Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder why they did that. Someday internet archaeologists will exhume examples of people repeating sentences and wonder.....ah, hell
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 21 March 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
maybe more Late Stage Empire-Decline than quid-ag per se but I don't know where else to put this
WARNING: disturbingly graphic images
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link
None of the people in those photos should count as adults.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Nope.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Maybe at least this is their way of coming to terms with that fact.
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/nyregion/new-led-streetlights-shine-too-brightly-for-some-in-brooklyn.html
get some blinds yo!!!
― too many willies all in one hand (yeoman wassup), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
Huh, trying to select text to copy results in being redirected to another page. In this case one called "Canine Fashion Paralysis." That's pretty annoying.
Anyway, those LEDs are gross. They're really cold and harsh.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/24/nyregion/APPRAISAL2/APPRAISAL2-articleLarge.jpg
If only there was a way to stop light from coming in these windows.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
That's my neighborhood. I noticed the LEDs only after I saw that piece. Still, it does make the street seem like a big holding room. Get me outta there.
Wish we'd gotten a photo of Skye van Merkensteijn in his middle-school ascot.
Oh yeah the nabe profile in Real Estate this week was Sunnyside, which i can apparently add to the Unaffordable column.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Get you some tinfoil.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Sunnyside's been unaffordable for a good while, I was looking for places there a couple years ago and...yeah, nope.
I don't love LED lights, especially because municipalities tend to really go completely OTT with them and turn once-pleasant streets into blinding nightmares. Columbus and/or Ohio State were doing this while I lived there and I remember it being a big deal when trekking up Woodruff to get Wendy's became like going through an interrogation. The basic idea of energy efficiency is totally reasonable though and TBH I'm sure in a few years it'll just be one of those things where, yeah, there's something kinda magical about old-timey photos that we don't experience anymore, but I have a feeling something similar probably went on with the demise of gas lights or candles or what have you.
The one that drives me nuts is getting CFLs for the house and accidentally getting a way too "cool" temperature. Now that is ghastly.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
where should i live, dr c?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
If I only knew. I'm doing okay at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border but it's a compromise situation considering the respective budgets and commute needs of myself and my girlfriend. Would really, really love more trees and maybe more food options, and to not live with this one horrid roommate that's been in the building for nine years, has some insanely low grandfathered-in rent, doesn't bathe, and behaves like a petulant child emperor. I think to achieve all this we'd need to double our annual income, or go back in time and lock in some great place in Lefferts Gardens like my friends used to have.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
i don't buy CFLs for my house, i still use incandescents, i can't stand the fluorescent light.
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Got to make sure you get the "soft white" CFLs. Except in the bathroom where harsh bright light is necessary for applying makeup and plucking chin whiskers.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Sunnyside is still cheaper than gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods, I think? Tho prices def have gone up over the last few years. We have a nice 1br for under 1400.
Morbs you should move to the Bronx
xps
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
surprised this wasn't posted yet. shocked that this is a thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/nyregion/as-manhattan-area-codes-multiply-some-still-covet-a-212.html
ime everyone just has cellphones w/whatever their area code of origin is? 408 for me.
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
man those people at the beginning of the article are such dweebs
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Who even knows anyone's phone number. Once it's in a contact, set it and forget it. Never seen again.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
idgi - 212 is for landlines! the OG mobile area code is 917
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
i don't set nuthin
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Agonies, but without that unique NYT flavor:
Even worse, nannies “from Tibet or Nepal don’t understand the infrastructure of a building. They don’t understand that a doorman will help you with a taxi.” Many can’t use Uber, she said.
http://pagesix.com/2015/04/21/inside-posh-boot-camp-for-clueless-maids-and-nannies/
― mick signals, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
vom
― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
lesson one in journalism for dickheads - condescension as a stylistic element
― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Her husband looks like a 75-year-old just waiting to happen, and that pic is from 2008.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
“I’ve always pitched this theory of, if a guy comes up to a restaurant in a red Ferrari, you kind of recoil,” he said. “But if you find out that the guy owned 14 of them and he writes a blog on them, then you can appreciate it, because you can trust that there’s a depth to it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/fashion/mens-style/john-mayer-watches.html?_r=0
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 May 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
“The watch community gets its power from being esoteric,” Mr. Mayer said. “We don’t want everybody to be involved in it.”
