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

Anyway I used to wash and press my own shirts and it takes me like 10-15 minutes per shirt because I'm bad at it, also prep work like pre-soak with oxiclean to get rid of collar/ring stain, if you have a friend who's willing to do that why not let them do your underwear too

carl :( your laundry is going to smell like mildew :(

isn't it like a cliche that doctors (and lawyers) are terrible investors?

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:28 PM (Yesterday)

my stepfather, a doctor who lost a small fortune investing unwisely, once rather ruefully informed me that doctors & lawyers are notoriously bad investors. his theory was that they go through life receiving constant affirmation of their wisdom & intelligence, so assume that they can follow their instincts and come out okay.

carl :( your laundry is going to smell like mildew :(

― 龜, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah, I have to rewash that no question.

xp I always figured it was people with large salaries who don't need to understand business or finance in order to earn them, but your explanation makes sense too, probably both. Lawyers are also notoriously bad at math, and yes, they tend to follow their "intuitions" even where data might improve their success.

I had anxiety dreams over the safety of this man's money last night

xp You can almost forgive them. After all, data isn't what convinces juries.

i get my laundry picked up and delivered and for me it is the best money i spend

Update: I managed to get the laundry folded. There is no longer a load of towels cold-molding in our washer.

He rattled off a hectic schedule of steampunk picnics, dinners on vintage trains and burlesque shows. The group also had a taste for sideshow oddities in the style of Coney Island entertainments. Morgana had a video on her iPhone, for example, of a scaled-down Ferris wheel being ridden by taxidermied squirrels. “Isn’t that something?” she mused.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/travel/regilding-the-gilded-age-in-new-york.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

It was the perfect night for a séance.

This is awesome and I had a similar idea to do this last year. I totally want to go to a seance.

I don't know how I ended up on this article but this guy starts his travelogue humblebragging about not caring about losing expensive stuff (credit cards, cash, laptops, etc.) and how it is really just evidence that he is some kind of absent-minded genuis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/karl-ove-knausgaard-travels-through-america.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

I saw there were like 3 or 4 articles on this guy, turns out he is a novelist. The NY Times says "He cries all over the place in the first three volumes of his six-part autobiographical novel". The book sounds like a monument to pointless self-indulgence and naval gazing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/books/knausgaards-my-struggle-book-three-explores-fearful-past.html

um, well it's driven by him coming to terms with his abusive upbringing

“Whether he hit me or not made no difference,” Mr. Knausgaard writes. “It wasn’t the pain I was afraid of, it was him, his voice, his face, his body, the fury it emitted, that was what I was afraid of, and the terror never let up, it was there for every single day of my entire childhood.”

he's sort of a big deal

Lol I've never heard of him but after first glance at the URL thought it said Karl Rove

he's apparently the new Proust

that reviewer got malaria from him :((((

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-im-a-public-school-teacher-but-a-private-school-parent/386797/?utm_source=SFFB

featuring one of the best taglines I've ever seen

It’s not selling out; it’s buying in.

Only the NYT could set the beginning of their triumph-over-adversity story at Exeter.

And it ends at Scripps ($47K / year)

Somehow she managed to make something of herself

For Yale, Princeton and Brown, that wasn’t enough. All three turned him down.
His mother, Diana, told me that on the day he got that news, “He shut me out for the first time in 17 years. He barely looked at me. Said, ‘Don’t talk to me and don’t touch me.’ Then he disappeared to take a shower and literally drowned his sorrows for the next 45 minutes.”

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

tooooo much informationnnnnnn.........

man I'm glad I don't have to apply to college again

what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looooooooool

today i learned that rich kids do that too

For Ms. Ginn skinning and eating rats represents the survivalist instincts she likes to explore in her work. “To have these sorts of skills, it’s very empowering,” she said. “It makes me feel like I have more control over my world.”

― scott seward, Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!

this is monumentally ridiculous

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/realestate/when-new-york-kids-help-find-the-family-home.html

Teens and preteens are getting involved in finding multimillion-dollar homes for their families, and in a few instances, doing everything but writing the check.

the comments are great

also:
Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn Skye van Merkensteijn

Fantastic.

"Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. "

like, you know

you know the drill, right?

Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker.

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

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

None of the people in those photos should count as adults.

Nope.

Maybe at least this is their way of coming to terms with that fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/nyregion/new-led-streetlights-shine-too-brightly-for-some-in-brooklyn.html

get some blinds yo!!!

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.

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.

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.

Get you some tinfoil.

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.

where should i live, dr c?

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.