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.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 10 August 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 10 August 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
AND SO TACKY. TACKY PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE NICE THINGS.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 10 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I have 700 sq ft and it's too much, there's this whole big area I don't know what to do with.
― i too went to college (silby), Saturday, 10 August 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
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 seward, Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
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 too went to college (silby), Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
don't you feel like it's awfully close to the toilet and the cash register tho
― j., Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
fuck these people
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
i need a tantrum/daydreaming room
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/attachments/guitar-parts-accessories-sale-trade-wanted/3575d1298493162-seymour-duncan-livewire-metal-angry_dome.jpg
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Sunday, 11 August 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
ha!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
You knew that was coming shurely:)
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Sunday, 11 August 2013 05:55 (ten years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
you can't live in new york cause some guy from citibank is playing solo bass in the only free apartment there
― szarkasm (schlump), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
its just the riff from green day's longview over and over and over
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
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"
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
indoor bouncy house yo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Haha
Everytime I hear the phrase "bouncey house" I automatically think of that mentally retarded kids' show host from Infinite Jest
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
My rich-person house's primary feature has long been an indoor lazy river which you can take from room to room.
― i too went to college (silby), Monday, 12 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
it's a sentimental journey
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 August 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
I'd just build a fuckoffhueg recording studio in my LottoHouse.
Which would also be a treehouse.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 12 August 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
My rich people apartment would be soundproof and have level floors. Oh heck and central heat and air, too.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
joke's on them cuz their apartment is ugly
― chinavision!, Monday, 12 August 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
looks like the interior of some newish suburban home in the california suburbs, that your pillow collecting aunt lives in
― chinavision!, Monday, 12 August 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
man I just can't get upset about rich people things if their things look cheesy
― chinavision!, Monday, 12 August 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/L0IIz0g.jpg
d w/ i
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 12 August 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
that apt will never lose its old man stink
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Monday, 12 August 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― chinavision!, Monday, 12 August 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
imagine what their cleaning ladies must endure, all that dust (rich old ppl skin) and stuff for it to fall onto.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
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."
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
^^^ the key to Modern economies.
― nickn, Monday, 12 August 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
I feel this way when I spend $15 on a 20oz craft beer
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
hello coffee beans
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
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
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
no one picked on this one yet?
"or sculpturing a masterpiece"
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
is that a euphemism for pooping?
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
"building a mystery"
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 12 August 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
lololol
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
"working on the night moves"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Being offline -- it's the new hip thing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― j., Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 15 August 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 15 August 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
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.
But perhaps robots will make parenting easier and thus more popular.
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 August 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
if the robot replacements freak you out too much you can always plop one of these in the nursery and then go get some errands done
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-07/video-kissing-robot-reproduces-your-signature-smooch-letting-you-transmit-physical-kiss
― j., Thursday, 15 August 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101208000460/en.futurama/images/f/f4/Nannybot_1.0.jpg
#obvpostisobv
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Thursday, 15 August 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu5al2PIfv1qjsolgo1_1280.jpg
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Thursday, 15 August 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link