Ms. Chong founded Lulu with a friend, Alison Schwartz, a former assistant to the literary agent Amanda Urban, known as Binky.
And this sentence is known as Clunky.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 25 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi
Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a “safe core.”Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
Paranoid? Perhaps. But also increasingly commonplace. Futuristic security technologies–many developed for the military but sounding as though they came straight from James Bond’s Q–have made their way into the home, available to deep-pocketed owners whose peace of mind comes from knowing that their sensors can detect and adjust for, say, a person lurking in the bushes a half-mile away.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
they're gonna need some skynet robots if they want to keep ruling us from inside their safe cores
― j., Thursday, 28 November 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/what-we-hate-read-2013
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 14 December 2013 07:00 (ten years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952
Really dunno where to put this
This thread or shit that looks like an onion article?
― 乒乓, Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
here - too many past tense indicative sentences w/o sufficient historical irony
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
real resigned view of education dere
Apart from mathematics, which demands a high IQ, and science, which requires a distinct aptitude, the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling. Having been a good student, in other words, means nothing more than that one was good at school: One had the discipline to do as one was told, learned the skill of quick response to oral and written questions, figured out what professors wanted and gave it to them.
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
agree 100% wasps have funnier clothes and names than nerds
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there's any shortage of people willing to do boring but well-compensated jobs.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 December 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
They were alive and breathing, and they had such names as......Robert McNamara.
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
the only thing that normal undergraduate schooling prepares a person for is... more schooling
Forgot to tell you I went back in time to when I was 16 to write that article.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Insistence that WASP rule resulted in a nobler, less corrupt and self-interested society is breathtakingly myopic. Yes, when one group dominated, they did indeed fashion of the nation a fine playground for themselves. I hardly think it's coincidence that the decline of American WASPocracy maps so comfortably onto the rise and consequences of the civil rights era. I mean, sure — the wealthy society WASPs I know do tend to be liberal progressives, heavily involved in community and charitable work, tightly bound by puritan propriety, and averse to flagrant displays of power or wealth. At the same time often racist, smug, exclusionary, cruelly blind to the concerns of anyone not in their circle, etc...
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 December 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/realestate/a-white-glove-state-of-mind.html
Some prime quid/ag holiday reading right here
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
New hires take a weeklong course to learn how to color-code residents based on their personality type. A red-coded resident needs to be validated and heard, whereas a blue resident simply wants the facts.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
'is he cool?'
― j., Sunday, 22 December 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
I feel like that's not only a class thing but also a generational class thing, with the increasing mentality of "service" as a "product"
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 December 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah the baseball chitchat with the help is very old-school noblesse oblige.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 22 December 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
where a three-bedroom rental apartment was recently listed for $22,995 a month
What?????
― carl agatha, Monday, 23 December 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
oh, it's been a while
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/as-shop-owner-woman-sees-troubling-sides-of-herself.html?_r=0
― j., Sunday, 12 January 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
that's a gem
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I can't even read past that fucked-up lede about emotional landscapes.
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
sort of reminds me of the big firm lawyers who complain about how they'll never be "truly rich" like their clients
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Silby otm
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
this is classic:
http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/upper-east-side-residents-feel-spurned-after-plow-delay/
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 January 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
fwiw, the city claims this was partly false perception due to busted gps not updating the plownyc website. As for the traffic excuse, I work in the area and can attest that it was complete gridlock for hours.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
http://observer.com/2014/01/let-them-eat-kale/
― Evil Juice Box Man (Moodles), Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
nice crossover with "shit that looks like an onion article" on that one
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
fuck, that observer piece is so long and says so little
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews
A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been condemned for "ghastly and disgraceful" comments after he compared criticism of America's rich to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Tom Perkins, 66, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which was published, in which he likened the Occupy movement to Kristallnacht, the infamous pogrom of Nov 9-10, 1938
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
check the occupy wall street thread for deets on his porn novel
― just (Matt P), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
Oh good I was going to link that article here. Wow.
― carl agatha, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
quiddities and auchwitzes of the ruling class
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-myth-of-sex-drugs-and-money-on-wall-street-2014-02-18?link=MW_story_featstor
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
amazing find
― eric banana (s.clover), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
I love that we are supposed to simultaneously feel sorry for them because money turns out to not make them happy AND because they make less money than they used to!
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Unhappy rich people should use some of their money to pay off my student loans. It will make us all feel good!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
cosign ^
― Mordy , Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
You know what, I do feel sorry for people with that kind of warped worldview, in a way. They are wounded people.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
yeah they're somewhere near the top of my list
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
everyone is wounded, but not everyone chooses the psychopathy of wall st
― Mordy , Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
don't you see, they had to. they just couldn't not ~despite themselves~
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
this is the problem w/ pathologizing good/evil
― Mordy , Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/fashion/the-monocle-returns-as-a-fashion-accessory.html?ref=fashion
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/garden/the-wildebeest-in-the-room.html
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
"“I got it just to have my own style, bring something new to the table,” said Jose Vega, 23, an aspiring Miami rap musician... “Also, I’m nearsighted.”"
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
that wes anderson piece is some vile shit
― marcos, Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
coming from someone who doesn't really have any time for wes anderson
― marcos, Thursday, 6 March 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Wes Anderson cosplayers apparently a lot more respectable than the sci-fi/fantasy kind.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 March 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
There's something very Q/A about this standardized test resistance article. It has that anti-vaccination feeling to it--like, she just has this gut feeling and all of a sudden it becomes really, really important that her kids don't take standardized tests.
― Dan I., Friday, 7 March 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
yeesh, what a long and boring story
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 March 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
standardized test resistance is some real-ass shit though
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Friday, 7 March 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link