor. It's really good!
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
How can anyone who writes about New York City for a living still refer to waterfront Williamsburg as "the land of D.I.Y."? You might as well call the West Village "the land of folkies."
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Love that caption on the pool pic. It's just like Miami! Except for the weather, the music, and the people.
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
saltwater pool ew maybe it is diy
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Also, they don't have abdominal muscles? That sounds worse than cleft palate, where do I donate
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
thats why they have to float in a saltwater pool all day, diy treatment
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I always hated that that charity was called "SmileTrain." COZ THEY CAN'T SMILE, YOU SEE
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm getting on the Abs Train
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
This waterfront scourge must be stopped
I feel like that and the Times article a couple years ago about how it supposedly became *trendy* to have a gut make nice bookends to Williamsburg's late period.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 July 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I hopped on that trend, not hopping back off
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Friday, 20 July 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
I had a gut before it was trendy.
― nickn, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, July 20, 2012 7:55 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LOL
― carl agatha, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Also saltwater pools are kind of amazing. I don't know anything about this "Wythe" or "New York City" though.
Dealbreaker brings the quiddities snark:
http://dealbreaker.com/2012/07/having-george-soros-as-a-dad-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be-well-it-sort-of-is-but-still-it-can-be-tough-sometimes-but-not-usually/
― o. nate, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
clowning of the article aside I would totally go to a rooftop pool
― dmr, Friday, 20 July 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i can't get past " as if the singer Grimes had just made a surprise appearance at a Skrillex concert"
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 July 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
in re george soros' kid. sure there are problems involved with growing up with great wealth. everybody has problems. this is not a worthwhile revelation. in his case, in being also yojng and apparently as healthy as most people his age, his problems are all pretty low hurdles to get over.
― Aimless, Saturday, 21 July 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2012/07/19/wythe.php
― s.clover, Saturday, 21 July 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/nyregion/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-stays-in-on-sundays-and-misses-lady-jaye.html?hp
― j., Sunday, 22 July 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
5 hour energy drinks and Clive Cussler novels under the wolfskin
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 July 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
man this videohttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/in-commuters-daily-gamble-dashing-to-victory-or-despair/?hp
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
The New York Times tells you how to get to the "sybaritic playground" that is Williamsburg
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fashion/williamsburg-travel-essentials.html?src=recg
like literally, gives you directions. Thank you, NYTimes.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
wtf
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Are they just fucking with us at this point?
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
oh man
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
I was a tourist and I had the entire subway route worked out in like 25 seconds
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
haha that's a sidebar to the wythe avenue pool party story
― dmr, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
tbf you speak english and were too lame to fancy a pint xp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol, I didn't think anyone cared enough tbh
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/garden/emma-koenigs-so-called-redacted-life.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, what is supposed to be charming about 24-year-olds who talk about their lives like they're Cathy
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link