i guess they get points for not using the word desolate.
― scott seward, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
The thing is, they could have turned around and gotten some warehouse/parking stuff, construction barriers, and the viaduct. It would have at least looked more like what the story was about. At some level, someone must have thought this view made things look more desolate and crime-y. >_<
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/a-scourge-is-spreading-mtas-cure-dude-close-your-legs.html?_r=0
A new low
― calstars, Saturday, 20 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
can't believe that's the top story on the website!
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 December 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Needs to be, IMHO.
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
“I’m not going to cross my legs like ladies do,” he said. “I’m going to sit how I want to sit.”
Ugh.
Olof Hansson, a director of the Manhattan men’s spa John Allan’s, put it more succinctly. “A true gentleman doesn’t sit on the subway, he stands.”
Pretty OTM
― Je55e, Sunday, 21 December 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
“A true gentleman doesn’t sit on the subway, he stands.”
you're welcome, m'lady
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 22 December 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
yea, it's super annoying. it's worse on a bus (or other subways without bench-like seating) though, because there is a clear division between seats.
― marcos, Monday, 22 December 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
people are graduating from college and not living in new york, washington, and san francisco. gee
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/upshot/where-young-college-graduates-are-choosing-to-live.html
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Sunday, 4 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
thank u city observatory, a new think tank
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Sunday, 4 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
and facebook, for bringing this slightly dated but crucial piece of the puzzle of life to my attention
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Sunday, 4 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
opening picture of clown zombie with balloon really helps sell the story
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Ever been on a bus with an excess of polite people who don't sit, even with plenty of open seats? So all these polite people create a barrier to getting off, because they are all STANDING IN THE WAY. Which is not polite - what to do? Maybe instead sit down when there are seats, ladies and gentlemen.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 4 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
triple shots all around at the Denver Chamber of Commerce tonight
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 4 January 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
Price of a maki roll of chopped fatty tuna wrapped in rice with caviar piled on each of the eight pieces: $240. I could never bring myself to order it, or two dishes filigreed with white truffles: the fried rice with mushrooms ($120) or the Ohmi beef tataki ($150). So I can’t tell you how any of them taste, but I can tell you that by the time I spotted something for less than $80, it struck me as a steal.
Amount I spent for 5.5 ounces of grilled steak raised in Australia: $78.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/dining/restaurant-review-kappo-masa-on-the-upper-east-side.html?ref=dining
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
i had to put that somewhere...
LOL you'd pay $10 for that steak and get a pint with it, here.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
hey so no one posted the paleo bone broth article yet? i'll have to dig it up
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
lol. I hope you're just calling out the restaurant and not Pete Wells on that though, it's not really his fault.
― man alive, Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Masa has been my dream meal since I read Anthony Bourdain's account in Medium Raw or the Nasty Bits or one of those, but I don't think I'd be going to the satellite locations. I'll just drop the obscene money at the real place.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
no, i like pete! just the price of that fried rice...
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
i walked like 200 yards to work today and i could have used some bone broth at the time...
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/dining/bone-broth-evolves-from-prehistoric-food-to-paleo-drink.html#
okay so the paleo bone broth wasn't too bad, making stock is fun and enhances all levels of my cooking ime. but i kind of think the fun of it is making it on your own and seeing humble ingredients simmer in a stockpot over an afternoon, it warms the house and the soul, you can see as the day passes the complexity of flavors increases. it's not something you shell out $5 for a shot of at fuckin street window. though i guess that is cool at the same time that in NY and SF you can buy a shot of bone broth at fuckin street window. good for them. boston would be more interesting if you could do that i guess
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
okay so the paleo bone broth wasn't too bad
meaning it wasn't too quid ag as i thought it would be. at least as paleo nytimes articles go
i was gonna ask how you liked it
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Tam writes and illustrates the popular Nom Nom Paleo blog
argh
― Je55e, Friday, 9 January 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/style/the-uproar-over-amal-clooneys-white-gloves.html
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
So hotly debated was Ms. Clooney’s fashion statement that it rated its own Twitter account, @msclooneygloves. Elsewhere, tweeters singled out the offending armwear as pompous or pretentious, charging that she appears to think of herself as royalty. Another joshed, perhaps accurately, “Amal wore the gloves to protect the engagement and wedding rings from prying eyes.”
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
speaking truth to power there, ruth la ferla
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
Have we talked about this?http://www.alternet.org/media/ny-times-columnist-laments-woes-rich-kids-tells-readers-how-avoid-living-near-black-people
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Holeeeeeeeee cow. Not surprised that the 1% think like that, but surprised that it slipped out in print, by accident in a major newspaper.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
She and her husband treated their eight-year search for the right suburb the way she would research a value stock
― jmm, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
Specialists in a single area don’t have much incentive to offer the warts-and-all download
Surely he doesn't really think the term is "download".
― Je55e, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
"Are the local children garden-variety pot smokers who have a little sex and a bit of angst at a reasonable age, or is something more troubling going on?"
Yeah have you see White Ribbon? Woah dude.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 16 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
So amazing. "How much sex are the local children having? Does their angst start at a reasonable age?" Something troubling going on, indeed.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Could've been shortened from 43 Questions to 14 Words.
Heyooo.
― Devilock, Saturday, 17 January 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
Are the local children garden-variety pot smokers, or are they into the hydro shit?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 17 January 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
If you don’t know anyone in town, find a way to invite yourself to homes of friends of friends. What are they reading? Are there any books at all? What about books for the children?
I love that one. If friends of friends of yours are living in the community, visit them and ask questions visit them specifically to gather bookshelf data.
― jmm, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
I bet some of my neighbors own A Purpose Driven Life, The Secret, Dianetics, and a box set of Chicken Soup books - should I move?
― Je55e, Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Yes.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 17 January 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
23 bathrooms...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/business/home-the-ultimate-investment.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 January 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/business/dollar3-tip-on-a-dollar4-cup-of-coffee-gratuities-grow-automatically.html
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Take it to one of the many ilx tipping threads, where this subject can be flogged, flayed and boiled in oil at our leisure.
― Aimless, Monday, 2 February 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Could also go in the IA thread -- I hate those "suggested tip" boxes on screens (this is an issue in cabs too -- minimum suggested is 20%)
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
oh ffs
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
^mumbled under breath, *ghosts*
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 2 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
It's pretty quid/ag in that it's told entirely from the perspective of the tippers, business owners, and impenetrable venture-capital concepts rather than the conditions of tipped labor, etc., but yeah.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 February 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
i always assumed it would be a good thing for tipped labor but idk.
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 2 February 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
dunno what the "it" is there, but just to clarify, I was just saying that the article, in not really speaking to that perspective, leaves itself open to be used by the quid/ag crowd as fuel for outrage against tipping on their $4 coffee drinks, etc. Pretty minor by the standards of these things.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 February 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
sure. i meant that it seems like the auto-tipping checkbox might make it harder to not leave a tip. i'd be interested in seeing if there was any net effect or improvement on tipping amounts. not going to actually read through that article to see if it's covered because it's so obviously from the polish-my-shoes-bitch pov.
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Monday, 2 February 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link