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 May 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
“That’s the best koi fish you can find,” he said dismissively, nodding toward the crude fish tattoo he got at 18. “And that,” he said, pulling up his other sleeve to show off a lovely reinterpretation he got at 32, “is the koi fish that you want.”
He lowered the sleeve. “It all represents the trip through knowledge.”
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 May 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Adam Savage's podcast had an entire episode on watches - even non-bro watch guys are awful as it turns out.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 2 May 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
These are real words that came out of a person's mouth, without laughter
“John is something of a watch-nerd icon,” said Benjamin Clymer, the 32-year-old founder of Hodinkee, which features watch news and reviews catering to next-generation aficionados. “I think, in a lot of ways, John made it O.K. to really go deep into watches and not be embarrassed about it. I can’t tell you how many guys have come up to me at events and said, ‘My wife or girlfriend thought I was crazy for caring about watches so much, until I told her John Mayer was the very same way.’ ”
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
In my world that a) makes it less ok and b) gets you dickpunched
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes consuming goods and displaying status symbols takes real courage.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
hey it all represents the trip through knowledge. let's be cool about this.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
At 50 you have the koi fish you deserve.
― jmm, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link
I had never heard about this Hodinkee guy until he wrote a thing about the Apple watch but apparently he's like America's top watch blogger
― jennifer islam (silby), Sunday, 3 May 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
I always thought that if I won the lottery I'd like to collect Swatches. I love Swatches.
― soref, Sunday, 3 May 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
I used to read this site a lot, but he gave up collecting an sold all his Swatches
― soref, Sunday, 3 May 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
this site, rather: http://swatch.allsopp.com/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/fashion/tell-tale-signs-of-the-modern-day-yuppie.html
yuppies v hipsters, part 259458
― Roz, Sunday, 10 May 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/realestate/priced-out-of-brooklyn-try-manhattan.html?WT.mc_id=D-NYT-MKTG-MOD-39892-05-09-PH&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=
Priced Out of Brooklyn? Try Manhattan
― marcos, Monday, 11 May 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
looooooooooool
Five years ago, Eric Kabakoff and Christina Lewandowski bought a one-bedroom in a new condominium in Gowanus, Brooklyn, with the idea of moving to a two-bedroom in the same building after a while. But two years ago, when they were outbid on two apartments there, the couple realized their $750,000 budget was not going to be enough.
― marcos, Monday, 11 May 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
that article made me annoying to be around on Sunday morning.
― chinavision!, Monday, 11 May 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
lol <3
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
you can't get a 2BR apartment in Gowanus for 750K? holy guacamole
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
maybe the faucets SHIT GOLD
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
you'll be lucky if they don't shit rust tbh
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
actual shit maybe still a possibility. i would def check that on the tour. i mean, $750,000 is a lot of money.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
if you're spending 800K for a Gowanus 2BR in a new apartment complex the faucets should dispense delicious strawberry milkshakes at the very least
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Reaching higher by several stories than its neighbors, 548 4th has madea wonderful bedfellow of that glorious, brilliant ball in the sky. A calmdawn will accentuate breathtaking panoramas of the Brooklyn andManhattan skylines reflected of the surface of the East River andBrooklyn Harbor. One struggles to adequately describe the sunsets withjust words in a gorgeous living environment where polarized shades area must. Roomy layouts and oversized windows allow views of all thisoutdoor splendor, from just over the rim of your coffee cup. Closetsabound to hide all your pers
https://ipg.nyc/property/print_details/160135
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link