even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

Mr. Gershon said he had tried working at home. “But then I’d hear the phones,” he said. “Or I’d get distracted by the view of the river.”

there, officer, that's the man that robbed me of my sanity. take him away.

we were going to use the extra space for THIS, but then we we're sure if that would make sense so we thought about doing THAT with it, it's just so hard to get things right

i am so furious all of the sudden

extra apartment FOR STORAGE

*rage*

It's maybe a sign of how long I've been living in New York that paying outrageously for storage doesn't even blip my radar. It's the 6500 sq ft apartment that ISN'T BIG ENOUGH for the guy who isn't even a writer.

I lived in a 4000 sq ft factory for a year with 6 other people and a lot of rats and their luxury apartment is half again as big for one elderly couple.

AND SO TACKY. TACKY PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE NICE THINGS.

I have 700 sq ft and it's too much, there's this whole big area I don't know what to do with.

If I had ten times as much space I'd just fill it with styrofoam or something

i just go to my record/book store when i have something good i want to write. everyone should have one of those.

scott I'm sorry I never made it up to greenfield to see your store when I was in Northampton, I would come hang out in your store and write for sure

i was actually thinking recently if i had a zillion dollars i wouldn't care about planes or cars or vacations in exotic climes or any of that rich stuff. the ONE thing i would splurge on: big indoor pool. that, to me, seems like the height of decadent luxury. swimming in a big heated pool in the winter. i kinda don't like swimming outside or with other people around. my parents came to visit and they stayed in a hotel nearby and me and my dad and the kids swam in the small hotel pool all by ourselves and it was soooooooo relaxing and great.

the store is pretty sound-proof and its really quiet outside at night. so, if focus is something you want, the store is good for that. the back room has a couch and i swear its like an isolation chamber in there at night. no windows. great for thinking. you can't hear anything at all.

don't you feel like it's awfully close to the toilet and the cash register tho

fuck these people

i need a tantrum/daydreaming room

http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/attachments/guitar-parts-accessories-sale-trade-wanted/3575d1298493162-seymour-duncan-livewire-metal-angry_dome.jpg

ha!

You knew that was coming shurely:)

:D

you can't live in new york cause some guy from citibank is playing solo bass in the only free apartment there

its just the riff from green day's longview over and over and over

Scott, I'm totally with you on the pool - was thinking something similar just recently

"No, I'm not building a house, this is my private indoor Olympic pool"

indoor bouncy house yo

Haha

Everytime I hear the phrase "bouncey house" I automatically think of that mentally retarded kids' show host from Infinite Jest

My rich-person house's primary feature has long been an indoor lazy river which you can take from room to room.

it's a sentimental journey

I'd just build a fuckoffhueg recording studio in my LottoHouse.

Which would also be a treehouse.

My rich people apartment would be soundproof and have level floors. Oh heck and central heat and air, too.

joke's on them cuz their apartment is ugly

looks like the interior of some newish suburban home in the california suburbs, that your pillow collecting aunt lives in

man I just can't get upset about rich people things if their things look cheesy

http://i.imgur.com/L0IIz0g.jpg

d w/ i

that apt will never lose its old man stink

Btw I've always said that if I were rich I wouldn't need much more than what I have now, like I'd stay in the same apartment and everything. Still mostly true, but I recently realized that if I had a ton of money I could easily spend so much on clothes.
I never knew that about myself before.

imagine what their cleaning ladies must endure, all that dust (rich old ppl skin) and stuff for it to fall onto.

Consumption creep is kind of a scary thing. The other day I bought a $6 red mango frozen yogurt (granted, to split with my wife AND my daughter), and my friend who was with me said he was kind of shocked at how expensive it was, considering you could get a gallon of ice cream for like $8, and it suddenly hit me that five years ago I would have thought $6 frozen yogurt was ridiculous too, but you just fall into that mindset of "well, I have a decent job, it's no big deal."

^^^ the key to Modern economies.

I feel this way when I spend $15 on a 20oz craft beer

hello coffee beans

did someone photoshop the smiles on that pic because if not I think they may be suffering from the lingering after-effects of Joker Gas

no one picked on this one yet?

"or sculpturing a masterpiece"

is that a euphemism for pooping?

"building a mystery"

lololol

"working on the night moves"

Being offline -- it's the new hip thing.

there's this great new newspaper, everyone in new york is reading it, you probably wouldn't have seen it yet, it's pretty exclusive

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york-times-web-site-returns-after-hours-offline.html?hp&_r=0

it's so chintzy when they write articles about themselves

I spend all day listening to people who make four to six times my salary complain about being broke. I figure it's good for me, since it makes career ambitions seem really stupid if I'm just going to be complaining about the same shit. Of course they do get to the beach more than I do.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/babysitter-robots-and-population-growth/

There is little need to worry that machines will take over all aspects of child rearing. People will always have a comparative advantage over machines, even if machines could in principle be better at just about anything. For the same economic reason that the world can produce more by assigning some tasks to unskilled people and other tasks to talented people, people will be doing tasks that are difficult for machines relative to other tasks.

But perhaps robots will make parenting easier and thus more popular.