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 :(
― 龜, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh yeah, I have to rewash that no question.
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I had anxiety dreams over the safety of this man's money last night
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
xp You can almost forgive them. After all, data isn't what convinces juries.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
i get my laundry picked up and delivered and for me it is the best money i spend
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Update: I managed to get the laundry folded. There is no longer a load of towels cold-molding in our washer.
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 February 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
It was the perfect night for a séance.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 February 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
This is awesome and I had a similar idea to do this last year. I totally want to go to a seance.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:22 (nine years ago) link
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.”
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:27 (nine years ago) link
he's sort of a big deal
― polyphonic, Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:46 (nine years ago) link
Lol I've never heard of him but after first glance at the URL thought it said Karl Rove
― tobo73, Saturday, 28 February 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
he's apparently the new Proust
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 2 March 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
that reviewer got malaria from him :((((
― hammer smashed nagls (mattresslessness), Monday, 2 March 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/why-im-a-public-school-teacher-but-a-private-school-parent/386797/?utm_source=SFFB
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 5 March 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
featuring one of the best taglines I've ever seen
It’s not selling out; it’s buying in.
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 5 March 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Only the NYT could set the beginning of their triumph-over-adversity story at Exeter.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
And it ends at Scripps ($47K / year)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
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.”
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
what 17-year-old doesn't like to 'drown their sorrows' in the shower for 45 minutes at a time amirite
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
tooooo much informationnnnnnn.........
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
man I'm glad I don't have to apply to college again
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
looooooooool
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
today i learned that rich kids do that too
― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
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
!
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
the comments are great
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Fantastic.
― schwantz, Friday, 20 March 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
"Katie Haggerty, a fashion designer, has worked as a real estate broker. "
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
like, you know
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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